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Hey guys,

I wanted a way to post these FH2 themed Holiday images I did a while back, but I also figured that I'm not the only one dicking around in Photoshop or some other medium. :P

So here's a way to post whatever sort of FH2 themed creativity you guys have come up with; wallpapers/ sigs/ screenshots that've been photoshoped/ etc...

Hopefully we can get some cool stuff in here and maybe even do requests for wallpapers or promotional images to be posted to other websites and stuff. 8)

Also if anyone needs image editing advice or critique, hopefully someone's knowledgeable enough to answer. 

So if you've got a creative image you wanna show off that doesn't fall under the traditional model,skin,map post it here. :D (let's just keep it FH2 themed to not go off topic)

So here are a few images I did about a week ago while getting into the Holiday spirit ;)



link http://s1145.photobucket.com/user/Matt_Baker1942/media/FH2%20Skins/Christmas_zps95dd71b1.png.html?sort=3&o=1

Eppeldorff is perfect for some Christmas screenshots



link http://s1145.photobucket.com/user/Matt_Baker1942/media/FH2%20Skins/Christmas2_zps29209255.png.html?sort=3&o=0

This one I got a little carried away on :P it started out as a compilation of my favorite weapons in FH2 but ended up as sort of a 'thank you' to the Devs and all the hard work they've put in to give us this mod 8)



link http://s1145.photobucket.com/user/Matt_Baker1942/media/FH2%20Skins/Christmas3_zpsbd7517c4.png.html?sort=3&o=2

They're all 1920x1080 if anyone wants a Holiday wallpaper for the next few days ;D

Hope you guys enjoy them and post some of your own stuff

Happy Holidays :)

p.s. I felt this was most appropriate in the modding section but feel free to move it anywhere

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I consider myself a fairly intelligent person. That's why I was surprised when I read something completely contradictory to what I had been taught all my life in a Cracked Article (of all places ;))

http://www.cracked.com/article_20669_6-ridiculous-science-myths-you-learned-in-kindergarten_p2.html

Most of the article was pretty unsurprising to me except number 2. Up until this point if someone had asked me what causes a plane to lift into the air on takeoff I'd have described the Bernoulli principle; the idea that the faster air moving on top of the wing causes a low pressure system above and a high pressure system below, causing the plane to lift off the ground.

This principle is what I've been taught all my life and seemed like a very simple and reasonable explanation for why planes fly. I never questioned it until I read some of the articles that were linked.

http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/airflylvl3.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9035708/Cambridge-scientist-debunks-flying-myth.html

These articles basically state otherwise; that the Bernoulli principle is not a good description for the cause of lift, and instead, newton's third law of motion (for every action there's a equal and opposite reaction) is more of a factor. The downwash of air (caused by the angle of attack of the wing) and the deflection of that air puts an equal and opposite upwards force on the wing, causing the plane to lift.   

Ik a lot of the people on these forums are very into science and math and a bit more intellectual than I to speak on matters of physics and engineering ;D that's why I wanted to know what you guys think.

I can't be the only one that unquestioningly subscribed to the idea that Bernoulli's principle was the soul cause of lift :P I'm wondering if it's a common misconception that's taught in other parts of the world as well. It's what me and many other people are taught at a very young age (probably because of the simplicity of the explanation) and since I learned it at a young age I never questioned it.

I could be totally ignorant :P but I was pretty surprised to think about lift in a more complex and scientific way.
 
 

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Modding / [Texture] Willy's Jeep Texture Pack (image heavy)
« on: 10-10-2013, 02:10:41 »
I decided to do a full reskin of the Willys Jeep for FH2 with new and historically correct markings for each map. I did it for myself to use in my own FH2 but I'm putting it up for download in case anyone else feels like using these skins for themselves.

The current FH2 Willys Jeep texture has a few historical inaccuracies and this pack aims to fix those as well as give diversity by having a different texture on each map through the texture suffixes. The files obviously make the FH2 file size larger so if you feel like just replacing one texture or a few you can do that too.
 
I did a lot of research on this but I'm far from perfect and I don't have access to all the research that's out there, so if anyone notices any historical inaccuracies/something that seems wrong or off, feel free to let me know.

