jaylo138

Update 1.1

Be aware that a modified armypaintercolours.lua file is included to add the extra badges, but all the extra colours are available in the army painter inclu Tentacle Pink.

I have added 15 more space marine badges from chapters that are ref in defaultchaptercolours.lua. A couple of the badges i pulled from the Lexicanum & converted them from png to dds, also Hanger8's blood drinkers badge was plain black so i added some colour to it.

Here's some replacement badges that i could find for the space marines, orks & eldar. Resized & converted to DXT3 dds' in photoshop.

Space marine badges by Hanger8 & Joril

Ork badges by Dmitry Rommel

Eldar badges by Aralez

Place the Data folder in "C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\dawn of war 2\GameAssets" or your installation directory if different. To remove just delete badges as required.

You also need to have the -dev command added to the end of your game shortcut so it looks like this where

"C:\Program Files" is your game directory.

"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -applaunch 15620 -dev




Mediafire:
Badges Mod 1.1

Dawn of War II Heaven
Badges Mod 1.1

Sga Version
I've moved Tentacle Pink to the end of the lua as other people without this colour enabled will see your colour scheme differently in game.

Mediafire:
DoWbadges1.1sga

DemonPastry

Is this possible to use online

jaylo138

It's not in an sga archive if that's what you mean, it's in folder format for use with the -dev shortcut.

Kendallv2000

So im assuming these just replace the old ones we have with new spunker ones. Does it disrupt multiplayer as DP asked?

Shuma

If it uses the -dev then yes you whont be able to play MP, at least not Ranked games.

jaylo138

If you packed it up into a custom archive it would work online as it just replaces the look of badges already ingame.

DemonPastry

would an experianced modder be able to do thsi for us lowly servants

Kendallv2000

I have tried to installing it and its nothing showing up. (and i know i extracted it to that exact location)

jaylo138

Are you using the -dev shortcut, as you need this for the mod to work.

RayvenQ85

Link on filefront isn't working for me.

jaylo138

Sorry about that, working now.

Xaero

Badges look sweet man, nice job seems you're certainly getting around the whole system with all these little mods ^^

Cyberjankie

There was an Armypainter-Mod for DoW I, where you could see all the units in the painter. Do you have an idea what files to change, to do this in DoW II also, so we don't only see the heros there?

Practiti0ner

Thanks jaylo138 for the separate release, the badges are freakin awesome incarnate!

DemonPastry

could anyone pack into an SGA file to make it playable online?

Andur

Can you perhaps explain or show how to do this?
This mod is godly by the way.

jaylo138

@DemonPastry

I'm packing up the mod now, i'll post when done

@Andur

DoW1 tga badges upsized & converted to dds in photoshop.

eugekava

I remember DOW1 Badges had to be 64x64 pixels. What is the required size for DOW2?

jaylo138

128x128

Badges mod now available in sga format, see top of thread.

wallacewest

I installed it and though the original badges got replaced, none of the new ones appeared.

Skyline Pete

With the .sga format do we still have to use -dev?

Would really like to be able to use custom badges online, and despite the other people not being able to see them, well who cares.

Surely there's some way to implement the skin-installer that was made for CoH? That allowed custom skins to be installed and still allowed ranked play.

jaylo138

In sga you don't need -dev.

Warfare12

Nvm... readme ftw

Shuriken

Hm,error both ways.Hardly worth the effort.

jaylo138

Your obviously not installing it correctly then.

IBBoard

Since people seem to say this works online, what does your opponent see? If you've just replaced the local versions rather than adding badges I'm assuming they see the originals. If that's right then great work, but it's a shame that Relic/THQ/Microsoft killed a great feature.

jaylo138

It does just replace ingame ones & other players will just see what they have.

Thakyou IBBoard for updating your texture tool, i can finally recolour the Archon's campaign wargear.

IBBoard

I did think that would be the case. All I can say is "yah-boo-sucks" to Relic/THQ/Microsoft/whoever decreed such personal things as badges wouldn't be allowed in DoW2. If enough people are interested in having local-only versions I'll

I'm glad people find the Texture Tool useful. I don't get much feedback, but it's useful when people do tell me things that don't work rather than ignore them and just not do whatever they wanted to do Based on another thread that said DoW2 textures could be modified, but that they're just DDS files (and that you only get three colours, so it uses colour channels of the DDS instead of black and white images per colour) it looks like the tool will be redundant for DoW2. Personally I'd rather stick with six layers (which we never thought was enough) than try to work with just three!

Zetrial

I think there is an additional layer in there that we aren't aware of atm. I was trying to create a new banner texture earlier and got it spot on with what I wanted, the only problem was the entire banner had the accessory colour sheen to it.
Also IB I found out a little while ago I could actually get new badges in the game without overwriting old badges .

