I think it should be the way it is now.
/downvoted

AD2001 - I'm not convinced you understand the issue mate. You do realise im talking about a config file for a mod dont you?

It doesnt make any sense for a config file to take priority over profile settings. It completely contradicts the point of giving people to option to customise their characters appearance.

I should also note that this is how faces work. i.e whatever face you select in your profile overrides faces set for a unit in a config file. Ive updated the description to state this

OK, so, when someone makes a mod with units and gives them goggles the goggles override the ones selected in the profile, right?
/upvoted

Yes that's correct.

Good stuff, thanks for upvoting :)

I find that it's ok the way it is now, for example this change would make the divers have sunglasses instead of diving goggles by default which I think would be worse.

For a "soft" definition, you could solve this by removing the glasses from the config, then running an init script that would check if the unit already has glasses and if not, give them the ones you want.

Thats a good point Sniperwolf572, perhaps a better solution though would be for BI to create exceptions to the rule for certain class. Divers are probably one of the few units where you wouldnt want it to override the settings.

Regarding your idea. It wouldnt really work because BI have it set up so tactical glasses are used by default. Besides I think modders need the flexibility to use whatever glasses they want.

Probably there should be a config option on glasses which have specific functionality to override the predefined or config'd goggles.

We had a bit of a chat between the moderators and figured that it wouldn't make sense to make glasses fight for priority. If that were the case, it would force someone to duplicate the classes for the glasses if they didn't think they are crucial. Also, if the config glasses had the priority switch you mention, and some other profile glasses had the same priority switch, there'd be a conflict which might not be satisfactory.

A more sensible config option would be to do something in the unit's config like:

"glassesAreCrucial = true"

Which would by default be false and you could change it for individual units in config.

So for example, this way, if the divers had this, they would, when spawned prioritize config glasses, while Pomigits units and all other units would allow the profile glasses to take over.

Pomigit, if you like what we're suggesting, please alter the ticket so we can review it, but we don't think that the current state of the ticket describes the solution would be beneficial to implement.

I think we are all on the same page and your suggestion makes perfect sense. Ticket updated to reflect your suggestion. Cheers for your input