Commanderski

To all 6 guys who enjoy my stuff...I will create a new thread in CMRT map & mod area to discuss BARBECUE INSTRUCTIONS (BBQ) = BARBAROSSA QUICK BATTLES
What I mean are quick battles tailor made and modtagged for the Barbarossa mods. I was messing with it today to see what month and year you could set the QB editor to and be offered to purchase the armor formation called "Panzer Platoon [ad hoc]". Looks like it is January through April of 1945. 

I solved the turret gun issue! video is uploading...
still uploading, I am out in the boonies of Texas.
I know we have hatch issues to solve! This thing has so many hatches it is hilarious. I need to move them and rename them so the "best ones" open for the commander. AND.../the commander animation, his position when the hatch is open, I have to decide which one is best. I THINK I want to stay with the normal T-70 animation because it is I think also the same one for the T-34 commander. If I rename something from Humber it hoses over the look of the T-34. everything is usually slightly connected.
The ton of antennae and lights need to be alpha channeled out using the bmp.
Other things to tweak are exhaust locations, fire spots for when the tank is burning. The UI silhouette I must make from scratch. I guess the modtag will be [t26]...
 

alrighty!
So, some terms I coined for these mdr shenanigans. "Host mdr" is on the inside and is what the game engine knows and uses for outcomes and performance. For this T-26 mod I have no choice (I think) but to use the T-70 as the host. The Blender modded T-26 is my "Shell mdr" and is on the outside, it is what you will see visually in the game. The apples to apples is good. A game physics T-70 vs a T-26 hackjob visual. gun is good. 45mm for each. Check. speed is probably good enough equal. Check. crew is 2 versus 3 or whatever but oh well. Checkity check check. Armor? No idea. This is all we can do and accept it or not download the mod once I release it. As a bare minimum, we can always get a KO'd wreck! Or maybe even an immobilized vehicle for certain scenarios, out of fuel or hit a small mine and lost a track... The immobilized vehicle option also works well when you can't match the same speed between host and shell. Like if I EVER did a KV-1. If I ever could get something to use as a shell mdr over some host mdr but it might move too fast versus a slow KV-1 so I would immobilize it? Just thinking out loud.

in game test video. some issues to solve but very hopeful
 

A quick "Blender recon" and it looks very promising!

So, GiMP said I have an update to download and install and I am gonna stall to even start and talk about the cool scenario I will use this mod for.

BARB PANZER ANKLOPF
June 1941. The Germans encounter the T-34. Each German infantry regiment had a 14th company with the 3.7cm Pak36 anti-tank gun. Need I say more?
 
...CMRT only offers the Pak36 as a team of the Luftwaffe Airborne Infantry (Fallschirmjagers). So I gotta do a bunch of "renaming of files type mods" to have the FJ show as German army summer 41, German army in greatcoats, Waffen-SS summer and Waffen-SS greatcoats. If I had that damn secretary, she'd be hot at it. 😉
If you are on the ball, A.J. Squared Away, you might ask about the ammo of the Pak36. If I set ammo as limited it just issues out the HE and AP rounds, none of the HEAT rounds that project out the barrel like something out of Buck Rogers.
I am trying to clone stamp the gun into what I want. Not going so great. I have a back up plan to put mud over the green and brown and colorize the yellow to be grey.

@37mm Thanks friend
 

It may be an upbringing issue too! 

Don't forget to read "From the Realm of a Dying Sun, Volume 1: IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July-November 1944" by Douglas E. Nash. HIGHLY recommended. 

It's a winter scenario so it looks kind of bleak. It's a 4k by 4k map and while all of it won't be in this scenario it leaves room for additional battles as tank battles were occurring all over the place at this time.
It's going to be the tank battle of Lisow based on the book "Tank Battles in East Prussia and Poland 1944-1945: Vilkavishkis, Gumbinnen/Nemmersdorf, Elbing, Wormditt/Frauenburg, Kielce/Lisow by Igor Nebolsin."
The map took about 6 weeks to do as it took a little while to figure out what I was doing, not hard once you figured out what to do. Worked on it every day up to 8 hours some days (made for some interesting dreams at night...😀).
Now if I can get the pixel tanks and pixeltruppen to do what I want it should be a good game.