I tried to diversify the markings to show the variety with which the Willys was marked in real life. There are a few markings that are based off of photos from the actual battle but most are just recreated by following the markings guidelines these armies used in WW2 and matching them with the divisions being used on each map.

Note that this is a full vehicle reskin, so there's no .dds compression issues. I did my best on the reskin but any helpful critique is always welcome.

I haven't fully tested these on a server yet but I have other skins using the same texture suffix format and I've never been kicked before. Let me know of any problems anyone has.     

gamefront link:
http://www.gamefront.com/files/23759495/Matt_Baker%27s_Willys_Texture_Pack.rar

dropbox link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z8o8mfoc1v125wc/Matt_Baker%27s_Willys_Texture_Pack.rar

(Idk of any other good sites to upload too so if anyone wants to re-upload this to their preferred site feel free as long as you keep my name on it)

List of what vehicles are on each map and some screens: 

Bastogne- 101st Airborne, 502nd PIR, Headquarters, Vehicle #13, "Stella"*
   note: The Willys on Eppeldorf has same texture & markings as Bastogne because they have the same texture suffix.


Battle of Brest- 29th Infantry Division, 116th IR, Company 'C,' Vehicle #6, "Bull Run"


El Alamein- LRDG, Patrol 'R,' Vehicle #4, "Rotowari"

I decided to do an LRDG vehicle for this map because there's already LRDG vehicles/an LRDG staging point on this map. (and the SAS markings aren't quite as interesting :P)

Gazala- 7th Armored Division, 'C' Squadron


Lebisey- 3rd Infantry Division, Recon Corps


Mersa Matruh- 7th Armored Division (markings scratched off as per retreat out of Gazala Line)


Meuse River- 2nd Infatry Division, Company 'M,' Vehicle #18
(2nd ID is from the patches on the American soldiers on the map)


Operation Cobra- 2nd Armored Division, 24th Recon Regiment, Headquarters, Vehicle #3


Hyacinth- LRDG, Patrol 'T,' Vehicle #6, "TE ANAU"


Operation Luttich- 30th Infantry Division, Company 'D,' Vehicle #2


Operation Totalize- Canadian Medium Regiment, Signals Section, 1st Canadian Army


Sidi Bou Zid- 1st Armored Division, Headquarters, Vehicle #18


St. Lo- 29th Infantry Division, 116IR, Company 'B,' Vehicle #29, "Zebra"


Supercharge- SAS Markings


Villers Bocage- 7th Armored Division, Recon Corps


Vossenack- 28th Infantry Division, Headquarters, Vehicle #11, "Shortstop"

   (Willys Rockets)- 28th ID, Company 'B,' Vehicle #10, "Patriot"



Seige of Girarabub is only map to use a Willys Jeep that I left with an original FH2 texture. The reason behind it is because I couldn't find any record of Willys markings from that time period. In March of 1941 I believe there were mainly Bantams in use in North Africa if any type of Willys at all.

The intructions for how to install should be in the read me file. The basic idea is to navigate to the Willys texture files in their respective armies folder and replace them with the new ones.

NOTE: might want to save the original FH2 textures into a different folder if you don't want to lose them as these new ones will replace them.

Yes the changes between each vehicle are small but I enjoy diversity and the little bits of historical accuracy that make FH2 the best WW2 game out there ;D

Hope you guys enjoy it :D feedback's appreciated, especially on the historical aspect.

Edit: thanks pizzaman

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There have been a lot of suggestions in the past, and some recent threads that have started out as/eventually turned into a discussion about changing the commander role in FH2. The reason I made a new thread on this topic is not for it to be so much of a suggestion, but more of a discourse about the commander in FH2. It seems to be at the heart of a lot of suggestions and discussions on FH2s gameplay and imo resolving the issue of the commander will not only help FH2 but other gameplay issues that might arise from it.

This thread is about outlining a discussion amongst the devs and forum users as to what to do with the commander role; more specifically how can we make the role of the commander a more fun and useful position in FH2? In it I’ll outline how I think we should question the commander role while also giving my own ideas for the commander in FH2. What I’m looking for is an honest discussion about how people feel the commander should be played. Outline your own ideas as I’m doing here, create your own huge walls of text that can be read and assessed by people, or build upon someone else’s ideas so we can get properly formulated suggestions. All I ask is that we keep it simple. Let’s suggest things we know are possible or are at least within the realm of possibility of what can be done by this engine. (obviously no “canz we h@ve commander NUKZ!?!” suggestions) What I hope is that this discussion will result in ideas being jogged loose and built upon so in the end we have a well defined gameplay design for the commander in FH2, one that the devs can hopefully implement in the future; or not.

