Weapons & Weapon Upgrades Questions

[Practiti0ner]

Im trying to change the secondary weapon on english knights not sure how to do this, ive tried a few things but none of worked and im not exactly positive if its connected to the unit model or not.

Im also trying to set some units up so they come equipped with there upgraded weapons (have weapon upgrades disabled)

Thanks!

[dopp]

The weapons are connected directly to the unit model, so to replace them you'll need to work with the mesh files. There's a mesh converter available that allows you to merge files so you can effectively do a weapon swap. What you do is use it to import, say, an English Knight into Milkshape, delete his existing weapons, then merge the altered file with one that only has the weapons you want.

I recommend going to the downloads section and searching for the "Unit Maker's Tome of Knowledge" and "Grumpy Old Man's Mesh Converter", plus the guide "Mesh to MS3D - Basic_Tutorial". The last one deals specifically with weapon swapping.

[Practiti0ner]

thanks man ill set out on that asap

[Practiti0ner]

Thanks for the references Dopp! i got the weapons changed and it was actually pretty simple (for the changes i made anyways) and i have a newfound respect for the creator of stainless steel

But does anyone know how to change a units weapon to be the upgraded model? dont want the stats just the looks.

[dopp]

I believe that you'll have to look in the weapons library folder (maybe have to unpack the original M2TW ones). There should be mesh files with the upgraded weapons.

[Practiti0ner]

This is strange, i have located the dismounted english knights weapon, the poleaxe so i make a copy and try to convert it to a ms3d file and it gives me this message Non-standard file - Not processsed... wtf lol any clues coz im stuck.

[Caesar Clivus]

This is strange, i have located the dismounted english knights weapon, the poleaxe so i make a copy and try to convert it to a ms3d file and it gives me this message Non-standard file - Not processsed... wtf lol any clues coz im stuck.

Sometimes that happens with the converter with some models. Haven't been able to find a workaround for it yet.

[Practiti0ner]

Sometimes that happens with the converter with some models. Haven't been able to find a workaround for it yet.

Oh well that makes sense, i thought it was something i did wrong thanks!