Changing faces of a faction

[armen]

How can i take an eastern faction say for example Armenia, and have the eastern faces the units have replaced with the faces used by Hellenic units?

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

You must change the variant mesh of every unit Armenia is using and then give the new unit variants new entries for armenia in the unit_variant_table.

Here is a basic tutorial how to start unit modding:

[Tutorial] Sebidee's Complete Guide to Unit Creation (twcenter.net)

[armen]

where will the vanilla variant mesh names be located?

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

The variantmeshdefinitions are in models_rome2.pack.

[armen]

I'm just re skinning vanilla units not making new models from scratch. Dont I just have to replace the text of vanilla models with the new reskin text?

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

You need PFM/RPFM to open the vanilla pack and to extract and change the unit.vmds and create your own mod.pack.

Read the tutorial, there is all you need to know.

[armen]

All I'm doing is changing the eastern skins with Greek ones. I started with tbe Empire Divided Armenian units which is in the mondel3_ rome 2 folder and not in tbe original models_rome2 folder. however in game I dont see tbe changes. I was thinking do I have to change tbe unit skins in tbe original models_Rome folder as well inorder for the changes to show up in tbe divided empire Armenian units?

[armen]

All I'm doing is changing the eastern skins with Greek ones. I started with tbe Empire Divided Armenian units which is in the mondel3_ rome 2 folder and not in tbe original models_rome2 folder. however in game I dont see tbe changes. I was thinking do I have to change tbe unit skins in tbe original models_Rome folder as well inorder for the changes to show up in the divided empire Armenian units?

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

1. create a new mod.pack.

2. add your variantmeshdefinitions.

3. add the variants_table wit your new unit variants.

4. add the unit_variant_table with your new unit_variants for 3c_armenia.

Without this two tables you won't see nothing ingame.

But its all described in the tutorial.