quakerparrot67 Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 i would be happy to help with the testing, BUT i warn you i have next to nothing in computer skills or understanding of how the game, graphics, and all its arcane wizardry work, so there is a chance that my "help" in technical matters could be less helpful than you would think. also, since installing the new patch i haven't been able to get cmbn to load.... but if i can get that fixed i could try to help with testing. cheers, rob 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 6, 2023 Author Share Posted February 6, 2023 59 minutes ago, quakerparrot67 said: i would be happy to help with the testing, BUT i warn you i have next to nothing in computer skills or understanding of how the game, graphics, and all its arcane wizardry work, so there is a chance that my "help" in technical matters could be less helpful than you would think. also, since installing the new patch i haven't been able to get cmbn to load.... but if i can get that fixed i could try to help with testing. cheers, rob Hi Rob appreciated that you answer to my request. You don't need to have any specials skills and informatics knowledges to be able to help me, just have a working CMBN patched or not, you have only to put the files that I could give you on your z folder and starting differents British or Canadians scenarios, and take some notes from behaviours or some advices, that it. If you are agree let me know, also of course, when you can resolve the problem of patch, that sometimes is really annoying, but most of the time is only a bad path that we choose, saying to the new install zip where you want to install it, and this require again a code registration, and THIS is really anoying, this was my case from years ago, this is why I can talk about. Now I choose another way of Lucky Strike with a system of folders and this is more fluids as the patched files, but this require one time of install, more attention and knowledges to have a good installed files to have of course a correct working game. And untill now, never more asking about registration, because is already registred, but i have always a reserve a full copy without mods installed ready, in case I make a mistake, and I will be myself the blame to resolve the problem, thus is only a question to be registered via .../my documents/Battelfront/... up there when you have a correct installation, you can make copy of copy everywhere on your differents hard drives, just only one time that you have to pay really attention. I hope this will help. JM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakerparrot67 Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 sure, i'd like to help testing. i'm not sure how my time schedule would match up with yours, as i'm resident in the southwest u.s., but let me know when i'd need to be available and i'll see what i can do. cheers, rob 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 6, 2023 Author Share Posted February 6, 2023 53 minutes ago, quakerparrot67 said: sure, i'd like to help testing. i'm not sure how my time schedule would match up with yours, as i'm resident in the southwest u.s., but let me know when i'd need to be available and i'll see what i can do. cheers, rob thanks rob, we dont need to be internity on this, we will find 10 min to apply some mods let me a place where I can send you the files with you e mail, put the files in your z folder play a scen wih british soldiers, and check for the behaviours, just let me know about, eventual takes somes notes, and that it, this will help me. but let me first find another bag similar as the Bergan. Happy evening, or morning if you are to the other side of the planet. Cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakerparrot67 Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 sounds good. cheers, rob 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 7, 2023 Author Share Posted February 7, 2023 (edited) New today ! Bergan backpack tomorrow Camos faces rope around body, burlaps on the helmets, reworking on uniforms details, later... things like the us Airborne already in CMMODs Valid for BritCanPol Paras and Gliders. Cheers Edited February 7, 2023 by JM Stuff 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakerparrot67 Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, JM Stuff said: New today ! Bergan backpack tomorrow Camos faces rope around body, burlaps on the helmets, reworking on uniforms details, later... things like the us Airborne already in CMMODs Valid for BritCanPol Paras and Gliders. Cheers looks great, j.m.! do you have any pics from the back? the onlt thing that might be a little off is the hight, bottom to top, of the pack, it should extend down to at least the top of his belt. other than that, this looks perfect. as far as details of how it was worn, do you know if there's any way to remove his braces and front ammo pouches? the glider pilots only wore the belt,with pistol holster and a pistol ammo pouch worn on the belt and ammo, food, clothing etc. carried in the bergen. i dont know if there's any way to do that in cm, maybe leave (modify?) the braces to look like the bergen straps, as long as the front pouches could be removed. one