Force Commander - Gabriel Angelos Reskin (Ranked Compatible)

[Kolaris]

Inspired by Shuma's great helmet mod and with a few requests in tow, I put together a reskin replacing the default Force Commander's model and portraits with Gabriel Angelos.

I have not tested how well it works with the Campaign, but so far everything seems perfect and bug-free in Multiplayer/Skirmish.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v731/Revan8472/FCGabriel.jpg

Download Link (http://www.filefront.com/16143503/FCGabriel.rar/)

Installation instructions are in the Readme.

[Z405]

Ooh awesome' just 1 question, what have you done to his portrait once you equip terminator gear, because as far as i could tell, i didn't find any files of Gabriel in Terminator armor.

Btw, i must be getting blind, but where can i download your alteration? :D

[Kolaris]

Oh...haha, I can't believe I forgot the link.

I made Gabriel his own Terminator portrait the best way I could, but I'm no expert with Photoshop. Still, it looks pretty decent to me.

[Existor]

Epic mod! I like it

[=agent-orange=]

Hi Kolaris

Would you be able to do the same with the Davian Thule Head onto the FC model?

I'd love to see that, would be really cool!

agentorange

[Caeltos]

Diomedes Mod. NAOW :[

[Fallschirmjager]

that already exists. slap on shuma's sternguard veteran helmet.

[Caeltos]

I know the actual helmet exists, however- I was more keen on maintaining the actual armor aswell, since it's more fittable imo instead of the other rank unlocks/wargear etc;

[Prince Damien]

Hi. Just wanna say it looks great.
But as =agent-orange= said, it would be nice to see Davian Thule's head on the FC. I love his Bionic eye and his whole face. So would be great to see him soon between the FC's shoulders. ^^

You could use this potrait aswell for him.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/thumb/3/3e/Thule.jpg/150px-Thule.jpg

And I got another thought, I really like Avitus head aswell. I think he looks like a commander with all the metal on his face. Looks like hes been throu alot of combat.

[Existor]

Hm, can you change ingame unit portraits? Because now TSM and marines with bolters have very similar icons

[Kolaris]

Hm, can you change ingame unit portraits? Because now TSM and marines with bolters have very similar icons

Well...I can change them, the question would be to what? There isn't a different portrait I could use for them.

A few unused Ork and Chaos portraits though.

Davian Thule used range weapons I thought, doesn't make as much sense for a FC, but hell if it looks cool that should be the only justification I need. I'll get to work on it.

[Prince Damien]

Sure, Davian Thule use a Heavy Bolter in DoW2. But hes face is so much better then the normal FC. So would die for a Davian Thule head instead. -hehe- And I gott say, I love Bionic eyes. ^^

And by using his head doesnt mean it has to be Davian Thule. 40k is a big place, and alot of FC's that got Bionic Eyes and more. Just need to use some imagination. ^^

[Prince Damien]

I came up with an idea how to make him look a little less like Thule, if you had some dislikes about the idea of his head on a FC... But its just a small thing, make his Bionic eye Red or something instead of Blue. Why I said red, its the most common colour I've seen on Bionic eyes.

[Shuma]

Heh, i think every living person loves Thule. Thule is by far the best Force Commander DoW has seen, second only to the awesome that is Gabriel Angelos, which now that i think about it just puts him above Apollo, Mute Commander and Boreale, then again, it'd be hard to make someone better than Thule or Gabriel anyway, but Apollo was good enough.

[Fallschirmjager]

no, dont make it red. it would blend too much with the bloodravens armor.

[shadowninja0069]

IMHO i say why not make the bionic eye green makes most sence!!!!

[Prince Damien]

The original Blue Bionic eye works perfect. Just said it could get a change just because if Kolaris didnt want him to look just as much as Davian Thule. -hehe-

[Kolaris]

Here we are, done and done.

Force Commander - Davian Thule Replacement (http://www.filefront.com/16265401/FCThule.rar)

His Portraits were not as conducive to good (well, mediocre) Photoshop work as Gabriel's were, but I did what I could.

And sorry, feeling a bit lazy and didn't take any screenshots. You should be getting more or less what you expect.

[Prince Damien]

Tried Thule now. And I love it. =D

[sporty]

Thule looks ace, the first model replacement I'm willing to try :)

Edit: The .module section in your readme is missing the 220_data.sga for the current patch... well, not really an issue, but more work than simple copy+paste for us lazy folks ;)

[=agent-orange=]

Wow, Davian Thule is ace, nice one I'll be using this alot for skirmishes!!!!

