Custom unit problems in PTW - Firaxis?

[Boris Godunov]

Hey all,

I'm having a problem with my custom units. I have downloaded several from here and civfanatics and added them to a mod. I then transferred the mod to PTW.

For the German civ, I added the WW2 era infantry made by nonnob. It worked fine with Civ3, but in PTW, the graphics revert back to the Civ3 infantry. Why is that? The custom folder still has the custom flcs and everything. Why is the game no longer pointing to that, and how on earth is it going to the Infantry?

I tried substituting the German rifleman that came with PTW's WW2 pack, but the same thing happened--graphics were all the old Civ3 infantry.

Thanks for any help.

[Boris Godunov]

bump...come on, someone has to know...

[notyoueither]

I'd answer you Boris, but I don't know. I suspect it is to do with the new mod management system.

Try to hunt down warpstorm or kittenOFchaos. They can help you, I am sure.

[WarpStorm]

Have you updated the pediaicons.txt file?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
Have you updated the pediaicons.txt file?

No...I never had to do this before PTW, and the custom units worked fine. Has this changed?

And update it how?

[korn469]

Boris

what is the name of your mod/scenario?
try doing something that approximates this

*locate the PtW scenarios file
*Create a folder in the PtW scenarios file and name it Mod (whatever you are going to call it)
*in the Mod folder create two other folders and name one Art and the other text
*in the art folder create two other folders name one Civilopedia and name the other one Units
*in the Civilopedia folder create a folder called Icons
*in the Icons folder create a folder called units
*in the units folder extract any pcx files
*go back to the mod/art folder and in the folder named units create unit folders and put the .flic files here
*go back to the mod/text folder and extract the Civilopedia.txt and the PediaIcons.txt files to this folder make sure to change the .txt files so they include your new units

hope that helps some

[Tassadar500]

Looks like Korn469 knows what he is talking about.

[Boris Godunov]

That sounds like a royal pain in the ass. Does anyone know an easier way to do this?

Thanks for the info, though, korn...I will give that a shot when I have a few hours at my disposal...

[Amadan]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
That sounds like a royal pain in the ass. Does anyone know an easier way to do this?

Thanks for the info, though, korn...I will give that a shot when I have a few hours at my disposal...

Royal Pain? Yes.
But it does look like the only way. And probably the best for managing multiple mods.

[korn469]

Boris

it just doesn't look like a royal pain in the ass it IS a royal pain in the ass, lol i added a bunch of buildings and some 6 new units to the ptw version of the blitz mod and unlike normal civ3 it didn't wanna cooperate when i just threw stuff in, but it doesn't take too long to do i guess

[Zurai]

It should only be a big pain the first time. I suggest making a set of template folders, nested correctly, so you can just copy and paste the top folder, rename it, then add the unit folders into the units area and the icons in the icon area. Should cut down the amount of time it takes.

[Boris Godunov]

Thanks all. Will try it tonight if I get a chance.

This seems unneccessarily complicated, Firaxis. I think there could have been a MUCH easier way to implement adding units so that all these steps weren't necessary (how about automatically creating the folders, for instance, so all we have to do is put the right files in the right folders?).

[Boris Godunov]

I give up. Couldn't get it to work. I created all the folders and even copied every damn unit, pretty much everything that was in my original Civ3 units folder. I then coped the PTW civilopedia and pediaicons. I don't know how to update the text files properly, I think...I think it's stupid we need to go through all these steps to add a frickin' unit.

Could someone who knows do a step-by-step example of adding a custom unit, including specifics on editing the txt files? I am not tech-savvy enough to figure this out, I suppose.

Firaxis, damn it, why is this so $#*$&^ hard?!

[Boris Godunov]

Ah, wait...I got it. I didn't see the animation files in the pediaicons.txt...woohoo.

Still, this seems unneccessarily difficult...

[Unconquered]

What if I don't want it to be a mod, but part of the default rules instead? This doesn't seem to work.