Changing shield type for existing unit - short way?

[Vilihelm]

Heya,

how to change shield for existing unit? For example - to give german unit round shield instead of hexagon shield? Is it possible to do without messing with variantmeshes? Tried to change in unit land stats, but nothing changed visualy

[Magnar]

no u need to edit or create a new vmd

[TuCoT]

For visuals, you must edit variantmeshdefinition of units sooner or later. The one you changed is probably shield value in land_units tables which is only affect shield armour value for that unit, no visual.

[Sebidee]

You can give them different stats without using variant meshes but to change appearance you need to do variant meshes. It's not hard, its just a copy paste job.