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Adding Protoss-type shielding to a Terran Unit

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I've created a custom Ghost and everything is working well. However, I would like to add the Protoss shielding to that unit. I can simply increase the Shield value on that unit from 0 to, say, 200; but when that unit's shield suffers damage, my screen fills with a whole host of "unable to find" and/or "unable to load" messages.

Can someone provide me a link, a tutorial, or a suggestion to remedy this issue. Please keep the responses in laymen's terms; I'm still very new to Galaxy.
 

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That is awkward, I don't remember anything you need to do besides just increasing shields. Are you sure it is related to that?
Obviously the white and blue frames that you see around Protoss unit profiles in the UI (to the left of the portrait and right of the minimap) will not display, as such frames are images that would need to be imported.
 

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The asset that represents the Ghost model has no shield attachment. As such it cannot create the visuals of the shield being hit (the cause of the errors it produces) unless you give it one.

To give it one, you need to add a shield sphere to the model catalog entry used by the unit. This is done in the Attachment Properties array. Some campaign units of the terran can be used as an example of how those fields need to be set for shields to work properly
 
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Thank you for your reply. Is the following correct?

Models/Terran/Units/Ghost
Field: Attachment Properties
Attachment ID: Shield
 
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