HerrTom
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I tend to push a heavy recon force down my planned attack route. Recce engages anything that the main force will find and pins the enemy in place for the next echelon.
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I'd argue that things like the M901 or Konkurs strapped BRDMs and the Khrizantema or TOW equipped Stryker would be tank destroyers. They don't operate under WWII doctrine but they still are used..
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Seriously! Sometimes I wonder... To add my own little thing - even if it may be obvious: As far as I can tell from my reading, standard procedure for BMP rifle squads was to dismount a kilometer or so away from the target and advance on foot. The BMPs would then provide fire support for the infantry as they advance. This proves to be quite the effective method in Combat Mission as well. I used a scout platoon here instead of a rifle company, so I took heavier losses in material than I should have, but the point still stands! I also screwed up the smoke.... Anyway - Dismount your infantry while still well back from the enemy, and move them at whatever pace suits your objective. I have time in this case, so I advanced at normal speed. The BMPs and T-72s in the treeline engaged targets far away, whether they be enemy vehicles or infantry. The static vehicles spot better than vehicles in motion, and any fire that is put on your troops will be quickly dealt with. I managed to advance all the way here without taking any casualties beyond those that I had taken moving into the treeline to begin with! Knocked out two ATGM teams and five BMPs, as well as dealt with a couple of enemy squads. As my troops near the target, covered by smoke (finally!) fire will begin to shift to likely hiding spots. It's always worth wasting a little ammunition on possible strongpoints - better a few tonnes of ammo than a couple of body bags! This was only a platoon - a whole company would really be able to throw the hurt downrange. In that case I'd have a platoon take the place of each recce team, one left, one middle, one right. Vehicles stay back, staggered with any extras that won't fit neatly sitting further back behind cover. With more weapons to bear, I'd also be more liberal with covering fire - using one or two vehicles per platoon on area fire duty.
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An Idea - 'Steel Mode' Assymetric WeGo gameplay.
HerrTom replied to Kuderian's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
Could you elaborate further on that? Is that specifically related to CM2 or in general? -
Reshade should work with any version of CM2 - make sure you install it as OpenGL - since that's the graphics library CM uses. I can confirm, I use reshade
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An Idea - 'Steel Mode' Assymetric WeGo gameplay.
HerrTom replied to Kuderian's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
I could see it making very interesting scenarios where the AI on your side is programmed just like the opposing AI - you need to meet your timetable to work with it. I can see the adaptability limits on the friendly AI side making that challenging - to account for everybody's play style Still, this is one thing that I'd absolutely love to see in CM - even without the restricted communication. Having another "entity" controlling a different force on your side opens up all kinds of friction already! Since (according to the grocery stores) it's that time of season - Please, Santa! Please! -
Here's another little vignette demonstrating the effects - this one from CMRT.
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If you want. As you can see in the Bradley video, it looks better when it gets bigger. On the other hand, it takes 16x more disk space than the original explosions... That was from the original animation I made, which I agree looks too fast. I had to compress it time-wise to fit in the game's allotted frames. It's a different animation - that might by why! I should have noted last night that that is showing the high-resolution explosions with my smoke textures.
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In the wild.
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I took some shots from the explosions and made them into smoke. Dust, black and grey are from the fireball one, and the white smoke is from the "realistic" explosion. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N0j668Qucr8ZSr5Q2U84ZCP1t8Yzaw7T/view?usp=sharing Oops - meant to post the above with the correct smoke. Otherwise smoke columns look quite odd! I also rendered the "realistic" explosion (render 2) at 1024 pixels. Looks pretty good. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bSXAbyJOm1AYGZLaja-tu5ik5jiGZRus/view?usp=sharing @Mord I made a set up to 40 frames, and made the 41st bright red. No dice - and the animation still looked like it was being cut off. I think the real limit may be 28 or 30 frames unfortunately. CM may be hardcoded there. I also lost the file I used to make the orange explosion. I'll do my best to recreate it, but it won't be exact and may take some time.
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2048 or bust! It will take some time to render so we'll have to wait until I don't mind not playing CM for a day or two haha! @erwin it doesn't pick randomly now. I just wish it did! And that I had some control over how the boom rotates. A man can dream...
