Kieme(ITA)

I hope that T-90 will never be able to prove itself in a real tank to tank combat, because that will mean a war against a country operating that tank.

I hope that T-90 will never be able to prove itself in a real tank to tank combat, because that will mean a war against a country operating that tank.

I hope that T-90 will never be able to prove itself in a real tank to tank combat, because that will mean a war against a country operating that tank.

I hope that T-90 will never be able to prove itself in a real tank to tank combat, because that will mean a war against a country operating that tank.

I hope that T-90 will never be able to prove itself in a real tank to tank combat, because that will mean a war against a country operating that tank.

I have to check the buildings, so there is no standard version yet. The roads have their standard version done and corrected, should work ok. This is the link for them: https://app.box.com/s/tunn9rkmoqlv8skme1imrd2qzjawar7s
 
Terrain will require a lot of work to make it standard and ok looking, not sure I will do that.

CM games work on a real basis, nothing like most rts games which give a fictional value x to armor or weapons.
In those games, if X is armor and Y is weapon, if X>Y the vehicle survives, if X<Y the vehicle dies. Rock paper scissors, just that.
 
In CM games there are a lot more variables taken into account, thus reducing the rng (random number generation - casuality) a lot.
 
This means that the armor of a vehicle is modelled as the real vehicle, for example: front armor is stronger than side armor, front armor can have weak points, there are different armor thicknesses based upon the precise spot etc. but their values are based upon reality (as much as references can give or proof or are estimated by devs). Same goes for the weapon systems, many calculations are taken into account when the game needs to decide what happens when a given weapon (or projectile) hits a given armor location.. angles of impact, technical characteristics of the projectile, speed etc. And the armor can be of very different kinds or have different layers (armor-era-spaced-stand off etc.)
 
Moreover, vehicles have Subsystems and crew that can be damaged or destroyed, thus influencing the said vehicle capabilities.
 
About ERA, example:
If an ERA block is hit, and works as it was designed, said block will be not visibile anymore in the 3d model of the vehicle and it won't be there the next time a projectile might hit there..
 
About the challenger, we have M1A2 SEP v2 now in game, and while being very difficult to destroy it's not at all an invincible tank.
 
In the interface you might notice some level bars and color indications (dots) which you might think give a value to some characteristics such as speed, acceleration, armor protection etc. but keep in mind those are only generic visual aids for the non-expert player intended to give a broad idea of what's what.
 
So, in the end, CM is a ton time more complex than you initially thought.

Just last night, I was watching a bunch of real world goodies pertinent to CMBS and had excellent audio. A short time ago, I watched TV programs online. That was fine, too. But in looking at an array of things on YT just now, nothing has audio. It's all got the dread "X" on the speaker image. I thoroughly checked at 3:30 AM (3:42 AM, 03/14/15 where I am presently) to make sure my sound was on and volume adequate. 
 
T-90 (in Russian)  A tremendous vid, may I add? Not a sound. 
 

 
Dad used to crack wise about easy college courses, such as Basket Weaving and Canoe Tilting, rather than Engineering. Guess what? The audio there doesn't work, either.
 
Making Willow Baskets
 

 
Kelly's Heroes Showdown with a Tiger scene
 

 
I don't know what's going on or why, but I absolutely hate this and am concerned this is some insane new YT policy. If so, someone needs to replace YT. Stat.
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

This is a vid I found via a Ukraine War search, and while it doesn't show any combat, it shows a great many militarily interesting things: a heavily camouflaged CP with CO in it (him in cammies with what I believe to be latest digital camo helmet cover), complete with panoramic photo of area to front, range card, fire sector markers and such, full-on fighting trenches, AFV fighting positions, MTLBs with tall pintles with MGs atop them, trucks towing mortars, a possible T-64, BMP-1s and a 2S1. HD footage of wonderful clarity. Sky is dark gray, and there's a brooding feel, too. As best I can tell, this is two parts making one program. What I find especially notable is how well these AFVs blend with the background, despite monotone paint jobs. Also, other than a little wind noise, when the T-64BV? (has remote controlled rooftop MG actively moving about) tanks are on the move in the second vid, there is no stupid music playing, only engines and environmental sounds, including birds. Likewise with the BMPs. Maybe someone can take advantage of that for sound mods? These tanks are pretty quiet on the move, but neither are they racing about. The BMPs are noisier than the tanks, and their tracks squeak. A further point of interest is that when the CP displaces, right behind the Komandir's MTLB is another one. With a MANPADS guy standing in the open hatch ready to go while the MTLB is on the move!
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c35kRXK7pM#t=29
 

 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

Haha. The 90s called, they asked if they could get any tips on game design from the future. I told them not to call here again it was a waste of time.

