Individual pants

[Walko]

Hey, so I was wondering how I would go about making pants linked to individual units in openBrf. When I changed French Infantry pants in mmfrenchuniforms, all of the English pants were changed as well, which I did not want. I was wondering if there was a way to make each set of pants linked to an individual unit (I imagine just have it be 45_Ranker.3 orwhatever, but then I also assume you would have to rig it or something).

[Matthew]

No way to do it without making your module incompatible with the main module.

[Parrot]

No way to do it without making your module incompatible with the main module.

That is in no way true at all

It's perfectly possible to separate the pants for every single unit in the game (although that will take ages). You need to get rid of the original pant's mesh by renaming it, and then add it to the tunic/torso of each unit that it was connected to. Notice how the tunics have their name and then other meshes bellow them with the same name, but followed by a number? Use this for separating the pants.

Example
british_light
british_light.1
british_light.2
british_light.3                     <--- These are the new pants
british_light_pants_old      <--- These are the original pants with the suffix "old" which prevents them from loading in NW

[Matthew]

I thought he wanted every unit to have unique models for its pants, that would not be possibly to do and preserve compatibility.

[Parrot]

It is possible, it would just take a long time to do so. For my NW mod I made all of the British pants independent from the French and Russian pants, but after that I never wanted to see another pair of pants again XD

[Joseph Graham]

Parrot's spot on; it just takes a monumental amount of time. What would be nice is if someone made such a conversion as a fresh pack for other modders to build off of to save time. Might give that a try myself, come to think of it.