MOS:96B2P Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 2 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: If either of you could see your way to making some more civilian vehicles, I'm sure they'd find a lot of use. 1 hour ago, The Steppenwulf said: Various half finished models on my hard drive though most are unlikely to make it to fruition. Half-finished German BMW motorcycle, a bus, a lorry, even a train coach, THIS!!! @Kieme(ITA) was able to take vehicle textures (if that's the correct phrase) from CMSF1 and make them flavor objects in CMBS (see below screenshots) If something like this could be repeated for CMSF2 that would solve part of the need for civilian vehicles on maps. I attempted to import his civilian vehicle flavor objects from CMBS into CMSF2 but haven't figured it out yet. If you or any other veteran modders @Zveroboy1, @sbobovyc, @37mm or others can make this happen it would greatly improve the look / immersion of scenarios. Maybe Kiemes mod can just be (imported) made to work in CMSF2??? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 (edited) Given the nature of most modern conflicts, these would almost justify a vehicle pack.....Just imagine the things you could create with a few more fully functional civilian vehicles: "There's an IED triggerman's coming straight towards us on a bulldozer!" Or even: "That bulldozer was dead handy for knocking down all those tall compound walls!" Or: "It's amazing how many conscripts you can cram into a school bus!" Edited May 12, 2019 by Sgt.Squarehead 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Steppenwulf Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 53 minutes ago, MOS:96B2P said: If something like this could be repeated for CMSF2 Yep this is easy, I'll get packaging everything up as soon as I get an hour. We're still waiting for CMmods 4 to activate though. Been waiting for weeks now to upload my new Sf2 UI mod. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 41 minutes ago, The Steppenwulf said: Yep this is easy, I'll get packaging everything up as soon as I get an hour. We're still waiting for CMmods 4 to activate though. Been waiting for weeks now to upload my new Sf2 UI mod. + 5 Thank you Sir!!! This will go a long ways to improving the immersion of scenarios in CMSF2. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 & + Another from me too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Very nice pictures this give an overview of a good ambiance and give me some ideas... I have perhaps a strange question but... do we have a possibility to modify the mdr mds files to i.e.changing a Lada in a Moswitch or Zastava or Trabant giving an ambiance of i.e. in a Russian, yougoslavia, or old DDR time ? I guess the answer will be no...but I would like an answer if we can import and modify such files with Bender ...to my personly convenience ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpark Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 If you are in Blender, these shortcuts are most handy in this situation, I found. CTRL-T Triangulate Faces Y- Break Faces CNTRL-E- Split all edges CNTRL-J Join Model 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 46 minutes ago, benpark said: If you are in Blender, these shortcuts are most handy in this situation, I found. CTRL-T Triangulate Faces Y- Break Faces CNTRL-E- Split all edges CNTRL-J Join Model Thanks a lot benpark for these addled infos... could you tell me if I can find files similar as mdr mds on the net and what are the file extensions ? Working on a basic form, cube sphere...is not really easy when we know that exist already on the nett the form of vehicles that we try to modding. I would like so much find M 48 M 60 and more ...to create myself some extras, I need only the form like we have them in mdr mds files in CM without textures, but I don't know how is the name of this kind of files? Perhaps will be not possible to do it, but I would like really trying to do something ! Personal satisfactions need only the roots !! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbobovyc Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 I am glad the tools are getting some use. Been really busy with real life stuff, so I never got around to figuring out how vehicles work. For the more advance users of Blender, you can import what I call "metadata" by checking a box in the importer. The data will show up in the object tab, under "Custom Properties." You can tweak things and when exporting the model also export the metadata. For example, I deleted the UAZ's canvas cover and had a fully working vehicle. The metadata could also be edited and exported, facilitating reverse engineering of its meaning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 4 hours ago, sbobovyc said: I am glad the tools are getting some use. Been really busy with real life stuff, so I never got around to figuring out how vehicles work. For the more advance users of Blender, you can import what I call "metadata" by checking a box in the importer. The data will show up in the object tab, under "Custom Properties." You can tweak things and when exporting the model also export the metadata. For example, I deleted the UAZ's canvas cover and had a fully working vehicle. The metadata could also be edited and exported, facilitating reverse engineering of its meaning. Thanks you very much sbobovyc for all these detailled infos, my knowledges about Blender are limitated, but I am searching and discover news things days by days, and there is a lot of precious informations and tutorials about this wonderfull sofw..thanks a lot again to let me know and let me a hand in case of need. ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37mm Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 19 hours ago, MOS:96B2P said: If you or any other veteran modders... @37mm or others can make this happen it would greatly improve the look / immersion of scenarios. Lol at "veteran modder"! I've yet to play around with flavor objects during my various experiments & mod compilations... however someone like @Pete Wenman would be much more able to tell you what's possible & what's not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJ Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Thanks @The Steppenwulf As I said, I'm new to this 3D modelling business. So I really appreciate your tips. Quote If you get as a far as releasing any flavours, I think it would make sense to coordinate our work together, so that we are using an agreed catalogue of slots (as far as that's possible). I'll pm you further about this when i find time to create a pdf of shots of my own flavour pack. Yes indeed we should. I've modified some flavour objects already. Tho' not used any aircon slots. So that was a good pick. Thanks for reminding me about the .bmp files. @Sgt.SquareheadI've made a police car. When I get my Little Mayhem town finished, I'll release a pack of new flavour objects. