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[Lauri]

Well this turtorial i desided to write just for fun .
First i hope that no-one else has written one here cause i haven't seen any .
This turtorial learns you how to make new units(or whatever) and have your own texture on it without modelling in RenX.
The best way to make the model real is to edit the texture of the model your basing it on.
Click here for an needed turtorial(Heroes)

Enter your units file and hit Ctrl+F or Ctrl+B and type 'ENGINEERING Parameters' and you'l come down where you need.(you can go down manualy) Some place under you add this:

Behavior = SubObjectsUpgrade Costume_01
  TriggeredBy  = Upgrade_MerryHeavyArmor
  UpgradeTexture	= YourUnit.tga 0 YourNewUnit.tga
  RecolorHouse	= Yes\No
	End

You must have the UpgradeTexture as the texture it was default.(rigth now YourUnit.tga.) The first tga is default, the next is the new one. As you can see i used YourNewUnit' texture just for fun
and the upgrade you can use everytime, for every unit.
And you can also choose to add YourNewUnit' housecolor or just stick with YourUnits, Another thing is that your having a mounted hero\unit then you CAN add a new horse\warg\whatever texture.
Just add another below like this

 UpgradeTexture	= YourUnit.tga 0 YourNewUnit.tga
  UpgradeTexture	= YourHorse.tga 0 YourHorse_HA.tga

Thats it for the hero.
Now go to ini\ and find upgrade.ini, at the bottom add this

Upgrade Upgrade_MerryHeavyArmor
	Type              = OBJECT
End

Here is the upgrade. You see that the upgrade is exactly the same as the one above.
Now on to the experiencelevels.ini, under your unit, under 'Rank = 1' add this

Upgrades	= Upgrade_MerryHeavyArmor

Wel now it should look like this

ExperienceLevel	YourUnitLevel1
	TargetNames      =	YourUnit
	RequiredExperience    =	1	
	ExperienceAward   	 =	HOBBIT_LVL1_EXP_AWARD 
	Rank     	 =	1
	Upgrades      =	Upgrade_MerryHeavyArmor
	SelectionDecal
  Texture      =	decal_hero_good	
  Style      =	SHADOW_ALPHA_DECAL
  OpacityMin   	 =	50%	
  OpacityMax   	 =	100%
  MinRadius   	 =	40
  MaxRadius   	 =	200
  MaxSelectedUnits 	 =	40
	End	
End

There you go. The texture is on your model from the first of beginning. You can add it at a certian rank to. Remember that you must replace every damn 'YourUnit' with you hero name.
And also important, The texture in the object code must have a .tga behind, not .dds. I just is like that(YourUnit.tga not YourUnit.dds).

And for the Units:
You have to figure out how to make a new horde yourself. Search the forum if you don't know.
Under the Engeneering parnament for the YourUnit.ini and the evilfaction\rohan\gondorhordes.ini

Behavior = SubObjectsUpgrade Costume_01
TriggeredBy = Upgrade_MerryHeavyArmor
UpgradeTexture = YourUnit.tga 0 YourNewUnit.tga
RecolorHouse = No
End

Experiencelevels.ini

ExperienceLevel GoodLevel1
TargetNames      = YourUnit\YourUnitHorde
RequiredExperience     = EXPERIENCE_REQUIRED_GOOD_TROOP_1
ExperienceAward      = EXPERIENCE_AWARD_GOOD_TROOP_1
InformUpdateModule     = Yes
Rank       = 1
Upgrades      = Upgrade_MerryHeavyArmor
LevelUpTintColor     = R:255 G:255 B:255
LevelUpTintPreColorTime     = 500
LevelUpTintPostColorTime    = 3000
LevelUpTintSustainColorTime    = 500

SelectionDecal
 Texture      = decal_G_level4
 Texture2     = decal_good_CO
 Style      = SHADOW_MERGE_DECAL
 OpacityMin     = 80%
 OpacityMax     = 100%
 MinRadius       = HORDE_DECAL_MIN_RADIUS
 MaxRadius     = 200
 MaxSelectedUnits      = 40
End
END

And for the Buildings just add this
Upgrades = Upgrade_StructureLevel1 Upgrade_MerryHeavyArmor

For a new building just copy an already used experience then add it.
Also add the moduletag to the objects ini:

Behavior = SubObjectsUpgrade Costume_01
TriggeredBy = Upgrade_MerryHeavyArmor
UpgradeTexture = YourBuilding.tga 0 YourNewBuilding.tga
RecolorHouse = Yes\No
End

And of course you need the texture you made for it in the asset.dat(unless your just making ex aragorn mounted on faramirs horse cause both aragorn, faramir and the horse are already in-game)
If you have question or something please reply and i'l see what i can do.
I hope this helped you on you quest to be the mightiest modder of all time.

Edited by Ville786, 03 August 2005 - 03:12 PM.

[GothmogtheOrc]

cool, looks like that could help me out alot...thanks Ville.

-GothmogtheOrc

[Lauri]

cool, looks like that could help me out alot...thanks Ville.

-GothmogtheOrc

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I didn't understand why it would help you so much GothmogtheOrc but I asume that you mean it by your Minas Morgul Buildings\Mod

Edited by Ville786, 03 August 2005 - 03:14 PM.

[{IP}Gil-Galad]

OMG 4 posts in a row whataspammer just edit your previous post LOL

[GothmogtheOrc]

Sorrry for the firthel post but whatever. I didn't understand why it would help you so much GothmogtheOrc but I asume that you mean it by your Minas Morgul Buildings\Mod

yep, thats what I was refering to... but I'm also editing a few troops in addition to the buildings and I wanted to learn how to change the skin the game reads...

PS: Ville, your sig isn't showing up.

-GothmogtheOrc

[Lauri]

Off topic, Thanks Hostile, for delete and re-name