thing i just noticed.... i see that you've changed the leather chinstraps to look like the canvas ones (only black). the leather ones were fine the way they were before, it's only the tan canvas ones that were constructed differently. here's a pic of the leather strap, pretty much the same as the original black one from bfc. sorry for the confusion. is it even possible to use 2 different "models" of strap for 1 kind of unit ingame? sorry to make things more complicated for you. these new mods of yours have me almost drooling- i can't wait to see them in action! did you still need me to do any testing? again, again, thanks for your hard work. cheers, rob Edited February 7, 2023 by quakerparrot67 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 7, 2023 Author Share Posted February 7, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, quakerparrot67 said: looks great, j.m.! Thanks like all the times I do my best, and like what I am doing. 1 hour ago, quakerparrot67 said: do you have any pics from the back? the onlt thing that might be a little off is the hight, bottom to top, of the pack, it should extend down to at least the top of his belt. other than that, this looks perfect. > I will show the details behind next time >I have just to check the size that I can have the correct one like you discribe >I can adjuste the hight like you mentioned You dont know and nobodys of the forum how work a mod and how is work in Blender, but in Blender I dont have the soldier in the front of me to apply lef and right things, so long we dont have access to the famous .mds, mds is the file representing the whole peoples or soldiers in the game, but I see only the behaviour of the Blender result, when only I start another scenario and check how I have to move the things to apply in a correct way, not to high not to much down, not to much on the side correctly straight this cost time and many many restarting your game, waiting that your game load, with or without mods installed, this cost nerfs and patience, just saying the procedure, this is why a help is very welcome, but I like what I am doing, when I see a good result. 1 hour ago, quakerparrot67 said: as far as details of how it was worn, do you know if there's any way to remove his braces and front ammo pouches? >front ammo pouches can be modified yes 1 hour ago, quakerparrot67 said: the glider pilots only wore the belt,with pistol holster and a pistol ammo pouch worn on the belt and ammo, food, clothing etc. carried in the bergen. i dont know if there's any way to do that in cm, maybe leave (modify?) the braces to look like the bergen straps, as long as the front pouches could be removed. >so just let the pistol holster and ammo pouch from holster, right ? >taking out the braces will be more complicated because the braces are already include on the picture of each Paras unifome, this will cost too much time to have a correct aspect, that I have to erase the brace on the picture, and I dont know if there is one picture of Paras uniforms without braces, I dont think so. >i can take the braces from the bergan to "hidding the usual braces on the Paras picture uniforms. 1 hour ago, quakerparrot67 said: one thing i just noticed.... i see that you've changed the leather chinstraps to look like the canvas ones (only black). the leather ones were fine the way they were before, it's only the tan canvas ones that were constructed differently. here's a pic of the leather strap, pretty much the same as the original black one from bfc. 1 hour ago, quakerparrot67 said: sorry for the confusion. is it even possible to use 2 different "models" of strap for 1 kind of unit ingame? sorry to make things more complicated for you. these new mods of yours have me almost drooling- i can't wait to see them in action! did you still need me to do any testing? again, again, thanks for your hard work. > I dont change nothing about the chinstraps, the game do it itself it was a surprise for me but I am happy with, the game read the smod_american_chinstrap-para, and smod_british_chinstrap on the same tme from the brz files, and apply the textures to both in the same way, just read also after my Z folder to apply the modifs, I found this interresting, and this give more variety of colours, without, that, I do something myself, so this will stay like the picture that I show you, this will be so cool to have 2 possibilities from chinstraps but is not possible to have the chinstrap open and close on the same time, because exist only one mdr chisntrap file, we can use a open chisntrap in another battle but not on the same time that the closing one. So I will try to make like I did for the Us Airborne anf gliders togethers, with a open and a closing chinstraps, but only one can be used on the same time, sad but not possible, BFC have to created another mdr file for this. So that it for now, I have already much to do, thanks to yours detailled advices rob. JM Edited February 7, 2023 by JM Stuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakerparrot67 Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 23 minutes ago, JM Stuff said: Thanks like all the times I do my best, and like what I am doing. > I will show the details behind next time >I have just