GreenAsJade Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Hi All, As you no doubt know, the "CMMODS.com" site is closing at the end of the month. I have put in place a replacement: GreenAsJade's Combat Mission Mods Warehouse It's been operating for about a month, with the focus initially on getting all the CMx1 mods that were at CMMODS available. Now it's ready for trial for housing CMSF Mods, and other material. Today I've added the "Mod types" of "Map" and "Campaign", since it appears that these are stored as "Mods" at CMMODS. I'm open to opinions on whether really a custom-designed warehouse for maps & campaigns might make more sense, but you're very welcome to place maps & campaigns at the mod warehouse, and will easily be able to find them there (there are already a couple). I'm also ready and waiting for any suggestions about how and aspects of the site can be improved - different categories for CMSF specific things, different navigation etc. Of course, there's an obvious question "why use this, why not just use the BFC repository?" That's entirely up to you. This exists. Use it if you like I like it better than the BFC repository, but I'm biased As an author, one thing you might like is the ability to browse your own mods. As a user, I like being able to browse the mods of my favourite authors and being able to browse mods of a particular type of unit GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yardstick Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 +1 I find this to be awesome. Thank you for providing us with another great modding site! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General_solomon Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 looks great, thanks a bunch for all your hard work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theFightingSeabee Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 Great! I signed up a while back, but have not yet added anything. CAn I add my mod manager? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19Kyle72 Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 I'm excited for this new avenue in supplying mods for this community. I'm encouraged by your enthusiasm in seeking our input about what we'd like to see in regards to such a site. Here's my two cents... Tag files based upon the required modules. Obvious, I know, but necessary in my opinion, for those who are new to the game. Anytime a mod requires the "Marines" or "British," module, I'd be sure to include a short, but very useful note for the newbies. Something like, "This mod requires the Marines/British module, and if this module is installed, this mod will be backwards compatible with Marines/CMSF (base game)." The trick in this is that I'm assuming that if one doesn't own the Marines module that the material for the British one will be compatible with the base version of CMSF. I'd also make searches available for Uniform skins, Weapon skins, Vehicle skins, Special Effects, Icons, Maps (No A.I. coding), Missions, Campaigns and Author. Each of these items could be sorted by an Ascending/Descending order by Date, Downloads and Rating (Average). All of these tags would greatly speed up searches, and help ensure that the site is used extensively by the community members. Man, I hope all of this stuff isn't too much to code! That's quite a Wish List on my part. Thanks for the opportunity for me to express it. Good luck to you on whatever it is you finally decided to implement! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted May 20, 2009 Author Share Posted May 20, 2009 Fighting Sea Bea your Mod Manager is welcome. There's a "Mod Type" for "Mod Managers". - Register - Log in - Go to the "Your Stuff" tab - Follow the "Add new CMSF Mod" link - Enter the details, upload. Please do upload a preview picture as well. Kyle - I'll take a look. GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted May 20, 2009 Author Share Posted May 20, 2009 Please do upload a preview picture as well. Like this: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted May 20, 2009 Author Share Posted May 20, 2009 Tag files based upon the required modules. Obvious, I know, but necessary in my opinion, for those who are new to the game. Anytime a mod requires the "Marines" or "British," module, I'd be sure to include a short, but very useful note for the newbies. Something like, "This mod requires the Marines/British module, and if this module is installed, this mod will be backwards compatible with Marines/CMSF (base game)." My recommendation would be to put this information in the "description" field for the mod. Like the words that angryson put here Would this be the right thing? GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted May 20, 2009 Author Share Posted May 20, 2009 *** UPDATE *** I decided that CMSF is different enough from CMx1 that really the mods (and whatever else) are going to be best stored in a different place, not "all jumbled together" with CMx1 material. So I set up a "replica" for CMSF purposes. It's available at a temporary URL, as soon as the proper domain name propagates it will be available at cmsfmods.greenasjade.net. The "CMSF" link at the new CMx1 CMMODS site now points to this new place. So you can browse US marines without bumping into PzIVs, and likewise (once I finish tidying up) CMx1 people will be able to browse Tigers without bumping into terorists... It also means that if there are CMSF-specific suggestions that come up, the implementation of those won't all be tangled up with CMX1 needs... GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 OMG, there are some of my old CM:BO & CM:BB mods on your site. I've nearly forgotten that I have created them . Unbelievable that they are still around... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattMulder Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 good to know that in a world in which people play nice and pretty games, we enjoy exchanging mods and missions on a 10 year old game engine... nice!!!!!!!!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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