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I think it should work in any CM game. I can check CMA when I get home tonight. Imagine the game picking randomly from several explosion animations.. A b c d etc. Variety is the jalapeño of life, one might say. I'll try a higher res too. Thought since the originals were 512 I had to keep it!
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Beautiful camera work! Glad you like it. If only I could have the full 5 second animation!
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Link for the orange explosion is below https://drive.google.com/file/d/12UPHcUyeOKzoY26Z7uUgFdxlGVgV7C4j/view?usp=sharing --- Link for the whiter explosion is below https://drive.google.com/file/d/17WqURe_MZf22Hj_b_hdI9_fnpIl7JtuS/view?usp=sharing
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RDX for example has a detonation temperature of around 3,600K which will produce black body radiation somewhere around this colour - but real combustion also produces other light emitting reactions beyond simply being hot. What you'll see (in slow motion) is a bright flash of gas for the combustion products of the explosive which then quickly cools down and finishes burning, which will transition it to smoke of various sorts. Dust and dirt if around will also begin to obscure the explosion. I've got one that matches the last picture I posted a little better: https://i.imgur.com/4TzBgGS.gifv And Mord, I still have the orange one Video in-game showing a mortar barrage will eventually be here: It's uploading in the meantime.
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Ah, I started on Windows 95. You definitely have the leg up!
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Wow that is a low resolution! I remember how cool 1024x768 was back in the day. Not much higher than that! Haha
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I think you're trying to force the Stryker into a role it was never really designed for. See this thread:
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It should be less red/orange low temperature gas and more yellow/white high temperature gas. I'm still getting used to the shader. It also burns very quickly so should show only as a flash!
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Quick update - changed the smoke bitmaps to one of the frames of the explosion and adjusted some colours. Looks pretty good in screenshots. In action - not so much I'll give it a try! 150 was quite the pipe dream haha. Better than anything would be a proper particle system - but that's even more of a pie in the sky than varied explosions. One other thing I forgot to mention before was controlling the normal of the explosion - some ideas I had would be really good if they always oriented normal to the surface... But that's getting complex! Edit: Oh, @Mord the reason you don't see much fire might be because it's only a couple of frames in the final animation
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There's a definite limit. I put together 150 frames.... and it didn't work Had a beautiful animation ready. Still is below: Animation: https://i.imgur.com/sXZkHVK.gifv Screenshots are below. I had to cull the 150 frames to 25, which I think is the maximum. The above I think is my favourite... Great look, methinks. In action. Autocannon fire. And a quick video of mortars. The animation runs a little too fast now, I think... Clearly my next step is to take a look at the smoke bitmaps and bring them in line. And... @Battlefront.com I'm guessing it's 100% unlikely to be added - but I'd love the ability to create arbitrarily long animations using your system... That and tagging for explosions - like explosiona001[metal].bmp or something for when something strikes metal - like a tasty tank and explosiona001[dirt].bmp for dirt, etc...
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I've been playing around with Blender recently and got the idea of generating an explosion animation with far greater fidelity than I would ever dream of doing by hand... Does anyone know if there's a cap to how many frames an animation in CM may have? Is the explosion animation limited to say 30 frames, or can I have it last 50? 100? What I have so far, which is far from satisfactory: Needs more yellow or glow and I think the smoke is too thick. More tomorrow.
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I think CM2's ui elements are built using bitmaps, so any attempt to scale it will have potentially ugly results. But that's just speculation since when modding it you can edit bitmap elements...
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A More Realistic Iron Mode?
HerrTom replied to CarlWAW's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
Seems reasonable enough. I think I'm all cleared up (I hope! ) -
A More Realistic Iron Mode?
HerrTom replied to CarlWAW's topic in Combat Mission - General Discussion
For anyone curious - it appears that the dimming in Iron mode in WeGo has nothing to do with C2 beyond units that aren't in the same formation. See the below screenshot from CM:FB That team definitely is not in C2 with anyone else, yet it's still dimmed out just the same as in the other games.
