a question about files

[Fewrfreyut]

hey folks. first off, let me say: amazing mod.

now, down to business. I enjoy a little tampering every now and then. I decided to try and make the Seljuks of Iraq uber for my own amusement. To do this, I made the Khwarzim cataphract lancers and archers trainable by the seljuks. I also gave them the awesome Ghazni heavy spearmen for kicks.

Now, I've encountered a slight problem (and you needn't worry, this is actually a slight problem): the gorgeous detailed armor on the cataphract horses seems to not want to show up on them, meaning the Iraqi Khwarzim cata horses are bright white. The men on the horses themselves and the Ghazni spearmen are perfectly fine. It's only the horse armor that doesn't seem to work when it's under a faction that isn't the Khwarzims.

so, my question is: can you tell me how to fix it? I was checking out the "how to add an existing unit to another faction" tutorial on the twc forums, but that requires accessing and finding stuff in the battle_models file, which I noticed is... erm, not as neatly organized for your mod as it is in the tutorial's example

any assistance would be most appreciated

[wudang_clown]

Well, you have to change things in battle_models.modeldb anyway in order to fix lack of unit's textures, and nobody will do it for you, unfortunately.

[Fewrfreyut]

okay that's not a problem. I would never expect anyone to do it for me

I guess I'll take a look at the battle_models file then. Thanks for your help

[Fewrfreyut]

oh, by the way, a little update.

I was able to fix the problem (sort of, though it is even more what I wanted now than what it was). I went into export_descr_units, found the kwarzhim cataphract cavalry, and changed their mount from "bc full cat" to "easter armoured horse." it made all the horses for those units look like the vanilla eastern armoured ones, which was originally exactly what I wanted. Yay.