However, before we can discuss how to make the commander better, we first have to ask if it’s worth it. Do we keep the commander and expand on it (improve it, make it more important/want to be played); or would it help FH2s game design better to simply remove the commander altogether and put logistics/ support in the hands of the players (kind of as we have now)?
 
(Imo, I’d like to see the commander position kept in FH2 and made better, so what I discuss from here on is assuming the Commander position to be in FH2.)

Right now I would say the commander is dead skin, just leftover from FH2s inception. It had a lot of potential, but pumping out models and other gameplay changes eventually got in the way and its game design fell to the wayside. I think the commander has a lot of potential currently, and a lot of great gameplay dynamics can arise from a well designed commander position. 

FH basic training command and tactics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnvqChuQX8U&list=PL0059528BCA568F9B&index=7

What should the role of the commander be defined as?

“Commander should coordinate the team and give guidance to the individual squads, monitors the overall situation and decides the strategy.” That’s a quote from PR’s guide about what their commander role is.
PR Guide and overview on how their commander is set up: http://www.realitymod.com/manual/pr_manual.pdf

Imo the PR commander is a good place to start, it’s well developed and works well for THEIR gameplay. Seeing what it does right and wrong can help us make FH2s commander position even better.

The commander should realistically coordinate the team and decide strategy but the world of FH is very different from the world of PR. People don’t constantly communicate with one another over VOIP or Mumble, people in FH want to do their own thing, that’s what FH is geared toward. Give the players fun assets to use, and if used correctly, they can give their team the upper hand to win the battle.
Because of this I see the commander almost as another class, a class with very powerful assets that have a very direct and immediate influence on the battle. This class’ assets should be fun to use and should vary by map and team (as every other class does)

The commander should be a supporter on the battlefield, he should be able to take requests from players and use them while also being able to make decisions on his own. The commander shouldn’t be so influential that he’s overpowered on the battlefield; being able to annihilate the enemy team with one fail swoop, and he also shouldn’t be so influential in case he’s misused on the battlefield; for example, if nobody goes commander that round it won’t make the game unplayable for the other 32 players. This also means that if someone who is a smacktard goes commander he can be easily removed by his teammates so as not to hinder the gameplay of the other 31 people on the team.

The perfect commander, what we’re looking to discuss and form here, is a role on the battlefield that if used properly can give his team an upperhand in the battle. Through hard work and practiced use of his tools he can shift the battle in favor of his team and ultimately win them the round.

Currently this is possible in FH2 to SOME extent (this is why the commander has so much potential imo). Right now well timed and well placed artillery barrages (one of the commander’s most powerful assets) can demolish an enemy and help his team move onto and take a flag that was being stalemated for the whole round. To some extent supplies, dropped on vehicle locations, can be used to give those tanks and heavy assets the added ‘specialized’ rounds to give them the upperhand in a tank fight, or the ability to sit and repair/heal themselves without having to get out, meaning they can engage the enemy while regenerating their health (not very realistic but not the point).

One of the biggest complaints about the commander now is how boring it is to play. I’d like to see some discussion as to WHY exactly this is but I feel the biggest reasons are;

a) not enough to do, the commander only really has arty and supplies at his disposal right now (2 buttons w/ a lot of time in between use = not that much fun imo) The commander should always have something to do, or at least always have something fun to play with.

b) no ability to see his effects on the battle (also not being able to see the battle.) Imo the core of our reasoning for playing BF2 is the idea that we get to see these battles being played out while also seeing that we’re having an effect on them. Sitting in a stationary place and clicking buttons, hoping they do something is a big turn off for people imo.

