Release: colourful diversity (OtherModalternative)

[Painter]

OtherModalternative
a modification for Company of Heroes/Opposing Fronts

The modification brings many graphical changes. It does not change the gameplay and running with the latest patch for Company of Heroes/Opposing Fronts.









Changes:

Zoom level increases (from 40 to 100)
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Flags without team colours
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All vehicles colour change
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Axis units
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Axis units 2
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Allied units
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Allied units 2
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Colour identical wrecks
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Team colours of the vehicles and buildings partially removed or altered

For each nation, the team colours now completely white



Installation:

The "OtherModalternative" folder and the file "OtherModalternative.module" from "othermodalternative.rar" into the installation directory of Company of Heroes/Opposing Fronts unpack.

Then create a shortcut (RelicCOH.exe).

The properties of the shortcut open.

Add the following:

...\...\RelicCOH.exe -modname OtherModalternative -dev

Start the game with this shortcut.



Creator of this modification: Painter



To integrate this mod with your/other mods, you must ask me (Painter) first.

Enjoy the game!



Edit: Thumbnails and some new pictures.

[Herr Kodax]

Whoa! Very nice skins! Congratulations mate. I suppose it is only tank skins eh? Will other vehicles follow?

Edit: I saw your link, and if I understand well, there are skins for all units. Very nice.

[Monkey Soldier]

Very nice. Good job on this one

[Painter]

Thanks for the feedback.

[Herr Kodax]

Does it work with version 2.202? That's the one I'm using for now, because I don't want not to be able to play a mod. I haven't tried to install your mod yet. Afraid of any bad surprises...

[Monkey Soldier]

I got some few improvements here: (although, I really love your skins)
Make the KT less green
Don't know if it was planned, but could you fix the cover on the Sdkfz 251 halftrack?

[Painter]

Hello Herr Kodax
Yes, also works with patch 2.202.

Hello Monkeys
I just have no changes planned. Sorry.
Be me but wishes and suggestions for improvement notice.
Maybe I will be later installed.

[Herr Kodax]

Ok, thank you very much Painter. Will try your mod tomorrow!

[Lethal Dosage]

ZOMG! Woah! This is the part where i wish i had broadband!

I... I... I love these skins, and i especially like how the same paint scheme is consistent across the whole factions' vehicles, while still having a variation in the pattern. It would've been nice to have a little more variatiopn between the Wehr and PE, and between the US and Brits.

The only thing i fnind lacking is the markings on some of the vehicles, and it seem the US have no marking at all.

I've been well and truely sick of all the yellow on the British, and especially wishing for a green Bren Carrier, your my hero! Now i suppose i have to choose between either the big skin compilation i've put together or just your pack, cus it does everything.

I'm surprised i've never seen your around these forums before, your truely up there with the master skinners!

[Mirage Knight]

Very nice cammo scheme for Axis!

You might want to move the vehicle number on the Panzer IV up to the turret from the side skirts. Panzer IV's had their vehicle numbers on the sides and rear of the turret skirts.

Other than that, nice work so far

[Painter]

@ Lethal Dosage and Mirage Knight

Thanks for the feedback.

All US vehicles have markings. The markings can be seen but only in the game (team colours).
The following picture show all US vehicles again with markings:



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The following 3 pictures show again the other nations with markings:

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Unfortunately, I could not make any markings realistic. On some areas, there was ugly distortions (for example, when Panther). The turret skirts of the Panzer IV was also problematic. The markings are reflected on the inside. It looked very bad.



@ All

Here are a few pictures of the wrecks:



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Bye



Edit: Thumbnails and some new pictures.

[Lethal Dosage]

I really like this, any intention of getting around to doing vehicles like the Wehr motorbike and the PE Kettenkrad?

I was really disappointed looking at this ingame that the only markings were the TC ones, but overall the skins are very good. Perhaps you could turn your attention towards skinning some of the buildings or aircraft next?

[Mickey C]

Awsome skins, thanks for putting in the effort ! The wher skins are sweet

Nice to have more consistent looking british skins too.

cheers.

[Herr Kodax]

Wrecks gotta be one of the nicest parts of this mod.

[actrol]

I have a problem with your mod, it doesn't work.

I have patch to 2.3 my opposing front.

I have extract and copy your folder into my directory coh of

I have create a shortcut and rename it

What's happen ?

[actrol]

T'es un gros malin dis donc splinter machin chouette

[Monkey Soldier]

You know the rules Actrol..English only...

[Herr Kodax]

@ Painter -

If you could also take out that damn unit occlusion, it would be much, much better!

[Painter]

@ Lethal Dosage

I really like this, any intention of getting around to doing vehicles like the Wehr motorbike and the PE Kettenkrad?

Perhaps you could turn your attention towards skinning some of the buildings or aircraft next?

I just have no other changes planned. At the moment, unfortunately, I have very little time to get the mod to work. The Axis motorcycle and PE Kettenkrad liked me very original.


@ actrol

Sorry, I forgot to say. With patch 2.3 following thread.

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=185634

http://www.corsix.org/misc/COH2300dev.rar

Enjoy the game!


@ Herr Kodax

If you could also take out that damn unit occlusion, it would be much, much better!

What do you mean by that?

