Leader Modifications Question

[Winfield S. Hancock]

I am working on a leader mod for 1.05 and have a question.

When you create or already have a one star leader in the scenario, and you want to make him promotable, I am assuming that you must mod line in the text file that says Promotable, and the correct way of doing this is Promotable=Yes. My second question is if you make a currently non-promotable leader promotable, do you need to create a new model for that 2 star version of that leader, separate and distinct from the file that already exists for his one star rank? If he is promotable to three stars, do you then need to create a 3 star version of the leader as well? Finally, if you do have create a new model for a leader if he is promotable, how should it be numbered? Should it be the next available unused model number, in sequence, which in the case of the current version would seem to be 683? And if new leaders are added, must you go in sequence up from there?

Thanks for your help.

[Stonewall]

If you want to make a leader promotable you need to add an upgrade line (see the files of leaders who are ordinarily promotable to see what this looks like) to the old leader, create a new model with the next sequential UID # as well as creating a new unit file that takes into account the new leader model.

If you want a 1-star promotable to 3 star, you need all 3 models with the 1 and 2 star versions being promotable with the upgrade line.

[Winfield S. Hancock]

Thanks Stonewall. I appreciate the help. I am doing a pretty extensive mod of the Union leaders, based on significant research, that will allow some of the one stars who had major corps commands to get promoted, and adding some characteristics and abilities to a variety of commanders, particularly some of the new one stars that show up in the divisional force pool. I am also adjusting some of the arrival dates in the leader events file. I'll let you know how it goes.

[Stonewall]

I've done a lot of modding of leaders. Make sure that when you add new models and units that you update the uni_alias.ini and mdl_alias.ini files with the correct UID and names.

[Winfield S. Hancock]

Will do. I appreciate the tip.