MikeyD Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 For those of you who were wondering when somebody was going to come out with a completely FROM-SCRATCH vehicle mod for CMBB, Check out what's new at Tom's Combat Mission. A sharp new Lend-Lease M3A1 Scout Car, in both summer and winter color schemes. I've also supplied a full set of German/Russian/U.S.-type tire tread patterns for you to choose from! Come-n-git-em! Check 'em out at: http://www.militarygameronline.com/TCMHQ/International.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Axe_ Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Very nice work Mike. And no problems downloading! My lucky day. Cheers, Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmorse Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Having that funky need login and password barrier again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Thanks Mike and Tom! Having trouble downloading too, but I'll be back later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNoobie Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 haha excellent work why didnt i think of using Illustrator. nice vector art thats a great idea for adding new equipment. i should try that thnx for the insparation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazed Posted November 20, 2002 Share Posted November 20, 2002 Sorry I'm slow today...what do you mean 'from-scratch'? Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNoobie Posted November 20, 2002 Share Posted November 20, 2002 it means that he did everything by hand, drawing the details, shape and whatnot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted November 20, 2002 Author Share Posted November 20, 2002 I even did the original 5-view vehicle scale plans it was based on! Talk about obsessive! Okay, I didn't do 'em specifically for the mod (a book project earlier this year) but the M3 Scout Car is an official 100% pure from-scratch mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Qjr Posted November 20, 2002 Share Posted November 20, 2002 The bmps are all from scratch but its not a new model? We can't do new models can we? Aren't all mods using new bmps? I like the look of the screenshot. I still can't DL it though. Never can DL anything from tom's site, always tells me that the server returned extended information. Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted November 20, 2002 Author Share Posted November 20, 2002 The M3 polygon that's in the game was already top-notch. It fit my art like a glove. My hat's off to the polygon guy. Polygons can't be modded, they're hard-coded deep inside the program. All we can do is change textures. But like in the play Pygmalion, dressin' 'em up pretty sometimes makes all the difference in the world. [ November 19, 2002, 06:34 PM: Message edited by: MikeyD ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Dog Posted November 20, 2002 Share Posted November 20, 2002 Originally posted by The Qjr: The bmps are all from scratch but its not a new model? We can't do new models can we? Aren't all mods using new bmps? QNo, Qjr, most all of the mods released so far for CMBB (and a majority of the mods that were released for CMBO) were done by the modder loading an existing finished BMP into a paint program and retouching it, maybe adding a unit symbol or slogan, or adding some layers of dirt, whitewash, etc. Not to take anything away from these "re-work" modders - some of the work is outstanding. But to take a blank white paint program page and paint the BMP from scratch is a whole different (and much more time-consuming) task. There are only a few modders who do this - Mike, Dan Olding of course, Marco Bergman (was he the first to do it besides Dan?), Fernando Carrera Buil come to mind among vehicle modders (apologies to those I left out). They are also some of the same modders who contracted with BFC to do the vehicles for CMBB - working from scratch with nothing but a wireframe 3-D model and some pictures of the way the finished model needed to look. - Old Dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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