to check the size that I can have the correct one like you discribe >I can adjuste the hight like you mentioned You dont know and nobodys of the forum how work a mod and how is work in Blender, but in Blender I dont have the soldier in the front of me to apply lef and right things, so long we dont have access to the famous .mds, mds is the file representing the whole peoples or soldiers in the game, but I see only the behaviour of the Blender result, when only I start another scenario and check how I have to move the things to apply in a correct way, not to high not to much down, not to much on the side correctly straight this cost time and many many restarting your game, waiting that your game load, with or without mods installed, this cost nerfs and patience, just saying the procedure, this is why a help is very welcome, but I like what I am doing, when I see a good result. >front ammo pouches can be modified yes >so just let the pistol holster and ammo pouch from holster, right ? >taking out the braces will be more complicated because the braces are already include on the picture of each Paras unifome, this will cost too much time to have a correct aspect, that I have to erase the brace on the picture, and I dont know if there is one picture of Paras uniforms without braces, I dont think so. >i can take the braces from the bergan to "hidding the usual braces on the Paras picture uniforms. > I dont change nothing about the chinstraps, the game do it itself it was a surprise for me but I am happy with, the game read the smod_american_chinstrap-para, and smod_british_chinstrap on the same tme from the brz files, and apply the textures to both in the same way, just read also after my Z folder to apply the modifs, I found this interresting, and this give more variety of colours, without, that, I do something myself, so this will stay like the picture that I show you, this will be so cool to have 2 possibilities from chinstraps but is not possible to have the chinstrap open and close on the same time, because exist only one mdr chisntrap file, we can use a open chisntrap in another battle but not on the same time that the closing one. So I will try to make like I did for the Us Airborne anf gliders togethers, with a open and a closing chinstraps, but only one can be used on the same time, sad but not possible, BFC have to created another mdr file for this. So that it for now, I have already much to do, thanks to yours detailled advices rob. JM i will leave you to your work without further interference, lol. (that way we get to play with your goodies sooner (soory, that sounded....awkward.)). have a great evening, jm. cheers, rob. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 7, 2023 Author Share Posted February 7, 2023 (edited) 18 minutes ago, quakerparrot67 said: i will leave you to your work without further interference, lol. (that way we get to play with your goodies sooner (soory, that sounded....awkward.)). have a great evening, jm. cheers, rob. no is only lot of work and time to downloading game check and modified it Edited February 7, 2023 by JM Stuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) News from today Bergan in Bergan out ! Just a remark about the brace on the left dont be correctly showing also the asked pistol and ammo pouches , dont know why ? Just a problem with added some braces, everybodys will wear it, also when the bergan is not present ! Just officer has to have a special uniform without braces that I have to ask to be created by Joop, Cardin, St laurent... I dont know who I have to contact, kdding... so the faces part 1 already finished and all what we need to have happy Paras ! EDIT I think now My guys look a little more "british" they have the "touch" that I want, wihout the burlaps and for some, open chinstraps but already wiht some gloves with a little too much color, that I have to working on, ...and they are not finish, also Brothers arms are coming Airborne French CZ NL BE no SAS troops, will come, but also Canadian Polish and the regular infantry ! EDIT just forgot to show the correct haircut hahaha ! enjoy JM Edited February 9, 2023 by JM Stuff 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 Polish Paras ! Very difficult to put in the middle ! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakerparrot67 Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 wow- these guys are shaping up real nice! the bergans look great, the face camo looks good (though more apropos for 6th ab at normandy ....arnhem was a day jump.) helmet straps look good . are they all testing ok? the polish helmet crest is a good start, but the definition is a bit lacking. it should be a crude stenciled eagle above a scroll, like the beret badge. but that's a nit-pic, from a distance it is recognizable. you really delivered on this stuff! thanks for your hard work, rob 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 21 hours ago, quakerparrot67 said: wow- these guys are shaping up real nice! the bergans look great, the face camo looks good (though more apropos for 6th ab at normandy ....arnhem was a day jump.) helmet straps look good . are they all testing ok? the polish helmet crest is a good start, but the definition is a bit lacking. it