A Canadian Cat
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Looks great and I installed your mod. The only game I have going where I am playing CW forces is The Main Event which are Canadian. I saw no sign of your awesome looking helmets on my Canadian soldiers. Is this mod supposed to work on the Canadian's helmets too? I have not had time to try out a QB with the Brits to test so I am just wondering what my expectations should be before I start trouble shooting tonight.
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I have seen something a bit similar except in my case the drive would not drive the tank even though the engine was fine and there was a crew member assigned to drive.
The tank took two casualties and I forget if they bailed and I got them to remount or not but in the end I had a gunner, driver and commander and the tank could fire fine but would not move. In my case I could place movement way points but the driver never tried to follow the orders. It stayed that way for the rest of the game.
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Do you guys like the blue tint for the German pics? I think it looks cool alongside the red tinted Allied ones. Or would you rather have plain gray like the stock ones?
I personally am not a huge fan of tinted B&W pics. If I had to choose I would go with a sepia tint (red) rather than the silver (blueish).
I too would love to see some Commonwealth forces loading screen shots too.
On the subject of centring pictures. If the game does not centre images you can just re-size the canvas to be the full size expected by the game. Then position the actual picture in the centre and fill the background with black (or what ever colour the rest of the loading screen is).
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It doesn't strike me as posed, or not overly so anyway. By that I mean those four guys probably really were together for a real briefing, although the photographer might have asked them to “scootch in a bit closer for the photo”, or sumfink.
I vote for not posed for that one too because the photographer has placed focus on the guy standing in the back. Next time you see it have a look at how in focus each of the men is. The guy at the back is the one with the sharpest look. The highest ranked officer is just a bit soft and the guy giving the briefing is noticeably less sharp.
Don't get me wrong it is a great picture showing interaction and I think it is a great addition to the game. But while the game is loading I have spent quite a bit of time staring at it:) Lord knows I have taken more than a few shots that were less good than they should have been because I miss focused. But if it was a posed shot then I would expect the photographer would have made sure the focus was on the highest ranked officer.
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I just tried it again and the original link works for me now too.
Yes, great looking work again. I will be adding this guy to my z folder tonight...
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This is great stuff - does any one know if this is a new in the patch? Does this work with the US Company HQ team and the XO team?
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My current plan is to release a three separate .brz files:
1) Commonwealth forces green icons - will require the existing Lo Vis icons for the allied HQ, snipers and FO units
2) Commonwealth forces khaki icons - will make the US HQ, snipers and FO units have Khaki icons too
3) Khaki allied contact icon
It makes sense that there are only red and blue contact icons (not nation specific icons). The whole point of a contact icon is your guys see or hear something but they don't know what it is. I personally do not want to replace the nice Axis / Allies icons that are included in the existing "Niessuh contact icons" mod. I am adding an optional khaki version of the allied contact icon in case people want to have all their allied icons the same colour.
It is unfortunate that the HQ, sniper and FO are not nation specific. I would like to see that rectified in a future release. Right now if you want the khaki UK icons you pooch the US units and it would be nice to be able to have a mixed force with different colours. To bad.
I am OK with looking at making a union jack version after I get what have tested. I was also thinking about making a black and white version of the German tactical icons for the SS. Not sure when I will begin working on that though.
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I got tired of waiting
I exploded both of these mods and made British copies of these great tactical icons. Given the repeated requests for khaki versions I made two separate sets - a green version and a khaki version.
Note: due to the shared FO, HQ and sniper icons using the khaki icons means that any US forces end up with khaki HQ, FO and sniper icons too. You can swap in/out the Khaki icons depending on the game you are playing but I will probably just stick with green for all the allies.Also these new mods will expect to be used with the Lo Vis Icons and
Niessuh contact icons mods not as standalone mods.
British forces using the green icons:
British froces using the khaki icons:
Yes, that is the CW dealership scenario - thanks for that.
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Just too bring this thread to a close:
Recap:
I did my initial work of tweaking files using Paint.Net but that does not correctly support alpha channel for BMP files so my icons were a total failure. Oops should have tested one before doing all the work.
The solution - which did not involve redoing all the work:
In the end I made use of a program DXTBmp (thanks Lt. Smash for your PM). With that program it is easy to extract the alpha channel from an RGBA BMP. I saved all the alpha channel images from the original Lo Vis mod I was basing my work on and then started reapplying them to my new images. DXTBmp only handles one file at a time (plus file saving formats was confusing) so I figured out how to use Gimp to do the same task - more steps with Gimp but more efficient for me to process multiple images. Samples to follow...
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I like number 1 best
Is it just me or does this feel like a vision test... Now read the bottom line...
