The 'Alexander' unit in custom battles...

**KatzMotel** · July 06, 2006, 09:00 PM

Hey there! Is there any way to get the Alexander (the oversized companion unit) unit to use the model of Alexander as the general model in custom battles instead of the guy with the bad haircut? It's just that the Alexander model is so cool looking...

Cheers in advance for any input, and my regrets if I've missed something already mentioned on this forum- though I have read through a decent number of threads.

**kburkert** · July 07, 2006, 07:26 AM

yeh edit descr_model_battle.txt

**Fuji** · July 07, 2006, 10:37 AM

Or the descr_unit

**KatzMotel** · July 07, 2006, 05:13 PM

Excellent.

What values would I have to change, and what would I have to change the values to?

**kburkert** · July 08, 2006, 01:56 AM

in descr_model_battle.txt make the alexander model and skin into a officer, thats not to do. Then in export_descr_unit.txt go to the desired unit and look for 'officer' then put the name of the officer model there (which would be alexander). And your done.

**KatzMotel** · July 08, 2006, 11:28 AM

Looking back, I think my post was rather unclear. Sorry about that. Perhaps posting at 3am is a bad idea.

I wasn't looking to set the Alexander model to be used in the way that, for instance, a centurion is attached to a Praetorian cohort. I was wondering if it was possible that when the Alexander unit is the general unit in a custom battle (thus including the captain in it), you could replace the captain model with the model of Alexander III.

Again, sorry for the lack of clarity.

**totaldave** · August 03, 2006, 08:17 PM

I was also wondering how to make this possible btw ive never modded this game before.

**totaldave** · August 03, 2006, 08:25 PM

Also how do you exactly make the alexander skin into the general?

**Spartan1015** · August 26, 2006, 08:16 PM

Yeah, ive been trying to find the answer, but i dont really know how, it keeps CTD.........

**Lusted** · August 27, 2006, 07:44 AM

It is not possible, unless you change the captain model to look like Alexander.

**Spartan1015** · August 28, 2006, 08:01 PM

thats what were asking

**Lusted** · August 29, 2006, 06:09 AM

So you want the general to look like alexander then? If so just simply copy and past the texture and model lines from the alexander entry in descr_model_battle.txt and paste them over the texture and model lines for the general entry.

**totaldave** · October 23, 2006, 11:38 AM

can you show what the descr_model_battle.txt is to be changed to so i can copy and paste it into my data file for alexander i am desperate to get alexander playable in my custom battles.