Maximus

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mikey D: Can you imagine the makers of DOOM accepting 3rd party art revisions? This company's simply amazing. (first time post)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> ALL textures in CM can be modifies, and I mean ALL of them, except a few like the bazooka, piat, panzerschreck, and berrets ------------------ "We're not gonna just shoot the bastards`, we're gonna cut out their living guts, and use them to grease the treads of our tanks." "We're going to murder those lousey hun bastards by the buschel." "The Nazis are the enemy, wade into them, spill their blood, shoot them in the belly." "We are not holding our position, let the hun do that." "We are advancing constantly, we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy." "We're gonna hold onto him by the nose, and we're gonna kick him in the ass." "We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose."--George S. Patton

Only 3Dfx junkies scream Voodoo X. Because they're used to shotty image quality from earlier cards. They think 4x FSAA is something else. For those people, I say, try a Nvidia based card and your FSAA is a bunch of malarky. Nvidia cards have always had better image quality than 3Dfx cards. I've seen FSAA screenshots and I can't tell a whole hellava lot of difference than what my TNT2 card can do. ------------------ "We're not gonna just shoot the bastards`, we're gonna cut out their living guts, and use them to grease the treads of our tanks." "We're going to murder those lousey hun bastards by the buschel." "The Nazis are the enemy, wade into them, spill their blood, shoot them in the belly." "We are not holding our position, let the hun do that." "We are advancing constantly, we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy." "We're gonna hold onto him by the nose, and we're gonna kick him in the ass." "We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose."--George S. Patton

Hi-Res mods are simply the original texture file enlarged to double the size in pixels. For instance a file that is 64x128 normally can be enlarged to 128x256. Thus giving a texture with 4x the amount of pixels. Basically makes a pixel in the original file into a 4x4 pixel in the new one. With this larger file, detail can be drawn in better as you may imagine. It allows the artist to manipulate the lines in the texture for clearer details. There are, nor will there ever be any user made models. This portion of the code is encoded if you will. Each vehicle is just not a fancy 3D model. They entail a very maticulate researched collection of data and statistics that the ordinary user can't possibly code into the game. This game was highly researched for real world physics, unit characteristics, and such. The designers even did live-fire tests of small arms in the game to get an idea of what each was really capable of.

Well here's a little more information: My 13GB HDD is partitioned into ~8MB and ~4MB partitions. All on the same drive, the 8MB part is C: drive, the 4MB part is D: drive. Scandisk and Defrag work fine on the D: partition. They just don't work on C: I'm probably going to do some upgrading in the next couple of months (probably go to a 900MHz Thunderbird), may have to get a new HDD and transfer over a bunch of information. Might get one of those new 10,000 RPM HDD. The issue really isn't pressing, but I can't run Defrag and I really need to. I first noticed this problem when I went to install BGII a couple months ago and I tried defraging both partitions and then this problem arose.

Easy. You just copy in the new ones into the BMP folder in the CMBO folder In fact, you can change EVERYTHING in CM. I hardly use a stock texture anywhere. This includes terrain, user interface, units, etc. The textures on EVERYTHING are just BMPs (on the PC version anyways), all the mods are BMPs, so you just copy in the new ones to replace the older ones. To start off, I would suggest downloading and installing DD's Total Foilage Pack including grass, snow, trees, and tree bases. Then download and install Panzertruppen's Buildings. This will really give CM a great look. You can find these mods all at CMHQ under the 3rd Part Mods section. There's another great mod site at Kump's CM Outpost. Also you may wanna check out the Mad Dog Mod Packs (MDMP) at CMHQ, they contain some cool Hi-Res vehicles as well as terrain and such, but the above mentioned terrain sets are most preferred. There's also some mods listed on this board that are not on any site, unfortunately. Hope this helps. PS. You can also download and install new sounds as well. Get the MDMP sounds fist, then get Ncrawler's Sound Mod v1.6. Except I use the MDMP MG42 sounds instead. Sounds will go into the WAV folder.

