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Well, it's done. I am not happy with a lot of the portraits as they were the first ones I designed after I changed the style over. BUT I absolutely could not bring myself to redesign everyone of them at this time. I did however redo all the Russians. They are OK for the moment. At some point I may return to the mod and fix everything I dislike. So, here ya go, 2649 portraits!
I'll provide a Mediafire link until Bootie gets them uploaded onto the site. After that I'll get Elvis to edit the link into this post.
Have fun!
What the frig is up with the forum? It won't post my pics anymore. EDITED: figured it out. Gotta do it differently now (PIA).

 
Link:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/n6y5yku8b8y224h/Mord%27s_Red_Thunder_Portrait_Mod_v_3.0.zip/file
 
Mord.

Was 25 hours quick enough turn around? LOL.
 
Mord.
 

Well, it's done. I am not happy with a lot of the portraits as they were the first ones I designed after I changed the style over. BUT I absolutely could not bring myself to redesign everyone of them at this time. I did however redo all the Russians. They are OK for the moment. At some point I may return to the mod and fix everything I dislike. So, here ya go, 2649 portraits!
I'll provide a Mediafire link until Bootie gets them uploaded onto the site. After that I'll get Elvis to edit the link into this post.
Have fun!
What the frig is up with the forum? It won't post my pics anymore. EDITED: figured it out. Gotta do it differently now (PIA).

 
Link:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/n6y5yku8b8y224h/Mord%27s_Red_Thunder_Portrait_Mod_v_3.0.zip/file
 
Mord.

Oh, I know about it already. I made some portraits for it, but I want a full on official title. Outside of the upcoming Campaign Series Vietnam (and Steel Panthers MBT) there are no decent Nam tactical games, and even those are built on engines that are older than my oldest pair of underwear.
Mord.

Congrats to all you MFers that have been hamming away on this for the last twenty years. You did it!
Now, where's my Nam?
 
Mord.

Congrats to all you MFers that have been hamming away on this for the last twenty years. You did it!
Now, where's my Nam?
 
Mord.

Congrats to all you MFers that have been hamming away on this for the last twenty years. You did it!
Now, where's my Nam?
 
Mord.

Perhaps he is working on something.
 
Mord.

Congrats to all you MFers that have been hamming away on this for the last twenty years. You did it!
Now, where's my Nam?
 
Mord.

Congrats to all you MFers that have been hamming away on this for the last twenty years. You did it!
Now, where's my Nam?
 
Mord.

Perhaps he is working on something.
 
Mord.

Congrats to all you MFers that have been hamming away on this for the last twenty years. You did it!
Now, where's my Nam?
 
Mord.

Congrats to all you MFers that have been hamming away on this for the last twenty years. You did it!
Now, where's my Nam?
 
Mord.

Perhaps he is working on something.
 
Mord.

If somehow the rights to CMA could be crowd funded and bought would BFC consider updating it?
Yeah, it's a long shot. But what would Snowball care. They abandoned the title in less then 6 months after it was released.
 
Mord.

Good god, man. Once again, you prove why you are one of our grand masters of modding. umlaut, I wanna be just like you when I grow up! This is yet another example of your shear talent. Incredible, beautiful, badassery. Great, great job!
 
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Yeah, I mentioned the chinstrap in the notes of the first post. I figured out the mask was using the wrong color (worked in RT and older mods). Fixed it with all black bmp.
 
Here's a quick, dirty look at changing the colors of the beard and head wrap to give you an idea of where it could go with a more talented modder than me.
 

 
NOTE: There appears to be a spot on the left shoulder where the textures don't line up due to the Indian skeletons being different than the Syrians.
 
All the files you need are here, basically a template to get some Muj modding started.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/emgkclcrs6euxa3/Muj_Template_Files.zip/file
 
 
Mord.

