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    ToW3 WW2

    in Theatre of War 3 : Korea

    Posted

    Great news & good job! Looking forward to getting back to making some maps & missions for this. So much more enjoyable than fixing zfs appliances!

    One peice of knowledge I could do with is how you properly convert TOW1 maps. There's the Bulldogs maps & a bunch that I never released that could be really good especially with some tweaking with extra statics. These include at least 3 finished maps for the 101st/82nd campaign that nearly made it off the ground & 1 or 2 Market Garden maps I made for sh!ts & giggles. RL (2 kids & working for a startup) dictates that I rarely get time to mod these days so dont have the opportunity to do my own research.

    Tartari, I am really looking forward to playing with your work mate, I'm sure I'll break something! :P

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    ToW3 WW2

    in Theatre of War 3 : Korea

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    Salut Tartari ,

    Take your time mate, do it right! Just pm me a link for ToW1 statics, I'd like to get cracking on rebuilding some Bulldogs maps. I have a bunch of other as yet unreleased maps as well from that campaign we never got around to doing. :P

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    ToW3 WW2

    in Theatre of War 3 : Korea

    Posted

    Gents,

    Please either post or PM me links & I will get to work!

    Knokke,

    Pls see PM

    If there is a link or tips on porting ToW1 maps over to ToW3, please share, I have some work to do. I re did 3 of the ~20 custom maps I have by hand from scratch. It would take me years to port them all by hand.

    Cheers lads

    Gnasher

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    ToW3 WW2

    in Theatre of War 3 : Korea

    Posted

    Couple of questions:-

    Will Knokke's superb Typhoon be included in the mod?

    Are the TOW1 statics enterable?

    Does anyone know of a way to port a TOW1 map to later versions other than taking the maintex & farmaintex & starting again from stratch?

    I can feel a Bulldogs redux coming on. I also have a Overlord US Paratroop campaign unreleased which would make a nice port over.

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    Churchill AVRE

    in Theatre of War 2 : Kursk 1943

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    As there are no flame throwers, I doubt a Crocodile is possible without the devs implementing them. Shame this hasn't been done yet really..

    As to converting Bulldogs, that would take a very long time, I've been working on 3 maps to add to the Brit campaign that would work into Operation Jupiter, Maltot, Eterville & South Cheux. I've found map building much harder & time consuming for ToW2. Previously it would take me about a week to get a map nailed, with the new editor it's taken alot longer & neither map is of sufficient quality that I would release yet.

    It would have been really nice if 1C had supplied the blank maps for ToW2 as they did for the original game, especially if the terrain was not so damned high over the water table as in the current maps which I've been converting from. This has made the Odon bridgehead maps a nightmare to produce ( I gave up on Gavrus ).

    Si vous Arzok, Tartari, Knoke & aiderait à faire un bon Mod Normandie, je serais heureux de vous aider mes amis!

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    Churchill AVRE

    in Theatre of War 2 : Kursk 1943

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    Been away far a while due to the BF thinking I was a hacker.......

    Great job looks fantastic! Maybe I'll look at releasing some of the Bulldogs maps I've remade for Caen.

    Few things I could do with for this though guys to add to the immersion (Maybe these have already been done? IDK ):-

    A Typhoon instead of those bloody naff P38s which really fowl things up historically.

    Churchill Crocodile to give 1st & 2nd SS Panzer Corps some napalm love!

    A decent church building (imported/converted from tow1?). Dont know why this wasn't included, obviously the devs have never been anywhere near Normandy to not include at least 1 vaguely looking Norman Chruch static.

    17lb AT gun

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    Maps:

    in Theatre of War 2 : Kursk 1943

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    I dont know because I haven't tried but I would guess that the terrain & the maintex & fartex files would work, but the objects would all fail due to incorrect names. So you would need to redo all the trees & statics.

    Has anyone tried this yet? A Bulldogs map would be a good experiment.

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    Yet again, noob question about ToW editor ...

    in Theatre of War

    Posted

    Sneaksie is right, the scripting language is very powerfull, it's also quite a steep learning curve if you are not used to programming. It is a good idea to use the mission generator initially to get your mission up & running quickly. If you need extra reinforcements/behaviors for either side you can add your own triggers to add these extra units as/when needed. Be careful however as the game will crash if you exceed 250 units total at any one time. IMO the best place to run your triggers is usually from the InitMission trigger on generated missions.

    If you need an example you can look at the missions in my Bulldogs campaign, it has a mix of my own work & customised battle generated missions. I found it very usefull to generate a library file of code (text file with my own + selected triggers from stock missions) that I either cribbed from or customised for the new mission.

    Post here if you need help. Good Luck!

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