Jace11 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 (edited) Windmills are present in FB's archives but not available in the editor despite Holland being depicted as one of the locations. Here is a way to enable windmills... It's triggered by a "bogus" bitmap. Simply add the bogus bitmap to your Z folder. I included a snow roof too. The windmill will appear in the editor as the last (bottom right) independent 4 story commercial building. The windmill works exactly as in CMBN, but it's snowbox is square. So in deep snow conditions the snowbox around the bottom floor looks a bit wonky. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jtX0EIDwY6OLKPYiIp2JgYSM6lk7V3aU This discovery leads me to ask what else can be enabled by bogus bitmaps...? There is a lot of content in the brz files of FB that don't appear in game like various others bridges e.g canal bridges. Edited February 5, 2019 by Jace11 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMFDR Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 @Jace11 could you please elaborate on that "bogus" bmp"? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace11 Posted February 6, 2019 Author Share Posted February 6, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, CMFDR said: @Jace11 could you please elaborate on that "bogus" bmp"? It's just a bitmap, it's not a used texture, seems like a placeholder or something. It's name is building108-bogus (00).bmp. I found it while looking for something else in CMBN files and realized it was missing in FB, but all the other files for the windmill were. When I put it my FB "z folder" I found the windmill in the editor. Guess just its presence or absence is what determines whether the windmill appears. Maybe better to ask BF why they did it this way. Edited February 6, 2019 by Jace11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMFDR Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Great find Jace11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 CM, the gift that keeps on givin' the whole year. Great job finding that. Wonder what else is in there...? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Very cool! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockinHarry Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Quite interesting! Most likely a placeholder for the CW module later on. From what I know windmills were more common in northern parts of the Netherlands (outside the Bulge battlefields generally), so BFC opted to leave them out for the base game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragorn2002 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 2 hours ago, RockinHarry said: Quite interesting! Most likely a placeholder for the CW module later on. From what I know windmills were more common in northern parts of the Netherlands (outside the Bulge battlefields generally), so BFC opted to leave them out for the base game. True, but Brabant, Gelderland and Limburg also have quite a few windmills. Interesting find indeed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Cool. We could make a scenario where Kampfgruppe Kischott (led by John Kischott) has to attack a group of windmills that are being used as enemy observation posts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMFDR Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 1 hour ago, Aragorn2002 said: True, but Brabant, Gelderland and Limburg also have quite a few windmills. Interesting find indeed. Also in Hainaut, and basically in the whole Flanders historical region. Now there might a few windmills in the Ardennes and Alsace, can't prove their existence by a pic though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 (edited) Jace, did you happen to find a bogus bmp for a conquistador figure and a guy on a donkey? Nice find! Edited February 6, 2019 by mjkerner 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 13 hours ago, mjkerner said: Jace, did you happen to find a bogus bmp for a conquistador figure and a guy on a donkey? Nice find! I thought I came up with this joke, but, this being the internet and all... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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