Can totally understand the enjoyment of the creative process, it's what happens with us modders and map makers and scenario designers ... it's got to be said that there is an amazing breadth of value to be derived from your original creation. If I added up the hours spent on these games against the cost of them I doubt I'm even paying a penny an hour for the pleasure ...

It's a winter scenario so it looks kind of bleak. It's a 4k by 4k map and while all of it won't be in this scenario it leaves room for additional battles as tank battles were occurring all over the place at this time.
It's going to be the tank battle of Lisow based on the book "Tank Battles in East Prussia and Poland 1944-1945: Vilkavishkis, Gumbinnen/Nemmersdorf, Elbing, Wormditt/Frauenburg, Kielce/Lisow by Igor Nebolsin."
The map took about 6 weeks to do as it took a little while to figure out what I was doing, not hard once you figured out what to do. Worked on it every day up to 8 hours some days (made for some interesting dreams at night...😀).
Now if I can get the pixel tanks and pixeltruppen to do what I want it should be a good game.

It's a winter scenario so it looks kind of bleak. It's a 4k by 4k map and while all of it won't be in this scenario it leaves room for additional battles as tank battles were occurring all over the place at this time.
It's going to be the tank battle of Lisow based on the book "Tank Battles in East Prussia and Poland 1944-1945: Vilkavishkis, Gumbinnen/Nemmersdorf, Elbing, Wormditt/Frauenburg, Kielce/Lisow by Igor Nebolsin."
The map took about 6 weeks to do as it took a little while to figure out what I was doing, not hard once you figured out what to do. Worked on it every day up to 8 hours some days (made for some interesting dreams at night...😀).
Now if I can get the pixel tanks and pixeltruppen to do what I want it should be a good game.

Thanks for the update. Looks like a great year ahead!

Thanks for the update. Looks like a great year ahead!

It's a winter scenario so it looks kind of bleak. It's a 4k by 4k map and while all of it won't be in this scenario it leaves room for additional battles as tank battles were occurring all over the place at this time.
It's going to be the tank battle of Lisow based on the book "Tank Battles in East Prussia and Poland 1944-1945: Vilkavishkis, Gumbinnen/Nemmersdorf, Elbing, Wormditt/Frauenburg, Kielce/Lisow by Igor Nebolsin."
The map took about 6 weeks to do as it took a little while to figure out what I was doing, not hard once you figured out what to do. Worked on it every day up to 8 hours some days (made for some interesting dreams at night...😀).
Now if I can get the pixel tanks and pixeltruppen to do what I want it should be a good game.

Great map! 

You guys have created something that is singularly unique and you should be very proud. 

Thanks for the update. Looks like a great year ahead!

Thanks for the update. Looks like a great year ahead!

It would be nice if they would say something. Even to say they are doing the bones posting anymore.

It's a winter scenario so it looks kind of bleak. It's a 4k by 4k map and while all of it won't be in this scenario it leaves room for additional battles as tank battles were occurring all over the place at this time.
It's going to be the tank battle of Lisow based on the book "Tank Battles in East Prussia and Poland 1944-1945: Vilkavishkis, Gumbinnen/Nemmersdorf, Elbing, Wormditt/Frauenburg, Kielce/Lisow by Igor Nebolsin."
The map took about 6 weeks to do as it took a little while to figure out what I was doing, not hard once you figured out what to do. Worked on it every day up to 8 hours some days (made for some interesting dreams at night...😀).
Now if I can get the pixel tanks and pixeltruppen to do what I want it should be a good game.

It's a winter scenario so it looks kind of bleak. It's a 4k by 4k map and while all of it won't be in this scenario it leaves room for additional battles as tank battles were occurring all over the place at this time.
It's going to be the tank battle of Lisow based on the book "Tank Battles in East Prussia and Poland 1944-1945: Vilkavishkis, Gumbinnen/Nemmersdorf, Elbing, Wormditt/Frauenburg, Kielce/Lisow by Igor Nebolsin."
The map took about 6 weeks to do as it took a little while to figure out what I was doing, not hard once you figured out what to do. Worked on it every day up to 8 hours some days (made for some interesting dreams at night...😀).
Now if I can get the pixel tanks and pixeltruppen to do what I want it should be a good game.