GnigruH's vehicle SKINS <19.01.2010 UPDATE!>

**georider** · 6th Dec 08 4:24 PM

@GnigruG Very nice work in your skins and the zimmerit but I agree with Panzer Jager statment, and you should make the skins not to yellow , the main colour in Germand tanks was Ochra , Sand , yellow Brown , but not so shinny yellow. Your Allies skins are better than your German ones. Focus on this suggestions and they will be best also.
Nice work again, Keep on .

**GnigruG** · 6th Dec 08 5:04 PM

A you change tiger.nrm" file?

Yes i did.

**GnigruG** · 10th Dec 08 9:03 AM

Sry for double post but I've got an update

I've learned few things about mip maps and other stuff and started reworking all my skins. I already posted new axis skins (for panther and two tigers), the rest will be updated till the end of a week. Moreover, at least 4 new skins for allies are gonna be done.

Axis skins had their mip-maps sharpened, so they won't blur so much when zooming out, they will actually look good in-game, not only in wb

They were also made brighter and the colours were adjusted, so they're fit for the environment. Lots of small things have been changed, no need to write about all of them.

the axis skins overhaul

The new skin is up (two skins actually). Nothing spectacular, but they may be useful for some ppl.

the jeep and the truck

That's all for now.

**Celution** · 10th Dec 08 9:59 AM

Looking good!

**georider** · 10th Dec 08 1:38 PM

Lots of small things have been changed, no need to write about all of them

EXCELLENT you don't need to , very detail skins very good .

**Panzer Jager** · 10th Dec 08 3:54 PM

Looking great

Keep up the excellent work.

**JustinFillion** · 10th Dec 08 4:34 PM

Yea i think you fixed the problem i complained about

**GnigruG** · 11th Dec 08 12:28 PM

OK I uploaded the new (and hopefully final) versions of all allied skins. They were reworked like the axis ones, sharpened mip-maps, adjusted colours and brightness + other small fixes. I believe they're much better (not so blurry) now.

New skins are up. All for allies this time.
I've made a new halftrack, m10 and another sherman from rsg (it's joined together with the previous one).

a halftrack, m10 and sherman skins.

And something completely new: two firefly skins.

fireflies

Hope you like it.

**JustinFillion** · 11th Dec 08 2:30 PM

Very good Skins damn man pretty damn good

**georider** · 11th Dec 08 3:31 PM

Very Good you catch me you released your Sheik before mine. I had made the same SHERMAN for the Italian Front Mod.
I download and test ,your allied skins ROCKS . An observation the New Zealand Sherman must have light Grey and Dark Grey for the cammo color. Very Nice skins you're full cover the Allies theme.

**Xalibur** · 11th Dec 08 6:40 PM

Yes, these skins look very nice indeed.

@georider
@GnigruG

Perhaps we 3 should go into a joint venture to make the ultimate coh vehicle skin collection

What do you think ?

(this is meant serious)

**JustinFillion** · 11th Dec 08 7:03 PM

I like The Idea xD you 3 are Very good skinners

**Celution** · 12th Dec 08 1:10 AM

Perhaps we 3 should go into a joint venture to make the ultimate coh vehicle skin collection

What do you think?

(this is meant serious)

I love the idea Xalibur!

I love your Allied vehicle skins so damn much! Not that I don't like the Wehrmacht vehicles, but I'll stick with Xalibur's Wehrmacht skins for now

. Amazing work you do! (all of you three)

**Akranadas** · 12th Dec 08 1:27 AM

Love the Firefly. It's going to look so good when I play CoH. There just not enough variety in terms of Allied Skins, it's usually all wehrmact.

**GnigruG** · 12th Dec 08 12:19 PM

I've added an updated StuG which I forgot about yesterday. It got a thorough overhaul, it's basically a completely new skin.

An observation the New Zealand Sherman must have light Grey and Dark Grey for the cammo color.

It should be light mud and blue black according to my resources

**AnyKey** · 16th Dec 08 2:20 AM

I love the FF skins!

Beautiful skins... how long have you been skinning for? just love the attention to detail..

seriously thank you for making such skins and sharing!

**Roysalipuran** · 19th Dec 08 5:02 PM

hey GringuH can I edit them a bit for mod usage (credit goes to you!)

**GnigruG** · 20th Dec 08 5:20 PM

Here's the update that I finished some time ago, haven't got the time to post it till now.

Some of my skis needed to be desaturated more. Now they're fit for the landscape and look better in-game.

New versions of all axis skins were made:

axis skins update

Some allied skins were also updated (halftracks, pershing, jeep, CCKW and M8):

allied skins update

I don't remember all the changes so I can't give you a detailed 'changelog'

I started messing with normal maps, so some skins have details added, and I'm not talking about zimmerit only.

