How to create a dismounted unit

[danny X]

Thankyou, i was just thinking though it may be worth visiting the SS technical forum to see why your log report is showing so many errors!

[Eldorien88]

Hmmm... Maybe cause i have made a lot of changes to a number of different files and things got a little messy... I will probably make a clean install and try all that changes from the start...thanks for the advice!

[Ayyubid]

So I created a dismounted askari noble, based on the Askari Noble from broken crescent, however I can only seem to properly use the dismounted unit when it has a spear. I can't seem to figure out how to use the SECONDARY weapon of the mounted unit, as the primary unit for the dismounted unit. I've been trying to do it for hours :-/

[Valiant Champion]

There is a much easier way to do this. you make a model using the mesh and textures of the parent unit. at the end just put in the none where there is the horse and swap out the animations with a pike units (if the parent model has a lance and sword). than go to EDU and gut out a pike unit by making a different type and definition for the new unit and place the new models name in place of the pikemen units model name.

usually lances are almost the length of a pike and historically lances were used in a phalanx fashion such as the austrian knights that battled swiss halberdiers.

even easier is if the unit has only one weapon as you can swap them out with a swordsmen if they are using a sword. if they are spear only cavalry you can swap in spear animations.

if you are using missile cavalry just swap out archer infantry animations.

no need for any kinds of tools at all.