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OK, I think I got all this correct. Anybody spots a goof, please say so and I can edit it or revise. Yes, Vehicle Mods: there is some mixing you can do but it has disadvantages and an unknown randomness to the end result displayed. The turret is like the shirt and the hull is like the pants, maybe the wheels are like the socks? Some vehicles only have the hull. For these PzIII M and G, they have turret, hull and wheels. But Dennis didn't camo the wheels so they are universal. EDIT: I forgot M have skirts. That must be like a jacket over the shirt! It all depends on what you want to see displayed. 3 different schemes for the PzIIIG, the filenames can be incremented. But the dang game can outsmart you and you end up with all 3 the same for a turn. It deals the cards each time you load the file. You can even end up with the game displaying the hatches from one turret on the turret of another camo pattern! Turret of 2 colors (brown and green) only on hull of 1 color (green OR brown). Various iterations. EDIT: skirts can annoyingly be part of one skirt image and then on the same tank, a "panel" of the skirt is another skirt color from a different image, ugggh! Maybe better to alpha layer the skirts filesout. At least that conveniently works for North Africa... For CMI North Africa I have enjoyed to put various turret numbers on the PzIIIG turrets and increment the filenames with modtag [afrika]. Then maybe use 1 or 2 generic hulls that match the turrets. The display is variety but the tank platoon HQ tank cannot always be "230"... EDIT: a big tank battle of ten PzIIIG's will have duplicates shown on screen. Even if you have a dozen incremented options.... Follow me? Advanced Course: Another fun way to get the tanks variety is to have some of the camo schemes be KO'd tanks renamed to be junk flavor objects.

https://www.worldwarphotos.info/ Just leaving this here for myself/others for future use...

OK, I tried to make a reasonable request and present it here in the forum. Now it is in somebody else's hands. Thank you folks!

I did have some Bruce Quarrie but not that book...

Revised from inputs received. Put Germans with Germans, etc. Organized it a tad... THE CMFI FINAL PACK Using the CMBN Vehicle Pack ($20 for 19 vehicles, 5 bunkers and 3 backpack flamethrowers) as a template. What BFC already has done might seem doable again to them. Some of this 3D modelling is already out there in whole or partially in the other titles but some would be new stuff. New work by Casio Lima studios and the BFC art staff. A sincere salute to those guys! If you need an intern, I will volunteer. This vehicle pack supports North Africa, Greece, Crete, maybe a quasi-France if modded, maybe Italians vs French before Torch, Free French tackling the Germans after Torch... VEHICLES 1. Panzer II Ausf F We already have the running gear of the PzII from the Marder, and we have the 2cm KwK 30 autocannon from some of the armored cars SdKfz 232. So give us a PzIIF. I guess the F. Right? 2. Panzer III Ausf F early and late This would give us a PzIII with the 37mm and then with the short 50mm. If we get a similar CMRT Dasvidaniya Comrades final vehicle pack for earlier Ost Front, then this work (and other stuff on this wish list) gets utilized again for their sales/profits/bottomline/businessmen smoking cigars stuff. 3. PzIV Ausf D/E/F1 with short barrel 75 4. Stug III Ausf C with short barrel 75 5. the Panzer I (why not) 6. That funky German vehicle, captured Soviet AT guns on a half-track chassis, "Diana" (only ~9 built so maybe too rare for BFC's taste?) 7. Some cool desert vehicle for personnel transport or towing Pak38's/etc...Sdkfz 10? 8. Italian M13/40 9. earlier version of British armoured cars with AT rifle AND THE BREN with an AT rifle also. 10. British Vickers MkVIB Light Tank 11. Valentine for western desert, MkII and MkIII 12. MATILDA! Queen of the Desert 13. GRANT TANK!!!! and LEE TANK (US/USSR) 14.25 pounder as a deployable gun on the map! the QF 2 pounder also! and the 37mm Pak for German army not just FJ. 15 Sherman II with sandskirts 16 earlier Honeys, Stuart I and II with the cool commander's box thingy, with sandskirts 17 British Crusader Tank or other Cruiser tanks 18 some French vehicles from CMBN, oooh lala 19 and a smoke and a pancake, and a bong and a blintz? BUNKERS: Some kind of cool desert bunker thingy, metadata to not quite be concrete, I don't know. Tobruk bunker I think it was called? A few cool flavor objects for North Africa? Go Ben!!! INSTEAD OF FLAMETHROWERS: 1. bring over from CMRT the tiny 50mm mortar for the Germans 2. German and British and Italian anti-tank rifles 3. French MAS36 rifle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Back in 2016 I was gonna use T-34's for a mod. https://community.battlefront.com/topic/118887-operation-hercules-the-invasion-of-malta-wip/?do=findComment&comment=1597988

