Rangers Skins/Allied Camo Buildings

[BlackLabel]

Hi. Since its possible that i can use diffrent skins in Multiplayer without using the -dev thing i started to tweak my rangers a bit. I just gave them camo vests and added some little detail. After looking through Halftracks Skinpack pictures i discovered that he used the same sample of camo for his sniper as i did for my rangervests. (i found that sample on the web...its a "jungle" camo from ´42 )

DOWNLOAD HERE : CLICK (http://files.filefront.com/BLKRANGERrar/;6308280;;/fileinfo.html)

The pack NOW features : ALL allied buildings camoed up, Rangers with camoed vests and other changes, weathered/usedlook Halftrack/M10 Wolverine/Sherman...

Well here is what i got until now :

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Skinny/Panzers/CoH/CoHmodding/rangers01.jpg

I plan to make another Skinpack with more diversity on the units....Feedback whould be highly apprecheated.

[spud..]

cool they look 10 times better already

[BlackLabel]

I also started to change the face textures to more battle hardened veterans than the "boyish" faces the got now. Also started to put some camo netting over the allied MG nests....:bricks:



http://www.maj.com/gallery/Skinny/Panzers/CoH/CoHmodding/rangerrgt.jpg


http://www.maj.com/gallery/Skinny/Panzers/CoH/CoHmodding/rangersnear.jpg

[DeaconFrost]

Absolutely magnificant!!! :awesome::awesome::awesome:

Looking forward for more mods of all of you! They're bringing CoH more life-like and real-feeling than anything else!!!

Thx BlackLabel,
thx Halftrack
thx Doctor Lee
thx MoonBlood
thx everybody else i just missed!! :confused::wave:

Greetings,
Deacon
:salute:

[weapon range]

tough guys I would say!! Very Nice!

[DoctorLee]

Looks great! :D

How about some full face painting on them?(Dunno if that's realistic, but what the heck, it will look cool lol)

[Warnstaff]

IMPRESSIVE!

[Unkn0wn]

absolutely amazing, I can only hope you reskin even more units in the future!

[Homestar_Killer]

They look great blacklabel. Are you going to release these skins? If so do you have an idea when?

[BlackLabel]

Thanks....


i tried to upload the files to filefront but they dont appeared there. Strange. I will try again later and then update the first post with the DL´ing link.

Cheers

[Adonis]

Nice work, BlackLabel! :awesome: Will definitely have to use these sometime.

Rangers lead the way!

[BlackLabel]

Alllright. Added the Download link to the first post. Just copy the file into your mod and extract...should work.
I started to change the face textures on the rangers as i mentioned above. I came across the idea to use real photos and then work em over abit. I just started with those little changes and iam sure noone will mention them in normal game. But...anyway. I had fun doing them. Hope you enjoi playing them as much as i did editing them.

Have fun

BLKLBL

( and now back to HW Legacy part II )


*edit*

After spending hours of reserarching the web for camo used by the allies i gave up. But not really. I started to apply some weathering/worn out effects to some vehicles. I added them to the rangerskinpack. If anyone here has information of camo used on Allies tanks...that whould be helpfull....Anyhow...heres a teaser :

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Skinny/Panzers/CoH/CoHmodding/rangergroup.jpg

[Kyranzor]

omg looks so cool its not funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for v1.4 of KMOD i had planned a "hardened Veteran" squad (lol sound familiar Guard players?) that uses captured Axis ewapons as well as US weapons. they need face camo and darker camo for thier uniform, in fact a black night camo would be awesome for these guys. like british SAS style lol with beenies and black camo. in fact, i might as well make them british!

P.S i can host files for you

[BlackLabel]

Nice idea there man. Why not having them using a captured Sdkfz 250 ? CORSIX !!!!!! work hard for your next mod tools please !!!!:poke:

[Kyranzor]

lol yeah man!! a captured axis halftrack!! lol
those US halftrack camo's look pro

[BlackLabel]

Jesus iam in a rush at the moment. Ok. I update the download link the third time this morning...:jester:

Look here :

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Skinny/Panzers/CoH/CoHmodding/rangerpack.jpg

[Kyranzor]

OMG COOOL!!! that beats the normal MG nest by 3000%

[BlackLabel]

Thanks...i found out that i changed the other buildings on default too. Seems i have to change ALL allied buildings to camo now...:D

[FiffA]

Those skins are just breathtaking... yupp like the MG nest now it fits the forests so u can hide it moore =D

Nice job ! BlackLabel !

