Boarders models problem

[Center1916Legia]

Hi, I have a problem. In previous versions off Build Mod I could change the Boarders models. Now I'm using Build 14 Beta 1 Patch 7 and unfortunately I do not see anywhere this option. In this version I can somehow change it?

P.S. Sorry for my bad English I'm from Poland

 

[Hylie Pistof]

:gday


The boarder model can still be changed. The location where you make that change has been moved. Go to POTC-->PROGRAM-->internalsettings.h. You will be able to make your changes there.

 

[Center1916Legia]

It works, thanks a lot

 

[Pieter Boelen]

We moved the option because the code doesn't quite work right, so we deliberately hid it to prevent accidental problems with it.

 

[CrisGer]

What changes can be made to the boarders models? Just curious, that sounded interesting. Do we need to add mod files or are the optional files already in the build?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

The code for it is in PROGRAM\InternalSettings.h:

#define BOARDERMODEL2				"blackman"	// STRING - additional modeloptions, take effect only if BOARDERMODEL is not "" or one of the groupnames
#define BOARDERMODEL3				"killer"	// STRING - ditto
#define BOARDERMODEL4				"will"		// STRING - ditto

// KK -->
// Models for Nathaniel's boarders.
// These are filenames from resource\models\characters but with extra character at the end describing whether they are
// men ("M"), ladies ("W") or skeletons ("S"). Empty string ("") gets stock default.

#define BOARDERMODEL 				"standard"	// Outfit for your boarders, insert one of these groups (Don't change spelling or the "" !): 
// "marine", "corsair", "masked", "skeleton", "girl", "soldier" (soldiers of current flag),
// "boarder" (Nathaniel's soldiers); default: "standard"

#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_0			"33_TG5DW"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_1			"33_Piratess10W"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_2			"Skel3S"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_3			"towngirl1W"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_4			"Will_2M"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_5			""
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_6			"towngirl7W"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_7			"Corsair1_4M"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_8			"50_IndiaW"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_9			"black_corsairM"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_10		"black_corsairM"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_11		"black_corsairM"

#define BOARDER_INDEX				-1			// INT - range= -1,100 , Select model for Nathaniel boarders.
// -1: random (generates different sets for every deck; works also for remaining groups),
// 0: sequential (NATHANIEL_BOARDER_1 to NATHANIEL_BOARDER_5; works also for remaining groups),
// 1-99: one selected model for all boarders (works also for remaining groups in range from 1 to 99),
// 100: sequential (NATHANIEL_BOARDER_6 to NATHANIEL_BOARDER_10; for remaining groups identical to 0).
// <-- KK

Note that not everything of this works properly, which is why we took it out of the ingame Options>Advanced Options menu. You can see where you get with it though.

 

[CrisGer]

wow, excellent, i will give that a try to see what happens. Thanks for the code. that is excellent to be able to see. Helps to understand the engine.

 

[agentad]

ahoy, im trying making my own boarding crew because i want to use these models:

"Offic_per"
"Soldier_Per1"
"Soldier_Per2"
("Soldier_Per3")
"Soldier_Per4"
"Soldier_Per5"
("Soldier_Per6")

i dont know what they are meant for, cause it says "PERSONAL_NATION" in initmodel.c and they look like a good crew but found nowhere how to activate them as own crew

i changed only these line to this:

#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_1 "Offic_per"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_2 "Soldier_Per1"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_3 "Soldier_Per2"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_4 "Soldier_Per4"
#define NATHANIEL_BOARDER_5 "Soldier_Per5"

and:

#define BOARDER_INDEX 0

tried a saved game and pressed f11, but no change during boarding, always the BOARDERMODEL crew :-/ need a new start ? EDIT: nevermind, i had to start a new game and i saw that it uses other slot too