GnigruH's vehicle SKINS <19.01.2010 UPDATE!>

[GnigruG]

NOTE:
My goal is giving a cartoon-like Relic skins a more realistic and historical look.
The skins are as historically accurate as possible.
They're for vehicles only, crews are not re-skinned.

The resolution is unchanged, so they shouldn't affect the performance.

All files that are in the packages are custom and meant to work together - you should use all of them. Don't complain about tiger's zimmerit looking strange when you used default nrm. and spc. files or you took them from another skin.

All preview pictures were made with 'ultra' or 'high' graphics and these are optimal settings for the skins. If you use 'mid' or 'low', they won't look as good as in the previews.

Editing my skins is prohibited. If you want to use them in your mod, redistribute them in your own skinpack, or use any of the files in your own work, you have to ask for permission. PM me here on this forum.

To install and play with them on-line, in normal (non-dev) mode, you need Skininstaller.

Manual included.
I'm not the author of this utility, so if it isn't working like it should for you, I'm not the one to blame.

If you install those skins over an already modified art.sga, some minor unintended graphical glitches might occur. When possible install those skins over the default art archive.
Same when you use Corsix's mod studio, make sure you deleted all custom files from model folder before pasting mine.

BTW...

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[Celution]

Very nice skin there! My compliments.

-Cheers

[Slayerknecht]

I agree, looks great.

[sandman0875]

wow - fantastic !

great to hear you're planning skins for allied/cw units -- there are lots of beautiful skins available for Wehr/PE, but allies seem to get short shrift. Based on this Achilles, looks like you could start to change that!

Also, just a plug for your map Groesbeek Heights: without question, one of the very best custom maps out there.

thanks for the great work

[JustinFillion]

Very nice skins heres some ideas for camo and other cool tanks i saw


The king tiger i was wondering if u sould remove sides skirts


Keep up the good work hope to see your skins in game soon

[Monkey Soldier]

It's as historically accurate as possible.

heres some ideas for camo and other cool tanks i saw

Those pic's you've posted aren't historical accurate, unless you got a pic of those camouflage patterns during WW2. A model kit designer can come up with a random camo scheme.

[JustinFillion]

all them are historical ..... the top sherman with the Tan and purpel and olive was in okinawa

The m10 served in the netherlands 1944

the Purple and olive one i forget
and the king tiger is belonged to pipers tank divison

[Skyline Pete]

Fantastic work mate. With your skins and Xalibour's German skins our games will be looking top notch in short order!

Marvelous.

[Cortlendt]

Looks very promising!

[Monkey Soldier]

all them are historical ..... the top sherman with the Tan and purpel and olive was in okinawa

The m10 served in the netherlands 1944

the Purple and olive one i forget
and the king tiger is belonged to pipers tank divison

What I'm trying to say is, can't you post a pic of WW2 showing those tanks with those camouflage patterns.

[GnigruG]

Achilles is now available, see my first post. I got a sherman skin almost ready, will be released tomorrow (I hope so...). I've also found a very nice quad scheme, will probably be next in line.

[red devil]

wow my grandad drove an m10 in the gurads armoure division theres loads of pics of it but cant remeber wether it had the olive + sadny coloured camo or not.

[keelan85]

your folder directory on your download is wrong, you are missing a wolverine folder.

you have - allies/vehicles/wolverine/model

it should be - allies/vehicles/wolverine/wolverine/model

[GnigruG]

^thx, my mistake, It's fixed now.

[Viking216]

very good skin, please more of them

[TRulz1169]

That's some top notch work! Here's some variations of the M4 and Achilles IIC paint schemes.

ACHILLES IIC
http://www.toadmanstankpictures.com/achilles.htm

M4A3(105)HVSS SHERMAN
http://www.toadmanstankpictures.com/m4a3105.htm

M4 Sherman
http://www.toadmanstankpictures.com/m4_ftbenning.htm

Sherman M4A1 10th Tank Btn, "Bad News"
http://www.afrikakorps.org/ussherman.htm

U.S M4A1 (76)W Sherman 2nd Armored Div, "Elowee"
http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.co...ss/hb84801.htm

U.S M4A3 (76)W Sherman (5 schemes near bottom of page)
http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.co...on/dr6325.html

19th Tank Battalion of the 9th “Phantom” Armoured Division.
http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/759_1_2352950.html

761st “Black Panther” Tank Battalion
http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/759_1_2334256.html

M4A1

[GnigruG]

Sherman is up.