This is me having a go at Duelling Shashkas against the AI. Or alternatively, Dance of the Laser Warning Receivers. Absolutely loving it.
 

 

Sure would like to see a youtube of someone winning this.  Rage quit 4 times in about 40 minutes.  The first two games, I lost my jeep mg gunner in the first 2 turns, despite being in heavy cover.
 
Also, I think this scenario needs a map with the general area of the outpost mapped.  First time, I didn't understand that the outpost was right there and the "rush vehicles forwards" advice seems to end up with a jeep that is quickly routing in panic.  Unit position ended up with either my units in too much cover, with no sight of the enemy, or not enough, and getting picked off.  Snipers were surprisingly passive, and many observation areas proved selectively useless for covering advancing troops,  I quickly started running out of time and losing too many troops to attrition -- to rescue one guy, this sure wasn't worth the sacrifice.
 
But I seem to be the only one with this experience.  Once again, would love to see this in action so that I can know what I am doing wrong.

It's an abstraction, the hull down system is not tailored for each and every vehicle in game, it's more generic.
 
Facts:
-The krizantema CAN GO hulldown (proven)
-The krizantema CAN SHOOT from hulldown (proven)
-the krizantema CAN USE RADAR (proven - M1 in my tests were behind their smoke cover, enough to block Thermal, not radar)
 
I called that emplacement a "berm", but it's just the proof the kriza can go hull down in game. It was the game to tell me it was hull down, if it wasn't it would be called "partial hull down" instead.  Your idea of perfect hull down kriza is just not the same as the game (or developers) visually, but in terms of effectiveness it's the same,
If you desire try to make more kind of Hills...
 
But calling bugs or vehicle broken seems inappropriate in this case.

I have a list thick as a book of things I'd wish for CM series and this feature is no where to be found, even in the last pages.

It would be used more than 5 times. Do you know how many people spectate DOTA-like? Or the latest games like Besiege and others on Steam that are pretty much legos and you place them and watch what happens? Before all the negative comments came to shoo and scare away the people who mentioned this feature, there was support. 
 
I know this is an old community that hates thinking of modern and new things; it's grognards. It's like convincing y'all electricity exists sometimes when you're like no no, candles are fine because you don't see the new and innovative things that are out there and you're all stuck in your caves and boxes going "nope, the world isn't changing and new things scare me, which is why I still have a 386 computer." and "Oh those wacky new kids with their new toys *rolls eyes* I like things the way they are, with polio still existing!"
 
You want to solicit new ideas and features from the community? Here it is. It's a feature that would be used a lot more than you think and it's insulting to assume "oh it would be used just 5 times or less." to people who would use it a lot when they're doing other things or have insomnia and watch them to fall asleep like I do with DOTA2 because some people have medical issues.
 
Also, if you think your AI is crappy enough that it would be "two blind men fighting with bulldozers", then your AI ain't that great and you should be focusing on the poor programming AI skills than insulting my idea.

Kieme CMBS BTR-80-82
 
Special thanks to BTR for providing the ideal green base textures
This mod covers the BTR-80a, 80ak, 82, 82a and 82k variants.
 
IMPORTANT: this mod comes in 3-tone camo and dark green versions, please make sure you choose only one to use.
 
 
3-tone camo download: https://app.box.com/s/epo5cea3s33l42p55vzr04lm5cov1o2l
 
3-tone camo preview:

 
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Plain dark green download: https://app.box.com/s/2gm061govy27eoxgp9cftxgmpclvr31y
 
Plain dark green preview:

All mods released recalling topic
 
A list of ALL mods released within this thread until now, organized by genre.
 
