Needs Help Editing Battle Models File

**strife1013** · November 09, 2008, 05:47 PM

I know how to change the unit & building file to make units available to other factions. But the only remaining is the battle_models. I have no clue what needs to be changed so that the units have their skins. I have seen links to threads that give you step by step instructions and for some reason I'm just not getting it to work. Lame I know. Can anyone help me out with this issue? I know maybe a edit battle_models file for dummies or something.

As well one more issue which remains for myself is how do I give say KOJ the ability to create brick castles instead of the stone ones?

**random_samurai** · November 09, 2008, 09:03 PM

Yeah, so if you want to give KOJ brick castles, Teutonic or Eastern European, then you'll want to change descr_sm_factions.txt so that KOJ will read

culture eastern_european

instead of northern european

**random_samurai** · November 09, 2008, 09:38 PM

also, if you're wanting to add units and whatnot, make sure the textures of your desired units fit the lod.mesh, otherwise they get pretty freaky looking. Sometimes you'll just have to settle for a lack of faction specific colors if you can't the faction you want to add to has no texture available.

As for editing the .modelsdb, i'll give it a shot.

The attached file should help you somewhat

**strife1013** · November 10, 2008, 08:06 AM

Thank you random samurai, I will try this when I get home from work =)

**strife1013** · November 10, 2008, 10:29 AM

{24 mercenary_german_knights
1 3
69 unit_models/_Units/EN_Pplate_Plate/mercenary_german_knights_lod0.mesh 121
69 unit_models/_Units/EN_Pplate_Plate/mercenary_german_knights_lod1.mesh 1225
69 unit_models/_Units/EN_Pplate_Plate/mercenary_german_knights_lod2.mesh 6400
1 2--------- change this to a 2 since for example two factions would use this unit.
4 merc <------------------ Under this line if for example I wanted T.O. to be able to create these units as well would I do this
4 merc, 9 T.O. (or whatever number they are..Im at work right now)? I'm sure I have more questions later when I start doing some testing.

**PerXX** · November 10, 2008, 11:04 AM

Not entirely correct. You need to add new armor sections for each faction that has the unit. I've just been playing around with this myself, so I'll give it a try.
If we take you example of adding Mercenary German Knights to the Teutonic Order, you'll need to change the original:

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Into this:

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It doesn't show up correctly when posted here, but you must also make sure that there's a single space after each line.

**strife1013** · November 10, 2008, 07:16 PM

I think I finally have it down! However the only Issue I am having is with the horses color. I would like to have them as the T.O and not yellowish looking here are a few pictures.