Thank you for quickly turning this around, top job!!

agentorange
very happy!!

[Prince Damien]

Hi.
Still love Thule as FC. But I have noticed something, I might be wrong... But the golden part of the backpack aint gold anymore, its team-coloured. I wonder if it has to be with Thules head... with Angelos he still had the golden part, but not with Thule. Was it a miss and can be fixed, or will it stay like this when using Thule?
Would be fun to have that golden part back, but wont miss it that much since I have Thule. ^^

just wanted to let you know if you havnt noticed it yourself.

[Prince Damien]

you have not said anything about my question about the missing gold-part ont he backpack when using Thule. are you looking into it or have you? would like to know if your planning on having a look and see if it can be fixed.
dont let me hang here not knowing. -hehe- ^^

[Bluebird]

I just wanted to metion that if u equip the FC Angelos & Thule with a Jump pack their faces look really weird.
Dont know if u know it allready but i like my FC jumping into a Enemy Nest with his Hammer so maybe u can fix it

[Kolaris]

I just wanted to metion that if u equip the FC Angelos & Thule with a Jump pack their faces look really weird.
Dont know if u know it allready but i like my FC jumping into a Enemy Nest with his Hammer so maybe u can fix it

This wasn't really meant as a Campaign switch as it wouldn't really make much sense (Thule and Angelos are already in the Campaign), so I didn't include the Jump Pack versions.

If there's enough requests for it I might add them though.

Oh, and has anyone noticed something strange about Thule's backpack, specifically its team texture? I've heard reports that it was a bit off but I can't see anything wrong about it.

[Prince Damien]

Yeah, I've wrote what I can see. That normaly the packpack should have a golden part, but its gone when using Thule. The golden part is team-colour instead of gold.


Oh, and has anyone noticed something strange about Thule's backpack, specifically its team texture? I've heard reports that it was a bit off but I can't see anything wrong about it.

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/3564/bluh2.jpg

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1139/bluh1.jpg
*And I have checked, the golden part is not because of the helmet mod shown in this picture*

[Shuma]

Damn i had forgotten that Thule looked like such a badass.

[Kolaris]

I guess that's a problem with Thule's backpack by default. I don't think I have the necessary knowledge of the textures to mess something up so specifically, heh.

I can probably fix it by completely switching his backpack out for the default FC version, I'll see what I can do.

[Kolaris]

Alright, a new version with Thule is available that has the standard FC backpack rather than the vanilla Marine version.

Link (http://www.filefront.com/16265401/FCThule.rar)

[Prince Damien]

Nice man. Now Thule is complete. ^^

[Idonahari]

Kolaris, Thank you for the mod mate, i'm gonna use both of these heroes to diverse the battlefield !

Good job !

[THJT-9]

Great job-Well done on the change, i'm loving having Angelos tearing around the battlefield :)

[Pigletdude]

Will this work with any patch? :)

[Shuma]

Yes.

[LeoLulz]

This wasn't really meant as a Campaign switch as it wouldn't really make much sense (Thule and Angelos are already in the Campaign), so I didn't include the Jump Pack versions.

If there's enough requests for it I might add them though.
Any chance you could do a small revisit and add these?

Thanks in advance!

[LKHERO]

This stopped working for me in Retribution.

Help?

[Prince Damien]

it stopped working in Retribution since the FC have a different head then the original FC, and the mod is ment to replace the old FC's head. So someone have to uptade the mods so it will replace the new FC's head. Sadly I dont know how to mod, or I would have done so already.

[Chaos Godstone]

The very easiest way would be to extract the contents of the .sga and make a new folder named diomedes, leave the unchanged .dds files in the force_commander folder and move the other files also re-named from force_commander to diomedes into the diomedes folder, re-package the files as a .sga and put the .sga in the gameassets/mods folder as normal.

[LKHERO]

Can you be so kind as to do a complete walkthrough Chaos?

[Chaos Godstone]

Well as it is Kolaris' thread I decided to work on the problem myself, not so easy! 1st it should have been force_commander_nobackpack I said and 2nd I decided to make it so that the FC can equip a jumppack.
So after two nights work I hope these work:-

EDIT:
I have run a test by bringing up the army painter screen in Chaos Rising, can't test Retribution, and both work as before but can equip jump-packs, should work for Retribution though, now all Diomedes portraits, I think, are replaced.