should be a crude stenciled eagle above a scroll, like the beret badge. but that's a nit-pic, from a distance it is recognizable. you really delivered on this stuff! thanks for your hard work, rob the face camo looks good (though more apropos for 6th ab at normandy ....arnhem was a day jump.) >What that mean, that they dont have to be with camos faces ? the polish helmet crest is a good start, but the definition is a bit lacking. it should be a crude stenciled eagle above a scroll, like the beret badge. I know but, I do my best about it. >Very difficult to put in the middle ! Thanks to yours comments Cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakerparrot67 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 55 minutes ago, JM Stuff said: the face camo looks good (though more apropos for 6th ab at normandy ....arnhem was a day jump.) >What that mean, that they dont have to be with camos faces ? the polish helmet crest is a good start, but the definition is a bit lacking. it should be a crude stenciled eagle above a scroll, like the beret badge. I know but, I do my best about it. >Very difficult to put in the middle ! Thanks to yours comments Cheers correct on the camo faces- in market garden they jumped in daylight and i haven't seen pictures of camo'ed faces. for normandy they (both brit and u.s.) did wear camo face paint, as they jumped and fought at night. please don't take any of this as criticism. i'm glad that these mods exist now, and will gladly use them 'as is'. like they say, 'beggers can't be choosers', and modders like you, npye, and the rest have the rest of us in your debt. cheers, rob 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, quakerparrot67 said: correct on the camo faces- in market garden they jumped in daylight and i haven't seen pictures of camo'ed faces. Ah, ok happy to know this, I didnt know, adn doubt that everyodys know this also, and will check parts of the movie, "A bridge too be dirty" , and when this come from thrue, I will send all the Cies to the showers before jumping ! Edit Agree with this, this wil be int this case 2 kinds of faces, only a little little dirty and some really dirty ! 2 hours ago, quakerparrot67 said: for normandy they (both brit and u.s.) did wear camo face paint, as they jumped and fought at night. Understanding, "the night all the cats are grey". 2 hours ago, quakerparrot67 said: please don't take any of this as criticism. i'm glad that these mods exist now, and will gladly use them 'as is'. like they say, 'beggers can't be choosers', and modders like you, npye, and the rest have the rest of us in your debt. Dont worry criticism exist to be used and allowed to make better a job in details. Just prove the first sentence above choosing camos faces or not ! 2 hours ago, quakerparrot67 said: cheers, rob Thanks rob I go back JM Edited February 13, 2023 by JM Stuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakerparrot67 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 4 hours ago, JM Stuff said: parts of the movie, "A bridge too be dirty" one of my favorite films since 10years old- but remember, this same 'source' also camoflaged the brit para helmets with foliage, not burlap, and i definitely wouldn't be checking the film for details of german armor, either, lol! cheers, rob 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 1 hour ago, quakerparrot67 said: one of my favorite films since 10years old- but remember, this same 'source' also camoflaged the brit para helmets with foliage, not burlap, and i definitely wouldn't be checking the film for details of german armor, either, lol! cheers, rob I think the B2F have a good pictures of what the troops and vehicles were really, this is why I took some infos about this movie only the Polish are not very long in movie. but better and better I have to change my plan with camos CW (brit can pol). Can you make a short update about this 2 differents zone MG camos faces helmets berets Us CW Norm camos faces helmets berets Us CW For me is important to have the distinction of the différents situations of uniforms, before I let go the mod on the Cmods ! Thanks in advance Cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 Just a little thing today ! you have the possibility to open your favorite CM game by clicking on a scenario, to do this, point a scenario somewhere on the game launch file, in the command "open with" but do not check the box "always open with " your game will launch but you will have to resume the scenario in the choose list. This is not exceptional because it is only a link to a file, some like that already exists for other files or your pc, but it can be useful if you are working on a scenario or campaign and not always returning to your main game directory, it's just a time saver, another trick could be simply to creating a shortcut Cm Normandy, Fortress Italy... (.exe) in your scen camp directory. Cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakerparrot67 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 (edited) On 2/13/2023 at 4:45 PM, JM Stuff said: I think the B2F have a good pictures of what the troops and vehicles were really, this is why I took some infos about this movie only the Polish are not