At its heart I see the commander as a support role; and right now many of the support roles in FH2 don’t have a lot to do but they’re still A LOT of fun to play. People play as arty gunners where you sit in a seat and line up numbers, or as a recon plane where you fly around with nothing to shoot at. But these roles also have you actively DOING something and have you actively SEEING how you’re affecting the battle. In arty I have a ‘God’s eye view’ where I can see that my rounds are landing and killing people. In the recon plane I’m flying, flying is inherently a fun activity for most people, and you can see all the people you’re spotting on the ground with the ‘UAV radar,’ (not realistic but it’s a very useful tool from a gameplay standpoint).

These support roles are what I feel the Commander should be modeled after. Give him the ability to do MANY things, and give him the ability to see the impact of those things on the battlefield.

Imo the commander has 3 main assets; arty/supply/recon (and he should utilize all of these in conjunction with coordinating his team to get their full potential)

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Right now in FH2 there are a lot of player controlled support roles: player controlled arty, recon planes, ammo trucks etc… I want to try and keep the idea of player controlled support roles in CONJUNCTION with commander support roles. Player controlled support roles are fun and loved by many and I don’t want to see them go. However, it might prove to be impossible to see them work with commander support roles and one or the other might ultimately have to be taken out, which is why I raised the question of if it’s worth it to keep the commander in.

Arty (This includes big arty tasks, softening up enemy positions with very indirect fire)
Variations have been suggested a million times, and many of them have some great ideas that could stand alone and make the commander position fun to play.

Commander assets air and arty suggestion: http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=13080.msg174437#msg174437

New Commander options suggestion: http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=16207.0

I feel like the real question here is what the hell is the difference or significant impact of having 2 types of arty systems? Right now we have player controlled arty which is fun and LOVED by many people. It’s well designed so as to take some skill to use well. It also incorporates teamwork into FH on a scale I’ve never seen before. A good spotter coupled with a good gunner can ruin my day defending a flag. This is a great thing and is why I think player controlled arty should be kept in FH2 and not sacrificed for the commander. Right now the only advantage is that Commander arty is used to soften up an objective, which I think is great. Let loose a barrage on a flag and many of its defenses (AT guns, machine guns, people) are out of commission and disorganized for a minute or two, allowing your team to advance. But how do we define the role of commander arty and how is it different from player controlled arty?

I guess my one suggestion would be to put ONLY the big guns in the hands of the commander. 25 pders, leFH 18s, 105 Howitzers etc.. giving ONLY the mortars and mobile arty to the player controlled arty. You want a big barrage to soften up a target? Call on the big batteries, but they’re only available every few minutes or so as the commander arty is now. And if you want to get rid of that pesky camping tank or that one 6pder someone moved to the flank that’s eating up your PzerIIIs? call it out with binoculars and have the mortar crew put some accurate fire on its location instead of wasting a ‘one time’ barrage. 

Supply (incorporates big supply tasks, reinforcing a whole squad or team. Leaving things like driving ammo trucks to tanks to be reserved for the player)
Supply asset is a tricky one imo. Right now supply doesn’t do much of anything in FH2. As an infantryman I’ve only once or twice had to go and find more clips for my rifle after using them all up. The only times I’ve EVER seeked out an ammo box (or wish I had one) is:

1) I need more special shells for my tank, or more HE ‘cause I’ve been spamming it into the enemy flag for 10 min and I’m fresh out

2) I just used up all of my PIATs/Zooks/satchels/AT weapons etc… and I need some more.

Overall, it’s not a very common thing to need supply drops every few min on an FH2 battlefield.
So how can this become an asset that is as important as or almost as important as arty on the battlefield?
I’m thinking in terms of bigger things. Maybe the commander can choose to give people reinforcements of the sort. Spawn crew served weapons (mortars, deployed guns etc..) or even go so far as to spawn certain vehicles in certain situations with limits. Can even go so far as to create limited spawn points.
My one idea would be making the command vehicle itself a spawn point. This supply idea can be built upon and I’ll elaborate on it more later. 

Recon (i.e. something bigger than just spotting people with binos for the team)
Recon is imo already a very fun thing in FH. I remember flying the scout plane around on Lebiesy and seeing the impact it had on my team. I’m not sure if it was just an incompetent Brit team on the other side but I like to think it was the fact that my guys had a pretty much constant view of the enemy’s location on their map. They we’re never surprised to see 10 guys rushing in from their right because I uncovered those guys sneaking on their flank 2 minutes beforehand. In the end it was a resounding victory.

