MikeyD Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 See what happens when I'm kept inside by a blizzard? • PzIII L yellow (reposted) • PzIII L dirty camou mod • PzIII J (short) mods - both early and late types (2 mods) • PzIII J (long) mods - both early and late types (2 mods) • PzIII J Captured Soviet tank • PzIII/PzIV tracks pack! At our favorite site: www.cmmods.com About the mods: - The new track set (clean/muddy/snowy) makes a BIG different to the look of all the PzIIIs and IVs in the game. - I bundled four yellow PzIII J mods into two downloads to save work. - The yellow PzIII L is a reposting of a mod I had pulled from cmmods.com last month due to Zipit problems.. I've added a second 'dirty camou' PzIII L to give you a choice. - To match dramatic reference photos I stripped the forward fenders off the Soviet Captured PzIII, making for pretty extreme looking mod. Check it out! All are 'total redo' mods with accurate cupola and improved suspension. All are both CMBB and CMAK (Italian Theater) compatible, except for the Soviet PzIII and the PzIII J (early, short). Happily CMAK has no matching numbers for these so you can't accidentially overwrite anything. If you have trouble unzipping these mods report it here. I'm using a new piece of freeware that 'should' cause no problems. Here's some cmmods.com screenshots: PzIII J (long) Pack PzIII J (short) Pack PzIII / PzIV Track Pack Soviet Captured PzIII Dirty Camou PzIII L Yellow Pz III L with unit markings 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 DavidI is at work but I am home for lunch, te he. I just finished a battle with a captured PZ that would have liked that mod. Thanks Mikey 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilhelm Heidkamp Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... you are a GOD for me MikeyD... I like very much the new tracks. Do you think could you make the same style mod for the other tracks in game? P.D. Thanks, very much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 24, 2005 Author Share Posted January 24, 2005 Same style tracks? I already have old track mods for T34s (listed under Soviet/Armor/T-34) and KV/IS heavies (listed under All/Other), and in CMAK I have generic light tank tracks in the patterns for Matildas, Valentines, or Czech-chassis vehicles (listed under All/Other). Her's some more cmmods.com screenshots for yah: Heavy Tank Tracks Pack CMAK Valentine Tracks Pack T34 Waffle Pattern Tracks Pack 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holman Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 These look great! Question: are tracks shared between many tank models? Will my Panthers have Pz III tracks now, for instance? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 24, 2005 Author Share Posted January 24, 2005 I haven't done a full inventory, but PzIIIs, PzIVs, and Stugs share the same track bmps. Maybe Pz38T chassis vehicles too, and some of the obscure Hungarian stuff. Panthers have their own Panther tracks, Tigers have Tiger tracks, and light tanks (PzIIs and Russian light tanks) share a common light tank track set. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilhelm Heidkamp Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Originally posted by MikeyD: Same style tracks? I already have old track mods for T34s (listed under Soviet/Armor/T-34) and KV/IS heavies (listed under All/Other), and in CMAK I have generic light tank tracks in the patterns for Matildas, Valentines, or Czech-chassis vehicles (listed under All/Other). Thank you again. I have downloaded all of them. Go on Mikey, we need you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Arrrrggggggg! :mad: Junk's right! I am at work again! Are the stars permanently aligned against me? :confused: Mikey they look great! Can't wait to get home! David 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Yikes! I can't raise CMMODS ! I hope the rush to download your mod didn't crash the site. I've only managed to download one Panzer III J -- it looks great, but I want to see the rest of them. Panzer III's are so confusing... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 It's back up again! I can go back to downloading. Mabybe today isn't a total loss after all... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Mikey, These are f....g Great! Look even better on map. There seems to be a PzIII that hasn't been updated yet. Don't blame me you started it! How about the lowly PzIIIN (not the late one)? Sure would look better if it was up to snuff with the others, IMHO. (I think that was the first time I got to use that anachronym - or however you spell it - I'm thrilled). May the weather always suck where you live. DavidI PS. That's the stuff Junk! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroCat Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Looks great as always... any chance of more camo and/or dirty versions 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 What a great mod release this is, awesome work as usual. Thanks MikeyD, you da man. Got a question for you though. Have you ever considered doing any of the big cats, Tigers or Panthers? I know it's true, there's already some very decent mods for them already and i know you've been asked before. It's just that you do a helluva job with everything you decide to mod. With your talent, id love to see you tackle the big cats. You know, for all those big cat lovers(like me) out there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Murray Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Thanks again Mike. I had a problem though. I just downloaded your PzIII J (short) mod pack and all I got was an XtraStuff.mac folder which turned out to be empty . I'm using Windows. Is there a way for me to get this great mod (and add it to the collection)? Disregard this. I used the "Open compressed folders" selection & got them out that way. [ January 25, 2005, 04:01 AM: Message edited by: Rob Murray ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEY Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Hi Mike Is there a reason why you didn't include an option to have the Russian captured PzIII without the missing parts, could you repost that package with that option. Also is there a reason why you will not post Russian AFV's in a brown base coat, having a mixture of green and brown base colors in the scope of CM just doesn't seem very realistic to me. Is there anyway that you will post your Russian armor in a brown base color also. Would you ever think of giving the PzIV's a reworking, because they look even worse now, next to these reworked PzIII's. Anyway thanks for all you've done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 25, 2005 Author Share Posted January 25, 2005 "Is there a reason why you didn't include an option to have the Russian captured PzIII without the missing parts(?)" Artistic license . Actually, the side, front, and top had to be altered to knock out the fenders. Plain-jane alts would've upped the size of the download with little benefit. A captured PzIII mod isn't exactly the same as a Panther. I doesn't show up all that often so I figured this one I could afford to do to my own tastes. I don't believe I had even fought with a captured PzIII until after I had modded it! PzIVs? Panthers? Brown Russian tanks? Hey guys, there's 5,000+ bmps files in CMBB and only so many hours in the day! Doesn't anybody else have a copy of Adobe Photoshop? :confused: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroCat Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Brown Russian tanks! Can't wait hehe I've "dirted" up several of the ultra green ones but there are plenty left to do. but, really thanks for your mods! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 "Doesn't anybody else have a copy of Adobe Photoshop? " No I don't. If I did, I still wouldn't have any talent. I did find a freeware at CNET called Paint.net from the Univ of Washington. I will see if I can layer the green on a stock bmp. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 What many people don't realize is that you can do layers in old-fashioned out of the box Paint. It's a bit cumbersome and requires some advance planning, but as long as you don't need a transparency effect it will work. Just make everything white transparent, use bmp's that are the same size as your target, and only paint the area in the layer that you want to show. If you have a tank and want to show the paint wearing off at one point, just paint on what is underneath the paint that's showing through, and nothing else. When you copy/paste that on to your target (keeping the white area transparent) it will look like you've scrapped off paint, when in reality you've painted on whatever is underneath. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 25, 2005 Author Share Posted January 25, 2005 I've been an advocate of 'virtual modeling' practically since day one. To my mind 1 game CD = 300 'virtual tank models' to play with! But it seems those hobbyists who are willing to expend absurd amounts of time, research, and money on a resin kit just haven't acquired the same dedication for 3-D art. The switch-over from solvents to pixels has been slower than I expected. Even with me, as much work that I put into those PzIII mods, it isn't half the labor as I put into that scratch-built AEC armored car I built fifteen years ago! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crinius Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Sweeeeetttt! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Originally posted by MikeyD: Doesn't anybody else have a copy of Adobe Photoshop? :confused: Yes, but, unfortunately, my results tend to look like they are MADE of adobe. Thank God your's don't! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Murray Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 I'm more than happy with the results of your efforts. Your mods almost always come with interesting, well researched readme files. I have to admit that I "plagarize" them when I CMMOS one of them. They're better than anything I could come up with! Of all the mods (no insult meant to anyone) posted by people here, yours are the most historically accurate. Your encyclopedic knowledge of armor is (to me) amazing. Please keep on modding. You're one of the people who makes these games really worth playing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KG_Jag Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 I always look forward to new MikeyD mods. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Hey Mikey, old modeler, where on the net can I get free camo patterns, or stencils? Or do I try to copy from photos? I cannot draw them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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