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Update 7: still hard at work with making the mission. Next 3 things up to bat are finishing the wire defenses, adjusting trenches, and adding in the rest of the US forces. I'll release the test models of the landing craft and logs soon.

Update 7: still hard at work with making the mission. Next 3 things up to bat are finishing the wire defenses, adjusting trenches, and adding in the rest of the US forces. I'll release the test models of the landing craft and logs soon.

Landing Craft flavor object. Still can't get the textures it comes with to work so if anyone wants a crack at it let me know while I go back to mission making for a bit.

Update 6: The General forum might be a better place for this thread or the scenario and mod tips? Anyway thanks Sgt Squarehead for the link and with the help of Aquila I was able to get a beach log obstacle going. Still can't get the textures it came with to work so more testing is needed...one things for sure is that it's a pain in the butt. I'm hoping to get a landing craft in and redo some tellermine poles that I've made before. The other above image is testing the 1st 20 min of the scenario I'm working on. Getting closer and so far pretty fun.
 

Update 2: Just noticed that I posted in the main CMBN forum instead of modding, oh well maybe someone will move it. The above images are examples of modded clear daylight colors and modded overcast colors. Still a lot more to do and adjust but I should clarify that by real life I mean images based off of google street view. When I have time I can make a read me tutorial. What I've found that has been working well is using a cropped image from google (either from direct sunlight or overcast days) to apply as a layer with a hard light overlay on top of the de-saturated graphic that is being re-colored. After adjusting the lightness of the de-saturated graphic you can get a close match to the same color saturation and tones as in the real life cropped photo. What's kind of cool is that there's street drive views for the Ukraine, Israel, Italy, and Sicily. Unfortunately no winter though.

Wow so far I'm really impressed. Thanks BFC. Loaded up my Omaha project I was working on a long time ago and hey no more fleeing Germans from a random tank round.

Update 1: Now that the patch is out for the combat mission games I'm interested in trying to finish my mod Rally the Regiments again. What I had imagined was to have realistic colors, some advanced squad leader scenarios booted over, a re-shade preset, and small 1200x1800m maps for competitive play. My first goal is to get the realistic colors nailed down and the ASL/critical hit scenarios for Omaha Beach made. I've ordered the board games Omaha west and East so I can begin work once it arrives. The above image you can see the comparison of real world colors compared to stock colors. In my next post I will outline how others can create their own unique field designs using google map street view images to overlay in-game colors and how to make seamless textures.

Update 1: Now that the patch is out for the combat mission games I'm interested in trying to finish my mod Rally the Regiments again. What I had imagined was to have realistic colors, some advanced squad leader scenarios booted over, a re-shade preset, and small 1200x1800m maps for competitive play. My first goal is to get the realistic colors nailed down and the ASL/critical hit scenarios for Omaha Beach made. I've ordered the board games Omaha west and East so I can begin work once it arrives. The above image you can see the comparison of real world colors compared to stock colors. In my next post I will outline how others can create their own unique field designs using google map street view images to overlay in-game colors and how to make seamless textures.

http://www.closecombatseries.net/CCS/images/cc5maps/mervl.jpgThats the mods map they use for Merville. If you are interested I could extract the jpeg from the actual map file of the game or write out instructions on how to do so. This is how I plan to get into making a few maps anyway. Essentially you can do an easy pixel to meter conversion and use the close combat maps as overlays.