Greetings to you all, I am posting this thread due to the fact of me loving a mod that has a certain bug within it and the creator of the mod has unfortunately stopped being active and will not and does not know how to fix the problem with his mod, If any modders around here are interested please do contact me, not to fix the bug but to at least guide me through the assembly kit and help me fix the simple bug. it's about the disappearance of units withing the mod when zoomed away from in the battle map.
I have already posted a thread addressing the issue but only one person was kind enough to address the matter and how to resolve it, but sadly that particular member does not seem to be active on the forum anymore. he did mention that in order to get rid of the zoom out unit bug is to by "assigning an imposter to almost each stuff (armour, trousers, helmet, shield..) in the vm file of all units having this problem when zooming out in battle."
the only problem is I have no idea what he's talking about lol. please if any modder here is familiar with this. please teach me how to do it. or maybe be kind enough to do it for me lol xD. it is too much to ask for but I guess it never hurts to ask around.
As far as I understand, an imposter model is a low quality version of a model that shows up when you're looking at the unit from far away. It is low quality so it doesn't eat up all your computer resources.
Apparently even though it's low quality, you have to try and use the same imposters as much as possible because the imposters are resource intensive as well. So use the same shirt imposter for all your units that roughly look the same.
Magnar made a Youtube video explaining it. Skip to 10:55 in the video.
The imposter models are easiest to input using a text editor, such as Notepad++.
If you have units all using the same shirt and trousers for example, it's easiest to create a variantmeshdefinition just for that shirt and trousers with the imposter models in it.
This way, you add "shirt_trouser_combo_01.variantmeshdefinition" with all the imposters already in it to each unit, rather than adding the shirt and it's imposter, then the trousers and its imposter to each unit.