Maybe that's what that damned "Bloody Tough Sherman M4A1(76)" fired at my Tiger to make it go BOOM!

I'm having a problem running Scandisk on one of my HDD partitions, namely the C:\ Partition. It works on the D:\ partition. It hangs when it starts to check the File Allocation table. Therefore, Disk Defrag hangs also in its Error Check phase. I called my Tech Support and am waiting for a callback.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sir Wamers Kahlenberg: Does CM actually show the devasting affect of treetop bust or was it discluded in the game i have been playin for a while and just wanted to know. Thanx<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Actually any arty labeled as VT (variable timer) is DESIGNED to airburt. I just played a scenario where I used it to some degree of success. On a side note, I think Seanachi is just pissed off because he wasn't allowed to start the 3rd Peng thread. [This message has been edited by Maximus (edited 12-06-2000).]

Ahhemm, what tree bases? I don't see any.

Now what we need is some Desert tree bases and some Palm tree mods. Think about it.... A single tile of water surrounded by a few scattered trees/bases that are palm trees with a bit of that weedy palmy undergrowth, and WHALLA, you've got yourself, an oasis. On another note, AussieJeff, CM3 will be the Mediterranean Theatre including North Africa, Italy and the Balkans. CM2 will be the Eastern Front. ------------------ "We're not gonna just shoot the bastards`, we're gonna cut out their living guts, and use them to grease the treads of our tanks." "We're going to murder those lousey hun bastards by the buschel." "The Nazis are the enemy, wade into them, spill their blood, shoot them in the belly." "We are not holding our position, let the hun do that." "We are advancing constantly, we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy." "We're gonna hold onto him by the nose, and we're gonna kick him in the ass." "We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose."--George S. Patton [This message has been edited by Maximus (edited 12-05-2000).]

You have been assimulated.-CM Borg

Forgive my ignorance, but what is PERL?

I'm not sure how it calculates hits/misses/supressions per squad, but I know the whole thing is based on firepower depending on ranges and the numbers of particular weapons still operational in the squad.

I realize that there are still quirks in the game concerning armor combat and all, but getting two track hits in a row seems a bit pretentious too. The gunner should have aimed a little bit higher for the follwing shot don't you think?

Doug, How are you downloading everything else, like mods and such? They're much bigger than a floppy at times.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by aka_tom_w: That Tiger crew should hang their collective heads in shame! -tom w<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> They couldn't....they're all dead, remember BIG explosion!

About 150 meters or less. Can't recall the crew experience, I wanna say Veteran, or maybe Regular. I had a Crack Tiger crew that got popped about in the same area, it seemed like he couldn't hit **** either. All of this action took place around the same general area, BTW, on this relatively decent sized map. I lost several tanks in this area, 3 Tigers, 2 or 3 PzIVHs. Being a bocage scenario, his tanks kept darting in and out through bocage areas, if you know what I mean, but these were straight on engagements. Some where surprise shots from the flank, but not directly from the flank, just a little off to the side from front on. But I gave him a bloody nose in the area too, eventually wiped out his armor along with a couple M8 Greyhounds and a small horde of infantry (about a reinforced company I think). It was a good fight there. General Patton would be proud. [This message has been edited by Maximus (edited 12-04-2000).]