[Slayerknecht]

Excellent skin!

[GnigruG]

Another small update! Share your thoughts!

[Monkey Soldier]

Very nice skins! Good to see some more variation in the Allied vehicle skins.

[JustinFillion]

can you make some candaian skins and make me and my fellow candiands proud that would be great Eh.

[sandman0875]

these are all brilliant. can't wait for the Quad.

it's great that you're working on Allies skins -- keep up the awesome work!

[georider]

Good job very nice keep on.

[Lethal Dosage]

Very nice GnigruH, they look especially good if it's just your first try!

What really looks different is the way you've presented the screenhots in the first post, they look more like the cover of a model box. Definately something different to catch the eye.

[GnigruG]

Halftrack is up.

I was also going to post a preview of a Greyhound in winter camo, but I just realised that yesterday I accidentally deleted all its files including the photoshop template!

Very nice GnigruH, they look especially good if it's just your first try!

I hope they look 'good', not 'good for a first try'

can you make some candaian skins and make me and my fellow candiands proud that would be great Eh.

I don't have any in my 'archive' but
if you have some nice schemes give it to me!

[JustinFillion]

Here are some candian tank's hard to find camo scheems

[nizz]

Xalibur have a canadian sherman skin here: http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=203947

[GnigruG]

New skin is up. Something for axis this time

[Painter]

Looks very good. I like your attention to detail.

[GnigruG]

New skins are up ppl! I also got a panther skin almost ready.

[JustinFillion]

lol your panthers skin i love how the side skirts looks i was wondering if u could do the same to the king tiger and take the side skirts right off?

[empa]

wow a new ones! downloading on the way!

[georider]

The Sherman's from Italian front are very great maybe the moderator from Italian front must ask perdition use about to use those in the mod . The Panther is very good very accurate Cammo pattern, and believe me I search a lot about this type of Tank. It's nice to see other moders/skiners created very good and accurate skins .Keep on You have many more to give to the COH community . The Competition ( with the good meaning) between skinners giving absolute great skins and makes the game one of the most wonderful ever made WWII subjects in games.
I'm also have some ideas like those about allied cammo but you catch me so you job is one of the best.
PS . You must correct a little bit the cammo of STUG, it have to big dots!.

[GnigruG]

The Sherman's from Italian front are very great maybe the moderator from Italian front must ask perdition use about to use those in the mod

He doesn't have to, just use them and give credits.
I have another two 'Italian' sherman schemes waiting, will gonna work on one of them soon (I hope so ).

You must correct a little bit the cammo of STUG, it have to big dots!

Which dots you are talking about?
I'm not 100% happy with that stug either, but it's more about the colours, the camo pattern was taken directly from a book, I also found very similar one on the net, ( will try to find it again now and post it here...) seen it on some photos too... I'm not an expert when it comes to the German armour, but I believe the camo scheme itself is quite accurate.

i love how the side skirts looks i was wondering if u could do the same to the king tiger and take the side skirts right off?

I already tried it and it was an epic fail. I think that taking off the skirts by editing the alpha channel (without editing the model itself) is possible only in a few cases. From what i know you can't do it with a stug and kt, its also impossible to take off the tiger Is fender plates, I tried it and

when I opened the wb I was a happy man, it looked fine...

what I saw

until I rotated the camera.

what I saw next

Anyway as you can see the tiger skin will be next, after it's released I'm going to take a short break and return to allies skins afterwards ( I may rework the stug skin in a meantime)

[JustinFillion]

Can you show me what the king Tiger looks like without the skirts??

[GnigruG]

Sorry, but I didn't take screenshots and that skin is long gone.

[JustinFillion]

on halftracks KT he took one skirt of and it wanst like that

[AnyKey]

Between GeoRider, You and Xalibur I don't know what skins to use, they're all so amazingly detailed and realistic.

You three guys are making it hard for me to play CoH anymore lol (losing games), I am so mezmerized by how realistic and real they look i forgot to play and just stare the whole time.

looool....



Outstanding work as well!