Gabriel Angelos (http://www.gamefront.com/files/21486464/fc_gabriel_sga) 3rd ed.
Davian Thule (http://www.gamefront.com/files/21486469/fc_thule_sga) 3rd ed.



... and put the .sga in the gameassets/mods folder...

[Cpt.Tycho]

Any chance we will also get portraits for them?

[Chaos Godstone]

I re-worked the mods that Kolaris did and checked that all files were there, so it should work in DoW2 and CR like before although the FC now should be able to wear a jump-pack. I also changed Diomedes' head to match, so the FC used in the previous games should be the FC in Retribution, however, I do not have the retail game to try it on and naturally the Beta ended.

There was already some portraits in the mods and the portraits used by Diomedes, unless it was just for the Beta, have the same name as the first two games. Theoretically they should work, I could always be proved wrong though. :)

[Just8KB8]

Hey man, just wanted to say thanks! All works fine in Retri! I love the Thule commander skin. Just awesome! Alot better then the grandpa or Vanilla Ice... So thanks for the wrenchtime you put in!

One more question. I hate the new voice they gave the FC. Is it possible to also change the soundfiles the same way you did the skins? That would be even more awesome!!

[Prince Damien]

Hi there.

I tried out the new Thule for Retri, and it worked. ^^
But... I also noticed thats the old problem from before was there aswell. Where the golden part of his backpack was team-coloured instead.

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?246133-Force-Commander-Gabriel-Angelos-Reskin-%28Ranked-Compatible%29&p=3825453&viewfull=1#post3825453

This is the post I made, I put it here so you dont have to scroll up and dowhn looking for it. -hehe-
Others havnt said anything about this yet, so I dunno if its just for me it happens, or others have just not noticed it yet. ^^

[Chaos Godstone]

I have looked into this and the problem is with Diomedes as his head model does not have a backpack with it, could be using a common Space Marine backpack and the version of Thule used is the fixed one from Chaos Rising. There also seems to be some portraits which have escaped my notice too, probably campaign related.

@ Just8KB8
I haven't worked with sound files yet and can't promise anything.

EDIT:
Looking at the sound files, it doesn't look good. There are more than enough files for Gabriel but not nearly close to enough for Davian.

It's confirmed by looking into a few ebps files Diomedes is using - art\race_marine\troops_wargear\accessories\space_marine_backpack\space_marine_backpack, hence the team colourability.

I've updated the links in post #40 due to including the missing portraits.

[Existor]

1) Can you make retribution version? Previous mod not work (only portrait changes)

2) Can you add icon for loading game screen?

[dreadnaut981]

awsomeness gabrial works :)

but is there any chance in getting his voice?

[Chaos Godstone]

There is a thread started about the subject here http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?258231-Editing-the-gamespeechcontainers. So it looks possibly like a no, for now. :(

@ Existor
The links in post #40 should work with Retribution and Chaos Rising. I don't know if I got every portrait but I think I have.

[Existor]

I don't know if I got every portrait but I think I have.

http://i17.fastpic.ru/big/2011/0308/9c/010906039e8827115493be99bb2ce69c.png

[Chaos Godstone]

Ah-ha? I wonder where that one is hiding and what name it has also if anyone else has the same happening?

[Existor]

Also, I fixed that portrait. This portrait is in this path:\ui\textures\generic\fe\game_load\

http://www.multiupload.com/WFKK8JJ8ZL

[Chaos Godstone]

Updated links in post #40, admittedly my fe\game_load\ portrait of Gabriel is not as crisp an image as Existor's.

Oh, just routed my manners out of a little box. Thanks Existor. :)

[WNxLocklear]

Thanks for fixing this :D

[Existor]

What about fixing loading screen? It has Diomedes instead GA or DT :)

[SirIronclad]

The portrait is also missing in the army selection screen before starting the matchmaking.

[Existor]

Reinstall my PortraitMod (it now don't includes Diomedes portrait)

[ShadowWakka]

Uhhh I'm not sure if it was you, but if it was can you post the Old FC for retri mod? Thanks for Gabe btw =D

[Chaos Godstone]

Originally posted by Existor

What about fixing loading screen? It has Diomedes instead GA or DT :)

I am definitely not as good with the portraits and other associated art assets as you, Existor. I only have Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 and not quite mastered it's full potential.

@ ShadowWakka
I must admit I'm not quite with you, I have only updated the two FC mods made by Kolaris.

