grid lines mod

[easytarget]

anyone know where i can find soft grid lines for cmbo?

not positive that i want to run them all the time necessarily, but it has occured to me on a few occasions that my view of the terrain isn't always the best and this might help

i know for a fact it did in CMAK, with all the desert i had no idea where the dips in the terrain were

[mat69]

I did some myself, but only for grass because I'm a newb and did not play any winter battles yet .

So 1550.bmp to 1569. The grid I used is black but only 30% top-dressed (I did also a 50% version but that was too dark for me), so they are not too "strong".

If you are interested I can mail them to you.

Or I could tell you how you can create your own grid lines in 10 minutes using The Gimp. (Installing process included, the real "work" only lasts 3 minutes!!!)

[ January 20, 2006, 12:57 PM: Message edited by: mat69 ]

[Zweihorn]

Hi Mat,

You mentioned the software The GIMP for creating grid lines.

Do You have some hints for me. My EMAIL is in my profile.

[mat69]

Create your own Grid-line Mod with The GIMP

First of all you need The GIMP. Get it here for Windows, you also need to install GTK (same link).

Now install GTK first and than The GIMP.

Locate the directory you installed CM in, move to the BMP folder. Now you need to find the files you want to change. 1470.bmp to 1489.bmp and 1555.bmp to 1569.bmp is a good start for CMBO.

1470.bmp to 1489.bmp, 1550.bmp to 1589.bmp and 1870.bmp to 1889.bmp is a good start for CMBB.

1470.bmp to 1489.bmp, 1550.bmp to 1589.bmp and 18730.bmp to 1889.bmp is a good start for CMAK. Make backups of them (I also modified them in another directory, to keep overview).

Start The GIMP and drag and drop all files you want to change to The GIMP (if you do not have much RAM make it in steps like modifing only 5 files at once). Right click in the last window that opened choose "Filters/Render/Pattern/Grid...".

A new Window named "Grid" will pop up.

Use this settings if the files you want to change are 256x256 pixels (most ground textures in CMBO):

256x256 (mostly CMBO)

Horizontal and Vertical Width 2

Horizontal and Vertical Spacing 64

Horizontal and Vertical Offset 32

for Intersection allways 0

Use this settings if the files you want to change are 512x512 pixels (most ground textures in CMBB and CMAK):

512x512 (mostly CMBB and CMAK)

Horizontal and Vertical Width 4

Horizontal and Vertical Spacing 128

Horizontal and Vertical Offset 64

for Intersection allways 0

Now change the colour, first of all make intersection see through --> press the colour under intersection and move the lowest bar (named A) in the new window to the left. "OK"

Now change the colour of the Horizontal and Vertical lines to your needs. Both should be automatically the same if that is not the case press the "broken chain" so that it becomes a "closed chain".

Now you are ready: Press "OK"

Your first grid-lines are ready.

Press Ctrl+S to save

Press Ctrl+W to close the recent window

Now press Ctrl+F to repeat the filter on the other graphic (you should be automatically in the right window)

Press Ctrl+S

Press Ctrl+W

Do this overer and over again untill you are finished, then you only need to copy those files into the BMP directory if you created a new folder to modify the files in the first place.

[ January 30, 2006, 01:14 PM: Message edited by: mat69 ]

[mat69]

Sorry, pressed quote instead of "Edit".

[mat69]

I'm pretty sorry, but I wrote false numbers in the post above.

I corrected them now (64 instead of 62, 128 instead of 124 and so on ...)

[painfbat]

Since cmmods.com is down, there's some great stuff here. Take your time to find a lott of good stuff. You can even dowload the older cmmos-mods, put the bmp-numbers back and use them:

http://www.combatmission.com/mods/mods.asp

or do a search with google using cmbo. You'll be suprised.