[GnigruG]

OK ppl, 3 new skins are up (tiger, panther and m8), stug skin is updated.

All of them together:

1st Dec update

StuG has now more accurate, less faded colours, it also got some additional weathering so it looks better than a previous one.

About the panther skin:
Note that skins for both pe and wm panthers are in the package,
If you want this skin for a wehrmacht panther only delete the tex_pe_panther_dif.rgt file,
if you want it only for panzer elite panthers get rid of the tex_ax_panther_dif.rgt file.

Also note that panthers use the same tracks texture as all tiger variants, so if you use a tex_ax_tiger_treads_dif.rgt file from this package (it's in both tiger and panther zips-it is the same texture btw) it will be applied to wm tiger,king tiger, campaign ace and bergetiger.
Of course if you know the basics of modding (which are beyond me) you can solve that in a different way

I'm going to take a short break now, have to finish a map.

If you don't like some of the skins or if you found something odd, explain it, post the screenshots and I'll try to fix it.

If you have some nice paint schemes show them to me! ( I'd like something more than a plastic model kit photo found on the net though )



Cheers.

[Me-laid-aha]

any chance u are gonna make a skin for the panzer 4? IS or just wehr standard?

[JustinFillion]

LOVE your skins man unbeliveable

Here are some coloured pictures of ww2 tanks i thought u might like to see
Note: Do you think you could make a Panzer 4 with the Early war grey paint with the nazi flag ontop like the expample of that pnz3 pic i gave? i think that would be so cool

I know its mostly used from 1939-1942 but i always wanted my pnz 4 to be like that So if you could do it id be greatfull





Anyways keep up your AWSOME WORK



EDIT: i tried your panther,scottish sherman, your tiger , and one thing i gotta say is sharpen the camo colour it blends so much it looks like a solid colour from distance.

[GnigruG]

Yesterday I realized that the german skins I uploaded were not the final versions . It's fixed now and the right files are on, those who have already downloaded a tiger, panther or an updated stug might want to do this again

The changes are minor and you probably won't notice the difference, but one change is important - I decreased the saturation a bit, so the skins look better under atmosphere settings with high saturation.

Also a small panther skin bug is fixed

tried your panther,scottish sherman, your tiger , and one thing i gotta say is sharpen the camo colour it blends so much it looks like a solid colour from distance.

What map were you testing them on?
What were the graphics settings?
Exactly which skins are like that? You mean tiger, panther and a sherman from rsg?

A screenshot would be good too.

[Celution]

I love your Allied skins so much, just because I can't find any good allied skins except for Halftrack's...
But your axis skins aren't really my taste, I'll keep the ones I got from friends.

-Cheers

P.S. Can we expect some British vehicles soon?

[JustinFillion]

Ok on all maps i get the same effect the colour really blends And yes the sherman rsg

[GnigruG]

I just posted a new version of a sherman 76mm skin.

Improvements:
-Changed base colour so it's more historically accurate, and looks better in-game
-Suitable textures for a dozer blade, mine flail, calliope rl and accessories were added
-Other small visual fixes

the new sherman 76mm

Ok on all maps i get the same effect the colour really blends

You should post a screenshot, IDK what are your graphics settings, it looks ok on my pc, anyone else have this problem?

Can we expect some British vehicles soon?

The problem with british veh skins is that they will either look similar to those that are default or it will be plain olive drab...
Anyway, the next update will probably contain a firefly skin.

any chance u are gonna make a skin for the panzer 4? IS or just wehr standard?

I might.

[JustinFillion]

Did you update the Calopia on the RSG sherman becuase last time i checked it's launcher had Team colurs

[GnigruG]

You can use a calliope rl from the sherman 76mm package (its a separate file).

I updated the tiger I skin. The camo has been reworked, it looks more realistic now, the colours and other small things have been adjusted too.

I know I shouldn't be working on another tiger skin, but I couldn't resist - the new one will be in the next update. I'm experimenting with a zimmerit, this is what I was managed to achieve so far. It's not perfect yet, but quite good imo. What do you think?

the zimmerit

[JustinFillion]

that looks sick good job man

[wagnerr]

A you change tiger.nrm" file?

[Panzer Jager]

It looks great, but you might want to sharpen your mip-map filter