General's Units

[John Mayer]

To go along with my post in this thread, is it possible to make the general's skin vary?
I tried a campaign as the HRE and I noticed that the faction leader has a different skin than one of his sons, but I don't think it's this way in other factions. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I just would rather not have the FL and his heir looking identical on the battlefield.

[nomercysniper]

I'm not sure abou the details on this, or what happens within the files, but apart from Byz, who have seperate models for FL, FH and generals, I beleive normal generals and faction heirs are randomly generated.

[Maltacus]

Faction heirs and leaders can be set to change their battle model, as far as I know the Roman heirs and emperors get special models as well as the Teutonic grand master. It is done by a short little script in the campaign_script document, found in the Stainless_Steel(or whatever it's called)/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign folder.

Here is an example (from my personal SS mod where I added the Rusichi royalty too):

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;-------------- BYZANTINE LEADER BATTLE MODELS----------------;
monitor_event BecomesFactionLeader FactionType byzantium
change_battle_model byzantium leader byzantine_emperor
end_monitor
monitor_event BecomesFactionHeir FactionType byzantium
change_battle_model byzantium heir byzantine_heir
end_monitor
;-------------- NOVGOROD LEADER BATTLE MODELS----------------;
monitor_event BecomesFactionLeader FactionType russia
change_battle_model russia leader rus_grand_duke
end_monitor
monitor_event BecomesFactionHeir FactionType russia
change_battle_model russia heir rus_heir
end_monitor
;-------------- KIEV LEADER BATTLE MODELS----------------;
monitor_event BecomesFactionLeader FactionType kievan_rus
change_battle_model kievan_rus leader rus_grand_duke
end_monitor
monitor_event BecomesFactionHeir FactionType kievan_rus
change_battle_model kievan_rus heir rus_heir
end_monitor

It is possible to code changing of battle models based on other events too, but to my knowledge it isn't used in SS.

As for normal generals, I guess you can choose a model with variations - like using a feudal knight as the generals battle model, for example - which should make the generals look a little different from one another. Just alter the relevant battle model in the descr_character document in the Stainless Steel data folder. Now that I think of it, I don't think I've tried it but there is no reason it should be different from having a varying model as officer in a unit.

Judging by what nomercysniper said SS already has general models with some variations. I haven't tried the latest releases so I don't know about that.

[John Mayer]

To add to this, can I make the English king always have the skin that Lionheart has in the vanilla campaign?

[Maltacus]

Yeah, the code should work for all factions. You just replace the faction and the battle model, keep the rest. Like this:

monitor_event BecomesFactionLeader FactionType england
change_battle_model england leader xxxx
end_monitor

...replacing xxxx with whatever Lionhearts model is called.

EDIT: Corrected a mistake I made about the coding.

[John Mayer]

I tried:
;========== ENGLAND LEADER BATTLE MODELS ==============
monitor_event BecomesFactionLeader FactionType england
change_battle_model england leader Norman_King
end_monitor

and nothing happened.

[Maltacus]

But you have changed the starting kings battle model to Norman_King (in the descr_strat)? Did that work, at least?

So the next king got the standard general battle model, is that correct?

Explanatory note to anybody else reading this: Starting generals, including the leader and heir, can have a special strat and/or battle model set for them. Pretty cool thing to use if you want to make some kind of custom or unique fellow. Characters spawned by the campaign script can also have special models set for them, but those randomly generated in the game gets the standard one, unless you code them to change model when something specific happens like them becoming faction leader.

[John Mayer]

I didn't try starting king but yeah the next king had the default skin.