This example shows the power of the recon plane and how it can be a huge asset for the commander that can affect the battle in a significant way. I would propose giving the “UAV” ability back to the commander in the form of a recon plane (which has been suggested before) in general the recon plane would fly in a circle like the UAV over an area of the commanders choosing and have the ‘radar’ show enemy positions on the minimap for the team to see. This would be like the arty in that it could only be used every so often. One immediate problem that I heard was that apparently only ONE model can be used for the recon plane for both teams, meaning a team specific recon planes would be out and would break immersion. I guess the easiest work around to this would be to just make the ‘UAV’ not visible to people on the ground, but the commander still gets the ‘radar’ abilities.

This also raises the same question that the arty did in that we already have player controlled recon planes. How do we differentiate these recon planes from the commanders recon abilities? My suggestion would be to take away the recon plane from the player and just give it to the commander instead. That would mean that you as a player couldn’t just hop into a recon plane whenever you felt but instead would have to go as a commander to do so. This has the disadvantage of taking it away from people who like to recon for their team every few rounds whenever they feel like it. But I think it gives the advantage of giving players more incentive to play as the commander, which is lacking almost completely right now. Now even if players just want to go commander and recon they’re still helping the team out but can also do more with arty and supplies at their disposal as well.

Another idea would be to give the commander the ability to view the recon plane. As in, if the commander is in his seat he can click to view the ‘underneath’ view of the recon plane even if someone else is flying it. He can have the ability to spot his own arty from there and use it to direct troops better.
Or maybe, is there some possible work around where the commander could ‘call in’ a recon plane? Use his binos to spot the place he wants to recon and have something fly in off map that you could man. I’m thinking kind of like the bomber kit in FH1 where you’d call it in and the plane would fly a set path, you’d then man the plane and drop bombs manually. Iirc I heard it wasn’t exactly possible in BF2 tho.
This area of the commander assets can be expanded upon heavily.

In terms of making the commander a fun role to play in, aside from the assets, the commander should have the ability to move around. He should be able to be with his team only slightly behind the front lines and see his work take effect. You can see in this PR video how dbzao is at the forefront of the attack, watching as his team takes objectives and helps to build/ communicate with them.

Commanding in PR, dbzao video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIyeSSWL8pI

This aspect of being able to move around and be with the team alone makes the commander so much more fun to play. He has the choice to sit in the safety of his chair at the base but if he wants to venture out he can do so with the command trucks that are already in game. They work like they do now, the commander can command from inside his tent or inside the command truck and those are the only two places he has access to his map.

I also believe it could be a good idea to make the commanders truck a spawn point for the whole team. The only other spawn point aside from forward spawns at flags and SL spawns. This has the advantage of; if the commander isn’t using it at all or improperly it doesn’t affect gameplay. BUT if the commander uses it correctly and with some skill, it can become an enemy team’s nightmare, giving them another separate objective to take out. Essentially it’s like the spawnable Halftrack on Cobra (don’t know if it has been removed or not) but instead of having some smaktard drive it around (which has no real negative effect on gameplay currently) it will be a commander. (and again even if the commander is himself a smacktard it doesn’t effect gameplay and at least you have the ability to never let him drive it again by starting a mutiny against him.) This is under the assumption that the commander vehicle is locked to only the commander (possible? you could make it locked to a kit and have the commander kit only able to enter it, commander kit being only different from SL kit in terms of coding.)

The way I’m thinking of it’s ideal use now is on a map like El Alamein, the Brits are having a hard time capping the Ridge, anyone trying to move across the open desert is getting shelled by German tanks and no SL are smart enough or good enough to go and create a spawn point for their team at the base of the hill. So the commander steps in and decides this flag is the team’s number one priority and needs to be taken. He now, being the only one that can drive the command car, has to actively fight his way to a good spawn location where he can sit and defend his car as his team now has one new cohesive spawn point with which to attack this flag. It works for FH gameplay because it gives the team the OPTION of whether to spawn there or not, the commander isn’t useless by just giving his team a move marker and having no one follow it; he’s creating a new asset for his team that he deems useful and hoping his team will utilize that asset to their advantage. It’s a lot like a SL sitting in a building and hiding for his squad to rush in and overwhelm the flag, only it’s like a SL for the whole team which is what the commander should be (in a sense.) Not all maps can possibly have this commander spawn vehicle asset for the commander (inf maps) which is why I think he should also get different types of “supply” abilities as well, for those maps. I believe it’s possible to give commander certain things on certain maps; just like having mortars for arty on one map but large arty on another.

