[EW4] Importing Units

You gave me so much usefull tipps Arthur Currie, is will briefly explain my workaround for the ships, Just for frigatte. - May it contains usefull hints for You too.

I used the assets unit_ship from ew6w. In EW6 1914 def_motion.xml and def_effectsannimaton.xml are encrypted, so I just can use the scenes that I see in the animation (.bin).

I usually add the scenes I found in the xml-file after </Images>, this is not necessary, but very usefull for later usage. I try to comment as much as possible.
But sadly this scenes don't contain the unit by itself.

My workaround uses two tricks: 1. I call the asset directly from the bin file in def_motion

As the immage is not centered it appears in a wrong position, and refx and refy in the xml have no effect for .bin annimations. So I moved the insert-point with x and y to bring the assets in the correct position, but I can't use anymore animations in def_motion. I didn't found any other way to move the asset in position.
Remember the nubers in the xml are double than they appear in the game, so roughly x = -¼ * w, and y = -¼ * h.

My second trick: You can call not only effects in effect="frigatte" of def_effectsanim. Also all animations (even from other files) can be called. This is the effect frigatte:
The animations need another y offset to be at their exact position. Animations can not be rotated, but scaled hscale="-1" mirrors the effect horizontal (left-right).
Calling move and ready is an unnecessary extra I use for testing.


May this was usefull.


Sadly in def_motion only attack seems to call an effect, I did not arrive to call effects with ready or other motion types - is there a trick?