I'm trying to add a new unit by duplicating the Ranger. I have done this all successfully and it can be created at the barracks with its own command button and everything and works great. 🙂 What I would like to do now is change the texture for the new unit ( Elite ). So I would like there two be two rangers essentially. One the normal Ranger, the other the Elite. For the Elite I want a different texture. I have looked and it appears to me that the AIRNGR_SKN.W3D is the file that defines what texture it is looking for. I have already opened it up and changed the material inside RenX, but I have no change in the skin of the Elite.

How would I go about changing the Elite to have it's own texture?

The unit is defined in every other way. I even changed the model to use in the AmericaInfantry.ini ( I believe is the name) , to the model that has the Elites material/texture. It cant be that difficult, as people make new units all the time. But I'm a beginner and any of the tutorials only seem to cover overwriting the originals.

My assumption is that its within the W3D files, but that would seem that I would have to duplicate every one for the ranger, and alter the material in them all, but I thought those were just animation files, so it didn't make a hundred percent sense.

Please let me know, any incite is well appreciated. Thanks.

You're on the right track. You need to copy the Ranger model (AIRNGR_SKN) and edit the copy to use your new texture. Then you give your new unit the edited model.

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Ah, thank you for that clarification. Well the way I attempted that was using RenX, I don't know if there is a easier way to alter the texture it looks for.

I opened the file in RenX, then i opened the material editor, clicked get renegade material, went to pass 1, selected the button with the texture name, selected the texture I wanted and applied it. Under the materials with what I had selected, it claimed that was the diffuse something it was attached to. I threw the files in the directory of zero hour under data to test it first, but it didn't work. Ill re-examine my files and make sure I saved everything properly.

Perhaps I exported the model incorrectly ?