very long in movie. but better and better I have to change my plan with camos CW (brit can pol). Can you make a short update about this 2 differents zone MG camos faces helmets berets Us CW Norm camos faces helmets berets Us CW For me is important to have the distinction of the différents situations of uniforms, before I let go the mod on the Cmods ! Thanks in advance Cheers ok, i'm back. sorry, jm. for both d-day and m.g. the british airborne gear was basically the same. dennison smocks over pattern 37 battledress pattern 37 webbing blanco'd to one or two shades of green, the same within units, not mixed. the maroon beret was common to all commonwealth airborne troops, with cap badge indicating branch/ unit- paras- glider pilots- recce- glider-borne troop (s. staffordshires, ox and bucks, etc) used the cap badge of their regiment- s.staffs- - arnhem ox and bucks- - normandy poles wore the same unforms and gear as british ab, but with grey beret and polish own insignia. glider pilot and sas (europe, not desert) used bergen rucksacks. british commandos also used bergens, but with webbing gear and front pouches. all british airborne and poles used the airborne helmet, usually with net ant burlap scrim. polish helmet had stencilled polish eagle in yellow on front. almost all british ab helmets had the black leather strap, a very small number up through market garden had the tan canvas strap. polish ab helmets mostly had the tan canvas strap. for d-day normandy, (night drop) all commnwealth airborne used black face camo . for market garden (day drop) none was used same for us paras. sorry to be so late with this, jm, busy in real life stuf, but glad to be helping. i'll get to work on th us side , and if theres anything i didn't cover here let me know. cheers, rob Edited February 19, 2023 by quakerparrot67 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 19, 2023 Author Share Posted February 19, 2023 ok rob thanks you very very much about all, and do my best of it, I am for the time of another project, so when this one is finish I will come back to the airborne, one later and check in details ! thanks to stay linked JM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakerparrot67 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 the us airborne troops, both 82nd and 101st divisions - normandy- m42 airborne uniform with re-enforce patches on elbows, knees, and pockets.- market garden (and after), m43 uniform - for normandy helmets were worn with net and burlap scrim. for mg nets were worn but not scrim. for both battles a field bandage was sometimes tied to the front of the helmet net. tankers goggles were also sometimes worn on the helmet. at market garden, both us ab divisions wore a large us flag patch or brassard on the right arm, though many may have been lost or discarded. other than these basics, i don't konw much about details of us uniforms, equipment, etc. i do know that there are good uniform mods for both dday and mg avaiable for the game. the main thing is, dday m42, market garden m43. i hope this is of some help. cheers, rob 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted February 19, 2023 Author Share Posted February 19, 2023 8 minutes ago, quakerparrot67 said: the us airborne troops, both 82nd and 101st divisions - normandy- m42 airborne uniform with re-enforce patches on elbows, knees, and pockets.- market garden (and after), m43 uniform - for normandy helmets were worn with net and burlap scrim. for mg nets were worn but not scrim. for both battles a field bandage was sometimes tied to the front of the helmet net. tankers goggles were also sometimes worn on the helmet. at market garden, both us ab divisions wore a large us flag patch or brassard on the right arm, though many may have been lost or discarded. other than these basics, i don't konw much about details of us uniforms, equipment, etc. i do know that there are good uniform mods for both dday and mg avaiable for the game. the main thing is, dday m42, market garden m43. i hope this is of some help. cheers, rob yes a lot (I want to put all) we will check later and compare, I like to see the "poor" soldiers wearing heavy things and having straps everywhere on the body, this give a real aspect of the reality, is very nice details thanks rob ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quakerparrot67 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 here is more what the m43 at holland in mg would have looked like in action. the picture is of a 'bastogne' figure, but its what was worn by the 101st and 82 in mg, too. cheers, rob 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted March 1, 2023 Author Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/20/2023 at 12:05 AM, quakerparrot67 said: here is more what the m43 at holland in mg would have looked like in action. the picture is of a 'bastogne' figure, but its what was worn by the 101st and 82 in mg, too. cheers, rob rob I like the uniforms of the airborne that you made some screenshots, can you tell me what kind of mods, or eventual provide a link about ? Thanks in advance, soon I will begin again about them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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