unit odf Weapon In case its relevant, I recently got the dark sun mod from this web site.

Everything seems like it's in place; try a clean.

I did a manual clean, same thing happens now, but there are multiple npcs with the cloak and weird lightsaber. After munging I got this error log(didnt crash so I exited manually)
edit: so, as a test, I changed the rep hero to obi wan. X-fire is freaking out so I'll describe it. He had the normal, but was completely white everywhere else. He did his attacks like luke(including air and charge attacks)
http://beta.xfire.com/videos/539873
edit x-fire fixed

Ah, here is the problem. When a unit is white like that it means that the unit's/model's texture is not in the sides/msh folder. Right now, the unit's texture is not there, along with the blade texture.

What kind of files are textures?

Underlord wrote:What kind of files are textures?

They're usually targa(.tga).

Noobasaurus wrote:

Underlord wrote:What kind of files are textures?

They're usually targa(.tga).

To clarify, a texture should always be in TarGA format. Other file formats will either not work at all (like JPG) or not function properly.

THEWULFMAN wrote:

Noobasaurus wrote:

Underlord wrote:What kind of files are textures?

They're usually targa(.tga).

To clarify, a texture should always be in TarGA format. Other file formats will either not work at all (like JPG) or not function properly.

I once saw this discussion that a sky file could be in a different format...

I did what you said and yay! he appears right! two problems though
1. How do I give him a name that appears in the unit selection
2. How do I change it so he attacks like anakin/obiwan normaly does?

Noobasaurus wrote:I once saw this discussion that a sky file could be in a different format...

First off, a .sky file isn't even a texture. Let's assume you mean the sky texture (which by the way is no different from any other texture, not sure how you got the idea that it's different). Yes, a texture can be in the PNG format, but I found it's a lot simpler to keep using TarGA files for a couple reasons. First, it's what we've been doing for 7 years, there's no need to change how we do it now when we have hundreds of assets in TarGA format. Second, the TarGA or PNG files get converted to DDS texture files when munged, which means that any advantage to using PNG files is lost (specifically compression ratios).


Mainly, there's no reason to confuse people by talking about several different file formats for textures. Let's keep it simple shall we? Especially for beginners to this complicated hobby that is modding.

Underlord wrote:1. How do I give him a name that appears in the unit selection

This topic goes over adding new unit names using the Localize tool.

Ok, slightly different topic, I added a unit using the jawa stuff, except it is the size of a normal unit(not the smaller version). How do I change that?