Halibutt and his toys

[Akkula]

Beautiful Flakpanzer IV Kugelblitz halibutt!!!. Can you post the vanilla and mask file?, I would love to use it in my campaign

[Halibutt]

Beautiful Flakpanzer IV Kugelblitz halibutt!!!. Can you post the vanilla and mask file?, I would love to use it in my campaign

I didn't do the Sprayshop mask so far. What I meant is that winter camo is closer to de-saturated icons Sprayshop works best with. In short - you can do the honours
Cheers

[Halibutt]

Oh, and further Forgotten Hope/ Secret Weapons requests are officially closed. 3DS Max finally crashed and I can't reopen it. Fortunately, I managed to finish this little baby, the Supermarine Spitfire. It's how the single Polish 1939 Spit I mentioned before might have looked like. Historically it was painted with the standard British camo, but the Poles would most likely repaint it with the Polish scheme and add the unit insignia. Most likely the plane would end up in the Warsaw-based 1st Air Regiment, 111th escadrille, hence the logo.

Spitfire BigIcon

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Polish Spitfire Mk. I

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[T2_2112]

@rezaf

I lost my laptop, then lost ur Luftwaffe Secret weapon pack also. Do you still have them

Do you have any issue with the download that's in the SWotL thread?
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rezaf

I did, look like my IP get banned but now it is ok, i used VPN. Thanks for many good icons. One more question if u dont mind. I love big icons, so i want to do some for ur pack, do you have 3D model of them ??

[rezaf]

One more question if u dont mind. I love big icons, so i want to do some for ur pack, do you have 3D model of them ??

Unfortunately, for almost all icons the answer is: No. As you can see, the icon quality varies greatly, and that's because I had to make do with what I was able to uncover with Google image search. I might have Flight Simulator models for a very, very small minority on my old PC, but that's all.

Oh, and further Forgotten Hope/ Secret Weapons requests are officially closed.

Awww ... yesterday I spent my evening compiling a list of units.

Just kidding, I had a brief look at the list and noticed some nice-to-haves, but like I wrote earlier, it's not that important. Thanks for the Kugelblitz.
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rezaf

[T2_2112]

One more question if u dont mind. I love big icons, so i want to do some for ur pack, do you have 3D model of them ??

Unfortunately, for almost all icons the answer is: No. As you can see, the icon quality varies greatly, and that's because I had to make do with what I was able to uncover with Google image search. I might have Flight Simulator models for a very, very small minority on my old PC, but that's all.
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rezaf

Now i need check FS models again. Thank for ur quick answer

[Ballermann]

Oh, and further Forgotten Hope/ Secret Weapons requests are officially closed. 3DS Max finally crashed and I can't reopen it.

It is possible to work for you, with "Gmax" (it´s free) ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmax
http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax

[Halibutt]

Oh, and further Forgotten Hope/ Secret Weapons requests are officially closed. 3DS Max finally crashed and I can't reopen it.

It is possible to work for you, with "Gmax" (it´s free) ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmax
http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax

EDIT: Scratch that - I figured it out, it works Gmax is no way as easy to work with as 3DS Max, but the import feature works, so I can import models and work on them in C4D.

Sooo, any requests?

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Technically it was possible to work with Gmax back in the days, as the official Battlefield Mod Development Toolkit (BFMDT) was released for both Gmax and 3DS Max. However, Gmax was discontinued soon afterwards and I couldn't find any working download links for the Gmax version of BFMDT. The 3DS Max version received a couple more updates, works with newer versions of 3DS Max and is still available, I couldn't find even the old non-updated version for Gmax anywhere. Sorry.

[Halibutt]

In case anyone missed it, I just added a Fieseler Stork per T2's request here. I also started compiling a list of all Polish equipment done so far in the first post.

Also, I'm running out of easily-available Polish 3D models, but there are still some left. For instance the Potez XXV used (and license-built) in Poland. By the time the war started it was used mostly for training, but it took part in the war of 1939 as a recce and liaison plane. The icon is based on this SketchUp model by PAV

Potez XXV

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Potez XXV

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[Halibutt]

And another fancy model: Fokker F.VIIB/3m. This version is a transport plane, but it was also used as a bomber by the Polish Air Force.

It's an interesting story BTW. At the end of 1920s Poland was gradually becoming less and less in love with French military technology. Remember the SPAD fighter problem I mentioned before? Around the same time Poland also bought French Farman F-68BN4 Goliath bombers. In the summer of 1926 the first of the new state-of-the-art bombers arrived... and almost immediately during trials one of them almost crashed. It turned out that the Goliath was underpowered. What is more, it couldn't fly on one engine at all, and the engines were very prone to malfunction. It was all fine and dandy when both engines were working, but more often than not only one was left - and the pilot was forced to land, without even a chance to pick the right spot. To add insult to injury, the plane was too slow and when only one engine was left, the speed dropped dramatically, making landing twice as dangerous. Finally, the fabric-covered wings were prone to... soaking. And when soaked with water, the plane was even more of a death trap. Because of that the newly-acquired planes were not even pressed into service. A replacement was badly needed.

In 1928 Poland bought a license for Dutch Fokker F.VIIB/3m plane for the Plage & Laśkiewicz factory. It was quickly modified and the factory started serial production in two versions. The civilian airliner (pretty typical for its' epoch) resembled tri-motor Taunte Ju. At the same time the plane was also produced as a night bomber: with bomb racks for up to 1500 kg of bombs in the hull and under the fuselage, additional windows below the cockpit and with 4 MGs: two in ventral position, one forward firing and one in dorsal position. Altogether 31 were built in Lublin: 20 for the army and 11 for the LOT Polish Airlines.