IBBoard

Four colours is still worse than six colours though, especially when we always used to want seven or eight to pick things out properly

It sound promising. Maybe "the decree-er of stupidity" hasn't completely ruined the game then (although I guess it'll still be user-only).

Zetrial

Yeha I'd take a guess at it being end only, especially since it requires .lua editing.
Maybe they might introduce it in a patch a year down the track and are just protecting their pre-order gear or something for now.

newage_abc

I'm just showing something I've been working on. I have been working on adding the other SM Chapters that Relic has listed in the .lua. So far I have 42 SM badges.

http://cid-9bfcf46e3b66e11f.skydriv.../relic00010.jpg
http://cid-9bfcf46e3b66e11f.skydriv.../relic00011.jpg

This is a WIP and learning tool for me.

Logan054

Nice to see so many extra badges mate, cant wait till i can download those, just a shame you cant really make flesh tearers with the current patterns

mred

@ newage abc: good god man, that is some awesome work.

IBBoard

mred: Most of that is Hangar-8's badges from the look of it. At least newage has managed to work out how to get extra badges listed, though.

Zetrial: I don't know, but I doubt it. The pre-order stuff would either a) need to be on both machines anyway (any weaponry etc, if you used it) or b) isn't allowed in online play and so wouldn't be shared like badges and banners are anyway (I'm sticking with DoW1 so I don't know).

mred

hmm. ive actually seen that site before, but i never put two and two together. silly me...

newage_abc

@mred & IBBoard: I never said that the Badges were my work. I was showing that it could be done adding extra badges into the game.

Should I release to public I will ask permission of the peoples work I have used. Most of the badges are Hanger-8, One or two IBBoard, and a few others.

I have also reworked the colors to match more the GW website, added 10 new chapters that Relic had listed in the lua files. I also have some wargear stuff added like everyone else is doing, but still lvl restricted. If ppl would like to DL I will start new thread.

I was not trying to hijack this thread just wanted to showing that more badges could be put into the game.

KOKO

Moore chapters ? Give it to me...
Moore permissions ? This will take time...... But they are worth to wait.
As there are bagdes,,,,where are the banners ? I know there is only one showing by tarkus ( and the standard bearer in mods ) .
And then....Even some of you modders know how to change, when will someone make a batch to build in personal chapters ?
Anyway...thx for this mod JAY .

GenTechJ

Quick question:

I'm working on my own personal badge mod, yet I'm running into some problems. Using Hangar 8's badges and resizing to 128x128 and then saving in DTX3 dds format works for some badges, yet not for others.

For example, replacing the Blood Ravens badge with H8's works perfectly fine. Yet replacing the Angels of Redemption seems to cause a lot of graphical errors. The intro movies no longer display, the main menu is black, etc.

Are there any other settings when converting a DoW1 badge to DoW2 that need to be set? I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS1 with the nvidia dds plugin.

EDIT: I'm also using -dev rather than building a sga. Could this be the issue?

jaylo138

I don't know what you've done wrong with the movies & main menu, replacing badges shouldn't affect those.

I'm using photoshop 7, which is considerably older than yours & as you can see from my mod i didn't have any problem converting badges, inclu Angels of Redemption .

Open up the older tga, resize the image to 128x128, save as DXT3 ARGB 8 bpp | explicit alpha, in the drop down menu below this select 2D Texture & make sure Generate MIP Maps is selected & save.

All badges in the badge folder should be in the same format.

mred

@ newage abc: dude, nobody's complaining

whether they're yours or not, its still great how you got em in to the game...

jaylo138

I have updated the mod to 1.1, added 15 sm badges.

newage_abc

@Jaylo138 great work on what you're doing here it was what got me started playing around to add more badges. Keep up the good work.

blahx3

Good work, keep it up

Archaneus

I don't see where to download the .sga version so I can use these and still play online. Perhaps I'm blind?

jaylo138

That's because i havn't done one yet for the update.

Archaneus

Hah, ok, well, that explains it. I guess all I can say is, I would really appreciate it if you did I don't know how easy it is to do but if it's not difficult I could do it myself. I don't really have any experience working with this stuff, though...

caprera

Fantastic mate! waiting for .sga vers
Does it changes armors colors disposition? I never liked to have blueheaded termies with my ultramarines...

(i'd also love to see red/white helmets around...)

[EDIT]

Could you think about adding also Pre-heresy Legions banners ??

I love playing with some traitor legions like Luna Wolves & Deathguard...

caprera

Any .SGA news ??