[actrol]

thanks very much

[Herr Kodax]

@ Painter -

I mean when a unit is behind a wall or tree, and you see that unit blue or red depending if it's yours or enemy. For example, you have a koenigstiger, and half of it is behind a wall. You'd like to take a nice screenshot, but the half part of it behind the wall can be seen as blue. Another example, is to have some grenadiers in a forest. If one's hand for example is behind a tree, you see it as blue. Horrific! Take it off, take it off!

Other than that, I have no other suggestions.

[Painter]

@ Herr Kodax

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I know what you mean.
You are right, does not look good.

Unfortunately, I found no way to change this.

[Herr Kodax]

@ Painter -

If I remember well, I saw a way to get rid of it in the ammo box. I'll do some search for you when I find the time, and then (if I find it) it will be up to you if you implement it in your mod or not.

Edit: I couldn't wait. Check this thread Painter, and let us know your thoughts.

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthre...ight=occlusion

[Painter]

@ Herr Kodax

Could you combine with my Mod. Install the files as described here. Then open the OtherModalternative.module.

change of:

[attrib:common]
folder = OtherModalternative\DataAttrib
archive.01 = OtherModalternative\Archives\AttribArchive
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\AttribArchive

to this:

[attrib:common]
folder = OtherModalternative\DataAttrib
archive.01 = OtherModalternative\Archives\AttribArchive
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\OccAttribArchive
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\AttribArchive

Now it should work.

[Widowmaker1]

I love these skins! One question though, do you mind if I convert some of them slightly like this?

Panther

I'm no moder nor skinner(just learning photoshop now), as such I'm not going to release them or anything.

I just think the ambush scheme looks great

[Painter]

@ Widowmaker1

The change you have made, looks very good. You can change the skins like. If you should publish it, but I ask for a reference to the original skins.

So again I must say, very good work.

If you again what changed, you can show it here.

Bye Painter

[Widowmaker1]

Thanks Painter!
Here's the Jagdpanther

[Widowmaker1]

[Monkey Soldier]

Nice. Is the colour of the sheet on top of the HT also correct? (iow, is it supposed to look like that?)

[Widowmaker1]

Thanks, I've not changed the cover at all although I'm playing around with it at the moment and might give it a 'field gray tinge'

[Scytheman]

looking realy good,

i missed the cement-look of the germans tanks in the default version of colorful diversity pack.

[Widowmaker1]

STUG/Halftrack

Ok, if I make a decent collection of different skins and people like them I might release them as the modified versions of these skins with due credit of course

[Monkey Soldier]

Really great job on this one.

[Gastredner]

Looks nice.
Already thought about publishing? As lond as Painter agrees, of course.

[Widowmaker1]

Ahhhh I need to do some more to be fair. Pershing is one of those odd ones as it only a dosen of them were used in the last 2-3 weeks of the war and as far as I know were just green. I do know however that late war shermans where Olive Drab and had large black lines as camo. So I might try that since historical accuracy is out of the question with this unit anyways.

Painter said he's fine with any changes I make as long as I note these are modifications to original skins

edit: The Sherman is now confirmed as coming from Halftrack instead. I've left the image though as the replies would be odd if there was no sherman pic lol

[Monkey Soldier]

I want ur grafix card(!!) :P My cards can't make it look so smooth. (76GS in SLI, a laugh lol) But I love that Sherman skin.

[Lethal Dosage]

Really nice sherman.

[Widowmaker1]

[luciferum]

Hi
How come I didn't see your work before... may be too busy on mine... Anyway I stunned with your impressive and realistic work !
Well done.

[Scytheman]

what a tiger

[Monkey Soldier]

@Scytheman: You mean the Panzergrey colour. That was applied until 1943 (IIRC) on all tanks. After that they used sandbrown as standard colour.

[Thalix]

Any chance to play this mod online in ranked games?
I guess the skin-installation-tool can't be used here, can it?

[Painter]

@Thalix

The installation with the skin-installation-tool is possible. However, the "teamcolours.lua" is not installed. That means the team colours will be displayed in colour.

You can install the teamcolours.lua but separately with the Corsix's Mod Studio.

Bye Painter

[Thalix]

thx for your quick answer, but it didn't work for me :/
i just installed your skins without the teams colours with the skin installer, but it didn't change anything.

[Gastredner]

It didn't changed anything?
Strange, the installer always worked fine for me...did you choose the correct game directory and the correct path to the skins(after unzipping: OtherModAlternative\Data)?
Try it again, and if it still doesn't work, you should try installing them via Corsix...

[Thalix]

No it didn't.

The installer closed without any failure messages after several minutes. (My OS is Vista 64bit)
Today i tried it again by using administrator rights (run as administrator). I installed CoH in "My Programs (x86)" perhaps the installer has no rights to access this folder. However, it works now and i can enjoy the great skins

Thanks Gastredner & Painter

Gruß aus Berlin
Thalix

[Painter]

Since I was too late. But if everything works now, everything is good. Have fun with the skins.

[popadaddy]

Link not working! takes me to a german file hosting site but nothing happens?

[Gastredner]

Yoe have to...push da button...

[popadaddy]

omg half the page was just blank on my internet browser?

Thanks