Imo the commander should be thought about on a map by map basis to better see what assets a team could use on those maps and how to balance them between both teams while keeping with historical accuracy.

I’d love to know the community’s feel about the commander in FH2. If you agree or disagree with me; if you think it’s stupid to try and fix the commander or not; if you think the commander is awesome as is and doesn’t need any changing. I’d also love to see some more suggestions. How should the commander’s assets work? What would make YOU want to play commander? I hope this thread can start a good discussion; maybe outline a plan to make the commander something as fun as mortars or riflemen in FH2. Or, after some discussion, realize that the commander is useless in FH2 and have the devs remove it completely so as not to confuse new players and keep the mod ‘polished.’ 

Other command suggestion: http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=11866.0

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Alright so I found the time to start on another project to hone my modeling skills, this time a bit more challenging. I decided to model the Italian Carcano Cavalry Carbine (the one with the folding bayonet). I wanted a challenging model where I could practice making more than basic shapes and learn to surface model with a lot of detail. I also wanted to organize my workflow and do a high poly that could be baked into a low poly that would eventually be UVed and skinned.

I've been working on this for a while now and the high poly isn't done but I figured it was at a point where I could get some basic feedback on it; is the shape right, what have I screwed up, did I go about modeling the wrong way etc... Hopefully the pictures are good enough to where some experienced modelers on this forum could give me some specific or technical feedback. ;) Hopefully you guys enjoy it and constructive criticism is always welcome.

To start I went about finding a ton of reference pictures on the net and they all seemed to have various little differences between each gun that I've found; but this is the main reference I've been working with:

and here's what I've come up with: The high poly with turbo smooth applied (not correctly yet)

Polygonal view: with turbo smooth applied and isoline display checked


and here's the whole album for anyone to take a look at as I don't wanna post ALL the pictures in this post: http://s1145.photobucket.com/user/Matt_Baker1942/slideshow/Cavalry%20Carbine

Also note that the bayonet is stil VERY subject to change as I found no good pictures of that online ;D

but let me know what you think and I'll incorporate it into the model and hopefully keep going with this and get a low poly and skin it to finish it off. 8)

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Modding / [Map] Cretan Village
« on: 17-02-2013, 03:02:53 »
Hey guys, I just wanted to show some of my progress I'm making on a map. I decided I was gonna try my hand at mapping and I figured it'd probably be easiest (for me) to recreate an old map from FH1. So after some looking I decided to try and remake Cretan Village! Using a nice little tool, I was able to transfer the heightmap of the actual map right into the BF2 editor. And from there I painted the terrain with the minimap from the old map. And after a couple weeks of work and learning my way around here's what I've got.

I'll start with a nice overlooking view of the village of Pavlos.


Pavlos from the other side of town.


The main square, and where most of the fighting will probably take place.


Scenic shot of the tight streets.


The classic plane wreck we all probably remember.


The road leading to Pavlos.


Another shot showing off the 2 Pounder.


The guardpost flag.


The ruins atop the hill (which is luckily the like exact same model as from the original).


The german spawn of Zaros.


The British/Australian/New Zealand spawn.


A closer look.


And the command tent (the only place with any detail right now.)


As i said, the map doesn't have any details right now, just the over growth, undergrowth, and main building layouts. But let me know what you guys think. I can't remember how popular Cretan Village was, but I do remember I liked it. And also let me know your thoughts on whether or not I should make it more like the original.

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Gaming / My FH2 Arma 2 mod
« on: 27-01-2013, 04:01:35 »
Hey guys, for awhile now (behind the scenes) I've been putting some time into making a sort of FH2 mod for Arma 2. Actually first I should clarify, this is NOT a mod I plan on distributing. This is simply a mod i started experimenting with and kind of got carried away. Also, if for any reason the Devs want me to stop, I understand. I had been working on it with the thought process of "If its for private use and not being redistributed its okay". Alot of my other BF2 modding endevours, I had used content from multiple mods with the authors saying if its for private use its okay. I thought that would probably apply here, but if I've over stepped any bounds I'll gladly stop.

