Mod Request/Tutorial Help: Modding Revolver Cav

[csargemg]

Hey, so, I was looking at the lore for the revolver cavalry and the carbine cavalry.

Based on it, it seems like the revolver cavalry is more just a collection of random samurai on horses with guns. Pretty much just sponsored bandits.

So it seems a little odd that the revolver cav uses the new moddern pattern saber while the carbine cav uses the katana. I was hoping to switch this, and also set the revolver cav as a traditional unit, perhaps even trainable at a dojo as well.

Or even make like a 'Revolver Ki' unit.

Anyway, I tried what seemed like the simplest of these, just editing the unit. I tried to extract the warscapes file, change the theme of what it looked like the revolver cavalry used to 'pistol_colt' and 'shogun_katana'

Utter fail. Managed to break my game, so had to reinstall.

Anyway, I was wondering if someone might be able to help babystep me for a first mod, or even just make this little tweak for me and tell me how they did it? I'd love to get into this sort of modding.

Cheers

[weirdoascensor]

Reinstall?

You edit the patch itself directly? Dont. Make a new pack file.

[csargemg]

I didn't edit the pack directly, but I'd still managed to somehow break it.

It's fine now, though. I still can't quite figure out how to load the right table properly, I think.

The goal is to give the katana to the revolver cav, and ideally the sabre to the carbine cav

[csargemg]

Any one of you capable of uniform or animation swaps able to advise on this? Cheers.

[kugkings]

Are you using the assembly kit or pack file manager?

[weirdoascensor]

Edit warscape_equipment_themes. Either edit existing dual pistol theme, or make a new theme then applying it in unit_stats_land. When you see those tables, read the headers, then think about the relations, you'll get it by yourselves...

-Open warscape_equipment_themes
-Find the "boshin_revolver" row.
-On that row, change "boshin_sabre" into "shogun_katana"