Defunct Community Model Project

[Mirage Knight]

So please ask Halftrack if any future release of this model is planned.

Figured that was a given. As stated previously, I was trying to find a good colour ref for DMz to look at for his 251 skin and the Jagdpanzer immediately came to mind...it's that good a skin imo and felt worldbuilder was the best way to do a side by side comparison under controlled lighting conditions. On a side note, kudos to TD and Halftrack for a swish job on the Jgdpz IV

@Leophone

No that model isn't publicly released yet. It is however a playable unit in the recent public build of Blitzkrieg which I play on and off myself. When HT and TD decide to make the model public, you might see it in a mod from me

@DMz

If you lighten up the zimmerit pattern a bit, that will be spot on!

A couple of other things to point out:

1. From what I've read, Zimmerit generally was never applied to armoured skirting.

2. When looking at a German AFV face on, divisional insignia were usually displayed on the right side. Also, Jagdpanthers were deployed in heavy tank destroyer battalions that operated independently of normal divisions. As such, they normally wouldn't carry divisional markings. On a side note, the 654th schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung and its 12 Jagdpanthers saw considerable action at Normandy against British armour.

[Lethal Dosage]

I think the Jagdpanther looks good, however i think the dots could be maybe 10% smaller, and the zimmerit should be removed from the side skirts and the track guards at the front.

DMz, would you consider making a version of the Jagdpanther skin for Halftrack and Tankdestroyer's Jagdpanther model? The one in HTs & TDs 3D Factory thread, with the re-modelled barrel and commander hatch.

[SlipSon]

@LD you can use any skin for TD&HT jagdpanther just edit the alpha chanel via photoshop

[Lethal Dosage]

Doesn't the barrel use a seperate skin? Anyway, i can't edit vehicle skins. GIMP can't handle it, and i haven't tried Photoshop yet. There was always some reason or other not to, and GIMP has filled my needs for everything except vehicle skinning.

[Jagdpanther]

Doesn't the barrel use a seperate skin?

The muzzle break is a part of the camo addon not of the jagdpanther model, so you can use all normal JP skins, but you will need a to cut out the open hatch part. Thats all (see this post in HT&TD's Thread).

[DMz]

Near as i can see its mainly alpha work i put my skin on the same jp in less then 5 minutes. All it is is 2 hatches some leaves a cople of scopes plus few small pieces, and a bit of texture on the muzzle to make it look better. Very cleverly done tbh. Minimum fuss maximum gain.

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@Eliw00d. Can we start charging Xalibur by the model. Hes very greedy

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...tuff/bklol.jpg

And thats without the daimler your version of the m36 and a few others lol

[Xalibur]

What cheek! ... joking aside; new models are the most powerful thing to keep COH modding interesting and keeps the modding community alive. So I think every modder here is very glad to see that a few people are still working on new stuff, although...sadly... we can count the active modellers, who share their work with the community, on one hand.

[Martinlegend]

/Signed

[DMz]

Any better ?

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...tuff/jag1a.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...tuff/jag2a.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...tuff/jag3a.jpg

[Celution]

Wow, nice choice of colors mate!

[SlipSon]

that is right on the money,when we will be able to download it ?

[Jagdpanther]

This JP looks really good man.

[Mirage Knight]

Omit the Balkenkreuz on the front plate and I'd say it's good to go

Great job!

[Lethal Dosage]

Omit the Balkenkreuz on the front plate and I'd say it's good to go

+1, although would it be possible to remove the zimmerit from the MG ball mount? I just noticed it has zimmerit all over it, and i'm not really sure if it should, i reckon it'd look better without it, but i don't think it'd be worth the effort of revising the the skin and its nrm, spec, etc.

@Eliw00d. Can we start charging Xalibur by the model. Hes very greedy

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...tuff/bklol.jpg

And thats without the daimler your version of the m36 and a few others lol

Ahh, that's not that bad, Cross of Iron uses more of the CMP's releases, and i've had plans for a number of the models being worked on now and listed for the future for some time. Of course, i'd be happy to pay for certain models in the future, if my money got those ones top priority... but then that wouldn't be fair to everyone else if it were just me, and if everyone did it you would always be cashing checks and never knowing what models you should be working on!

Funny though, in that screen, the 250 up the back is using the same skin as the 250/8 (when it could have it's own), that's a very old version of the M21 (it has the forward facing .50cal behind the mortar, instead of the rear facing .50cal in the later CMP release). His flak blitz also has a gunner on it, which was something i was never able to get working!

[Mirage Knight]

I've seen quite a few shots of Panthers with zimmerit applied even to the armoured shrouds for the hull MG ball-mounts, so I'd say it's fine

On a side note, application of zimmerit at the factories ceased in September 44 and field application ceased in October largely due to 1. the amount of time involved applying the stuff and 2. the fact that only the Germans really used shaped-charge magnetic mines in significant quantities. Too much effort for minimal gain basically.

Edit: Man...I was just thinking how sexy HT & TD's Jagdpanther is going to look with this skin and all the cammo material on top.

Rowr

[DMz]

@ Lethal dosage i forgot to delete the 250, its what i was using to check my files worked with Blitz so Mirage Knight wouldent have problems once i released it, as for the opel, i suggest you steal his files and examine them . Then charge him 500 Euro tax for not sharing properly

[kapulA]

Lovely choice of colours!
However, I too agree with the previous suggestions of making the dots smaller - it might be my personal preference, but I find smaller dots much more aesthetically pleasing
Maybe something like this Hetzer - http://4ridleywotskins.ucoz.com/_si/0/93979933.jpg ? Another cool thing that you could try is using small triangles instead of the dots on some skins as I'm under the impression that those were used fairly often in the ambush pattern as well.
Although, I also fully understand that these nitpicks might not be worth the trouble, so please disregard this post if your opinion differs from mine.