As you can see some of the skins got a 'final release' stamp. It means that this is the final version of the skin

and I'm not going to update it anymore. Now when I know much more about how to skin properly I'll try to make skins that don't need to be updated at all.

New skins are up:

Another (and probably last) quad skin:

the new quad skin

My first skin for a Puma:

the puma skin

hey GringuH can I edit them a bit for mod usage (credit goes to you!)

PM me about what you want to change.

**IrisDane** · 20th Dec 08 6:01 PM

Mind if I use the Sherman and Halftrack in my Pacific Front Mod?

**La Head** · 20th Dec 08 6:22 PM

would someone be kind enuf to tell me how to install skins for the pe panther? which files do i have to replace?

**GnigruG** · 21st Dec 08 4:43 AM

Mind if I use the Sherman and Halftrack in my Pacific Front Mod?

You can put these skins as they are to your mod without asking for permission (give credits), but if you want to edit them or, for example use nrm/spc or other files in your own work, you have to ask. Pm me here on these forums.

would someone be kind enuf to tell me how to install skins for the pe panther? which files do i have to replace?

PE panther textures are in the pack. They should go to (afair) art/models/races/shared textures. And don't remove wehrmacht panthers tc file unless you want to have the team colours on both.

EDIT
I just discovered that yesterday I uploaded the wrong version of a Tiger from 102 spzabt. It's fixed now and the proper skin is up. Sorry for the mess, but things like that happen to me when I work on multiple skins at the same time...

**Roysalipuran** · 23rd Dec 08 3:19 AM

Hey Gning... can you redo the panther tank? the road wheels don't render properly! even on ultra!! (especially if fully upgraded)

**IrisDane** · 23rd Dec 08 7:24 AM

oh I didn see that. haha

**Cortlendt** · 28th Dec 08 7:13 AM

Please do Pz4.

**georider** · 29th Dec 08 1:15 PM

I like to wish you Happy New Year , a year with some wonderful skinning work

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**GnigruG** · 3rd Jan 09 8:26 AM

Huge update today. (3.01.2009)
British vehicle skinpack released, see the first post.

Two skins have Been updated.

I've made a new versions of both fireflies (One of them has been moved to the skinpack).

updated firefly.

New version of a puma:

the updated puma.

Those skins now have a individual spc files, some other minor things have been changed too (fireflies have a better nrm file). I'll be making a suitable wreck textures from now on, all new skins including those from the skinpack and both updated ones have them.

Yes I've also made some new skins.

For a churchill:

the churchill skin.

and puma:

the new puma skin.

I've also made 4 us army skins for 'brit factions' vehicles,

two us army stuarts.

two us army priests.

Hey Gning... can you redo the panther tank? the road wheels don't render properly! even on ultra!! (especially if fully upgraded)

I use this skin myself and I haven't noticed anything odd (although I can't play on ultra cos' I must use XP pro). Give me more details about this problem

Cheers.

**georider** · 3rd Jan 09 9:57 AM

Very Good priests. The Tunis Churchill is not looking so nice with this cammo ,although that was the cammo that use then ( and I have in my bibliography this particular model) ,Very accurate work Well done. The first Churchill is very good. Your Stuart are Awesome and the M-7 are good looking. A small suggestion you should add more decals/insignia to them, I know that some doesn't shown because of the dirt and rust.Very good Work

**Celution** · 3rd Jan 09 10:54 AM

Are you kidding Georider, I love those Churchills!!!
I <3 your allied skins so damn much GnigruG! (of course the axis skins too, but currently I use other Wehrmacht skins) But could you make a Jagdpanther skin too?
Your the man in skinning Allied vehicles.

**Shaverman** · 3rd Jan 09 11:57 AM

Wow, amazing work on those british vehicles. I hope we'll see some skins for the PE-vehicles soon.

**Cortlendt** · 3rd Jan 09 4:29 PM

Awesome!

I'm still hoping for both Pz 4's.

**Roysalipuran** · 3rd Jan 09 7:54 PM

nice skins! like em allot!

**caliens** · 4th Jan 09 12:05 PM

Look great. good job.

papent · 7th Jan 09 5:25 PM

great job i love your camo US vehicles
and i would love to see from you camo Cromwell and alternate Brits camo Stuarts and staghounds then my mod will be mostly complete at least model wised perfect

thanks for listening

**Soldier13** · 8th Jan 09 1:20 AM

Perhaps we 3 should go into a joint venture to make the ultimate coh vehicle skin collection What do you think ? (this is meant serious)

Yes join forces, and invite Halftrack then you have the ultimate, no the community has the ultimate heroes that rock the world of CoH at the very essence.(Plus all the real soldiers are looking down upon you with joy because your making them proud)

PS: I had drama classes

**GnigruG** · 8th Jan 09 12:10 PM

Small update today.
I've posted a new version of a pershing skin, the previous one wasn't good enough.

the updated pershing skin.

