How to add an animal handler unit (Wardogs)

[leo.civil.uefs]

how are the joints of your animal units named? elephant like (platform) or infantry like (pelvis) ????

[bitterhowl]

My wardogs are from Banzai's models pack.

[leo.civil.uefs]

cant find it. is there a link?

[leo.civil.uefs]

my animals had a model wich first joint was named bone_platform.
I just renamed it to bone_pelvis but it still crash.

[bitterhowl]

This is a link to dogs model

[Gigantus]

Damn, beat me to it. The link underneath has the mesh and textures of the wardogs plus a text file with all the entries (descr_animals, descr_skeleton, EDU).
Handle with care, the file is over ten years old and might be brittle.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/dnft2...hunde.rar/file

[leo.civil.uefs]

This is a link to dogs model

well the joints in this model have totally different names from the ones I having in one working animal so it seems the joint name is not te problem.

from the files you just sent I tried:

the descr_animals config but still crashed

The animation section in bmdb but still crashed (I kept it anyway)

The skeleton from descr_skeleton.txt but I already had all that animations, but not in that order. my entry in descr_skeleton had 3 attack anims while the one you sent me has only 2 still crashed (I kept it anyway)

I also removed all the paths to .evt files in each animation line

[leo.civil.uefs]

nevermind Im lost

[Gigantus]

LOL - I hadn't realized that bitterhowl had uploaded my file.

How about actually testing that model with the provided files details? It did work in 1648.

; --- Kriegshunde ----

type             Wardogs
dictionary       Wardogs      ;Wardogs
category         handler
class            heavy
voice_type       Heavy
banner faction   main_infantry
banner holy      crusade
soldier          musketiere, 10, 30, 1.0
animal           wardogs
attributes       sea_faring, hide_improved_forest, hardy, can_withdraw, frighten_foot, mercenary_unit, power_charge, no_custom
formation        2.6, 2.6, 3.8, 3.8, 2, square
stat_health      1, 1
stat_pri         8, 3, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 25, 0.6
;stat_pri_ex      0, 4, 0
stat_pri_attr    spear, spear_bonus_8
stat_sec         12, 6, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_simple, piercing, none, 0, 5
;stat_sec_ex      0, 0, 0
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  2, 4, 6, metal
;stat_armour_ex   2, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, metal
stat_sec_armour  0, 3, flesh
stat_heat        1
stat_ground      0, 0, 0, 0
stat_mental      13, disciplined, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 40
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 500, 200, 60, 140, 500, 1, 110
armour_ug_levels 1
armour_ug_models musketiere
ownership        slave, england
era 0            england
era 1            england
era 2            england
;unit_info        7, 0, 7
info_pic_dir    Mercs
card_pic_dir    Mercs
recruit_priority_offset    -50

[leo.civil.uefs]

I did test using the very same setup bitterhowl provided. edu, descr_animals, skeleton etc

it still crahses. but the crash seems absolutelly random
some times the entire battle happens with no crash, some times it crashes about middle of its duration.

If I remove all animals from the unit there is no crash so Im sure the problem is the animals.

however, I can see them using all animations, die, attack etc, and as I said sometimes the battle simply wont crash.

weird.

[bitterhowl]

In my experience all my crashes now occured when handler died before number of dogs decreased so some internal engine parameters are broken. I'd advise to increase handler's stats to prevent them being killed before dogs.

After decreasing numbers of dogs in unit (I had 40 previously) I avoid CTD at all at this moment.

[leo.civil.uefs]

just tried giving the handlers and animals an obscene defensive stat so none of them die.
game still crashes during battle

I basically tried everything so the only possibility now is that the animations are somehow bugged. they are custom animations from warhammer mod and while they work fine for elephant units they might have something that makes crash as animals in handler unit

[bitterhowl]

I'll upload my anomations a bit later today.

[bitterhowl]

This is a link to 7zip with wardogs animations set and skeleton. It should be placed into data/animations/ folder, this way was written in skeleton file.

This is a link to dogs animation set

[leo.civil.uefs]

thanks for not giving up helping me.

[Gigantus]

Looking at those numbers it does seem odd: 10 handlers, 30 animals

Anyone got RTW handy to check what they used then?

And I just noted the unit has no stat_stl line = "Number of soldiers needed for unit to count as alive". Although afaik that only affects if the unit gets dissolved after battle.

[leo.civil.uefs]

I just used the wardogs model Bitterhowl sent , same descr_skeleton entry too

and still crashes. LOL

I give up, did everything possible. Im done.

thanks everyone involved anyway