[BlackLabel]

Thanks, again. Well i started to do ALL allied buildings...mh. Hope i dont overdoe it at the moment.

look :

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Skinny/Panzers/CoH/CoHmodding/buildingscamo.jpg

[platinawings]

I can't wait until release!:D

btw, will you do on flag and german buildings?

[DeaconFrost]

WTF?! :wtf2:

Just didn't look after the CoH forum for a half day... and completely new awesome building & vehicles layout for Allies?!? :confused:

Man, BlackLabel, this is SO ABSOLUTELY COOL! :agree::trix::awesome:

I can't wait to see them tonight in a nice game!!! :jester:

Please proceed doing such great things!!

[BlackLabel]

Hi. the buildings are not finished at the moment. Think i get em down later on today.


*edit*

ALLLLRIGHT its done....:cylon:

Please check the first post for updated download link. Thanks...and HAVE FUN...:nervous: maybe i tweak some things later on but it will do for a testdrive...:trix:

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Skinny/Panzers/CoH/CoHmodding/buildingscomaall.jpg

[Halftrack]

Farout work. I have recently searched or some allied camo patterns,, too. But didnt find anything useful, except of the US Marine Corps Camo, that they used
in Pacific theatre. Vehicles were sometimes painted in camo, then sand brown or dark greygreen (almost black ) was used mostly. Tents and stuff werent camoed, but what the heck, it looks cool. :D

[BlackLabel]

" Joe ! "

" Yessss, SIR ! "

" Our rangers have new camoed vests and i dont like that, they now look better than our base ! "

" uhh...SIR ? "

" JOE...i want you to grab some other soliders and make my base camoed ASAP ! "

"SIR ?"

"Look son. Those so called "elites"...zzz look at our base...it lays right in the open with huge big STARs on it...Jesus its a miracle that jerry dident bomb us back to stoneage at the time...so. Grab some of those lazy fellas over there and get me a nice camoed base ok ?"

" YES SIR, can be done, SIR "

" Good Solider....dismissed ! "

[DeaconFrost]

Hehehe... allr ight... downloaded it :rofl::awesome:

But I have to wait till today evening before i can try it... :-\:Oogle:

still some ordinary work here to do.. :coffee::rolleyes:

But anyway: are there except the M10 and Halftrack any weathering
effects on the Shermans, Pershings, other vehicles?
or is this just to get some first feedback from the crowd? ;):xmas:

[BlackLabel]

mhhh....i guess thats doable. Oh and the Sherman is part of the pack...forgot to mentioned that. And yeah...all feedback is welcome.

[DeaconFrost]

oh, great, Shermans too! :awesome:

I only mentioned that, because on the first page where the download link and content describtion is given, only M10 and Halftrack is mentioned.. :crazy:

so, the Pershing, Greyhound, Jeep is getting some cool "refreshments" also? *gg*

:twocents:

[Battle^Cruiser°]

great job blacklabel ...
ones again GJ ....
:bump:

[DeaconFrost]

I did yesterday a game with the new skins... first impression: Absolutely awesome! :awesome::slow:

on the second look it seems, that the camo colors are a tiny bit to dark...
I don't know, on your pics they look generally a bit brighter and better :p

but that's not decreasing the game fun in any way! :corn:

[DeaconFrost]

@ BlackLabel

Dear BlackLabel

i was asked to forward this question from the CoH forum of http://www.hq-coh.com/

There is the problem that the blue for own units, yellow for team units and red for enemy units color schema ruins the feeling of your skins :err:

http://people.freenet.de/hellboy999/coh1.jpg

http://people.freenet.de/hellboy999/coh2.jpg

Is there a way to get rid of those markings?? ;)

Many many thanks in advance and greetz,
Deacon

[Kyranzor]

yes there is. its called "teamcolours" you can change them to un-retarded bright colours to nice, dark, simple colours. find the "teamcolours.lua" of a mod, or make yourr own and edit the .lua file with notepad. change the numbers to lower, darker numbers.
these are the colours i use for my mod KMOD:


team_colours =

{

{ -- self

colour = { 65, 65, 40 },

tint = 0,

badge="Wolfhead.tga"

},

{ -- ally

colour = { 220, 171, 0 },

tint = 0,

badge="Wolfhead.tga"

},

{ -- enemy

colour = { 85, 65, 35 },

tint = 0,

badge="Wolfhead.tga"

},

{ -- neutral

colour = { 128, 128, 128 },

tint = 0,

badge="Wolfhead.tga"

},

}



this gives both youi and the enemy a dark olive style colour, and fits very nice with Blacklabel's skins. i kept the allied player as yellow, to help distinguish them.

