General without texture when dismounted

**falcom4ever** · February 21, 2015, 03:42 AM

Hi,

I have a general unit that has its texture when on horse, but when he is assigned to troops on foot he turns out to be textureless...

I checked the battle_models.modeldb but every mentioned file seem to match...

Any idea ?

Thanks in advance,

Falcom

**Gigantus** · February 21, 2015, 04:49 AM

It is the same texture, just the animation is different. Are you sure it's the same model?

**falcom4ever** · February 21, 2015, 06:22 AM

Its really weird. I use custom battles to test.

First the faction with the general assigned to a cavalry unit and it has texture.
Then I assign to an archer unit and it lost texture.
I tried then to assign to a siege unit and it has its textures.

So it has nothing to do with beeing on foot or not. I have never seen such thing.

**Gigantus** · February 21, 2015, 06:56 AM

Please explain how you assign the general.

**falcom4ever** · February 21, 2015, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by Gigantus

Please explain how you assign the general.

I start a custom battle and my first unit is a bodyguard unit (mounted). Every thing is ok with the general.
Then I start a new custom battle with an archer unit selected as first unit. The texture of the general is missing.
I start again a custom battle with a catapult as first unit. The general has its texture again...

**Medusa0** · February 21, 2015, 07:36 PM

Does the archer unit have the attribute mercenary_unit?

**Gigantus** · February 21, 2015, 07:38 PM

Are you using the same faction for those custom battles? Because that would be the only explanation - that you did not assign a texture\faction.

The battle model is defined in descr_characters, from there you can trace it in the modeldb file.

**falcom4ever** · February 21, 2015, 09:57 PM

Yes it's certain that's the same faction, but hold on Medusa0 may be right.

I added recently the mercenary atribute to the said archer unit !

Could it be that I need to assign in the battle_models.modeldb a texture for the general but for "merc" faction ?

**Gigantus** · February 21, 2015, 10:05 PM

You certainly need a merc texture assignment for the captain\generals.

**falcom4ever** · February 22, 2015, 12:28 AM

Indeed it fixed the problem.

Thanks a lot.

**Vipman** · February 22, 2015, 05:06 PM

Oh I never thought of that, I assumed the captain would be associated with the faction not the unit, well good to know, I have to add it to all captains. BTW anyone knows if a regular unit model can have both infantry and horse animations and its model be used on 2 units, mounted and dismounted, like how it works with captains? I tried it but the new mounted unit was standing above the horse. I just don't understand why it works for captains and not for units.

**falcom4ever** · February 23, 2015, 04:40 AM

Originally Posted by Vipman

Oh I never thought of that, I assumed the captain would be associated with the faction not the unit, well good to know, I have to add it to all captains. BTW anyone knows if a regular unit model can have both infantry and horse animations and its model be used on 2 units, mounted and dismounted, like how it works with captains? I tried it but the new mounted unit was standing above the horse. I just don't understand why it works for captains and not for units.

I followed the same logic as you

. Maybe it works a little bit differently for captains as they are "characters" and not units. Just like horses are "mounts" and not units.

**Gigantus** · February 23, 2015, 07:50 AM

Have a look at the animation combos for generals - you will notice that there are sections for mounts and one for without 'header' for infantry. Your 'chinese acrobat' was missing a mount animation

And yes, you can have that for any unit that can be used as a rider. Also take note of the prefixes of the mount animations for the unit - HR = horse rider, CR = camel rider etc.

**Vipman** · February 23, 2015, 05:39 PM

I used Gracul's Unit Editor tool to add HR animations to an archer unit to make a mounted archer version. But when I reload the files with the tool the horse animations aren't showing in the tool. But the model is like this, as the tool itself saved it.

Code:

11 hun_archers 
1 3 
52 unit_models/_units/hungary/hun_archers_ug0_lod0.mesh 121 
52 unit_models/_units/hungary/hun_archers_ug0_lod1.mesh 1200 
52 unit_models/_units/hungary/hun_archers_ug0_lod2.mesh 6400 
1 
7 hungary 
61 unit_models/_units/hungary/textures/hun_archers_early.texture 
68 unit_models/_units/hungary/textures/hun_archers_early_normal.texture 
39 unit_sprites/turks_turkomans_sprite.spr 
1 
7 hungary 
68 unit_models/_units/hungary/attachments/hun_archers_early_att.texture 
71 unit_models/_units/hungary/attachments/hun_archers_early_normal.texture 0 
2 
4 None 
16 MTW2_Fast_Bowman 14 MTW2_Fast_Mace 
2 
19 MTW2_Bowman_Primary 14 fs_test_shield 
2 
17 MTW2_Mace_Primary 14 fs_test_shield 
5 horse 
11 MTW2_HR_Bow 12 MTW2_HR_Mace 
2 
19 MTW2_HR_Bow_Primary 14 fs_test_shield 
2 
17 MTW2_Mace_Primary 14 fs_test_shield 
16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002

**Gigantus** · February 23, 2015, 10:03 PM

Not sure why the animation doesn't show in the tool, but I believe your mace_primary for the rider is still the infantry animation.

**Vipman** · February 24, 2015, 12:27 AM

There is no HR_sword/mace_primary . Another cavalry uses the mace one and all other cavalry, tens of units, use MTW2_Sword_Primary, and work just fine. But as I said above making a regular unit model both infantry and cavalry simply doesn't work for some reason, so I'll just make another copy of the model, like all tutorials say.

**Gigantus** · February 24, 2015, 01:26 AM

I stand corrected about the mace. It's curious about the animations, though. Have you tried if it works if all mount animations are present like they are for the captains\generals? I do however remember that using a missile animation for officers crashes the game when the unit engages in melee (or something along those lines).