[ShadowWakka]

Oh, oh well. Thanks anyway its a great mod =D

[MarkedRaptor]

Hello, I really enjoyed using your Thule mod(since the new FC looks like derp), and it worked for a time being, but with the new 3.14 patch I think it broke(or at least, broke for me), would you have any advice I can use to fix it?

[Chaos Godstone]

The easiest way to install the mod is to put the .sga in:-

dawn of war 2\GameAssets\Mods <--- for Dawn of War 2/Chaos Rising
dawn of war ii - retribution\GameAssets\Mods <--- for Retribution

However, if that does not work any more the other way is to edit the .module file.


[data:common]
folder.01 = GameAssets\Data
archive.01 = GameAssets\Mods\fc_thule.sga
archive.02 = GameAssets\Archives\230_data.sga
archive.03 = GameAssets\Archives\220_data.sga
archive.04 = GameAssets\Archives\210_data.sga
archive.05 = GameAssets\Archives\200_data.sga
archive.06 = GameAssets\Archives\GameArt_DELTA.sga
archive.07 = GameAssets\Archives\GameArt.sga
archive.08 = GameAssets\Archives\GameArtEnvironment_DELTA.sga
archive.09 = GameAssets\Archives\GameArtEnvironment.sga
archive.10 = GameAssets\Archives\GameArtEnvironmentTextures_DELTA.sga
archive.11 = GameAssets\Archives\GameArtEnvironmentTextures.sga
archive.12 = GameAssets\Archives\GameMaps_DELTA.sga
archive.13 = GameAssets\Archives\GameMaps.sga
archive.14 = GameAssets\Archives\GameDefault_DELTA.sga
archive.15 = GameAssets\Archives\GameDefault.sga^Dawn of War 2/Chaos Rising


[data:common]
folder.01 = GameAssets\Data
archive.01 = GameAssets\Mods\fc_thule.sga
archive.02 = GameAssets\Archives\002_campaign.sga
archive.03 = GameAssets\Archives\002_laststand.sga
archive.04 = GameAssets\Archives\002_multiplayer.sga
archive.05 = GameAssets\Archives\002_extra.sga
archive.06 = GameAssets\Archives\002_data.sga
archive.07 = GameAssets\Archives\001_campaign.sga
archive.08 = GameAssets\Archives\001_laststand.sga
archive.09 = GameAssets\Archives\001_multiplayer.sga
archive.10 = GameAssets\Archives\001_extra.sga
archive.11 = GameAssets\Archives\001_data.sga
archive.12 = GameAssets\Archives\000_campaign.sga
archive.13 = GameAssets\Archives\000_laststand.sga
archive.14 = GameAssets\Archives\000_multiplayer.sga
archive.15 = GameAssets\Archives\000_extra.sga
archive.16 = GameAssets\Archives\000_data.sga^Retribution

If this does not help, I am not sure how to proceed. :(
I don't know whether the latter solution will break the Ranked Compatibility of the mod!

PS:
As I do not have the full retail Retribution, merely the Beta(none functioning), I have approximated the .module section from another source.
Thanks Calon. ;)

[Vanghoul]

Is there any mod to restore the original FC head?

[Chaos Godstone]

I think there's one in the Armaments of War mod.

[Vanghoul]

yup there is one! thanks :D

[Fuhror]

Is it possible to replace hairgel with Diomedes? Heard the model is not the same or something?

[krxatosx]

reup links :S coz are offline ty :D

P:S: try to build 1 for retribution 100% compatible ty :D

[Boreale]

Hey why dont you make the game like it was supposed to and make avitus the force commander?

[Supremeghost]

Can you upload the Gabriel Angelos file again, please?
The link is broken.

[Chaos Godstone]

The American governmental superiority complex be blamed for the many troubles of the Megaupload users! :(

Both links in post #40 are updated.

[Supremeghost]

Thank you! :)

[Orkamungus]

links are down again because filefront sucks and is run by mongoloids.

[Chaos Godstone]

Re-uploaded.
Should work with,

Dawn of War II
Dawn of War II Chaos Rising
Dawn of War II Retribution

Gabriel Angelos (http://www.gamefront.com/files/23053606/fc_gabriel.zip) 3rd ed.
Davian Thule (http://www.gamefront.com/files/23053605/fc_thule.zip) 3rd ed.



... and put the .sga in the gameassets/mods folder...