problem coding in new mount

**IndianaJoe** · April 20, 2009, 12:27 PM

Hi, I am trying to code in this mount I made:

and i coded it in as follows:

Code:

21 mount_half_mail_horse 1.12 3 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod0.mesh 121 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod1.mesh 1225 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod2.mesh 10000
1
8 scotland
72 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_horse/textures/halfmail_horse_slave.texture 
66 unit_models/Mounts/Heavy_Horse/textures/heavy_horse_normal.texture 
49 unit_sprites/england_Mount_Heavy_Horse_sprite.spr 
5 Horse 
21 mount_half_mail_horse 0  
0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0

and I (for the sake of simplicity) assigned it to the border horse:

Code:

type             Border Horse
dictionary       Border_Horse      ; Border Horse
category         cavalry
class            light
voice_type       Light
banner faction   main_cavalry
banner holy      crusade_cavalry
soldier          Border_Horse, 24, 0, 1
mount            half mail horse
mount_effect     elephant -4, camel -4
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, hardy, can_withdraw, can_formed_charge
formation        2, 4.4, 3, 6, 4, square
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         2, 8, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 25, 1
stat_pri_attr    no
stat_sec         4, 4, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, sword, 50, 1
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  3, 2, 0, leather
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        5
stat_ground      0, -2, -2, 0
stat_mental      9, low, untrained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 450, 210, 100, 75, 450, 4, 90
armour_ug_levels 1, 2
armour_ug_models Border_Horse, Border_Horse_ug1
ownership        scotland, slave
era 0            scotland
era 1            scotland
era 2            scotland
recruit_priority_offset    -15

and the folder I created:

I can't figure out what's wrong,

**Gigantus** · April 20, 2009, 12:58 PM

You have to enter it in data\descr_mounts as well.

**IndianaJoe** · April 20, 2009, 01:24 PM

um, I did that, I copied the "heavy horse" mount text and changed it to half mail horse

Code:

type                half mail horse
class                horse
model                half_mail_horse
radius                1.2
x_radius            0.5
y_offset            0.7
height                2.5
mass                3.25    ;changed from 4.0 29/4/05
banner_height        0
bouyancy_offset        1.8
water_trail_effect    horse_water_trail
root_node_height    1.0
rider_offset        0.0, 0.38, 0.70

but it's still giving me an "unspecified error"

**Gigantus** · April 20, 2009, 01:22 PM

~~Yo have to make an entry in data\descr_mounts as well.~~
I just love my ISP!

**absinthia** · April 20, 2009, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by IndianaJoe

and i coded it in as follows:

Code:

21 mount_half_mail_horse 1.12 3 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod0.mesh 121 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod1.mesh 1225 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod2.mesh 10000

and I (for the sake of simplicity) assigned it to the border horse:

Code:

type             Border Horse
dictionary       Border_Horse      ; Border Horse
category         cavalry
class            light
voice_type       Light
banner faction   main_cavalry
banner holy      crusade_cavalry
soldier          Border_Horse, 24, 0, 1
mount            half mail horse
mount_effect     elephant -4, camel -4
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, hardy, can_withdraw, can_formed_charge
formation        2, 4.4, 3, 6, 4, square
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         2, 8, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 25, 1
stat_pri_attr    no
stat_sec         4, 4, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, sword, 50, 1
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  3, 2, 0, leather
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        5
stat_ground      0, -2, -2, 0
stat_mental      9, low, untrained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 450, 210, 100, 75, 450, 4, 90
armour_ug_levels 1, 2
armour_ug_models Border_Horse, Border_Horse_ug1
ownership        scotland, slave
era 0            scotland
era 1            scotland
era 2            scotland
recruit_priority_offset    -15

could that in bold red be the problem, should not the entries refer to the one used in bmdb?

**Augustus Lucifer** · April 20, 2009, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by absinthia

could that in bold red be the problem, should not the entries refer to the one used in bmdb?

That isn't the issue. The Heavy Horse mount from vanilla is mount_heavy_horse in the BMDB, but in the mount file its "type" is heavy horse which is used in the EDU.

**B. Ward** · April 20, 2009, 06:14 PM

Your modelsdb entry is incorrect.

**Caesar Clivus** · April 20, 2009, 06:43 PM

Code:

21 mount_half_mail_horse 1.12 3 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod0.mesh 121 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod1.mesh 1225 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod2.mesh 10000
1
8 scotland
72 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_horse/textures/halfmail_horse_slave.texture 
66 unit_models/Mounts/Heavy_Horse/textures/heavy_horse_normal.texture 
49 unit_sprites/england_Mount_Heavy_Horse_sprite.spr 0
1
5 Horse 
21 mount_half_mail_horse 0

You need to put a zero and 1 there

**Eothese** · April 21, 2009, 11:16 AM

Code:

type                half mail horse
class                horse
model           mount_half_mail_horse    
radius                1.2
x_radius            0.5
y_offset            0.7
height                2.5
mass                3.25    ;changed from 4.0 29/4/05
banner_height        0
bouyancy_offset        1.8
water_trail_effect    horse_water_trail
root_node_height    1.0
rider_offset        0.0, 0.38, 0.70

The blue text needs to match.

Code:

21 mount_half_mail_horse 1.12 3 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod0.mesh 121 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod1.mesh 1225 
65 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_Horse/mount_halfmail_horse_lod2.mesh 10000
1
8 scotland
72 unit_models/Mounts/half_mail_horse/textures/halfmail_horse_slave.texture 
66 unit_models/Mounts/Heavy_Horse/textures/heavy_horse_normal.texture 
49 unit_sprites/england_Mount_Heavy_Horse_sprite.spr 0
1
5 Horse 
13 fs_fast_horse
0  
0 
0 
-1 0 0 0 0 0 0

And you need to pick a valid animation, unless you have created a new descr_skeleton entry called mount_half_mail_horse?
On the positive side your EDU entry is correct.

**IndianaJoe** · April 21, 2009, 11:23 AM

i didn't make an new anything except I re-did the heavy horse. no new animations and stuff, should I keep the 'heavy horse" stuff at the bottom?

**Eothese** · April 21, 2009, 11:32 AM

Code:

1 
5 Horse 
8 fs_horse 
0  
0 
0 
-1 0 0 0 0 0 0

The game wont work if you dont have this right, but I guess you can tell that already.
1 means the model has 1 animation type.
5 Horse means that its for a horse or horse ridden model.
8 fs_horse refers to the animation in descr_skeleton. You can pick anything that is in this file, as long as you get the string length correct.
Dont mess with the zero's.

**Augustus Lucifer** · April 21, 2009, 03:45 PM

You originally had the name of the horse where the animation should go. The one Eothese posted is an animation as defined in descr_skeletion for horses.