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[Grozni]

For my mod, I was editting the plume texture. I made a new plume texture and editted one of them. Why does the background turn black and it looks horrible. How do I fix this?

The texture you were editing has a transparent background (alpha channels), in this case you've saved the texture without saving the transparency. Opening the .dds files in photoshop can also do this, it changes the transparent sections of the texture to black rather than keeping them in their original state.

But the background is still transparent.

It is more likely that you will get an answer if you put some more effort into your writing. Parrot gave you enough clues. What do you mean by "But the background is still transparent"? That it seems to be transparent in photoshop? Which program do you ues to edit textures, photoshop, gimp, something else?

Iirc in gimp you should export dds with some specific settings to make transparency work, but I didn't touch texturing in a long time. Try exporting the texture as DDS DXT5 with "weight by alpha" and "generate mip maps" ticked.

[Grozni]

Oh wait, you meant to say transparency works, but the texture itself is black? If that is the case it is probably just openBRF bug, try it ingame see if it is black in the game itself.

[OttoFIN]

How to move AI meshes while mapping?

This will probably help: http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=61126.0

Odd... I still didn't find an anwser to my question.

[Grozni]

How to move AI meshes while mapping?

This will probably help: http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=61126.0

Odd... I still didn't find an anwser to my question.

Ok.. I never worked with AI meshes but I turned on scene editor just to see, it turned out to be easy.

Click Edit AI Mesh button to enter AI mesh editing mode, then select Face Mode button. After that you can right click the face to have a whole face selected and you can move it or rotate it around with usual key shortcuts, which is the answer to what I think your question was.

[GerRagnar]

How do I transfer specific parts of a unit onto another, a hat for example?

I want to edit some units so that they have another hat like the Guard Infantry of prussia.
The 6te Garde using a custom skin where the Guard Infantry of prussia got the russian grenadiers hat:

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how do I transfer these files, if I want to change the helmets/hats of units?

[Caps]

How do I transfer specific parts of a unit onto another, a hat for example?

I want to edit some units so that they have another hat like the Guard Infantry of prussia.
The 6te Garde using a custom skin where the Guard Infantry of prussia got the russian grenadiers hat:

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how do I transfer these files, if I want to change the helmets/hats of units?

well  u just need to copy -> rename -> replace (open brf)

got pretty similar question.. how can i turn the cav shakos so that they fit on infantry then?

[GerRagnar]

How do I transfer specific parts of a unit onto another, a hat for example?

I want to edit some units so that they have another hat like the Guard Infantry of prussia.
The 6te Garde using a custom skin where the Guard Infantry of prussia got the russian grenadiers hat:

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how do I transfer these files, if I want to change the helmets/hats of units?

well  u just need to copy -> rename -> replace (open brf)

got pretty similar question.. how can i turn the cav shakos so that they fit on infantry then?

Ok I got it thanks! but how do I route the replaced skin to a new texture file since I want to change the colour of it only for the new unit?

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[Caps]

u write the name in materials

import a material
and a texture
(like and select in both ur texture)

at least thats how i do it.... :S i missing something though cuz ingame the uniforms r missing shade

[Dazzer]

Hi guys. Just a small stupid problem  . I cant rename factions in my mod. I am using Sourcecode of course. I renamed in module_factions,module strings and its still the same. In game Only that small written text under the original faction name renamed, e.x. it was first French Empire and it changed to Cavaliers. But that damn main name didnt changed  . How to fix?

[Kaasovic]

How do you change nation names? I change it in module_factions but it does not work.

Inisde the Napoleonic Wars folder -> languages folder -> en folder -> factions Excel file

[usnavy30]

That Excel file can be edited in Notepad by the way, with right clicking it, then selecting Edit.

[Dazzer]

That was simple. Thanks 

[Intel Guardian]

Hey, I was wondering, is there any way to give the 33rd officer a different hat from the rankers?

[Earth Bby]

Hey, I was wondering, is there any way to give the 33rd officer a different hat from the rankers?

Yes

If you want to remove the hats from British_hats.brf and place them in the ummm british_uniforms.brf you will need to roto them likeeeeee   https://i.gyazo.com/6cbdf536f9f09d212b5ef4c15ca6693b.png

you'll have to keep checking but place it/move it to the where you want the hat to be, make sure it's named the same as the unit e.g 33rd_Ranker.1 not just 33rd_shako. GL

[The Mighty McLovin]

For my mod, I was editting the plume texture. I made a new plume texture and editted one of them. Why does the background turn black and it looks horrible. How do I fix this?

The texture you were editing has a transparent background (alpha channels), in this case you've saved the texture without saving the transparency. Opening the .dds files in photoshop can also do this, it changes the transparent sections of the texture to black rather than keeping them in their original state.

But the background is still transparent.

It is more likely that you will get an answer if you put some more effort into your writing. Parrot gave you enough clues. What do you mean by "But the background is still transparent"? That it seems to be transparent in photoshop? Which program do you ues to edit textures, photoshop, gimp, something else?

Iirc in gimp you should export dds with some specific settings to make transparency work, but I didn't touch texturing in a long time. Try exporting the texture as DDS DXT5 with "weight by alpha" and "generate mip maps" ticked.

I'm sorry if I haven't described it enough.

I edited it in paint.net, and the background is transparent. I did what you said an in-game it appears white like this and doesn't appear when I look down at myself. Here is some examples:

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