Saruman as a unique unit

[Lord Butters I]

This introduces Saruman as a unique character ala Sauron or the Balrog to Isengard. He's based off of elephant artillery, though I modified just about everything. The model is the standard Saruman model from the TATW campaign; I have done no actual modeling.

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He shoots an exploding culverin shot, which is as close to the fireball he fires at Gandalf in the deleted scene from Return of the King as I could find.

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He has no attack animations; not even in melee. I am as inept at animating as I am at modeling, so I will be unable to fix this.

To install, extract this .zip file to your main TATW folder. Backups for all edited files are included.

IMPORTANT: If you do NOT have the submod that imports actual axes for Axe Throwers from RTW:BI (located Here, do not copy the export_descr_units file. Instead, open your own export_descr_units file and add the contents of the spoiler below wherever you'd like it. The same goes if you have modified export_descr_units for any other reason. This is the only submod in my EDU so it should be compatible with most peoples' games.

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type             Saruman Cannon
dictionary       Saruman_Cannon      ; Elephant Artillery
category         cavalry
class            heavy
voice_type       Heavy
banner faction   main_cavalry
banner holy      crusade_cavalry
soldier          Elephant_Crew3, 4, 1, 1
mounted_engine   saruman_gun
mount            saruman
attributes       sea_faring, hardy, can_withdraw, gunpowder_unit, general_unit
formation        7, 11, 13,16, 2, square
stat_health      1, 1
stat_pri         28, 3, exploding_culverin_shot, 350, 60, missile, artillery_gunpowder, blunt, none, 25, 1
stat_pri_attr    ap, bp
stat_sec         8, 6, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 0, 2
stat_sec_attr    light_spear
stat_pri_armour  5, 5, 0, flesh
stat_sec_armour  0, 10, flesh
stat_heat        0
stat_ground      0, 0, 0, 0
stat_mental      18, disciplined, highly_trained, lock_morale
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 1000, 175, 90, 70, 1000, 1, 99000
armour_ug_levels 0
armour_ug_models Never
ownership        france
era 0            france
era 1            france
era 2            france

descr_mounts is changed too; while less commonly altered than export_descr_units, I suppose someone might have modified their file. If you have, open it and add this to it:

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type 				saruman
class 				elephant
model 				saruman
radius 				1
x_radius 			0.1
;x_radius 			0.5
y_offset 			0
height 				1
mass 				1.1
banner_height 			1
bouyancy_offset 		1.8
water_trail_effect 		elephant_water_trail
root_node_height 		1.0
attack_delay 			0
dead_radius 			1
tusk_z 				1.5
tusk_radius 			1
riders 				3
rider_offset 			0.05, -1.52, 1.37
rider_offset 			-0.3, -1.52, 0.4 ;y was 1.54
rider_offset 			0.3, -1.52, -.35 ;y was 1.54

This submod does NOT change Saruman's bodyguard in the main campaign; while this is possible the fact that Saruman is Isengard's faction leader means there are multiple sarumans on the battlefield (Faction leaders' bodyguards have much higher numbers than normal generals) I know of no fix for this at this time.

If this is popular I will do something similar for Gandalf, and if anyone has a solution for the faction leader cloning problem I would be much obliged.

UPDATE: The projectile now originates in the middle of the Saruman model.

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The .zip file is now up to date; as is the needed entry to export_descr_units. Becides the change to EDU, what is needed is the modified descr_mounted_engines file in the .zip; or to do it yourself copy and paste the below into your file. This file is not normally part of TATW, so copy/paste your main M2TW's into TATW's data folder.

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type				saruman_gun
culture				all
class				serpentine
reference_points		siege_engines/rocket_launcher.modelReferencePoints
missile_pos			0.0 1.0 0.0
crew_animations
    crank           		Cannon_Crew,	elephant_crew_reload,	elephant_crew_idle, 	
;    crank_attachment		Right_Load, 	none, 	       		none,			
    fire            		Cannon_Crew,	elephant_crew_fire,	elephant_crew_idle
end
shot_pfx_front			cannon_shot_elephant_serpentine_set
shot_sfx			ANIM_Serpentine_Fire

[Förster44]

Hehe, looks funny! Nice work

[drecie14]

Does he have an animation when he shoots the fireballs?
Or he just stands there while fireballs come out?

[Agamaran]

I'll say it. Nice movie mod, but Saruman never shoots fireballs at anyone. Gandalf himself never shoots fireballs as well--he is able to bend the will of existing fire, but that doesn't come from him being an Istari; that comes from him wearing Narya, the Ring of Fire (this is why Gandalf is able to create fireworks).

[TMK]

Good work! If Saruman had a animation for the fireballs it would be great. +rep

[drecie14]

He could use the COW sorcerer's animations...

[Lord Butters I]

He could use the COW sorcerer's animations...

Never heard of it; link please? A search of the forums turned up nothing.

[drecie14]

Well mate...
You need COW first... (Call of Warhammer)
look around the animations and model_db

[srdak]

Great Lord Butters,, only for TATW 2.1 i think?...or it's running with FROME too?

[drecie14]

Great Lord Butters,, only for TATW 2.1 i think?...or it's running with FROME too?

It can be compatible with other submods.
Just copy the entries he made in the descr_mount and EDU to your submod
It's in the spoilers

[srdak]

It can be compatible with other submods.
Just copy the entries he made in the descr_mount and EDU to your submod
It's in the spoilers

sorry partner ,,, explain me EDU,,,, i dont understand right now....

[drecie14]

sorry partner ,,, explain me EDU,,,, i dont understand right now....

The EDU is the export_descr_units.txt in the data folder
It has a unit's stats, recruitment costs, number of soldiers in a unit, officers, etc.
Open it and you'll know what I mean...
There are a bunch of tutorials around the workshop to help you understand the numbers better

[srdak]

ok ok,,, i know, only just never heard use these acronyms....(EDU)

only one question, the saruman.zip contains two files descr_mount & EDU ,,, what i do with descr_mount & EDU - copy

[drecie14]

ok ok,,, i know, only just never heard use these acronyms....(EDU)

only one question, the saruman.zip contains two files descr_mount & EDU ,,, what i do with descr_mount & EDU - copy

Do not replace the originals if you're using a submod,
instead, open each of the text files and copy the entries for saruman...
then paste them to their corresponding text files...
for example, open the descr_mount he included, look for saruman...copy the entire entry
then open the descr_mount in you Third Age\data then paste it below any other mount...
Same goes with the EDU

[Lord Butters I]

ok ok,,, i know, only just never heard use these acronyms....(EDU)

only one question, the saruman.zip contains two files descr_mount & EDU ,,, what i do with descr_mount & EDU - copy

Those are unedited versions of the file. Backups are always good so I included them. If you're editing the files yourself, don't bother copying the - Copy files; make your own backups.

[Malinwa]

Can't you make a unit like that for gandalf, because it looks very nice.