6. Vietnam War: 1955-75
US Involvement
(French Involvement, 1945-54)

Nice. Blimey had a some rusted BMP and soviet truck hulks made a long time ago but they never got released. Problem is they don't function like real vehicles for blocking incoming. I've made a few suggestions for BF to give us a fifth vehicle state, "Parked". It would just be a stationary vehicle with no infantry, it would block line of site and take damage and catch fire when fired on. One can dream. Anyway, good work, man.
 
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I am surprised the Syrian version of Slim Pickens wasn't riding that bad boy.
 
Mord,

Lol, Mord  almost accidentally made some money
 

For nigh on ten years now my biggest projects have always been my portrait mods. I have invested weeks and months on end, that have added up to hundreds and hundreds of hours of time and frustration creating them. I have made easily over ten thousand portraits, through trial and error, redesign, and updates. It's been a true struggle at times, and I am never happy with the outcome, though I'll say I am, once a project is complete. But I am always fighting the design decisions I started with way back in SF1 and it's hamstrung me artistically. After the FB portraits I decided I wanted to redo all the portraits for all the titles (the BN mod is long over do for an update) . So, after a long hiatus, I set about trying to get to someplace that would finally make me happy. I decided to start with RT to get ahead of the module release, and after a week or so of fiddling, resizing, making test bmps, and checking in game, this is what I came up with.

For about two seconds I thought they looked good. But once again I was confronted by the poor design decisions I adopted all those years ago. You see, I have been in a constant fight with what I term the "bobble head effect", which causes the portrait heads to appear bulbous and fat-headed. It occurs because I opted to show each portrait with a split face on the bmp. It has been my bane since my BN mod and it frustrates me to no end. And considering how I built each face from screenshots, pieces of faces from all sorts of pictures, and the fact I only worked on the left side of the face, well it doesn't leave me room for presenting them in any other way. And On top of all that, I have always felt there was inconsistency in the quality of the faces, and that they appeared too cartoony.  So with that said, I am putting these portrait mods to rest. I have taken them as far as they will go and they have reached a dead end. They had a good run but there really isn't anything more I can do to improve them.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Now, check out what I have been doing for the last two weeks and tell me I didn't make the right decision...



Now for some comparisons of the old style and the new.


 
Now the portraits in the context of their own mod. It'll give you an idea of the overall design.


 
And within the context of the game UI.


 
Some of the portraits are tentative/place holders until I find something that really blows me away. Or will be replaced later. The Heer Armor and Armor Infantry come to mind as far as that goes. Luckily I haven't made anything yet with them, just tests.
Now, unfortunately I will probably have to share a lot of the portraits (mostly Germans) across games, however backgrounds and the like will be changed for each setting.  And I will of course do all the battalions and regiments etc. Whether or not I will be able to keep the quality across titles remains to be seen but I will do my best. It is going to be a colossal amount of work, already has been. For the Germans alone I have created and discarded over a thousand portraits. LOL. Every time I think I have one down and start producing keepers, I stumble across a better pic, or I adjust some color to better fit the portrait into the overall look and I have to redo a ton of work. I just replaced the Heer Infantry yesterday, now I have to redo 374 that I had already made, as well as the SS Arm Infantry. I have done this a couple times already. But getting it right is what's most important. Perfection is what I am aiming for.
I don't know how long it will take. Getting the right pics is painstaking and laborious as hell. For every good one I make I throw out five. But this style will be the definitive version of my portrait mods from here on out. As I complete them I will remove the old versions from the planet. I'll start threads in the corresponding game forums as I progress.
Welp, that's about it. I was gonna keep all this to myself and wait to surprise everyone, but I have been working in a vacuum for a month and it feels good to talk a little bit about it. Especially as I have been going full bore, night and day for two weeks straight. I Hope you guys like what you see. I think it's the best work I have ever done.

Mord.
 

I meant, wait a few minutes not give me money. LMAO!
 
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Sent.
That'll be 150 US dollars. I want it it small unmarked coinage (dimes, nickels, and Susan B Anthonys), preferably dated between 1958 to 1979. D mint only!!!!! Anything less and the code I hid inside the bmps will activate and vandalize your bathroom.
 
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A little love for the British.
 

 
 

 
 

 
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