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Posted: **Thu Oct 06, 2016 3:32 pm**

Hi all

I have two questions that I hope someone can explain.

1.Can anyone explain how to remove portraits from the main toolbar? I have searched the logistics file and the SDK for GB but have been unable to find any references.

2. I have been having problems getting a new mod to work in MP. Granted that it is in the old format but it was possible to do it before the packing format was introduced. In particular is unitmodel and unitglobal still exempt from inclusion in the mod.

Any help is appreciates

Remus

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2016 3:30 am**

remus - If this is for the Waterloo game than disregard. As for the MultiPlayer game, I'm not too sure.

SOWGB - The portraits files are not packed as far as I know. They are located in the default directory of Base\ Graphics\ Toolbar .

Adding new portraits were as simple as coping the CS_Portraits_LVL4 from the Base game into a Mod folder called Graphics \ Toolbar and pasting a 90x116 portrait either over an existing photo or a empty slot at the bottom.

The only other file that has to be amended is the OOB .

The unitmodel and the unitglobal files has nothing to do with the portraits.

But that could have been another question that you were seeking an answer too!

davinci

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2016 11:22 am**

Hi Davinci

Thanks for your help. Found the Portraits folder and can start to work on applying your info.

The unitmodel and unitglobal files are mentioned in earlier SDK's as being forbidden files in MP. This I think has changed as recent mods I compare with still have them. Because I am having difficulty loading my mod into MP, without packed sprites, I was wondering what the work around was assuming that they can still be included in a mod of the older system.

Remus

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2016 1:19 pm**

I'm no expert but I am pretty sure the sprites need to be packed.

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2016 2:43 pm**

Hi Saddletank

Thanks for your input. I'm pretty sure that the packed sprites didn't happen at the initial release of GB but was introduced at a later date. I could be wrong . Would love for someone to confirm either way.

Remus

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2016 5:17 pm**

I think that Saddletank is correct, it seems that I remember that the Sprites has to be in the new-packed-format.

They don't have to be packed if this is for the Single-Player game.

remus - Correct, when the game was first release they were not packed, that came later.

Still - the portraits have never been packed before or after the introduction of the packed-sprites as far as I know.

davinci

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2016 7:34 pm**

Hi Davinci.

Thanks again. If what you say is true and I think it is, then my reasoning is that the ACW games at the initial release of GB were played in MP in the old system.I know that there were some issues with MP when trying to mix old and new systems, but from what I have said above, initially the unpacked sprites were the norm. At that time two of the forbidden files in MP mods were unitmodel and unitglobal replaced by unitpack. This then changed at a later stage and Mods I have looked at still have them included. For me the missing step is what happened to allow these files to be included, which it seems to be where I am having a problem.

Remus

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2016 8:38 pm**

Initially the unpacked sprites were the norm.

Correct, this changed with one of the later Patches.

At that time two of the forbidden files in MP mods were unitmodel and unitglobal replaced by unitpack.

Not sure if that is actually correct, the unitpack seems to have only replaced the unitgfx file from what I can tell.
Basically, there is no-longer a Units folder in the Base \ Graphics folder as it was when the game was first released.

This then changed at a later stage and Mods I have looked at still have them included. For me the missing step is what happened to allow these files to be included, which it seems to be where I am having a problem.

One of the Team-Members will have to answer that question, I have no idea!

A guess would be that some of those files are Hard-Coded into the game. I cannot see any reference of the Packed-Units being called by either of those two files.

davinci

Posted: **Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:49 pm**

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