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Although I'll admit it is looking nice, it is still overwhelmingly @Combatintman's original terrain... I've just swamped it up a bit (okay a lot) & changed the layout of the compounds. From what I can tell, the irrigation channels cannot themselves be a source of water (to flood further pieces of terrain or ditches)... it's an accidental feature of having a water source next to the ditched tile only. Heck it's arguably a bug.

We're on the same wavelength... I'll be contacting you later on.

Okay beta 3 is ready & has been sent to the original dropbox link. Changes Night effects have been expanded & tagged. They now work automatically. The 'time of day' optional set has been removed. Day & night effects are now merged into one 'standard effects' folder. You still need to place a "z" before the other optional sets (small arms, explosions, white smoke, vehicle dust) you wish to use.

It depends on the size of the building... Modular buildings are pretty resistant to artillery fire, especially the larger & taller ones. I've had some limited success with targetting the street right next to building (so that the rounds/blast/shrapnel don't have to penetrate through multiple floors to get to the ground floor)... but, in general, large tower blocks are going to need large amounts of HE. However, don't forget the vast clouds of dust & smoke (in dry & very dry environments) that mortars can generate. Even if the mortars can only mask/supress the enemy, it should still allow you to maneuver.

I didn't know it was yours until I uploaded the little vid & thought I should credit the scenario maker. I was looking for possible H&E conversions.

"Consulate Evacuation" by @MOS:96B2P...

I'm not even sure if I like the effect (the water still flows quite rapidly, like it's a river rather than a rice paddy) and it seems to be visual only (travelling along the ditches seems the same) but, nonetheless, an interesting new feature (the WW2 games have water but no ditches).

No, that obliterates the tile, the trenches & the foilage... however if you have shallow ford next to the trenched tile it'll flood into it.

Another version of "Green 9" is underway... interestingly I discovered you can flood the irrigation ditches.

BRDM's, BTR's & BMP's are amphibious... all have pretty heavy weaponry. However there will definately be a Riverine element to H&E... indeed one of the scenario conversions already has such an element.

I agree with @JulianJ. I just loaded up the CMSF2 Demo onto my spare PC... I bought it second hand five years ago so I'd imagine it's actually eight to ten years old. Balanced, Balanced with Vsync, shaders, shadows & AA off and "The Alamo" is running smoothly at 30+ fps. Only issue I saw was that the latest versions of Reshade didn't seem to want to work properly... but that's not a CM issue.

The easiest way to stop model swaps would be just to hide the .mdr's (I've never seen a wall .mdr for instance) not get Charles to create an entirely new texture reading code. Steve is no shrinking violet... if he had any problem with modding the games visuals (which model swapping is just an advanced form of) he'd have said something at some point during the last 20 years+. In fact whenever he does mention the modders he's complimentary (for instance, his first comment in @sbobovyc's thread was to offer some advice)... heck they've hired half of 'em.

Oh, I'm fairly confident that @Sgt.Squarehead will find a use for that. VERY.MUCH.APPRECIATED!!!

That's why we have an invisible destroyed (or burning) vehicle in Heaven & Earth.

The Heaven & Earth modpack is coming along well however the pack will only be released when we have sufficient content* for players to play with. It'll be ready when it's ready. *Again, if there are any scenario designers who fancy making a mission don't hesitate to send me a PM.

Thanks to the sterling efforts of SmartWargames, all issues with our Pick-up swaps have been resolved... I'm particuarly happy about the new Recoiless Rifle Jeep! SmartWargames himself has created some videos featuring the new vehicles, as well as all the other things he's managed to create (Makeshift armoured cars, PK armed UAZ's etc)... I'll be posting about his techniques seperately but I'm sure @The Steppenwulf & @sbobovyc would be especcially interested in his work (check out the giant cargo ship flavour object for one thing).

Hey, I'm blameless there... that's his own particular issue.

Thirty tests! Geez, I think I'd go mad & just turn it into an "arclight" mission.

Does anybody have this mod still? It doesn't appear to be up on either of the CMMODS yet.

A Vietnam-esque supermod we're working on...

Further playtesting & I'm pretty sure I've turned "Green 9" into an unwinnable murder machine... ... which I kind of like the idea of but I'll see what I can do about giving the Imperials a better chance of victory.

That's a very good point... although I'm sure @Sgt.Squarehead would have pointed out the same to me also. Thinking about it, I might [tag] it for use on flat, inland paddy areas only*... as it does look very nice in-game. PS You'll be pleased to know that the Peoples Army of the Free Democratic Republic of Bong-Hai are colloquially known by the locals as "Roundheads". Of course, the Imperial forces of the Divine Kingdom of Bong-Hai are locally known as "Cavaliers". *Currently Heaven & Earth (which is hilly by default) comes with tagged environment options for coastal delta, inland paddies, urban warfare & montainous terrain.

Yes I have & there are a few strange oddities which I've not, as yet, been able to figure out. As far as I can tell, all the roof types in Heaven & Earth (flat roofs, sloped chimney roofs, chimneyless hut roofs & Temple/mosque roofs) now use the same damage texture. Even more bizarre, they use a texture which, originally, has nothing to do with roof damage. As a placeholder, I've created an (ugly) "generic damaged roof texture" which is used for all the roofs when they get damaged.