Anyway, I had been playing alot of Arma 2 and Invasion 1944 (mod for A2) and got a little bored with Invasion 1944's 2 maps and lack of diversity. So I thought hey, how cool would it be to have everything that FH2 has but with the mission customizability of A2 and the extra singleplayer fun that it brings. So I just said why not and transfered my first model from FH2 to Arma 2. After a bumpy start, I've managed to convert several weapons, player models, and vehicles. But my pride and joy is that I got my first terrain working in A2 and its FH2's El Alamein! So I decided, in my giddyness, to just show it to some of you guys and see what you think!

The view from Kidney ridge.






And the view from inside the Crusader MK1 Late, looking at Kidney ridge.



So let me know what you guys think and if any DEVs can please confirm if this is okay, that'd be great.

P.S. I didnt know if this should go in modding or not, I thought it was more off topic of BF2 modding then it was with FH2 modding

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Modding / My First Real Attempt at Modeling (Go Easy)
« on: 25-12-2012, 03:12:29 »
So I've had 3DsMax for a while and never really modeled anything with it/ even knew how to use it ;D but I always wanted to try. So I took a look at a bunch of beginner tutorials (even made Toddel's house tutorial) and decided to see if I could even make something resembling an object that I could then UV and texture later. (Maybe if I learn to model well eventually and tweak this it could even be added in :P, who knows)

I made this regardless of any poly count vert count etc... I just wanted to make something that looks like the picture.

So very basically I started with simple shapes (boxes, planes, cylinders, tubes) and kinda mashed them together to make the shapes. This is probably not the most efficient way of modeling, and it's def. not the most optimal way, in terms of making things that could be used as a game asset.
For one the shapes aren't all attached to one another, they're just floating in space in the spots where they should be, and secondly they have faces that dont face outward. aka faces that wouldn't be seen in a game and therefore just take up space. These are all just results of modeling with objects and putting them together like this. Instead of say planer modeling, that I've seen a few tutorials of. But that seemed like it'd be better used for more complex shapes. Whereas this is pretty much a cylinder at its most basic.

What I'm really wondering is if this is an acceptable way of beginner modeling? Is this a good way to start? To throw objects together and then later go and delete the interior faces that won't be seen? (and then further optimize it so that it fits the constraints of the game engine etc.)

That being said I started with the B4 Italian Anti Personel Mine. The reason for this; I found some good front, back, top, references of it on the internet and it looked to be pretty basically shaped. Something I could throw together with a few of the basic shapes in 3DsMax. (also, I thought it'd be cool to eventually throw this into FH2 myself to replace the S-Mine for Italy :P)





And here's the main reference photo I've been using http://www.germanmilitaria.com/OtherNations/photos/C14555.html

I'm in no way saying that this is close to finished, in fact far from it. This is still very WIP and I'm just looking for feedback from the community or maybe even some devs as to how to move forward from here. Ik alot of you guys can model and know some good tips, tricks etc. Like I said this is my very first real model that I'm just starting out with ;D

UPDATE

Well since my internet is playing up and I can't play FH2 right now :p I finally got around to making some managable UVs and skinned it.

Just throwing another WIP on here for now, I'll get some proper renders after I play with the spec and normals a bit.



So I've pretty much got the spec and normals done and here's how it looks. :D


Spec and Normals are alot more noticable in a real time renderer, but in all I believe it came out pretty well. :)

It's INGAME! After hours of tutorials it's finally ingame. Aside from some scaling issues and using the smine animations it's ingame and working properly.




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So a little background: I've been playing FH2 since it's begun and have never run into connectivity problems before. I live on the East Coast in America and usually play on hslan or 762 with a ping of around 110-112. (I've come to terms with the fact that it won't really get any lower than that). When it's populated I usually try to play on Wolf; my ping usually gets down in the 30-40 range.

