Unit info image and unit card not showing.

[leo.civil.uefs]

So...

I've sucessfully added a mercenary unit in my mod. Everything works fine, except that the unit info image (the one that shows in the pop up info of the unit, with stats and description), and the unit card image are not showing. Instead, a generic medieval peasant is there.

I've found out that I did not have these images inside the UI folder for the specific faction, but even after adding it, it still showd the generic peasant.

[AnthoniusII]

Have you:
Added # infront of the UI name?
Added the proper name that is mentioned in EDU or bmdb?
Have you saved it as TGA format?

[leo.civil.uefs]

Added # infront of the UI name?

You mean in the file name? The file inside data/ui/units/"faction name"?

If so, yes, I did.

Added the proper name that is mentioned in EDU or bmdb?

Again, you mean naming the image file?

Have you saved it as TGA format?

Yes.

[Gigantus]

mercenary unit = mercenary attribute in EDU?

If so then the pics have to be in the mercenary UI folders, the faction's folder will not be read if you have the mercenary attribute.

[leo.civil.uefs]

mercenary unit = mercenary attribute in EDU?

If so then the pics have to be in the mercenary UI folders, the faction's folder will not be read if you have the mercenary attribute.

There is no mercenary ui folders in TATW, not unside ui/units or ui/unit_info



Dwarves from TATW 3.2 (vanilla) have a mercenary unit with mercenary attribute in EDU and its images are inside the faction's folders (moors), and it works well.

[rafmc1989]

Otherwise specify in EDU the entries for pic image and ui card of a given unit.. these are the entries to specify:

info_pic_dir merc
card_pic_dir mercs

but you can choose whichever folder you want, just type the corresponding name in EDU...

[Gigantus]

There is no mercenary ui folders in TATW, not unside ui/units or ui/unit_info
Dwarves from TATW 3.2 (vanilla) have a mercenary unit with mercenary attribute in EDU and its images are inside the faction's folders (moors), and it works well.

If that is the case then there seems to be a look up sequence: first merc folder and then faction folder. Haven't got TATW installed, so I can't check.

Otherwise specify in EDU the entries for pic image and ui card of a given unit.. these are the entries to specify:

info_pic_dir merc
card_pic_dir mercs

but you can choose whichever folder you want, just type the corresponding name in EDU...

This comes very handy if you have the same info pic but faction specific unit cards. The saved space can accumulate into a sizeable number of MBs. Used it extensively in 1648.

[leo.civil.uefs]

mercenary unit = mercenary attribute in EDU?

Had to find my old thread in google to take a look again.

yes, this is the answer, without this, no matter if you have the tga file in the right folder, it will not load ingame
There must be the mercenary attribute.

[Gigantus]

So let me confirm:
- The unit has the mercenary_unit attribute
- There is no merc(s) folder for info or unit pic
- The pics are in the faction folders
- The correct pics show in game

Doesn't really make sense, all the attribute will do is to 'centralize' the pics (one pic to bind them all ) and the battle texture (same binding). This appears to be a faction specific unit which means the entry is superfluous.

[leo.civil.uefs]

No.

The images really must be inside mercs folder.

But thats not enough, what really made it work is the

mercenary_unit atribute.

[AnthoniusII]

No.

The images really must be inside mercs folder.

But thats not enough, what really made it work is the

mercenary_unit atribute.

Lets supose that a unit's bmdb entry looks like this:

 13 tibet_ghulams 
  1 1 
  54 unit_models/_Units/kiev/elite/kiev_kh_nobles_lod0.mesh 6400 
  3 
  7 abasids 
  52 unit_models/_Units/kiev/elite/kiev_kh_nobles.texture 
  59 unit_models/_Units/kiev/elite/kiev_kh_nobles_normal.texture 
  52 unit_sprites/england_Dummy_EN_Archers_ug1_sprite.spr 
  5 slave 
  52 unit_models/_Units/kiev/elite/kiev_kh_nobles.texture 
  59 unit_models/_Units/kiev/elite/kiev_kh_nobles_normal.texture 
  52 unit_sprites/england_Dummy_EN_Archers_ug1_sprite.spr 
  4 merc 
  52 unit_models/_Units/kiev/elite/kiev_kh_nobles.texture 
  59 unit_models/_Units/kiev/elite/kiev_kh_nobles_normal.texture 
  52 unit_sprites/england_Dummy_EN_Archers_ug1_sprite.spr 
  3 
  7 abasids 
  54 unit_models/attachmentsets/Kiev_elite_att_diff.texture 
  54 unit_models/attachmentsets/Kiev_elite_att_norm.texture 0 
  5 slave 
  54 unit_models/attachmentsets/Kiev_elite_att_diff.texture 
  54 unit_models/attachmentsets/Kiev_elite_att_norm.texture 0 
  4 merc 
  54 unit_models/attachmentsets/Kiev_elite_att_diff.texture 
  54 unit_models/attachmentsets/Kiev_elite_att_norm.texture 0 

The UI card (copies of the same) must be in 3 folders:
In this case:

1. Abasids
2. slave or rebels
3. merc

If that unit will be recruited as mercenary then it UI wond apear unless that ui is in merc folder as well.

[Gigantus]

No.

The images really must be inside mercs folder.

But thats not enough, what really made it work is the

mercenary_unit atribute.

That's what I thought, was just a bit confused by your description. As far as I know the 'mercenary_unit' overrides any faction ownership when it comes to the info pics. I don't think even different skins will work, eg the abasids in Anthonius' will never get their own skin, never mind their own pics.
It seems to be a different issue with the slave issue where the textures are concerned, this will be related to deserting, I suppose.

[AnthoniusII]

That's what I thought, was just a bit confused by your description. As far as I know the 'mercenary_unit' overrides any faction ownership when it comes to the info pics. I don't think even different skins will work, eg the abasids in Anthonius' will never get their own skin, never mind their own pics.
It seems to be a different issue with the slave issue where the textures are concerned, this will be related to deserting, I suppose.

You can have as many skins you want (its up to disk's available space).
Example:
In TGC there are 4 Units called Italian Militias:
Italian militias
Italian axemen
Italian crossbowmen
Italian mounted militias that now share the same model and textures.
The Units will be:
Italian Rebels
Italian Mercenaries
Italian soldiers (in Venice and in Pope's armies).
Each "owner" will have its own set of textures (actually recolloring of shields and armors).
CAUTION: All of them will share the same UI cards.
Inorder to have diferent UI CARDS according to each owner you need to clone each unit.
Italian_militias_P.lod0 (in this example the unit belongs to Pope)
Italian_militias_V.lod0 (in this case the unit belongs to Venice) and so on. This last case has a tiny problem. Each mod can have 500 units in its EDU and EACH cloned unit i mentioned take one place in it. Other wise you can have them in one entry both in EDU and Battlemdb with its own set of diferent skins BUT ussing ONE AND ONLY UI card set.