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[Parrot]

What's the name of the model of the British Officer pants?

It's the lighter of the two Russian Dragoon pants

[BSM 'Shut up' Williams]

Yep, thanks.

[William]

How do you change the menu screen for the game? I wanted to add something a little bit special I found and wanted to add it in.

[Parrot]

How do you change the menu screen for the game? I wanted to add something a little bit special I found and wanted to add it in.

The DDS file you want is main_menu_nord in the textures file. You can create a new one with any resolution you want (the default one is some strange square res that I didn't pay attention to when editing).

But to ensure that you get your stuff in the right places you should re-size the default one to the size you want, create a layer over it and change the opacity so that you can work on your new menu with the old one in reference to your new resolution. The trick with re-skinning the UI is all about the layers and references to the default ones.

[KillerMongoose]

I was wondering if there was a comprehensive guide anywhere on how to make skins?

[Jonasspil]

I have a question on scripting in M&B

I'm new to this aspect of modding, and really want to learn it (or at least a little bit) now im trying to learn the triggers and operrations.
I have been looking through all the scripts and triggers in M&B and i was trying to stack a "healing" feature together from different other scripts.

I though to use the "hit_agent" to determent the play who was hit by a medic but im a bit confused with how it works.

So far i made this.. not sure if it even makes scenes or if im completely off :/

        (try_begin),
          (agent_get_team,":hit_agent"),
          (eq,":hit_agent",":agent_is_ally),
          (agent_set_hit_points, ":hit_agent_no", 100, 0),
        (try_end),


I would love to hear if you guys have any advice's or inputs that might help

Jonas~

[DanyEle]

mmm, that piece of code makes no sense. You can use ti_on_agent_hit (CTRL + Shift + F it in the MS for some examples of it) in a module_mission_templates trigger though.

[Martastik]

Can I make a request for custom textures here? If not, my sincerest appologies and please be so kind as to point me in the right direction!

[Jack]

Hello !

I'm new here and I have a question I would like to ask. I read some topics about re-textures of the uniform's skins but I didn't find a topic about creating new skins.

For example, I am triyng to change the color of the voltigeur's pants into red (originally grey) but without deleting the grey pants for the other regiments (45e). So is it possible to make the 45e wear the vistula's pants and not the voltigeur officier pants for exemple?

[Willhelm]

Not possible without editing the code because those pants are shared with a lot of units.

[MadManYo]

i want to turn down smoke on a different module of NW how would one do this?

[Moldplayer]

So I have been trying to replace the sounds of the Prussian war cries/orders with the voices of fellows from my regiment. I renamed one of the new voices accordingly, however it does not work. What am I doing wrong?

[Willhelm]

Make sure its the same file type

[MadManYo]

i want to turn down smoke on a different module of NW how would one do this?

[Parrot]

Not possible without editing the code because those pants are shared with a lot of units.

It's possible, I managed to separate all of the British, French, and Russian pants in my mod. It takes quite a bit of time and patience though, so grab a nice beer and some good music, and settle down with OpenBRF.

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What you'll want to do first is single out which unit you want to change the pants mesh for, let's take the French as an example, because apparently their trousers were so comfortable everyone decided to wear them. The basic French pants are located in the mm_french_uniforms.brf file, they are called french_basic_infantry_pants and they are currently linked to all basic French infantry units, and some others in other factions.

I'm going to take a second to explain how the unit meshes are currently set up in the uniform BRFs. For all units, you have the torso meshes and the pants, the torso stuff will all have the same name with a number behind it. The pants are all separate, either with the unit's name in, or shared with a pool of other units. MW looks at the torso meshes and then combines them with the correct pants mesh that it has been told to combine the torso with. If it can't find one of these meshes, it won't load it, and you'll get an invisible body part.

Now back to business....

First thing, rename your French infantry pants something else. I renamed mine "french_basic_infantry_pants (old)", now NW won't load that mesh because it can't find the right name. Load up NW and have a look at which regiments are missing their pants, make a note as this will save time later.

Head back into OpenBRF and copy paste the "french_basic_infantry_pants" mesh underneath all the torso meshes of the units that were missing their pants in-game. Rename the meshes to the name of the torso and add the next number in sequence at the end. Here's an example:

This:

Code

french_84e_body_ranker
french_84e_body_ranker.1
french_84e_body_ranker.2
french_basic_infantry_pants

Becomes:

Code

french_84e_body_ranker
french_84e_body_ranker.1
french_84e_body_ranker.2
french_84e_body_ranker.3

Because you changed the name of the normal French infantry pants, NW won't load them, but because the torso mesh now includes the pants, they'll be loaded with the torso. Great hmm? Simply do this with all the units you listed as not having pants and you're almost there.

To make sure that they don't vanish at certain distances, right click on the mesh and choose the option "Compute LODs". Save the BRF and you're done!

Hope this helps anyone who was wondering about the pants problems. I'll have a look at breaking the shared shako problem as well.