Is there any way to remove Burreks skins?

**Skibbles** · October 10, 2007, 11:35 PM

As the title asks:

I never really liked the skins, but every attempt I make at replacing them makes the game unplayable.

**Caesar Clivus** · October 10, 2007, 11:59 PM

Unless burrek's skins alter the modeldb file, then all you need to do is to delete the texture files.

**Lazy Knight** · October 12, 2007, 03:11 PM

If you have not backed up the files that have been overwritten, since textures only work in the data folder, the only way to undo what you have done is by getting somebody elses unaltered texture files - either reinstall everything or ask in another forum - but i personally would not mess around with them since they also contain the new units in SS such as Aragonese knights, seargent swordsmen and all the mercenaries.

So if you want to play SS you will have to stick with the textures i guess...

**Caesar Clivus** · October 12, 2007, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by Lazy_knight

If you have not backed up the files that have been overwritten, since textures only work in the data folder, the only way to undo what you have done is by getting somebody elses unaltered texture files - either reinstall everything or ask in another forum - but i personally would not mess around with them since they also contain the new units in SS such as Aragonese knights, seargent swordsmen and all the mercenaries.

So if you want to play SS you will have to stick with the textures i guess...

Texture files are not overwritten by SS. The way they work is that the game first looks for texture files in the data directory for each unit. If it doesn't find textures for a specific unit, then it uses the original ones in the packed game files which are never altered or deleted by SS. So like I said earlier, unless burrek's skins alter the modeldb file (so that it points to texture files with different names) then all you need to do is delete the texture files in the data directory. However this would be very laborious as there would be a heck of a lot of them

**tesb** · April 26, 2008, 05:08 PM

Hi,
I´ve been a lurker for a while and i really like ss, but the textures annoy me, (i want the old byzantium textures back) so I deleted /mods/Stainless_Steel_6/Data/unit_models/_units/es_greek_greek_heavy/textures (all of them)
,but the game now crashes (I made a backup).
So I ask: could anybody be a bit more specific regarding which files to delete?

**Roboute Guilliman** · April 26, 2008, 05:50 PM

you cant just delete them, you need to replace them with the old ones

**Caesar Clivus** · April 26, 2008, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Kyho

you cant just delete them, you need to replace them with the old ones

No you dont, so long as the new texture files have the same names and are in the exact same directory as the originals. See my earlier post in this thread as to why. If the new files have different names or are in a different directory from the vanilla files, then you are going to have to edit the modeldb file.

**Naked Emperor** · April 26, 2008, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by Caesar Clivus

No you dont, so long as the new texture files have the same names and are in the exact same directory as the originals. See my earlier post in this thread as to why. If the new files have different names or are in a different directory from the vanilla files, then you are going to have to edit the modeldb file.

Don't forget that there are units there as well from kingdoms and some custom made, like the byz pikemen

**tesb** · April 27, 2008, 05:11 AM

The custom made units seem to cause the problem. When i delete the files and jut use vanilla units they indeed look now like vanilla, but when i add new units like the guard (with the pike) the game crashes.
There must be a way around this (and someone who could help).

**Caesar Clivus** · April 27, 2008, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by tesb

The custom made units seem to cause the problem. When i delete the files and jut use vanilla units they indeed look now like vanilla, but when i add new units like the guard (with the pike) the game crashes.
There must be a way around this (and someone who could help).

Looking at the modeldb file, the skin used by the guard pikemen is used exclusively by them. So deleting the texture is going to crash your game because there is no corresponding vanilla texture to take its place.