No worry. Please, Let her rip! Have fun and post whatever is cool!

I think I have that somewhere on my shelves!

No worry! Trying to be funny with digitally desecrated

My original list <now digitally desecrated?> was more bread and butter scenario stuff I think. Glad to see the rare vehicles if somebody important also wanted to do them.

They don't even give that to CMRT, the pigs will fly before CMFI gets it. California dreaming (California dreaming)On such a winter's day (California dreaming)On such a winter's day (California dreaming)On such a winter's day

It is cool. THREAD DERAILED! In the immortal lyrics of a Jethro Tull... He sees his children jumping offAt the stations one by oneHis woman and his best friendIn bed and having funOh, he's crawling down the corridorOn his hands and kneesOld Charlie stole the handleAnd the train it won't stop goingNo way to slow downHey

The guy in the back. He looks like he is checking the dipstick. "Down another quart of transmission fluid!"

Yes, of course. Bring it all on. It would be an awesome module in its own right. Don't want to put them through a bunch of trouble with TOE's and campaigns and scenarios. We'se just beggin' for some humble crumbs gov'ner!

It is ok JM! All your ideas and questions are good...but better to be for another forum thread!

Hey JM. This thread is a wish list to BFC to make and sell us a new vehicle pack for CMFI. Official 3D vehicles in the game code. It is not modding or Blender work.

Well, I guess I can wait for your "jiggling cleavage mod" and then decide! It could be connected to the trees branches swaying in the wind somehow...

Thanks for the comments Mark! I think we should be reassured to continue modding CMX2 stuff because even if CMX3 arrives, it will be a progressive arrival like we have seen with CMX2. I am mostly fine with the detail of CMX2. I do not need cleavage jiggling or chests heaving as people breath! It would be cool to have flares and such. BUT to stay on topic, yes, Brens with AT rifles. etc. I would really pay 40, 50, 60. I guess that sounds dumb but I get tons of replay value especially as I enjoy modding too. The game within a game.

This is an older interview from 2013 I stumbled across. Not sure it is here somewhere in the forums or archives... https://www.polygon.com/features/2013/1/29/3916154/turn-by-turn-battlefront-combat-mission A great story. These are our BFC heroes! Charles (L) and Steve (R) circa 1998.

Just give me a few days. I might even rezpack it into a brz or a set of brz's. I don't know yet.

Hey Tony I think you will be ok. 93.2% guaranteed not to mess with any other scenarios or mods! I recommend you delete ALL my old stuff where I used [africa]. Now I am trying to only use [afrika] when a mod is generic but many mods are special to a scenario and have a separate modtag like [sbeitla] for example. I honestly AM trying to make it neat and orderly. It gets a bit overwhelming. Those interns never showed and college is back on so the cheerleaders are all busy at the stadiums. Give me a week. I need to go through my folders to see any that need some modtags.

Do a forum search...I recall there is a third party software to assist you guys.

Happy Birthday dude!

That last sentence needed a question mark... The current 3D models of CMX2, down the line in the future with a new CMX3 or Game Engine 5, will they be seen like we now look back at the CMBO clunky tanks and troops?

I don't have Cold War but I am sure those bubbas will be along any moment to usher you along to their basement workshop and put you to work. Good luck! Now if you want to do anything in the North African desert, give me a jingle!