I've also made a new skin for a pershing

the new pershing skin.

Currently I'm working on this:

It will contain some new skins and some old ones (improved greatly) also expect a major update of all american skins plus hopefully a few new ones outside of a skinpack.

But could you make a Jagdpanther skin too?

What for? There are plenty of these around. One of them has over 1k downloads, there's no room for another one

I would love to see from you camo Cromwell and alternate Brits camo Stuarts and staghounds

AFAIR I've never seen a photo of a camoed british stuart or cromwell (I mean from post D-day period)... If I find one I'll release it ASAP. I'm not gonna make a staghound skin until ToV is released, simply becouse I don't have the beta and don't feel the need to download it now.

A small suggestion you should add more decals/insignia to them, I know that some doesn't shown because of the dirt and rust.

If you have photos or other evidence that some of the markings are missing, show it to me. I ignore the markings only if they are unknown.

**Monkey Soldier** · 8th Jan 09 1:25 PM

There are a gazillion german skins, but barely any real and unique Allied skins. It's nice to see some skins for the Americans.

**Celution** · 8th Jan 09 1:49 PM

I agree with that MS, That's why I love his Allied skins sooo much.

papent · 8th Jan 09 8:59 PM

thanks for the interest in my request, and if you would like to see the staghound in action you can see it in my mod which features dozens of your skins and blitzkrieg mod has it too,

that camo pershing is awesome can't wait to add it to the pofia mod

**Lethal Dosage** · 8th Jan 09 11:50 PM

Staghound is also in Cross of Iron, and Back to Basics as well i think.

**Celution** · 9th Jan 09 11:17 AM

Yeah, It was the plan to put it into my Back to Basics mod, but I think not this release, because I can't decide where I will put it. (Probably a tech tree thing), and I'm somewhat dissapointed because It has everything the same as the stuart (the canister round icon, stats, speech), it's basicly just a skin for the stuart. But I think if this is changable, I will (are there speech files for the Staghound, or just the Stuart ones?)

**wagnerr** · 9th Jan 09 11:42 AM

GnigruG: What brush do you use, when camo painting ?

**Celution** · 9th Jan 09 11:48 AM

By the way GnigruG, when I start looking at your amazing allied skins I can't stop looking! Thank god for my very good computer

**Lethal Dosage** · 11th Jan 09 10:12 PM

Celestial, i use the Staghound as a call-in for the RSE doc (among other things). Don't forget other upgrades like the .50cal upgrade and the Sandbags can be applied (the Greyhound upgrades will work on the Staghound for this), and those upgrades can add some variety to the Staghound in place of the Stuart.

*Sorry fellas, nothing really to contribute to this thread this time around*

**GnigruG** · 14th Jan 09 9:30 AM

Us Army skinpack released, see the first post. It contains 3 new skins + old ones improved. The skin for a pershing is not included cos' there were no pershings in europe in 1944, if you want an awesome pershing skin you have to download it separately

.

Additionally two skins (3 actually) were posted outside of a skinpack.

New wolverine:

the new wolverine skin.

And a 'niche' pack for modders mainly:

two opel blitz trucks.

All american skins have been updated. They have better colours, individual spc. files and suitable wreck textures. Moreover all shermans have their own calliope, dozer blade and mine flail textures. It's not very historically accurate cos' none of these shermans was ever equipped with any of those items

, but it's for those who just want to put these skins into a game and play with them.

GnigruG: What brush do you use, when camo painting ?

I use different brushes, what skin are you talking about?

**georider** · 14th Jan 09 9:49 AM

Very Nice Skins . Nice work and very detailed. When I looked at your opel I can imagine how nice would be if we can put on it the flag 38 .Keep on

**Celution** · 14th Jan 09 11:55 AM

Wow!!!! I love the Opel Blitz skins ver much man, I've been waitoing for something like this. The wolverine is awesome too!

**Soldier13** · 15th Jan 09 3:20 AM

I agree with Celestial incredible skins for the Opel Blitz truck.

**MaSaKa** · 15th Jan 09 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by Soldier13

I agree with Celestial incredible skins for the Opel Blitz truck.

DITO

please more from this color

**Lethal Dosage** · 17th Jan 09 10:57 PM

Wow... *droops* also love the Opel Blitz trucks.

**GnigruG** · 18th Jan 09 10:19 AM

Small update.

New version of a stug available, wreck has been added, colours have been adjusted, they are same as on pumas, opels and all future german skins...

the updated stug.

New skin is up. It's sdkfz251 hanomag skin suitable for a wm halftrack and pe munitions halftrack. Both are included (the only differences are name and location)
BTW if you want it only for a pe vehicle keep the tracks texture from a wm halftrack folder cos' it's applied to all 251 hanomags.