Reskin Faction Colors - Officer + Standard Bearer

[DESN01]

Hi guys,

I am actually working on my first mod and I need some help.
I changed the color of the Spartan faction and everything works properly except for the officer and the standard bearer who keep the vanilla color...
I don't find these units in the spartan_variant_colors table. Maybe I am not looking at the good one.
Anyway, I hope you could give me some help!

Thanks

[scabmiester]

I'm also looking for help with this. In particular how to change shield colours of officer units. Any help would be much appreciated

[DESN01]

I think the officer and standard are not to be considered as "unit" as they are part of every proper unit. That's why we can't find them in the tables.
But yeah, any help would be nice!

[monoolho]

The officers I believe use the faction colour, if you don't want to change that, I believe it's possible to create a new officer in battle_personalities and land_officers and add this new officer to the units, but I'm not sure how to recolour them. Perhaps adding an entry to unit_colours? This is the easy modding, then you can go hardcore on the variantmeshdefinitions with a new officer unit and go crazy, but it's quite a lot of work.

[DESN01]

Well I cannot find the "spartan_officer" or "spartan_standard_bearer" entries in the unit_variants_colours_tables.
That's why I am kinda stuck... Moreover I don't have enough experience in modding to create a completely new unit and change everything.

[Demokritos]

You've edited the faction_uniforms_colours table for the Spartans and their officers still appear in vanilla colours? That should not be possible, unless you have a texture mod working directly on the officers that override the former table or have an entry for the officers in the unit_variant_colours table that depart from the first mentioned table.

But if you have changed the Spartans through the unit_variant_colours without getting an effect on the officers of said units the solution might be very simple. Check it out in post #9 here.


BTW, you're welcome to test my mod mentioned in that post. You might like the Spartans in it.

[DESN01]

Hi!

Thank you for your assistance. I will take a look at that.
I'll also try your mod for sure!

[DESN01]

I get back to you cause I am stuck again...

I followed your advice and created a new entry (add row in the unit_variant_colours_table) and I put the soldier_type to officer instead of soldier, got it.
The "problem" is that I don't know which unit to take in the unit_variant column. There is a drop-down list but I don't know which one I have to select.