Use a part of a unit from another faction

[Sotericus]

You say "We can now extract britain_diffuse.dds, and open it with gimp." can you explain how you do this please?

In order to extract the _diffuse.dds (or any other texture file) you need to open variantmodels.pack using PFM. Search in units/atlas and choose the 'extract file option'. Then, open this with Gimp.

Hope this helps.

[Steph]

Correct, except it's not always "variantmodels.pack". Textures can be modified by the patches, do check also patch1.pack, patch2.pack, etc.

[ottomanfan]

Thanks guys , can you give us the link to the L'aigle tutorial that you talk about as I can't find it.

[Steph]

Here it is

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=519393

[Emperor of The Great Unknown]

Is there an upper limit to the number of atlas entries? And do entries need to be in a specific order? (heads last for instance).

[alanortiz12]

hey, this is the ing tutorial that i was searching over months....

como decimos en Argentina, mil millones de gracias!! (billion thanks!)

[NikolaiX]

Million thanks to your helpful tutorial, I have a question here, when adding a new texture to my diffuse.dds and making new atlas line for it, I don't know where to get the mesh line because it required 1 mesh line and 1 atlas line to activate the new texture.

[NikolaiX]

For example, I just added the Polish Czapka hat to Prussia_diffuse.dds, I also made an atlas line in Prussia texture: VariantModels/UnitParts/Euro/Hats/Czapka/tex/texture, but where to exactly find its mesh line? Thank you.

[Steph]

The mesh line can be copied from your Polish variants (not atlas).
The difference is for texture, you need to use a "placeholder" name, just to ge tthe correct position.
While for the mesh, you keep the exact name.
So it's probably something like "VariantModels/UnitParts/Euro/Hats/Czapka/mesh"

[NikolaiX]

The problem is solved, thank you.