Building 4a & 5a Scorched – Take That Kieme!

[JulianJ]

These are two of Kieme's outstanding buildings in HD.

I  hate Kieme so much I burnt and shot them up. :-)

What you get with these buildings in HD:

 

• Scorched sides from internal fires

• Windows above the ground floor have no glass (still function in game terms)

• Lightly-smoked roofs x 2 – a Syrian delicacy – don't knock it if you haven't tried it

• Pockmarking from bullet and shell hits

• Other damage and battle crap

• Pro government and jihadist slogans/iconography

• A little easter egg

 

(Yes, I think that sh*t is authentic. They're madder than a barrel of frogs.)

Designer's Notes

You need Kieme's buildings 4 and 5 to make this work. I recommend all his buildings. Because of the limitations of the way the modular buildings work I suggest you only use it as 1, 2, or 3 storeys as the scorching will look a bit odd otherwise. However it still works with taller buildings, particularly if you add balconies.

The pair of buildings aren't too heavily bullet-scarred so they fit in with other structures around. Because of the way the modular buildings work there had to be compromises with the placing of the slogans and decals, but I feel they add a lot of character to the buildings.  PUT IN THE Z FOLDER AS USUAL.

 

You can add wrecked Aircon3 to your flavour objects for that extra bit of damage.

 

 

 

Links to download files:

Bldg 4a

http://www.mediafire.com/folder/jq5xx756povzz/4a

Bldg 5a

http://www.mediafire.com/folder/a63o9rlf3h78s/5a

Aircon3

http://www.mediafire.com/folder/2b89t2rv51e30/aircon3

Installation: put in the Z folder as usual. I've put them with the relevant Kieme building folders and that works just fine. 

 

Note, I forgot I was using my vanilla modding SF2, so I loaded up Darya Tank Raid which I was halfway through, the semi-finished buildings came up and they looked so good that I had to complete them to play the rest of the scenario.

 

Edited June 2, 2020 by JulianJ
Frikkin' typo. There's always a damn typo!

[JulianJ]

Before I load them up to Bootie's site, please could someone test them?

[mjkerner]

Supoib! Excellentoid!  But I can't bulk download without signing up for MediaFire Premium, and don't have time atm to dld each individually, so I can't test it for you, Julian.  At least not until back from the dentist. 

[JulianJ]

I knew there was a catch. I'll zip them. Thanks MJ.

[JulianJ]

Here's the zip files - should be easier to download:

4a: 

https://www.mediafire.com/file/os3yajdga15gvyv/4a.zip/file4a zip file

5a

5a zip file

Aircon 3:

Aircon 3 zip

[George MC]

These look brilliant @JulianJ - I'm playing a PBEM myself at the moment of Daraya Tank Raid so will install them right now.

Thanks very much

[JulianJ]

No, thank you, for a great scenario. Just had to stop for a breather now.  My poor Syrian grunts are down to harsh language and am having to exfiltrate them.

[George MC]

Thank you - glad ya like it

He! I wonder if @Mord has made a Syrian cuss mod?!

Edited June 2, 2020 by George MC

[JulianJ]

LOL!

[JulianJ]

Actually there must be a syrian slang word for squaddies or grunts , I wonder what it is?

[mjkerner]

Thanks Julian!  Much easier.  Looking forward to checking them out toonight.

[JulianJ]

The big black lettering roughly translates as: "We are ISIS. We are ISIS. Nobody Likes Us. We Don't Care."

 

British football joke - for non brits, that's the motto of a notorious lot of hooligans. But it is a real ISIS logo.

[mjkerner]

Sweet!  Works for me.

 

[JulianJ]

Great. Thx for testing it. Looks good. It's always sensible to see how it works on different machines before committing.

[mjkerner]

Now, you only have how many buildings left to do for us? 

[JulianJ]

Yeah, the problem is I am a bit of an obsessive perfectionist.  I can see some of the bullet holes that I deem inferior quality.  I got better at them as I went along. I had to make a decision to stop tinkering. I spent ages on the blistering just under the eaves and it just looks like mush.

I'll get on with some more, Sir!! 

Edited June 2, 2020 by JulianJ

[mjkerner]

You're worse than me, lol.  These look fantastic to me.

[JulianJ]

I just come across this thread again. I did want to point out one thing - because I thought someone would spot it, especially with the hint about an Easter Egg. There's a narrative in the buildings. It might not be so clear in 4a but I think 5a definitely lets you know what happened there.

[LongLeftFlank]

On 6/3/2020 at 4:27 AM, JulianJ said:

Actually there must be a syrian slang word for squaddies or grunts , I wonder what it is?

I expect it's the same word used by their fellow Arab Iraqis: jundi.

Nice mod, many thanks for creating it.

[JulianJ]

Ahhh, right!   Thanks LLF.  I had seen the word before in books about British colonial history, but hadn't really taken it in: it is the arabic slang term for soldier, so exactly the equivalent of grunt or squaddie.