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Released and available at GaJ´s Mod Warehouse since long ago ;-) /sdp

Very nice indeed!

Excellent mjk, keep up the good work!!

Amazing! Thanks alot!

Sure, go ahead!

Recently uploaded to GaJs Mods Warehouse; US vehicles (winter version) for the Italian Campaign Mod. German Vehicles will be uploaded later in a separate package. Enjoy! /sdp

Use one at a time, they're all equally good though, so it's hard to choose...

Looks very nice! Looking forward to this one! /sdp

Mille grazie a tutti! /sdp

@ mjkerner: nice, lookin forward to it! AFAIK it's "distant ground" that's used for the area surrounding the maps. There's one included in the winter version of the mod package, but the summer version of the mod uses the stock one. @ Erwin; I've done about 1/3 of the vehicles included. Will take some more time to get the others done I'm afraid...

Glad you like it! Hopefully we'll see some italian scenarios soon as well cheers/ sdp

Thanks for the praise - hope it will inspire you to do some italian scenarios :-) About folders: well, I myself have arranged my mods in "mod collections" - i.e all the mods I like for one theatre are put in the same folder, all the mods for another theatre in another folder. Right now I got two; The Normandie Collection and the Italian collection ;-) Some mods can be used in both theatres, those I have put permanently in the Z folder, outside of the "mod collections". oh, and btw, no vehicle mods are included in these mod packages. A vehicle mod with muddy "winter" vehicles will released later. So, no yellow camo vehicles. cheers/ sdp

ITALIAN CAMPAIGN MOD 1.0 Available now at GaJs Mods Warehouse The Mod consists of several packages that can be combined together, creating a modded version of CMBN that will give the impression of the Italian Theatre. The mod only affects the graphics used by the game, so no other changes will happen. To use these packages, unzip them and put them into your Z folder in “Data”. If you haven’t got a Z folder you’ll have to create one yourself. The Italian Campaign Mod 1.0 consists of; sdp_ITA_basic pack This pack will change the look of the buildings, milestones, posters, horizons and some trees/bushes. This pack may be used regardless of which time of year you’d like to simulate. The trees included are variants meant to represent evergreens; olive trees (tree 4), cypress trees (tree 2) and pine trees (tree 5). This pack will work nicely with the stock terrain in creating an impression of an Italian summer landscape. sdp_ITA_winter terrain This pack will change the look of the terrain into a winter landscape of southern/mid Italy. Snow is included (the sand tile is substituted with a snow tile), but apart from that this winter terrain is meant to represent the parts of Italy that gets cold and rainy during wintertime, but isn’t snow covered. To get the real cold and damp feeling to your maps, use overcast, mist, rain or any possible combination of these settings. sdp_ITA_GER_inf This uniform mod affects german heer infantry. Since this version depicts muddy uniforms it is best suited for winter battles. sdp_ITA_HG Div This uniform mod affects Hermann Goering Division infantry. This version is suitable for Anzio scenarios where the HG Division took part during the winter of 44´. It’s higly recommended to use mjkerners Italian Campaign US Patches Mod Part I and II for the US troops together with this mod pack. Known Issues - problems with buildings/windows not showing correctly; some of the commercial buildings will show an odd phenomena when viewed from the inside - the front facade will be displayed in the windows and doors. I’ve struggled to get rid of this, but haven’t managed to solve it. It is only visible from the inside of the buildings on the first floor. - renderings of trees; tree models have several levels of detail - lods - that can’t be changed by modding. This will lead to the variants of trees which are bare being rendered in a less than optimal way in this mod - from just trunks from semi far away to fully detailed trees close up. Enjoy! /sdp

Rest assured it's being worked on. To be released very soon ;-) cheers/ sdp

I'm going off on a trip for a couple of days, so I just thought I share some news on the progress of this mod pack. Most of the buildings are done, all of the terrain is done and most of the flavor objects are done (there are quite a few of them to change). I'm also adding some mud to the vehicles, but I've decided to release them in a separate pack later on. This release will include uniform mods for german Heer infantry and Hermann Goering Division infantry. Here's a view from Italy in january;-) I've uploaded some more screens to this album (#34 and onwards are the most recent) cheers/ sdp

I'm designing some maps to go with the Campaign Mod, but they´re all WIPs at the moment. Some of them are purely fictional, with typical italian culitvated areas or mountainous areas. I've also started on some maps in the editor that will be more true to real locations. I've collected some tactical/operational maps that may be used as overlays in Google Earth if you want to use them. Get them here (approx 65 MB download) Here are some screens of the maps I'm planning on releasing after the mod is finished; - and finally, a map of the Sant´Angelo in Theodice area (Gustav line south of Cassino) with Rapido river; cheers/ sdp

I think a mine field covers an entire action spot and there´s a certain percentage of risk that a unit will set of mines if it passes through that action spot. Thus, it is possible - but not very likely - that a unit might actually have the fortune of avoiding all mines put in the area, while another one isn´t so lucky. Just me guessing too.

Great! Thanks a lot!

Excellent mod, highly recommended! It was me who wrote that I missed the Tiger sound - have checked it and it is included, so my wrong! Seems it's difficult to distinguish in-game, the sound file plays alright though

Great addition to your previous mods! - highly recommended Oh, btw - you haven't had a chance to look into whether it would be possible to mod the german grenadiers/fusiliers into Gebirgs-jäger troops, have you? ;-) cheers/ sdp

I´ve removed the foliage by replacing the default bmps with bare twigs/branches and modified the alpha channel, nothing too advanced really - the tree models are the same, they´re hardcoded. /sdp

Basically the mod pack will consist of several packages; buildings, terrain and so on. The first terrain package will be for Italian winter landscape (approx. oct - march) - that will replace all Normandie terrain if you chose to use it. The buildings will of course be possible to use for both the summer and winter variant of the mod pack. I´m doing some vehicle textures to go with the winter mod pack, and a few uniform mods as well (HG div and generic ger inf). I´m sure there are other modders out there that will be able to provide us with excellent uniform mods - I myself am already using mjkerners 36th inf div mod with great satisfaction :-) cheers/ sdp

@winkelried; you´ll be able to swap out the italian posters for french if you feel like it, so southern france won´t be much of a problem :-) as for ETA, well most of it this mod pack is done, doing the last buildings now and will release it when I´ve made a few more mods for the vehicles (they should all look a bit more muddy than the stock ones). So, perhaps a couple of weeks... Now that´s for the winter version of this mod pack, which will be the first one - my plans are to expand this with a summmer version (july 43 - sept 43 and may 44 - sept 44) later on. And once the commonwealth module arrives there will be more work of course ;-) Expect NZ and Polish mods to come along. Will go nicely with the Free French mods already available;-) cheers/ sdp

@mjkerner; about shoulder patches; yup, I know ;-) Already using the 36th with great pleasure, thank you! (as you might discover in the picture with the jeep in front of a building. And it's the HG div uniform (winter version, Anzio) in the last pic, you´re correct. @ali-baba; basically just playing around with alpha-channels ;-) cheers/ sdp

Just to let you know what´s cooking; here are som screenies of a Mod pack I´m working on. The mod pack turns CMBN into CMBI - Combat Mission Battle for Italy. Don´t know when it will be ready, but when it is I´ll let you know ;-) Direct link to mod album https://picasaweb.google.com/molnhavet/Sdp_ITA_screenshots?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMCC68DvxebmRg&feat=directlink cheers/ sdp