Mod to make banners smaller and held by a Standard Bearer

**Destraex** · April 07, 2007, 10:51 PM

I was thinking that the flags in this game have always looked silly floating above units and are very large compared to what size they would actually have been.
Does anyone know whether its possible to put in a standard bearer carrying a smaller flag?

**Candelarius** · April 08, 2007, 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by Destraex

I was thinking that the flags in this game have always looked silly floating above units and are very large compared to what size they would actually have been.
Does anyone know whether its possible to put in a standard bearer carrying a smaller flag?

Sure it's possible. You'd have to create a custom model and make a skin for each faction. Good luck!

**Destraex** · April 08, 2007, 01:57 AM

excellent.....

**Armoured_Crusader** · April 08, 2007, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by Candelarius

Sure it's possible. You'd have to create a custom model and make a skin for each faction. Good luck!

You would also have to change in the preference file:

show_banners = 1

to

show_banners = 0

to disable banners.
Good luck too!

**Destraex** · April 08, 2007, 02:18 AM

thanks Crusader, I know how to disable banners.
I really do like a lot of flags just not the floating ufo kind

**suntaiguy23** · April 08, 2007, 06:30 PM

is it still possible too have a standard bearer in a unit? i don't think i've seen one unit in medieval have one. of course a lot of the code is taken directly from rome so it may be possible

**Axeman** · April 08, 2007, 07:25 PM

I really hope you make it possible, really would be fun to have the power of rome rise again , and as authetnically as possible

**Mooncabbage** · April 08, 2007, 07:36 PM

Just add the standard bearer for each unit as an officer. This will cause it to appear to one side of the unit, as your general does, potentially doing horrible things to nice pretty straight lines, but it doesn't really matter. You could also add a musician and an officer for each unit if you so desired.

**Ralendil** · April 09, 2007, 12:37 PM

You can try that (I did that for my own game)

Open
descr_banners_new.xml

Find
<General Scale="1.0" MinSizeDistance="114" PastMinDistanceScale="0.0074" DebugSizes="0">

And replace the scale number by a smaller one
Personnally I use 0.7

Sidenote 1:
If you want to remove the jumping banners when you select an unit do that:

find
<SelectedBanner Overbrighten="255" BouncingAmplitude="0.15" BoundingFrequency="6">

Replace it by
<SelectedBanner Overbrighten="128" BouncingAmplitude="1.0" BoundingFrequency="0">

Sidenote 2:
Place descr_banners_new.xml in your main data folder (MTW 1.1, I honnestly don't know if it is needed with the future 1.2 or the unofficial patch 1.2)
Don't forget to use the io file_first method.

**Mormegil** · June 29, 2007, 10:22 AM

Officers can be done. I've modded my game a bit, changing Denmark to Baltic Tribes and giving it the appropriate regions etc. I don't use Dismounted Feudal or Chivalric Knights, so I use them as officers for my units, first ones for archers and the latter for infantry. But I was thinking it would be nice to have a flag-bearer too. Probably simply take some pikeman and stick a small rectangular banner to the pike's shaft. Or triangular for archers. The banner probably should display the faction's symbol or something. Would be nice to have all the factions symbols, so that the officer can be used for units of different nationalities. Or, simply put, for AoR needs.

But I'm just dreamin aloud here - I'm not a modeller =[