The military version was in use until 1938. Some were sold to the civilian airlines for conversions, others were relegated to non-combat duties and served in bomber escadrilles as transports.

BTW, the model is from SketchUp Warehouse. I have no idea how to replicate Bebro's BigIcon angles in Cinema 4D, does the one I attach below look ok?

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Fokker F.VIIB/3m

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[Halibutt]

And something for the land forces: a new truck. It's a Praga RV lorry, the basic truck of the Czechoslovak motorised infantry. Between 1935 and 1939 over 3000 pieces were built, many of them exported to, among other countries, Poland.

Praga RV

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And another icon for today: VW typ 82E Käfer. Better known as the Volkswagen Beetle, military version. Basically a standard civilian Beetle, with 4x4 drive and open top, it was mostly used by the Afrika Korps.

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VW typ 82E Käfer

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[captainjack]

And another icon for today: VW typ 82E Käfer.

Very nice. My current East campaign seems to be over-generous with spotting heroes which means I can see everything but can't fight it. My thoughts are turning to AK to counter the chill, so I will have to find an excuse to include it somehow.

Has anyone worked out how to give command units an effect similar to Radar along the lines of +1 Ini for all units within a certain range? This would probably be a good use for a command vehicle.

[Horst]

The "radar" trait should work on all units. I've got it working on Carriers at least. The ini-bonus only works for planes though.

[Halibutt]

Very nice. My current East campaign seems to be over-generous with spotting heroes which means I can see everything but can't fight it. My thoughts are turning to AK to counter the chill, so I will have to find an excuse to include it somehow.

Every excuse to use more icons is good

Oh, speaking of more icons, there was one plane design that was missing. Most of the times it's missing from computer games altogether. Come to think of it, it's strange: plenty of prototype designs are included while this plane is not - even though it was there. The problem with LWS-6 Żubr ("Wisent"), also known as PZL.30, is that it was a completely missed design from the start.

Designed by Zbysław Ciołkosz, the plane was initially thought of as an airliner for the LOT Polish Airlines. However, LOT chose DC-2 instead (no wonder). The LWS factory managed to sell the design to PZL state-owned holding to be converted to a simple medium bomber, a cheaper and easier to build alternative to PZL.37A and PZL.37B, should they fail. The army ordered a short batch (15 planes altogether). Romania wanted to buy additional 24, but the prototype crashed with two Romanian officers on board, no wonder the Romanians lost interest and ordered the PZL.37 instead. There were plenty of teething problems and for such a short batch no wonder the airplane was pretty expensive. In fact the price was similar for both PZL.30 and PZL.37, which is why no further orders followed. The bomber was never used in its' intended role and was relegated to training duties. However, arming it with the MGs and bombs would take only an hour, so why not use it in one of almost-historical scenarios


BTW, the icon is a conversion of one of Mazka's models for Blitzkrieg RTS.

PZL.30 Żubr - BigIcon

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PZL.30 Żubr

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[Halibutt]

How about a truly Polish armoured train instead of some generic Soviet-looking train? Here's "Śmiały" ("the bold"), or rather one of its' two artillery cars. The car was built by and for the Austro-Hungarian Army during WWI. It was the first Polish armoured train: it was assembled from captured Austro-Hungarian equipment on November 1, 1918, almost two weeks before Poland was officially re-born, and took part in the Polish-Ukrainian War, then the Polish-Bolshevist War and finally the war of 1939. Captured by the Soviets who pressed it into their service, it was then captured by the Germans, who used it for anti-partisan warfare until 1944.

In 1939 the train was a true moving fortress: two artillery cars were armed with 75mm guns and 100 mm howitzers plus plenty of HMGs and... two FT-17 tanks and a couple of tankettes on draisines.

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Śmiały armoured train

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Model by Mazka imported from Blitzkrieg

[Halibutt]

And something to go along with it: a Ti3 armoured locomotive. Again, a model by Mazka imported from Blitzkrieg. Could work nicely as a replacement for the vanilla civilian train engine.

Ti3 armoured train engine

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[Halibutt]

And another funny unit, the Ursus A truck, the workhorse of the Polish Army. The icon is in large part based on Blitzkrieg unit by Major Pain.

BigIcon

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Ursus A

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[T2_2112]

Do you use Maya, then that one can be use

Blitzkrieg Resource Kit by Nival Interactive.
Entire collection of Blitzkrieg unit resource files plus Maya samples. 316MB download, uncompressing to around 5GB and 84,270 files.

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http://www.geocities.jp/kwx50/lbk/bk_tools.htm

[Halibutt]

Do you use Maya, then that one can be use

Blitzkrieg Resource Kit by Nival Interactive.
Entire collection of Blitzkrieg unit resource files plus Maya samples. 316MB download, uncompressing to around 5GB and 84,270 files.

@
http://www.geocities.jp/kwx50/lbk/bk_tools.htm

Nope. Maya is fine I guess, but there's this little tool called Tanks.v0.2d. It's less than 200 kb and it does precisely what I need: decode Blitzkrieg's .mod files and export them to .obj. Which is what I need to import it to Cinema 4D.
Cheers

[Akkula]

And something to go along with it: a Ti3 armoured locomotive. Again, a model by Mazka imported from Blitzkrieg. Could work nicely as a replacement for the vanilla civilian train engine.

Ti3 armoured locomotive halibutt.png

I love it.