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So what is the final word on this mod - are the decals for Luff or Herr forces?
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I was also looking for icons using tactical symbols and found this link for germans symbols:
Yes, not all the symbols can be shown - you should check out the mod I mentioned in my first message. He uses those symbols you found to replace the floating icons. It is fantastic.
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AFAIK, they're all 32-bit BMPs, so save as that. I just use the default settings in GIMP (from the image that I loaded).
OK I will try that - thanks.
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Thanks. How about saving - what file format should I pick from GIMP?
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You are a psychic. I just finished it. Can any volunteers for playtesting it H2H to make sure that this version IS balanced please send me a PM containing your email address?
Excellent. My main PBEM opponent and I are currently just getting going on "The Main Event" and it will take us a while to finish (he is on holidays for a while right in the middle). So it will be a few weeks before we get to play Sticking it out. I would love to help out - but I doubt you will want to wait for us.
Thanks
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I am trying to make a mod that will provide tactical symbol floating icons ala
Lo Vis Icons
http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=314&func=fileinfo&id=1121
But my icon editor (Paint.Net) does not allow me to create 32bit bitmaps. Neither does the built in Paint (it tops out at 24 bit). I just did it anyway but there is no transparent areas in my versions of the icons (I unpacked the Lo Vis Icons and tweaked them). Clearly I am missing something.
What are you guys using for icons? How do I create transparent areas that the game understands?
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Thanks for the clarification. I have been using the "CMBN_Wolfe_Colored_Command_Buttons_1-3" mod on top of yours for so long I forgot that your default was the shades of gray pallet for the command buttons. I assume Wolfe's mod will still work with your new version. But I will start by trying your new colours first.
Thanks for all the hard work.
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Use the PDF rule book because on another thread we were all just reminded that there is no hard copy of the manual shipped with the disk.
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I agree. I'm very sorry that it wasn't tweaked for H2H balance. It was tested extensively vs. AI so it should work fine for either side there, but the H2H testing results came in too late to make it into the shipped product. This is on me, and I do apologize.
Any plans on tweaking it and offering a "Sticking it out Redux" that is good for H2H play?
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But Ben the camo helmet is a different shape from the others. That is why people think your mod changes the shape. But I suspect we are seeing a mix of helmet types in the squad. Can you clear up which it is?
Please,
Ian
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Preview pics on page 1 have been updated. Also, here's another preview shot of a British airborne platoon HQ with optional subdued colored command buttons installed:
Those buttons look just like the ones in the preview images in your first post. Are those really the "subdued" colours? Just checking...
BTW I can hardly wait for this - thanks
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Note to self: Never phrase a yes / no question with double barreled phrasing if Moon might answer it.
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...you could do is use the landmark function to place messages on various locations with the victory conditions for that location displayed as text, so for example if there is a church in a town in an attack / defence battle, the message could say "Whoever occupies the church at the end of the game wins", that way you do away with points and have a simple win or lose battle.
But you could do that with the current victory point system too. There is only one occupy objective - just the church. Nothing else. Now whom ever occupies the church wins. No wordy land marks no nothing.
Trigger or not to trigger
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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Interesting thoughts on triggers. I never really though about using triggers so that a unit that reaches the end of its orders would have something else to do after a certain time with no enemy contact. Nor did I think of writing if then else statements in the AI coding.
What I was thinking would like be useful is something much simpler. Consider a AI programmed to defend a few objectives. Right now an AI cannot really have a mobile reserve that can react to an attack. Yes, I know that designers can guess and perhaps get it right but that is all it is a guess. If a AI defense line is breached on a flank then the other units just sit there waiting to get attached from their side.
So I would like to the same kind of AI scripting that we have now but allow which script an AI group runs be triggered (and all times adjusted relative to when the trigger happens). What that would allow a designer to do is arrange a defensive line and hold a couple of AI groups in reserve. Those reserve groups would have a trigger to choose one three scripts: one to move and defend the left, one to move to defend the centre and one to move to defend the right. Then trigger for which script to choose is based on a unit on the left, a unit in the centre or a unit on the right taking casualties. Once the trigger happens the chosen AI script would run as usual. In addition you could add triggers on the main defenders such that the unit in the centre would move left if the defending unit on the left took a high level of casualties etc.
Yes, it is true that fake attacks on a flank would draw the AI the wrong direction, buy hey I sometimes fall for that too. The scenario author could easily vary the triggers so one day your faint draws the reserves but the next day it does not and the reserve instead responds to the real attack. Tweaking those trigger levels would add additional dimensions to varying the AI's behaviour game to game.