This little guide will hopefully show you how to swap unit models at your leisure, because I'm not especially keen on having dozens of different versions of this mod.

The process is fairly simple, because all you will be doing is copying bits from one file to another and changing some names.

Read the whole thing before starting please.

1. Download Notepad++ if you don't have it already. It's much nicer to use than standard notepad.

2. Go to your SteamApps\common\Crusader Kings II\interface folder and back up avatars.gfx, then open the back up in notepad++.

3. Go to your mod folder extract "Pretty Units for East, West and South" to it's own folder. Call it "Unit model mod".

5. Open Unit model mod\interface\avatars.gfx in notepad++

4. If all you want to do, for example, is stop the arab factions from using persian units in this mod, search the mod file for "muslimgfx". Then copy the muslimgfx section from the original file, and replace the section in the modded file. At the bottom of each section there is some code that says which councillor models are used. Leave this part alone.

5. If you want to replace a unit set with one from a dlc, such as replacing western units with finno-ugric units, first you will need that dlc. When you have the dlc, locate it in your dlc folder, copy the zip file to somewhere else and extract contents. Then find the avatars.gfx file in the dlc and paste the contents over the factions you want to change. Importantly, you must change the names back to the original though. So in your mod file, you have to change every reference to ugricgfx back to westerngfx or it won't work.

6. Save all the mod files. DO NOT SAVE ANY VANILLA FILES!

7. Make a copy the Pretty Units for East, West and South.mod file and call it "Unit model mod"

8. Open the file you just made in notepad++

9. Change all references to "Pretty Units for East, West and South" to "Unit model mod" and change where is says "archive="mod/Pretty Units for East, West and South.zip"" to "path=mod/Unit model mod". Delete the bits about tags and preview pictures.

10. Save your new file and test it

Tips and Warnings:

Do not edit any vanilla files. When taking bits from vanilla files, I recommend making a backup and then taking the bits you need from the backup just to be absolutely safe. If notepad++ ever asks if you want to save your changes to a vanilla file say no.

Make use of the find and replace tools in notepad++. You can replace an entire file's worth of references with the click of a single button.

Test your mod with no other mods first. If it causes crashes or screws things up in any other way by itself, it may be quicker just to start again rather than trawl through everything looking for an error.

If in doubt, make a backup. Seriously, you can never have too many backups.