[DeaconFrost]

@ Kyranzor

Thx a lot!! :)

[Kyranzor]

np dude!! always here to help.

btw blacklabel, you've done like 90% of the work for me hahaahahahah your camo buildings are what i need for my spec ops buildings and alternate structures!

[BlackLabel]

yeah...i remembered we talked about custom building skins a while ago. I was like...."ah heck i do them all".
Use em if you like...:wave:

[KnowsKnone]

Absolutely awesome! that beats the normal MG nest by 3000%
Those are understatements, I dont think anyone can beat your work. Good job, maybe a close up on the sherman?

[BlackLabel]

Thanks for ze flowers. Iam never happy with my skins...never. I allways find some things that might be carryed out diffrent. Nevertheless SHERMAN :

http://www.maj.com/gallery/Skinny/Panzers/CoH/CoHmodding/shermz.jpg

Sadly through the lazy allies dont use that much cameo on their tanks. Maybe i give it a shot because iam a littlebored right now after skinning so many german panzers.

[SIG21_Surgeon]

Yep! I totally agree to that. Reskinning the allied tanks is quite boring. Had to be carefull not to add to much, there was just nothing to do.

[Homestar_Killer]

I am having a problem. I want to use the skins, but I don't want the rangers to use them. I want my new unit to use them.

And I cannot get it right. Can someone help me. Oh yeah the Sherman looks good.

[BlackLabel]

Iam not exactly sure if you can clone a unit and then give em another appereance than the original one. I think i read this involves HEX-Editing. BUT...if i remember correctly Corsix ( god praise his mother ) said that this whould be part of the next modtool release.:err:

[Homestar_Killer]

Oh ok thank you.

[Kyranzor]

indeeeed i cant wait. i have no idea how hex editing works, so i must rely on Corsix-das-wunder-kindt to supply us with a nice fat juicy model importer/skin thingo

[Happy_the_Hobo]

:wave: Well in terms of different skins for the allies you could always do them for north africa, right now I am currently doing that along with hex editing the models to use different skins, so I am trying to create US tanks for north africa in a tanish color to be used by british infantry. I think it would be nicer if you did them for every mod team to use them.

[BlackLabel]

Everyone can use them.:dance:

[jdblair5]

Very impressive , excellent work.

Quick question , I noticed you can change the team colors from the default blue , red etc , is there a way to disable them? or make them transparent? cause it look like on your screen shots Black Label , there not even there.

[Kyranzor]

he removed them via skinning. he skinned them out

[STEAL]

has anyone figured out how to skin the hq. I cant find it. I found all the other buildings they are on the same layout but the hq is nowhere to be found

[Sooth]

Could be because the HQs are different... I would even say randomized. You know how you don't get a preview of the HQ in the mapmaker. Still there are a few HQ variants in the buildings thingie. Try and reskin those (theyre in buildings/normandy rural/industrial/urban).

[Leanardo]

omg i used these skins with a trench map and it was AWESOME!! GREAT WORK compared to my skins of allies these uber pwn. (but everyone uber pwns mine :P )

[BlackLabel]

thanks leandro ! i will rework some other units/details when iam back from my holidays. tskross provided me with some very good samples of camo used during 44-45 by the allies.

[Cpt Otto]

Fantastic skins, but is the blue supposed to show up over the camo? It would look so much better without the blue.
:spartaaa:

[BlackLabel]

Ye hi. I was too lazy to get them off the buildings...i think about releasing a revisited version of the skinpack as a whole when OF hits the shelfs.

[AnyKey]

Hate to be the one but any new plans on releasing new versions/updates BL?

[hl1975]

Can the OF use?

[AnyKey]

what? Are you asking if this could be used with OF?

[hl1975]

Is this meaning, ha ha, my English isn't good. am a new player of China, is looking for the skin that the OF can use

[IrisDane]

Wow I love them I'll use them in my mod, I'll take no credit for them cuz well I'm not publishing it. If I do, I'll give you credit.

[Monty76]

Are you including flags in this mod, or will it leave existing flags alone (I've only just got the damn things to work properly!)

Damn good work though, I love the more weathered look to the troops and vehicles, adds a lot to the look of the game.

[IrisDane]

Pssh if you do another skin make the riflemen look uberawesome too. Mine look so plain.

[Blurp]

Oh my goddd! Why didnt I discovered this ages ago!! This is freaking amazing!

Oh oh oh... What about the Paratroopers and Riflemen!!!! :O
Could you do them for us!? That would be very awesome!

btw.. You're my god of skinning.

Thanks, this makes the game much more fun!

Greetz