That was all fine untill very recently I came back from school and decided to start up some FH. I jumped onto the 126 player server in Finland right away to see what all the fuss was about. Now I had never used this server before and my ping was in the 300's; I just thought that it was due to the server stresses of connecting 126 people or whatever. After the server switched to running vanilla BF2 I tried jumping back to a regualr game on 762 or hslan only to find that my ping has now permanently jumped to around 222-262. Even on Wolf my ping is in the high 100's, and trying to connect to Tactical Gamer in PR my ping is now in the 100's (it was in the low 60s before). Because of this, the game is almost unplayable. Everyone else is a half second ahead of me. I can only shoot at stationary targets and I have to lead moving people by 2-4 meters if they're medium range. If a person happens to be right in front of me, well then I'm dead before I can even see them. 

I've tried most of the common sense fixes. I restarted my internet. Hit the reset button on my DSL, I even went through and taped up any holes that were in the Ethernet cord just to see if that would work. Now I'm by far a "savy" person when it comes to fixing my connection so I decided to come here as I've run out of options.

If anybody can help to find a solution to this problem it would be well appreciated. I should let you know that while trying to play I have no background tasks runnning nor am I downloading anything, Windows is not trying to update and my Norton Atinvirus software hasn't found any viruses that should be slowing down my computer. I have Windows 7 (not that it should matter) and I can let you know my other computer specs if need be.

I would just like to know if there are any other fixes that I haven't tried, or if maybe it's something bigger than just my DSL or computer (like my provider or something). This is a great mod and I'd hate to miss out on the new releases because of this.
 

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Sorry if this has been posted, but I looked through all the stickies in this forum and found nothing. The basic problem is this: ever since 2.26 I've been having a problem with my ping. For the first few days FH2 ran fine on all servers, i would get a ping of about 112 on hslan and some others but that was fine. But then all of a sudden, my ping would start to jump to 500 or 1020 at some points. i looked through these forums for someone who's had a similar problem and found that I just had to reinstall FH2 and make sure not to mod it. (adding other maps or whatever that I've found on the internet) So I did that and it ran fine again for a while untill it started doing it again. i tried the same fix but this time it didn't work. I still get my ping jumping to 500 regulary making it impossible to play.

Has anyone else had problems like this?
Is there any fix or is it something with the server?

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Modding / Cloning FH2.exe
« on: 18-03-2010, 21:03:31 »
Is it possible for me to clone FH2.exe for my personal SP minimod I use to mod? I already cloned the folder but that uses the FH2.exe and so the only way for me to start my 'fh2_sp' is through the custom games tab, which causes wavy shaders and stuff. The only way for me to do this is to make a new.exe that does the same thing as Fh2.exe but with the 'fh2_sp' files. any idea how to do this?

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Modding / modding problem
« on: 17-01-2010, 01:01:57 »
I downloaded a map from the BFSP forums, Kasserine Pass, and i was looking to put it into FH for my fun and personal singleplayer use. Now I played the map in BF2 to see if it worked, which it did, and I just transferred it over into the FH2 levels folder and edited the GPO.con and init.con in order for it to work in FH. the only thing I did different was I took the level settings part of Mareth Line's init.con (just the part with the kits) and replaced the kits in Kasserine pass with that. Also I changed the British Kits and player models to American Ones from I think Operation Luttich. I also changed the part with flags and voices to American. But whenever I load the map I crash when i hit Join game, just before the kit selection pops up and I get no error message. I also tried to switch the American kits to British again but it won't work.... Any ideas on what happened?

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FH2 Help / Support / Graphical Glitch
« on: 16-01-2010, 03:01:04 »
for some reason it seems like all the graphics in game are on low even though I run everything on high. I'll go and check my settings and they still say high but whenever im ingame I get these low crappy looking textures. usually after I restart the game does the graphics go back to high but recently this has been happening more and is getting quite annoying. Any ideas on whats happening?

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Modding / Question about FH1 maps
« on: 23-05-2009, 22:05:28 »
I was wondering how to transfer a map from FH1 over to FHE for my personal use. Im under the impression that since its for my personal use and will not be distrubuted or anything that I do not need to seek permission. If im wrong Ill seek the appropriate permission ASAP. But, my goal is to transfer some FH1 maps over to FHE so I can use FHE's effects and iron sights on more than 1 map. Any help is appreciated.

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