Audgisil Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Hello everyone, Judging by my post count, I'm probably the king of all lurkers. I pop up from time to time though to offer my $.02. Today it's a mod. I like having both versions of CM Normandy and Fortress Italy looking identical. The easiest way to do that would probably have been to just send Juju a free copy of Italy and wait patiently for his mod to appear, but I'm cheap. Since Juju and Marco both recently released mods that update the silhouettes, weapons, and such, I finally just broke down, mashed them together and created the "Juju Bergman User Interfaces" for both Normandy and Italy. I also took the time to make very minor changes here and there, such as including early and late versions of the FG42, include the missing Reibel M31, change Juju's Luger to a Walther P-38, put U.S. ranks right side up, create an HQ silhouettes of a map case and binoculars that goes with pretty much any nation to avoid swapping textures, etc. If there's anything you personally don't like, you can probably just grab the other texture files from Juju's or Marco's mods. I'm very pleased with the results and it looks great, but that's only because I'm not the artist. Juju and Marco are. They did all the hard work. I'm just the hack put them together. Unlike those two though, I'm lazy. So, I don't have multiple versions, color schemes, etc. I just have the one that I like, which includes the Juju UI and style of weapons with first aid symbols (updated to include absolutely everything missing in Gustav Line), Marco's Silhouettes, and minor changes to give it a seamless appearance. So...with their permission and if there's any interest, I'll upload them to the repository. It'll make it look like all one game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizou Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Nice von Albert! Id love to see that. I myself use a mix and match UI from both Juju and Marcos mods. Its great to be abel to customizise to your own liking . Big thanks to both Juju and Marco who has put down so much work into this 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 The Lurker King never posts 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 There are people who joined before me with less than 8 posts but this is a great idea. I love their work, and I too, am very OCD about having things the same, including the mods. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 So...with their permission and if there's any interest, I'll upload them to the repository. It'll make it look like all one game. Fine with me, von Albert. Do your thing! It would be nice if you put links to the original mods in your readme, though. Will you do that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Gerade als ich vorhatte, genau dasselbe zu tun... Gut, dass ich zu so wenig komme in meiner Freizeit - wär echt blöd gewesen, das hätte sich überschnitten! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audgisil Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 Fine with me, von Albert. Do your thing! It would be nice if you put links to the original mods in your readme, though. Will you do that? I'll absolutely include a reference to the original mods. Also, thanks for your hard work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audgisil Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 Gerade als ich vorhatte, genau dasselbe zu tun... Gut, dass ich zu so wenig komme in meiner Freizeit - wär echt blöd gewesen, das hätte sich überschnitten! Mensch, ich hätte warten sollen. Dann hätte ich weiterhin faul sein dürfen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Erst die Arbeit und dann das Vergnügen, jungs! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Ah, I forgot Juju is Dutch and probabaly speaks German better than I do... ^^ Well, leaves me time for other mods which have been sitting on my drive far too long now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 great idea to mash em together. Thanks VA... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Nice work! Although now that I see the mod in action I realise I actually wanted to go a couple steps further and also add the 'enhanced' elements (range bars, calibre, armor scheme) of Marco's mod to Juju's UI... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizou Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Nice work! Although now that I see the mod in action I realise I actually wanted to go a couple steps further and also add the 'enhanced' elements (range bars, calibre, armor scheme) of Marco's mod to Juju's UI... Paint, ctrl-c anc ctrl-v is all you need to make that happen. I have put in Marcos penetration data to Jujus weapons (schreks, zooks etc). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Sadly not quite that easy. And even if it was it'll still take quite some time to fix all silhouettes (yes, I mean VEHICLE silhouettes) and icons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizou Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 It is that easy.. but of course it means a lot of work, and someone has to do it. The same way as Marco and Juju put down hours to complete their mods. Pz IVG late married Juju silhouette with Marco penetration/armor data. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Numbers: OK, bars: not so much - they have to be reworked to not obscure half the silhouette... I have to admit in this case numbers could work better. Will think about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Bergman Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Go for it, guys. But seriously, if anybody is wanting to do a revision of my mod - PLEASE email me and ask for the layered .psd files! Got to be a lot less work. I've already done all that stuff so why recreate it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I wrote you an e-mail some two or three weeks ago... didn't that one reach you? But if you'd be so kind to provide me with those files I'd be VERY grateful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Bergman Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Here are the raw .psd files for the couple of people interested: www.captskidd.com/cmfi/CMFI-altsil-v2.zip I hope to upload a corrected mod tomorrow after some final testing tonight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Ah, something to do with my leisure time - thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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