I'm playing a game of CM the other day, a big bocage scenario, and there came a situation where I had a face-off between a M4A1(76) (same as the Sherman IIa) and one of my Tigers. Well here's the way it played out: Tiger fired and missed. Sherman fired and missed. Tiger fired and got an immobilizing track hit on the Sherman. Sherman fired and missed. Tiger fired and got *another* track hit. Sherman fired and got a ricochet hit. Tiger fired again, getting a penetration hit (don't remember where) but not a KO. Sherman fired again, BAMMO, Tiger erupts in a catostrophic explosion. Now you can imagine what I said, "BULL ****!!!" Com'on, three hits on a Sherman M4A1 with an 88mm cannon and it's still there? I know what you're gonna say..."a bit of bad luck" yeah, yeah I know, but GEEZ! Needless to say, since he wasn't going anywhere, I eventually popped him with another Tiger on the very last turn of the game. Except this time, it only took ONE shot. ------------------ "We're not gonna just shoot the bastards`, we're gonna cut out their living guts, and use them to grease the treads of our tanks." "We're going to murder those lousey hun bastards by the buschel." "The Nazis are the enemy, wade into them, spill their blood, shoot them in the belly." "We are not holding our position, let the hun do that." "We are advancing constantly, we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy." "We're gonna hold onto him by the nose, and we're gonna kick him in the ass." "We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose."--George S. Patton

Dammit people, don't you know that it *is* German, just like Carparzo said in SPR. Even though it isn't in the dictionary. ------------------ "We're not gonna just shoot the bastards`, we're gonna cut out their living guts, and use them to grease the treads of our tanks." "We're going to murder those lousey hun bastards by the buschel." "The Nazis are the enemy, wade into them, spill their blood, shoot them in the belly." "We are not holding our position, let the hun do that." "We are advancing constantly, we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy." "We're gonna hold onto him by the nose, and we're gonna kick him in the ass." "We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose."--George S. Patton

mvanhoy, Be sure and download some mods. You can change EVERYTHING texturely about the game. I don't think I use one stock texture in the whole game. OK, maybe a few vehicles, but for the most part, everything else has been changed.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rob/1: What are you talking about Matt?As for Minums's quotes well Lets just say I dont like americans ok... if you have a prolbem with that Minumis is one of the resions. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Shaddup Rob, I don't like lazy Socialist Canadians receiving unearned money from the government. That's why Canadian money is not worth as much as it could be. Gee, what is one of my pet peeves, oh yes, the Canadian government gives out a FREE $100 bill per MONTH per CHILD in every house hold. What a way to make a living! Pump out 6 kids and receive $600 a month for 18 years or whatever. Makes sense! Now go down to the corner and pay over $3.00 for a gallon of gas. When are you socialists gonna learn? Your free this and that drives up the prices on everything else 3 fold. [This message has been edited by Maximus (edited 12-03-2000).]

One particular American halftrack, the M4A1 Mortar Carrier, does have a rear-facing mortar, so yes. The other, the M21 Mortar Carrier, has a forward firing mortar.

Well as I said before, BTS has modeled slope in the armor. It has also modeled the angle of attack of a shell hitting that sloped armor. So everything that you speak of *is* modeled. Trust us, BTS did a *lot* of research when building this game. They even went to live fire test shoots of small arms within the game. There's a video clip on the main site of Steve shooting a flamethrower. Trust me, "they" did their homework. ------------------ "We're not gonna just shoot the bastards`, we're gonna cut out their living guts, and use them to grease the treads of our tanks." "We're going to murder those lousey hun bastards by the buschel." "The Nazis are the enemy, wade into them, spill their blood, shoot them in the belly." "We are not holding our position, let the hun do that." "We are advancing constantly, we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy." "We're gonna hold onto him by the nose, and we're gonna kick him in the ass." "We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose."--George S. Patton

I did a little Jeep mod. Basically it just needed a consistant brightness and contrast across the files. I also added a weathered effect. It's low-res, but looks better than it did. ------------------ "We're not gonna just shoot the bastards`, we're gonna cut out their living guts, and use them to grease the treads of our tanks." "We're going to murder those lousey hun bastards by the buschel." "The Nazis are the enemy, wade into them, spill their blood, shoot them in the belly." "We are not holding our position, let the hun do that." "We are advancing constantly, we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy." "We're gonna hold onto him by the nose, and we're gonna kick him in the ass." "We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose."--George S. Patton

What are your symptoms? If it's sound drop-outs, then that's due to the debug code running in the background pertinate to only this Beta Patch. Final patch won't have this problem, I hope.