SS Screenshot Thread

[Basileus of Byzantium]

Had to take this picture because of that one courageous Italian soldier, jumping into the air, glaive raised against an incoming cataphract charge. RIP

[Marku]

Are you using a submod of SS Basileus? Great screenshot!

[HaHawk]

[HaHawk]

[Basileus of Byzantium]

Are you using a submod of SS Basileus? Great screenshot!

No submods, just my own personal edits. The cataphract model is from a submod called 1405 for Ferrum Aeternum.

[+Marius+]

One of my mangonels in a "left for dead" siege situation accidentally hit a gate chokepoint swarming with a fullstack of Mongols, hilarity ensued;




R.I.P the unlucky Mongolian captain that managed to get hit by a cannonball, thus becoming the first and only victim of gunpowder in the Great Bagdad Wars.

[LusitanPlayer]

@at the above, hilarious hahahaha

[Basileus of Byzantium]

That must have been satisfying to watch

[LusitanPlayer]

No submods, just my own personal edits. The cataphract model is from a submod called 1405 for Ferrum Aeternum.

mind me ask how you do that?
nevermind, i've tried reading tutorials again for the 10th time and i cant get the grasp of it. haha

[Basileus of Byzantium]

mind me ask how you do that?
nevermind, i've tried reading tutorials again for the 10th time and i cant get the grasp of it. haha

Just a simple matter of grabbing the model's mesh and texture files, then putting them inside Stainless Steel's unit_models folder. From there place them anywhere inside and then open up the battle_models file. Either create a section for the new unit or use an existing section, since SS is at the unit limit you'll most likely be using an existing section like for example, coyote_priests. In red will be the lines you'll need to change:

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14 coyote_priests
1 3 <----- This deals with how many "lod" meshes the character model has. If it's 1 file then the numbers will be 1 1. The first number will always be 1 and the second varies.
56 unit_models/_Units/AZ_Body_suit/coyote_priests_lod0.mesh 121
56 unit_models/_Units/AZ_Body_suit/coyote_priests_lod1.mesh 1225
56 unit_models/_Units/AZ_Body_suit/coyote_priests_lod2.mesh 6400
1 <----- This deals with the number of factions. For each faction you can make the textures vary if you want, depending on your photoshop/texture editing skills. If you give give a faction this unit but they do not appear in this section then you will get a "silver surfer unit".
6 cumans
73 unit_models/_Units/AZ_Body_suit/textures/mtw2_az_body_suit_cayote.texture
80 unit_models/_Units/AZ_Body_suit/textures/mtw2_az_body_suit_cayote_normal.texture
45 unit_sprites/aztecs_Coyote_Priests_sprite.spr <---------This is optional to change as it only deals with the unit's sprites.
1
6 cumans
58 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Aztec_aztecs_diff.texture
58 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Aztec_aztecs_norm.texture 0
1
4 None
9 MTW2_Mace 0 <----- This deals with their animations. Do you want them to have a mace, sword, or lance animation?
2
17 MTW2_Mace_Primary
14 fs_test_shield 0
16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002

The finished product should look like this:

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10 Excubitors <------To make things more organized I changed the name as well. Though this is optional I highly recommend it. The number at the start of the line is how many characters/letters there are.
1 1
66 unit_models/New_Units/Roman_Empire/excubitors/excubitors_lod0.mesh 6400
1
9 byzantium
89 unit_models/New_Units/Roman_Empire/excubitors/textures/mtw2_es_greek_byzantium_JW.texture
86 unit_models/New_Units/Roman_Empire/excubitors/textures/mtw2_es_greek_normal_JW.texture
61 unit_sprites/byzantium_sprites/byzantium_Scholarii_sprite.spr
1
9 byzantium
89 unit_models/New_Units/Roman_Empire/excubitors/textures/final spear_byzantium_diff.texture
89 unit_models/New_Units/Roman_Empire/excubitors/textures/final spear_byzantium_norm.texture 0
1
5 Horse
13 MTW2_HR_Lance
13 MTW2_HR_Sword 2
21 MTW2_HR_Lance_Primary
14 fs_test_shield 2
18 MTW2_Sword_Primary
14 fs_test_shield
16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002

Finally you'll want to go to the export_descr_unit in the data folder and give this model to the unit you want to give it to. Simply by placing it on this line without the quotations:

"armour_ug_models Excubitors" <---The name has to be spelled correctly as it is in the battle_models folder. Upper case or lower case doesn't matter.

Now when you give the model to the unit, make sure the weapons and certain lines for the unit (e.g. the "mount", "category", "banner faction", "banner holy", "soldier" line, etc.) are edited correctly to the unit you want them to be or else the animations will look wonky on the unit or they won't get their secondary weapon out correctly, etc.

[+Marius+]

Looks like our little 14 year old landsknecht commander grew up to become so powerful that he is on his way to becoming Emperor.

-6 turns per year script

[Grabbin_Megroin]

Let all of England tremble in fear in the wake of the mighty Uilliam Uallace!

[+Marius+]

Hahaha, I was just about to post the same thing;

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[Basileus of Byzantium]

What's up with the name? A bug of sorts?

[stevietheconquer]

maybe that's the original name in old scottisch?

[LuciferM]

What's up with the name? A bug of sorts?

Medieval English writing was of the most grandeur wonkiness. An S was something like an f, v's were u's and vice versa, and it is most likely that W's were simply U's.

[+Marius+]

Medieval English writing was of the most grandeur wonkiness. An S was something like an f, v's were u's and vice versa, and it is most likely that W's were simply U's.

I legitimately though they were just making fun of the Scottish accent; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEOOZDbMrgE&t=0m14s

[Melooo182]

That spelling is from SSNOP which made its way partially to the Bugfix Compilation, as all other scottish names already had the "weird" old scottish spelling

[+Marius+]

An age of huge cities and citadels, loads of cash and hundreds of armies stacked to the full with elite late era troops;

The Timurids finally conquered the Persian forts

...took them 20 turns and about 6-7 siege assaults


A clash of pikes in front of Edinburgh



An unsuccessful Jihad



No, this is not the main French army



The Cumans acquire a new vassal



My allies and myself launch an overseas invasion at the same damn time




Fighting through the streets of London

...about 9000 men died that day


Once more unto the breach


Gunners preparing the last volley




The Investiture did not go as planned for the Pope



Breaking through the Papal forts system




My pride and joy



The sneaky Dutch rebelled against me;

...so I destroyed what they hold most dear in their traitorous hearts

[LuciferM]