Is there any way to use 'create_unit' for units from another faction?

[Sir Bobbert]

For instance, when playing as England I use the 'create_unit' command for certain units existing within a foreign faction; so for example's sake:

'create_unit London "Highland Nobles" 4 3 3 3'

Now, using this command does indeed give me that unit, but it appears not only as an icon depicting a gray-dressed peasant-like individual, but in real time battle, the unit itself appears as grayish, silverish, ghost-like or whatever else you want to call it.

Does anyone know what I mean by this? And does anyone know how to get rid of that effect so that - going off the example - the Highland Nobles appear just as they would were I playing as Scotland?

Thanks in advance.

[Surgeon]

This is caused by the game not being able to find the textures and icon for the unit when under control of a faction. Basically, every unit has code that says "when owned by FactionX, use textures So-and-So" for every faction that has ownership of the unit in the game. This means that factions that do not normally have the unit available to them is the campaign/custom battle are not in the code.

For example, Sherwood Archers are only available to England, so their code only specifies what textures to use in the case that they are owned by England. If any other faction (let's take Milan) uses them through the create command etc., the game will not be able to find what textures to assign to the unit in the case that they are owned by Milan, so they will end up looking like rampaging statues.

This is only fixable by modding the game yourself or downloading a mod that does this for you. You should check out the modding tutorials on this forum if you want to do the former; they're a great help.

[Faris ad Din]

By the way, don't double post... I see the same thread in the regular M2:TW forum.

[Sir Bobbert]

Thanks, I'll check out the modding forums later today probably.

I deem the double post necessary because I've no idea if a lot of those who go to the Kingdoms forum also go to the M2TW forum.