 
Terrain and environmental mods:
Ground mod (HD) pt1 https://app.box.com/s/ywtyid56b1t7dphm4fg7et7668q0egdg
Ground mod (HD) pt2 https://app.box.com/s/2arjajmarl8gd33j3j3bad939iks1n9l
Alternative crops https://app.box.com/s/7aia2idxkivf2hfm8r7w6dzrnsf11piz
Reworked foliage https://app.box.com/s/1s1yiq0fab62k5vrxf1jwjax2wix1o7x
Reworked horizon https://app.box.com/s/qcxm6o3sx6wztbtreszl3cd0qamdkrm8
Alternative overcast clouds https://app.box.com/s/uz4z8t8crw7vbaiijwju3wq9ttmjoqfi
Improved doodads https://app.box.com/s/6zw49zm80pzq860yd3q3p05qdl9ld8ws
 
 
Buildings and structures:
Alternative walls (HD) https://app.box.com/s/syqg4s9yz98y4vw8it85ik1b08fb2nh4 OR (standard) https://app.box.com/s/spaavfymtt7r10ipzbgyx6uimvvyrmdh
Modular buildings (HD) https://app.box.com/s/lriagz6nrjlo1m6y2eke1u99f5jowptc
Modular buildings add-on 1 (HD) https://app.box.com/s/3whq3ye3oxl5k1ru6qsj7b68xyp0ffxx
Modular roofs pf1 https://app.box.com/s/5yoz7chtwhu3c95nbrlaub62hs2h0fv9
Modular roofs pt2 https://app.box.com/s/2jb4hzgcv2u0tqk9kemmodn5b44qklnh
Improved roads (HD) https://app.box.com/s/9b827rv64gjyugzt0yk9jx7f6gnhra04 OR (standard) https://app.box.com/s/tunn9rkmoqlv8skme1imrd2qzjawar7s
 
 
Troops and soldiers:
Reworked russian uniforms https://app.box.com/s/yvc61fc3rucj6weyy8cz7adh3s1pz0vk
Reworked ukrainian uniforms https://app.box.com/s/f6mdliz147eky2pll7riaboi9uty98u8
Reworked USA faces https://app.box.com/s/z1h035zelnsv557fj8wxgnbj6a70cq0e
Reworked USA faces -50% glasses add on https://app.box.com/s/f2lovalj1fxrncvuryz48ujqqf2g7j7w
Reworked USA faces more faces add on https://app.box.com/s/peefn01egaevqeeg897xjl5sfb2ibdyn
 
 
Ukrainian Army vehicles:
T-64BV https://app.box.com/...c5frk9z83nuxva5
T-84Oplot (digital) https://app.box.com/...l2tisg6o07hgjw0
T-64Bulat (three-tones) https://app.box.com/...3xxf4whsf6n5zhe
BMP-2 https://app.box.com/...sl2sjfz9r70xcf7
BTR-4e (digital) https://app.box.com/...6jyr7trg674up2t
BTR-70m https://app.box.com/...4rwj8z19s3kl8qz
BRDM-2 https://app.box.com/...alv4dv8xmvydtnh
MTLB (+variants) https://app.box.com/...bh3z9lz0u0p21of
MTLBu https://app.box.com/...7z988tn5rhft6zw
BRM-PRP https://app.box.com/...4etbn1wg88cvcjm
UAZ-URAL https://app.box.com/...q0v82xrhnv8b2z1
Tunguska https://app.box.com/...8luj5zzvgsyrq8z
MT-12 https://app.box.com/...l1apiqq7hv1qhfn
 
 
US Army vehicles:
Abrams https://app.box.com/...3gmrqkblhum95ia
Abrams tank names add on https://app.box.com/...9tsjsl4yolekpaa
Bradley https://app.box.com/...0zd8pylvea4j763
Bradley desert era add on https://app.box.com/...b0vv2kahj9uo3sp
Bradley graffiti add on https://app.box.com/...hsi84qez2x45v4c
Bradley vehicle names add on https://app.box.com/...r9a1ugab6zjneki
Hummer https://app.box.com/...claiqv2b2fwr2do
Stryker https://app.box.com/...dd453pfjawtae0f
M1200 https://app.box.com/...qdhbrgcj3m7klfb
M1200 vs-17 optional https://app.box.com/...i379lmzccm7u3p2
M1200 vehicle names add on https://app.box.com/...tya89575i8s2e95
M1064A3 https://app.box.com/...14n7vw0ok91b8ti
LMTV https://app.box.com/...3exicb4w5f31h9a
 
 
Total: 1.2 GB
Top dowloader is: Kieme CMBS Modular Buildings (HD) with 306 downloads, followed by Kieme CMBS Ground Mod (HD) 275 downloads.
Top downloader vehicle is: T-64BV and BMP-2-k UA with 167 downloads, followed by T-64 Bulat with 161 downloads.

