Spanish Civil War

McGuba · Post by **McGuba** » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:38 pm

i am starting to populate the scenario ..... i am not really good at unit design so i borrowed some images from this fantastic site

http://www.juniorgeneral.org/

the resul is a new skin for panzer corps units in a more india stile see below

Well, to be honest, I am not a big fan of this "indie" look.

I just prefer the good old Panzer Corps units style. Making new infantry units is one of the easier thing compared to making new planes or tanks from scratch. You can use the vanilla units and just change the colour here and there and you have a new looking unit. And

BiteNibbleChomp wrote:
If I was making this mod, I would just be going for a slight recolouring of the infantry units the game already has. It makes it a lot easier to program the animations that way.

- BNC

BNC is absolutely right. It is one thing to create a new unit icon, but it is much harder to make appropriate matching animations. So I would also suggest to use existing unit icons as for those you can use the existing unit animations.

For example our friend Gary Childress made some nice infantry for both sides a while ago:

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I would definitely use these, or variations of these as I think they are superb. I know that for example the Nationalists had a sand yellow uniform as well for those Moroccan Regulars and they might had a red hat, but the above icon can be easily recoloured to get the desired result. You can also use these to your idea to have different "levels" of infantry by erasing one or two figures. Just always keep in mind the animations. For the above ones I think the Bridge Engineer animation fits nicely as it only has rifle fire (submachine guns were not very common in the Spanish Civil War if I am right.)

It is also fairly easy to make irregular infantry - you just need to recolour some parts of their uniform to make look like random civilian cloths - just like I did for the partisans in my mod:

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McGuba · Post by **McGuba** » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:57 pm

cicciopastic wrote: tonight i produced truks for both Republicanos and Nacionales ... i think i am not very good at taking suggestion as i am going straight on my way , but please, go on with me and be patient .... u never know sooner or later i may come up with something good

here is the nationalist trucks

Again, I am not a big fan of side view unit icons as they differ from the original ones and if you intend to use original icons as well then they will look awkward on the map next to each other. So why do not you just pick some of those oldie looking truck icons that were made by some icon makers here?

For example:

Gary Childress:

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Henschel 33 was used by Legion Condor.

or the Soviet GAZ-AA that I use in BE:

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cicciopastic · Post by **cicciopastic** » Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:45 pm

BiteNibbleChomp wrote: Starting strength is done by shift-clicking the unit in the editor and then changing the strength value on the menu that pops up.

- BNC

got it tks very much

McGuba wrote:
BiteNibbleChomp wrote:
If I was making this mod, I would just be going for a slight recolouring of the infantry units the game already has. It makes it a lot easier to program the animations that way.

- BNC
BNC is absolutely right. It is one thing to create a new unit icon, but it is much harder to make appropriate matching animations. So I would also suggest to use existing unit icons as for those you can use the existing unit animations.

ok i see ... i will give it some more tries before going on, but it will take some time ... i' ll let u know how's going

Latro · Post by **Latro** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:17 pm

McGuba wrote: Well, to be honest, I am not a big fan of this "indie" look.
I just prefer the good old Panzer Corps units style. Making new infantry units is one of the easier thing compared to making new planes or tanks from scratch. You can use the vanilla units and just change the colour here and there and you have a new looking unit.

Maybe with a bit of editing they can be made too look more like pzc icons.

just a quick try

Latro · Post by **Latro** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:39 pm

Not too bad in-game, maybe a tad darker?.

flakfernrohr · Post by **flakfernrohr** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:17 pm

Here is a link to a zip file of all the Spanish units I found in my files. Some are vanilla style and some are from DMP mods. Many of these were originally made by VPaulus years ago when he did a mod on the Spanish CW (2011-2012).

SPANISH PANZER CORP GRAPHICS, ETC.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y2doifptlr116 ... H.zip?dl=0

Latro · Post by **Latro** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:40 pm

Three tank edits.

Nationalist and republican BT-5
Nationalist T-26

Latro · Post by **Latro** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:43 pm

Republican T-26

cicciopastic · Post by **cicciopastic** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 8:38 pm

WOW! thank you guys .... i am overwhelmed by all this ... i may use all these units u draw or sent!!!!!!

all materil is absolutely fabulous!!!!!

my i dare some some requests???? is there anybody who wants to try to make some militias to make them more looking as civilians ... something like i was tring to do

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thanks again ciccio

cicciopastic · Post by **cicciopastic** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 8:53 pm

Latro wrote:
McGuba wrote: Well, to be honest, I am not a big fan of this "indie" look.
I just prefer the good old Panzer Corps units style. Making new infantry units is one of the easier thing compared to making new planes or tanks from scratch. You can use the vanilla units and just change the colour here and there and you have a new looking unit.
Maybe with a bit of editing they can be made too look more like pzc icons.

just a quick try

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how did u do that!!!!! i want to learn .... i am tryng to use GIMP but I am not really worth a thing!!!!!!

cicciopastic · Post by **cicciopastic** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 9:25 pm

first try ever to get a custom spanish militia ...

i got to do some learning!!!!

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cicciopastic · Post by **cicciopastic** » Wed Sep 28, 2016 9:47 pm

here a second try

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it is not really PC style yet ... but let me try some more .... i have to learn GIMP...

any comment? any suggestion????

flakfernrohr · Post by **flakfernrohr** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 3:10 am

Latro those are really nice tank units. I am going to add them to my files.

I found the attached set of Portugese units but I do not have the units as individuals, only the image I posted. If someone wants these made into individual vanilla style units for their files, I will make them and post them. Just send Pvt EMAIL on forum

nikivdd · Post by **nikivdd** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:50 am

From my Legacy of Versailles Ultimate database, some units made by Churchlakecity:

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Spanish republican units

nikivdd · Post by **nikivdd** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:52 am

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Spanish nationalist units.

nikivdd · Post by **nikivdd** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:57 am

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Some Kondor Legion unit samples.

Latro · Post by **Latro** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 9:59 am

cicciopastic wrote:here a second try

second try.png
it is not really PC style yet ... but let me try some more .... i have to learn GIMP...

any comment? any suggestion????

Contrast in the PzC icons is very stark. When shading and highlighting the Indie ones very dark tones are apparently to be used for the dark areas.
Not achieved by adjusting the contrast and brightness values in the paint programme. I find.

cicciopastic · Post by **cicciopastic** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:51 pm

hi guys,

here my first attempt to make a new plane from scratch ... i worked on a real photo to do it

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this is a Vickers Vildebeest light bomber: what do u think over it? ... i want to start to populate my mod, but i would like to make some more practice before doing it ...

i told u ... u must have patiente with me ... i started learning GMP less than a week ago!!!

cheers

cicciopastic · Post by **cicciopastic** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 9:13 pm

i added a few details

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i think i am not that far .....

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i maybe need some more shining colors ....

cicciopastic · Post by **cicciopastic** » Thu Sep 29, 2016 10:06 pm

this is my last work for the day ... i think i hardly can do better than this ....

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good night, ciccio

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