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Cool.....Cheers fella. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Steppenwulf Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 9 hours ago, 37mm said: Lol at "veteran modder"! I've yet to play around with flavor objects during my various experiments & mod compilations... however someone like @Pete Wenman would be much more able to tell you what's possible & what's not. Does this read like a classic 'holier than thou' statement... or what?! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Steppenwulf Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 I've opened threads for my "newbie" mods. These modifications are all thanks to sbobyvic's "newbie" blender import export scripting skills and it is only due to this extremely skilful "newbie" individual that I have been able to create these 3d mods for the community. All this work is humbly dedicated to "newbies"... regardless of your talent or humility! Steppenwulf's adapted SF2 flavours: http://community.battlefront.com/topic/135033-steppenwulfs-modded-flavour-objects-for-sf2/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Strikes me that @37mm is being perfectly candid.....@Pete Wenman's been doing this a long lime AFAIK, @MikeyD too from what I recall. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Steppenwulf Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: @Pete Wenman's been doing this a long lime AFAIK, @MikeyD too from what I recall. We all know that! Edited May 13, 2019 by The Steppenwulf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Ah.....Gotcha! From my perspective, as a non-modder, you are all mad-scientists! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37mm Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 4 hours ago, The Steppenwulf said: Does this read like a classic 'holier than thou' statement... or what?! Holier than thou? I should tell you about the time I was a Messiah! Either way, Squarehead has it right... I only advised asking Pete as he released an SF2 flavor object pack just a few months ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJ Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 I am being very frustrated by this. I have failed to make even the simplest flavour object by exporting an MDR, they either fail completely or are just 4 bytes of Nul Nul Nul. I haven't a clue what is wrong. Might I suggest that somebody does a youtube vid showing exactly what you do making a flavour object using blender and @sbobovyc plugins? That would be a boon to the modding community here, I think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJ Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 One other thing, I've been using Blender Render 'cos that's what the tutorials online often use but it seems that Cycles Render is better. Have you been using that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Steppenwulf Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 (edited) On 5/14/2019 at 1:26 AM, 37mm said: Holier than thou? I should tell you about the time I was a Messiah! Either way, Squarehead has it right... I only advised asking Pete as he released an SF2 flavor object pack just a few months ago. @37mm- You are right, I read this wrong. Please accept my apologies! Edited May 19, 2019 by The Steppenwulf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJ Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 UPDATE: Modding Flavour object and buildings using @sbobovyc's tools. This has been an immensely frustrating experience, partly due to Blender being appallingly hard to use - I think it was devised by the Gestapo to break people without leaving visible marks - "Oh no, I'll tell you everything I know. Just don't make me use the Blender interface again!" My goal is to create new flavour objects and buildings to improve the immersion. Lots of modern games have completely naturalistic environments, yet CM has fallen behind with its generic boxy type modular buildings. What I've learnt You can import existing MDRs and modify them. You can't scale them - dunno why. This means it is pretty pointless - I've managed to create a crate with a different texture, but you can do that a lot easier by simply painting on the existing BMP with photoshop. This is my wrecked car flavour object (based on Kieme's work) - basically done in photoshop - now I have added a wreckage ground tile under it, it looks really good. I have been unable to create a new object and export it as an MDR - that includes the "basic cube" that loads in Blender. I textured it and added a .bmp material and just got an error message (which I would like to post here - but BLENDER FAIL - you can't save these things. I wish whoever created it was subjected to Vogon Poetry then flung out of an airlock). By using another 3D app called Rocket 3F I have created objects (the creator made usability a major goal - he'd never get a job with Blender, that's for sure.). Imported them into Blender, as .obj file then attempted to export them as MDRs, but there it all falls down, and I am now stuck. If anybody has any advice or could check my blender files for mistakes I'd be very appreciative. BTW, did I mention that Blender sucks? *I haven't released the car, because I wanted to deflate or remove the tyres, because them being intact looks wrong, but I would need to do that with Blender/Sbob's app and I feel that I would just get another error message. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbobovyc Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 New version 0.9.2 of the Blender tools has been released. The importer/exporter now support what I call "metadata". For example, import bush1.mdr from CMSF2 with the meta data import enabled and you will see that the "trunk" object has custom properties. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Steppenwulf Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 On 7/13/2019 at 8:30 PM, sbobovyc said: with the meta data import enabled Is this a different step from installing the io_scene_mdr.zip file in preferences? I see no custom properties as additional data blocks in the outliner window - I assume this is what you mean by custom properties being visible in the "trunk" object? Thanks by the way for this update - I'm excited to discover what further clarity about .mdr objects this could offer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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