Kieme CMBS BTR-80-82
 
Special thanks to BTR for providing the ideal green base textures
This mod covers the BTR-80a, 80ak, 82, 82a and 82k variants.
 
IMPORTANT: this mod comes in 3-tone camo and dark green versions, please make sure you choose only one to use.
 
 
3-tone camo download: https://app.box.com/s/epo5cea3s33l42p55vzr04lm5cov1o2l
 
3-tone camo preview:

 
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Plain dark green download: https://app.box.com/s/2gm061govy27eoxgp9cftxgmpclvr31y
 
Plain dark green preview:

Kieme CMBS BTR-80-82
 
Special thanks to BTR for providing the ideal green base textures
This mod covers the BTR-80a, 80ak, 82, 82a and 82k variants.
 
IMPORTANT: this mod comes in 3-tone camo and dark green versions, please make sure you choose only one to use.
 
 
3-tone camo download: https://app.box.com/s/epo5cea3s33l42p55vzr04lm5cov1o2l
 
3-tone camo preview:

 
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Plain dark green download: https://app.box.com/s/2gm061govy27eoxgp9cftxgmpclvr31y
 
Plain dark green preview:

Kieme CMBS BTR-80-82
 
Special thanks to BTR for providing the ideal green base textures
This mod covers the BTR-80a, 80ak, 82, 82a and 82k variants.
 
IMPORTANT: this mod comes in 3-tone camo and dark green versions, please make sure you choose only one to use.
 
 
3-tone camo download: https://app.box.com/s/epo5cea3s33l42p55vzr04lm5cov1o2l
 
3-tone camo preview:

 
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Plain dark green download: https://app.box.com/s/2gm061govy27eoxgp9cftxgmpclvr31y
 
Plain dark green preview:

Kieme CMBS BTR-80-82
 
Special thanks to BTR for providing the ideal green base textures
This mod covers the BTR-80a, 80ak, 82, 82a and 82k variants.
 
IMPORTANT: this mod comes in 3-tone camo and dark green versions, please make sure you choose only one to use.
 
 
3-tone camo download: https://app.box.com/s/epo5cea3s33l42p55vzr04lm5cov1o2l
 
3-tone camo preview:

 
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Plain dark green download: https://app.box.com/s/2gm061govy27eoxgp9cftxgmpclvr31y
 
Plain dark green preview:

Kieme CMBS BTR-80-82
 
Special thanks to BTR for providing the ideal green base textures
This mod covers the BTR-80a, 80ak, 82, 82a and 82k variants.
 
IMPORTANT: this mod comes in 3-tone camo and dark green versions, please make sure you choose only one to use.
 
 
3-tone camo download: https://app.box.com/s/epo5cea3s33l42p55vzr04lm5cov1o2l
 
3-tone camo preview:

 
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Plain dark green download: https://app.box.com/s/2gm061govy27eoxgp9cftxgmpclvr31y
 
Plain dark green preview:

Steve, you just don't know what you can do with this:

Probably the file is undergoing update by the uploader. Or it is just broken indeed.
But I agree on the repository rant in general.

Kieme CMBS T-72B3
 
This mod starts with BTR 's research and conversion of russian vehicles into a realistic green color, so all credits shall go to him as the author of the original texture, which is in my opinion a great digital version of the original modern russian green, therefore special thanks to him and his work.
the original thread is found here:
http://community.battlefront.com/topic/117857-testing/
 
I have desaturated and slightly brightened the green color and added layers of dust, dirt, rainmarks, scratches, details etc. and enhanced the normal maps a bit.
 
Download:
https://app.box.com/s/8eur26fc1lhidwa3tg7jaod86ciqcimt
 
Preview:

 
Weathering all green vehicles is never easy, I still have to narrow down the precise techniques to use, so if you have any suggestion please add them as you feel to.