How to make your own unit cards?

**benedu3095** · October 26, 2013, 09:24 PM

I want make new unit cards but I don't know how.
Does anybody know how to make them?

**crawe1** · October 29, 2013, 05:07 PM

I'm also interested to learn this.

**gavitron** · October 31, 2013, 12:25 AM

Seems like they're in the data.pack file, in ui/units. PNG files that you can edit in Photoshop or something similar. Assign them in the unit_variants table.

**crawe1** · October 31, 2013, 01:38 PM

Thanks Gavitron. Would Gimp work as an editor?

**crawe1** · November 01, 2013, 11:11 AM

Okay, creating, or at least editing existing unit icons in TWR2, seems to be really easy - far easier than in RTW. The one thing i can't figure out is how to create the masks that go with my new icons. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

**FaLKReN** · November 02, 2013, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by crawe1

Okay, creating, or at least editing existing unit icons in TWR2, seems to be really easy - far easier than in RTW. The one thing i can't figure out is how to create the masks that go with my new icons. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Just use the vanilla ones. Since you're editing existing icons, it won't be hard to find the ones matching your unit card, and you can find them in the same .pack as the cards themselves.

**crawe1** · November 02, 2013, 08:37 PM

Thanks Falkren. Yeah, I figured that might be the best thing.

**FaLKReN** · November 03, 2013, 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by crawe1

Thanks Falkren. Yeah, I figured that might be the best thing.

Just mix and match them until you find the best result, this method haven't failed me with my unit cards

**crawe1** · November 03, 2013, 06:46 AM

By the way, it was the icon that you created for your Greek Choppers that first gave me the idea of mixing and matching the existing unit cards to create a whole new one. Thanks for that.

**Ambigatos** · January 12, 2014, 04:36 PM

I've mixed and match a few existing unit cards in gimp, but I can't actually find how to get them into my mod. I can't find the path and how to link it up. Are there any tutorials on this?

**JasonFJ** · January 13, 2014, 06:51 AM

Put the .png files in the icon and mask folders on your hard disk using the same folder structure as the data pack... then add the directory into your mod using PFM. Don't forget to reference the new icon in your unit table row in PFM.