Soldier sizes

**Ticu** · October 09, 2006, 04:46 PM

Hi,
I was wondering how they make some units pretty huge in some mods. Does it have to do with skeletons?

**Hader** · October 09, 2006, 06:10 PM

What do you mean by huge? Numbers or physical siaze or what?

**AlbinoPickleX** · October 09, 2006, 11:29 PM

It has to do with modelling. And modelling is done in 3dsmax.

**Ticu** · October 09, 2006, 11:45 PM

Oops. I forgot to specify that. I mean the size of the soldiers - their physical size. I know it has nothing to do with modelling.

**Shazbot** · October 10, 2006, 12:13 AM

Actually, it does have something to do with modeling, you have to edit the skeletons and meshes and all kind of stuff to make a soldier bigger.

**Ticu** · October 10, 2006, 05:31 PM

But can't you edit skeletons without modelling the units?

**AlbinoPickleX** · October 10, 2006, 10:19 PM

No, that can only be done in modelling. What you might be thinking of is skinning.

**Nero666** · October 11, 2006, 03:14 AM

Actually it can be done without modelling, and with a single extra line per unit in your descr_model_battle.txt plus editing the skeletons.
You'd have to read the skeletons tutorial, if there is any, but EB has skeletons for four different sizes of soldiers (small, normal, large and very large afaik).

You'd have to edit your dmb entry like this:

type the_large_soldier
scale 1.3
blabla

Just do a search for the word 'scale' in your DMB, to see where to put it.