Unlocking latent sicilian units ?

[Massive_attack]

Hello ! Just a quick question, is it possible to unlock some units used by other factions for Sicily ?

I ask because i'd like to see some more... variety in my armies, i feel that while the faction works in terms of relative strengths and weaknesses and whatnot, i'd just like to be able to play with a few more units.

After looking around on the forums i discovered that light swordsmen were unlockable by just simply changing the faction ownership in the EDU and EDB to include sicily. I'm just wondering if there are any other units like this ?

Also, i noticed that dismounted sicilian feudal knights have there own icon, and will work in battle, they just dont have any model or texture at all. Invisible soldiers, lol. (However, the game knows that they are there, i can select them and order them to attack, it doesnt crash at all) but as soon as i try to place a model/texture there for them, like:

6 sicily
63 unit_models/_Units/ES_Mail/textures/mtw2_ES_Mail_sicily.texture
63 unit_models/_Units/ES_Mail/textures/mtw2_ES_Mail_normal.texture
56 unit_sprites/sicily_Dismounted_Norman_Knights_sprite.spr

...and then the attachments...

6 sicily
59 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Heater_sicily_diff.texture
59 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Heater_sicily_norm.texture 0

It crashes when i attempt to start the mod (dont worry i made backups)

I realize this is more of a technical thread, but im hoping one of you guys might be able to help out- perhaps there are other sicilian units that are as easy to unlock as light (regular) swordsmen ?

[Caesar Clivus]

Did you update the faction count when you added the entries for sicily?

[Massive_attack]

Forgive me but, whats a faction count ?

[Caesar Clivus]

Ok I'm work so I cant cut and paste an example (working from memory so look out! )but if you look at a unit's modeldb entry, you'll see a number on a line on it's own between the .mesh entries and the texture entries. So for example:

 
45 unit_models\_unit\model_lod3.mesh 6400
3
6 sicily
63 unit_models/_Units/ES_Mail/textures/mtw2_ES_Mail_sicily.texture 
63 unit_models/_Units/ES_Mail/textures/mtw2_ES_Mail_normal.texture

The number highlighted in red is the faction count. It tells the game how many factions will have texture entries for this model. You'll find another one for the attachments entries. When you add another faction to the model entry, you have to update this number or you'll get a crash

[Massive_attack]

Oh hey great I totally missed this ! Will go try to mod again, thanks !
Edit: PS: Italian men at arms were also incredibly easy to add to the roster ! suhweet.