On the spread of Russian Orthodoxy to Germany (a small problem with map editor)

[akdavis]

Was working on a scenario involving the Oder river bridgeheads in '45 and noticed a little problem. Even with the timeframe set as far forward as 1945, churches placed in the editor appear Russian Orthodox in style. As a consequence, designing a scenario depicting the battle for a German town late in the war is visually difficult. An argument could be made that all the architecture in the game should shift in style as the war progresses back into Polish and German territory, but churches seem to be the only glaring problem (though a small one in the grand scheme of things).

Couple of questions:

Is this something that was left out due to space/time limitations (as with shared vehicle models) and that we can expect to see corrected in a future patch?

Is it possible to have building textures shift with the timeframe, just as some infantry uniforms due?

[CMplayer]

Very good point.

Bump.

[busboy]

How about the cemetaries as well? Now tombstones are tombstones I guess, but how about those white crosses? They look distinctly non-German to me.

[Battlefront.com]

Is it possible to have building textures shift with the timeframe, just as some infantry uniforms due?

Not easily, no. This was something we toyed with very early on when we speced out CMBB. We had wanted the graphic sets to be loaded based on geographical conditions. Southern Russia looks different than Northern Russia, Finland from the settlements on the Vulga, Romania from Germany, Germany from Poland, Poland from Hungary, etc. Er... I think you can now see why we skipped out on this feature

Put me down for agreeing that doing this would be a good idea, but also mark me down as saying it was just "one too many things" to do for this game. For the church we would even have to switch the 3D model as well as the texture!

Now... the more important question is if we are going to have this kind of flexibility in the new engine. I sure hope so!

Steve

[akdavis]

Would it be possible to just add the old church model from CMBO as an option in the editor? That way we could choose between the two when designing scenarios.

[Speedy]

It's my understanding that that would simply be a matter of finding the appropriate bmp's and subsituting them. Ofcourse this would then mean that all your churches in Russia would be of Western European appearance.

[benpark]

Sounds like a job for CMMOS. Western style or Eastern style would be a nice thing to switch back and forth from.

[Michael Emrys]

Would the CMBO bmps even work in CMBB? And remember what Steve said: "For the church we would even have to switch the 3D model as well as the texture!"

Michael