[DMz]

The dots are already 25% smaller ?

nm im disregarding as i cant be bothered to do it all over again lol .

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Its a fraction lighter then the ingame shot now, and both skirts and no skirt files are in the rar.
Ill do one for HT JP later when im bored again.

Download

[Mirage Knight]

Cheers DMz - thanks again

[Celution]

Looks great matey! You definately should keep on skinning!

[Beefy^]

Hey pappa poo, the contrast needs to go up on the one with the skirts. We can agree that the one without the skirts looks better sharpened and re-contrasted

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ignore that i didnt realise that you already swapped the alpha

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ignore that i didnt realise that you already swapped the alpha

[DMz]

This next i suppose, seems im ambush camoing everything, probebly not bother with zim on it .

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...uff/pinext.jpg

[Lethal Dosage]

Lol, an Axis ambush camo pack would be something. The Kettenkrad the driver's skins look interesting too, yours?

[DMz]

No not mine, cant remember where i got it from now, could be anyones, as not 2 soldiers german per unit wear the same gear. Spent days with green boxes running around to get my config right with squad leaders ,drivers, mortar men, mixed uniform\hat infantry..... dont ask. Possibly one of halftracks old old ones or one of widows older ones using a 1024x texture...may even be one of geos, really cant remember.

Some of the brits and rangers i have i know i messed with, but i dont recall physically editing any pe infantry except luftwaffe groundforces.

[Gamerisin]

hi @DMz...can u upload all your files(or recent files like skins)in a single package when u have free time,and also upload them somewhere else please,like mediafire or...somewhere else hehe,I can't download from hotfile
thx in advance and sorry to bother you,I know you are busy

[Beefy^]

pffff he's as busy as a sloth lol

[DMz]

Three textures for the ambush camo Jadgpanther so it will work on Halftrack and TDs Jag. One with default skirts, one with no skirts, and one with the same style Halftrack used ie one skirt missing from the front.

Download

And beefy yes i know im a lazy git recently, ive actually been playing coh, instead of altering it.

[Mirage Knight]

What? Playing a game instead of modding it?

Heresy I tell you

[robotnik]

hey eliw00d

was the problem with the boys AT rifle in the daimler scout car ever figured out or fixed?

[Mirage Knight]

Don't think so, robotnik - have had the same problem since it was released. Mind you the Boys AT rifle historically wasn't a terrible effective weapon anyway as was only decent against HT's and light AC's by D-Day so I honestly don't miss it that much. I'm keeping the Brens on my Dingos to chew up infantry thank you very much

The Daimler scout car is also missing its steering wheel and still needs wreck state as well (Daimler Armoured Car needs one as well), but that's minor. I'm just happy I've been able to better emulate a proper British Armoured Car Squadron thanks to DMz, eli and company

[eliw00d]

Both the Scout and Armoured Car have wrecked and crushed states, FYI. The steering wheel isn't really that big of a deal.

[Mirage Knight]

Both the Scout and Armoured Car have wrecked and crushed states

Really? Haven't seen them ingame yet and I'm using the files that were hosted.

[eliw00d]

Yes, really. They have been there since release. I just checked the OE and the states do indeed exist. I remember testing it thoroughly and they showed up fine for me. Might be your settings.

[Mirage Knight]

Possible - thanks for the heads up

[DMz]

Well when they blow up while i played nhc tov earlier on they blew up very well, and left some impressive looking wrecks which someone here made whos name i cant quite place made.

I do like nhc tov especially as Royal Engineers.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f.../engineers.jpg

[Beefy^]

LOL pappa you killed the thread ^^

[Lethal Dosage]

pretty impressive kills and losses there DMz, but it looks like you weren't quite on top of caping territory.

[DMz]

Pretty difficult when the thick comps on your team spam nothing but callies and avre and continually lose sectors theyre told to hol lol. Took forever to win .

[Xalibur]

meep, anybody left outside here? 4 days no postings, that`s scary

[Martinlegend]

we waiting for th Big bang

[doom44]

Don't worry Xali, they've probably got something big coming.

[SlipSon]

or taking a break wich is well deserved.

[Celution]

If I recall correctly they both are taking a break.

[ab2531]

I have some problem after adding the M8 Scott. The hands of the crew seems to get out of the turret. Does someone know how to fix this?

[Blackw00lf]

it's becuase the m8 scott is a little too small for the crew to properly fit

[eliw00d]

It is just something you will have to deal with as it is.

[SlipSon]

it is not a big problem for me,the german stummels has the same problem with hands showing of the side.besides the vehicle or the inf. has to be rescaled to fix it,but this is will take tons of work,so we have to live with it.

[ab2531]

Can't we simply place them closer to each other to get rid of that bug?

[Celution]

ab2531, you only notice it on long distances. Eliw00d did a great job on this stuart and had to deal with that the Relic scaling is off. In CoH Infantry are slightly bigger and Vehicles smaller, so they traded the perfection in for a model that has matching scaling, which I think is a good decision.

[eliw00d]

@ab2531
The model files are included in the download, so you are more than welcome to try to modify it for your own needs. However, since they are animated a certain way, you will not be able to move them individually. Honestly, I would just try to live with it. Sorry.