A question about textures

**muddymonkey77** · June 27, 2009, 10:03 AM

Wow! Let me just start off by saying that this a fantastic mod! I love playing this!

Now to my question...

I was playing last night, and Mordor was laying seige to Minas Tirith (I was Gondor). I thought it would be neat if I could make it like the books and have the Rohirim show up and help save the day. Not being able to control the Riders of Rohan...I decided the make an army by using the create_unit feature. It worked great....except....when I got to the battle, the Rohirim had no textures. They looked like just silver models riding horses. So I played around and tested a little. I found out that other faction units will show up like this if you try to get them in your army. (For example if you want to fight at the Black gate with a mixed army or defend Dale with Dwarves and Humans)

So what I'm asking is;

Is there a way to make it so that the textures will show up on these units if I do this again? If so, can you direct me to the file that needs code added?

Thanks! Keep up the great work!

**A1_Unit** · June 27, 2009, 10:20 AM

Yes there is a way to fix this. You must edit battle_models.modeldb. If you don't know how to edit this file then you need to look at a tutorial.

This is a good tutorial:
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=75584

**muddymonkey77** · June 27, 2009, 10:40 AM

Let me give that a shot then...thank you!

WOW...kind of complicated.

EDIT:

Hmmm..I can't figure it out.

I used this as just an example:

20 esgaroth_town_guards
1 1
54 unit_models/_Units/Dale/esgaroth_town_guards_lod0.mesh 6400
1
8 scotland
55 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth.texture
62 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth_normal.texture
44 unit_sprites/scotland_Highlanders_sprite.spr
1
8 scotland
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_diff.texture
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_norm.texture 0
1
4 None
14 MTW2_Swordsman 0
2
18 MTW2_Sword_Primary
14 fs_test_shield 0
16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002

then I added this at the end of the file:

20 esgaroth_town_guards
1 1
54 unit_models/_Units/Dale/esgaroth_town_guards_lod0.mesh 6400
1
6 sicily
55 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth.texture
62 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth_normal.texture
44 unit_sprites/scotland_Highlanders_sprite.spr
1
6 sicily
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_diff.texture
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_norm.texture 0
1
4 None
14 MTW2_Swordsman 0
2
18 MTW2_Sword_Primary
14 fs_test_shield 0
16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002

Then I tested it, and they still look like a bunch of T2000s.

**A1_Unit** · June 27, 2009, 11:31 AM

Code:

20 esgaroth_town_guards 
1 1 
54 unit_models/_Units/Dale/esgaroth_town_guards_lod0.mesh 6400 
2 
8 scotland 
55 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth.texture 
62 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth_normal.texture 
44 unit_sprites/scotland_Highlanders_sprite.spr 
6 sicily 
55 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth.texture 
62 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth_normal.texture 
44 unit_sprites/scotland_Highlanders_sprite.spr 
2 
8 scotland 
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_diff.texture 
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_norm.texture 0 
6 sicily 
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_diff.texture 
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_norm.texture 0 
1 
4 None 
14 MTW2_Swordsman 0 
2 
18 MTW2_Sword_Primary 
14 fs_test_shield 0 
16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002

The number above "8 scotland" is basicly the number of factions that can use this model. You don't have to make a new entry, just change that number and add the next faction that you want to use.

**axnsan** · June 27, 2009, 11:35 AM

you did it wrong. this is how it should look like
don't add another one, just replace the old one

Code:

20 esgaroth_town_guards 
1 1 
54 unit_models/_Units/Dale/esgaroth_town_guards_lod0.mesh 6400 
2 
8 scotland 
55 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth.texture 
62 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth_normal.texture 
44 unit_sprites/scotland_Highlanders_sprite.spr 
6 sicily 
55 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth.texture 
62 unit_models/_Units/dale/textures/light_esgaroth_normal.texture 
44 unit_sprites/scotland_Highlanders_sprite.spr 
2 
8 scotland 
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_diff.texture 
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_norm.texture 0 
6 sicily 
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_diff.texture 
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Dale Light_norm.texture 0 
1 
4 None 
14 MTW2_Swordsman 0 
2 
18 MTW2_Sword_Primary 
14 fs_test_shield 0 
16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002