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Genial " no pasarán"😉

JM maybe you need to install the add-on into an older version of Blender. Those games you mention are even older than CMx2 so there's a good chance that the add-on doesn't like the new Blender environment. Worth a punt. Any file you manage to open could be saved as a blend file to open in you normal version.
I admire your determination to try and open the mds files, but don't drive yourself nuts over it, remember if you can open them and edit them your next big problem then would be how to get back to a mds that you can use in game.

I don't mind about the thread guys carry on it;s great to get all the info on 1 page.... Cheers some great stuff happening here...

Mean that some FO can be destroy, depending that the choice of the modder ?
If I take a crate object to replace for exemple a car, but cannot be when I choose a fountain for exemple ?
I never thinking about this, but is interresting !
JM
 

ADDED Note: For the gridded grass to be loaded in CMRT + FR april 1945 it got to be named "ground grass [spring].bmp". Any earlier months and environmental conditions need to be tagged differently.

IIRC if you create a new file in Blender (or grab from any place in the net) and then export to MDR, nothing gets filled into the META data section, thus left "blank" (empty or just a row of zeros). What I mean is importing original "large fountain", then copy/pasting its Meta data into your new file creation and then exported to *.mdr
So you get original properties (whatever these are all for) of original CM object combined with new files geometry and UV mapping data into same file. But could well be its rather irrelevant when file is placed back into CM (as "fountain large2.mdr" maybe) and the game engine just uses it´s hard coded properties (which are not in the MDR file). That´s that we should getting tested to make sure it´s not all just eye candy and otherwise has little to no effect IMO.

It´s just this grass type replacing same type (goes into data/z). You can rename file to different (grass) type or use a mod tag as well. Anyway it´s NOT a mod per se, but rather a "tool" to help understand ground mesh better and place things (flavor objects) accurately. If done you can remove the 1m gridded grass again or replace with something of your choice. 😎 I use a mod tag that I add or remove (import or clear in map editor mod tag section) as required.
Edit: The embedded pic is beeing renamed by dropbox but think should be the same like the one included in the RAR file download. I´d suggest downloading the RAR file and precede from there. I use 7zip for all file packing.

This will be a new tube " the M1 dance" !!
JM
This is the view that BFC have to adopt for all games great Idea !
 
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@RockinHarrydid make some Animation Mod Changes in CM.

Kim, Putin,...have probably also AF SF2 BS and probably the new module that we are waiting in the West... but who want to  play the "blue" player?  this is for them the only fight. (Nooo, pfff !!! not again playing the Brit or Usa) sigh !!...
JM

I have this one in 3d but have to check for copyright !
JM
 

1 Check copyright 
2 Never working with builidngs in CM 
3 Let you a view in BlenderI
4 do my best to import export in blender
5 Be patient
6 Let you know 
 
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Yes we can for exemple added some little mods with tags only for the night and have some whispering voices.
JM

Textures are a little little too modern for ww2.

 
View in Blender (can be different in the game) !!
change a horse's ear here, a cornice there and we have a different beast.
Yes NPye will make the German Eagle on the top (joking) !
The model is free but I have to see and read in details, the conditions, 
If not sure, I will try to contact the owner to see what can I do and what not.
If I have the go,  I have to convert the png and  jpg in bmp, and try to export in mdr as a favour object, but I  guess, you cannot use it like a building (or I have to cut the part from windows and doors and you can I hope enter in, like a buildng but I guess only on the first floor, I dont know I never working with buildings for CM, but if this work, this will be my next goal, nothing is sure for the time, is only a big hope and lot of work, let you know !
JM
 

aah... you mean opening the *.ani files for editing directly? No idea, sorry. Would be interesting adding or changing some animation sequences though. 😎

I have this one in 3d but have to check for copyright !
JM
 

Slideshow of the above with music. Cheers
 

The largest file in my screenshot folder is slightly above 4 MB, most of them are smaller than that (typically between 1.6 - 2.4).
I'm currently not working on any Warsaw Pact stuff, but I might try to do something with the Soviet vehicles after I'm done with the US textures. No idea when that'll be, but I'll probably share them here and on the CM discord.

You're welcome. Just doing my bit to keep the thread alive.

S-Tank, your pics are the best!  thx for sharing all these

News today
 
 
Comming back to another older project, that I try to present you, no  it's not a railroad, but a new attempt to create tank tracks with flavors objects, they will be only valid for all other tiles, except all streets in CM, which will have a separate mod I have already done
this is only a try not sure if this will work !
I don't know why, I always have the view on and off from objects, appearing and disappearing, when I'm close to the flavor objects, like show in the video.
The tracks are double because I think that more as two vehicles will not "enter" in the same print tracks, but probably this give confusion on the view of a map...?!
Sorry for the poor quality of the video and how I try to succeed in showing something correct.
Others must come, like the print of some wheeled vehicles !
I hope it will work
 
JM

News today
 
 
Comming back to another older project, that I try to present you, no  it's not a railroad, but a new attempt to create tank tracks with flavors objects, they will be only valid for all other tiles, except all streets in CM, which will have a separate mod I have already done
this is only a try not sure if this will work !
I don't know why, I always have the view on and off from objects, appearing and disappearing, when I'm close to the flavor objects, like show in the video.
The tracks are double because I think that more as two vehicles will not "enter" in the same print tracks, but probably this give confusion on the view of a map...?!
Sorry for the poor quality of the video and how I try to succeed in showing something correct.
Others must come, like the print of some wheeled vehicles !
I hope it will work
 
JM

Thank you for the information, I couldn't have done it alone, I've already made 2 attempts to do it, to be honest I wonder how this procedure hasn't had more questions about how it should go because there you have to know it and put it into practice and it's not won, but hey, let's not underestimate all the warlords of the forum, who practice the CM series, perhaps,I was the only ignoramus of the century not to know this procedure, but I doubt.
 
PS are slightly blurry,  I don t see any, if yes,  I need probably strong glasses !
thank you  @chuckdyke
 
JM
 

Hi,
It’s the Yom Kippur War for me 🙂!
During the forty-five years of the Cold War, it was the only major, mechanised warfare clash. All the classic armour of the Cold War was used in quantity. Added to which it was very close-run thing.  Most books on the war end after the Chinese Farm battles. In the real-world Israel was losing as many men in the last seven days of the war as it did during the first four days. Long after Chinese Farm.
Best book I know on the subject is Yom Kippur, No Peace, No War, October 1973 by Peter Baxter. Great little book, very even handed and full of interesting information.
Unbelievably lucky to have CM at all!
All the best,
Kip.
PS Hear what some say who may know what wargames sell and which don’t. But still Yum Kippur for me🙂.