Matrix Games Forums

A look through the keyhole #10!The Age of Shadows on Distant Worlds starts now!Paypal System UpdateDistant Worlds: Shadows Final Teaser!Distant Worlds: Legends gets Updated!Recruiting Testers for Commander: the Great War on Mac!Armageddon invasion starts in 2014Command Rommels Panzers in Battle Academy!Servers UpdateThe Deal goes Fourth!		 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release)

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [Current Games From Matrix.] >> [Discontinued Games] >> Panzer Command: Kharkov >> Maps, Models and Mods >> Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) Page: [1]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/29/2008 2:20:05 PM   
SAF_Biffa


Posts: 131
Joined: 4/16/2008
From: Wiltshire
Status: offline 		Trying to get this out before the weekend since I'm away playing last of the mohicans in a wood somewhere in Sussex. If I don't manage it then this pack will certainly be available early next week.

Need to tidy up the textures and add the joints for the infantry mounts, then it will be available for download, no church/synagogue this time due to the problems I had for 2 weeks with my machine but expect that in the next pack- there will be many more and hopefully they will be even better now and lot less stressful to make.

Thanks go to Stridor who's life I have made very difficult recently. spam cry, spam cry, spam beg etc etc.

Anyway watch this space for some juicy screens and the download link when I'm done. Sorry to any of you map makers out there who were expecting this a bit quicker but I really tried.

Post #: 1
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/29/2008 3:01:57 PM   
Erik Rutins

 

Posts: 31388
Joined: 3/28/2000
From: Vermont, USA
Status: online 		Outstanding! Great work, Biffa, looking forward to these.

_____________________________

Erik Rutins
Director of Product Development and Business Relations


For official support, please use our Help Desk: http://www.matrixgames.com/helpdesk/

Freedom is not Free.

(in reply to SAF_Biffa)
Post #: 2
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/29/2008 3:04:47 PM   
Redleg


Posts: 1805
Joined: 5/23/2000
Status: offline 		These are really going to be a great addition to the game - now the peasant huts are going to look a lot more in keeping with the photos I have seen.  Very nice.

Eventually, I hope to see some worker housing for some factory areas.

(in reply to SAF_Biffa)
Post #: 3
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/29/2008 3:41:34 PM   
Stridor


Posts: 5074
Joined: 9/8/2007
Status: offline 		Yes brilliant, and much better than stock.

I did very little except give a few tips, you did all the hard work and so deserve the kudos.

Now all we need is a new map with these little rippas!



Acually I think Mad Russian is looking for a map maker for one of his excellent HSG scenarios ... hmmmm ...

S.


(in reply to Redleg)
Post #: 4
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/29/2008 7:10:49 PM   
RyanCrierie


Posts: 1067
Joined: 10/14/2005
Status: offline 		Now make a ruined factory for STALINGRAD

_____________________________

My Website with cool bits and pieces!

(in reply to Stridor)
Post #: 5
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/29/2008 9:29:05 PM   
Redleg


Posts: 1805
Joined: 5/23/2000
Status: offline 		Wouldn't a large area with factories and other buildings be great?  I would quickly see if the Assault Engineers that Herr Hitler ordered to Stalingrad would be able to deal with Russian SMG squads in the buildings.

I am working on Shock SMG squads that appear to be very tough customers.  They are armed with SMGs, RPG-40s (HE explosives), and have Smoke Grenades.

(in reply to RyanCrierie)
Post #: 6
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/29/2008 9:39:19 PM   
Motomouse

 

Posts: 239
Joined: 4/1/2005
Status: offline 		Looking good, providing a nice setting!


(in reply to Redleg)
Post #: 7
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/29/2008 11:17:28 PM   
GShock


Posts: 1246
Joined: 12/9/2007
From: San Francisco, CA - USA
Status: offline 		Truly the battle of Stalingrad could be worth 10 stock campaigns ... Just have a look at some air pictures and then look at "Enemy at the gates".

I'm amazed to see so many are building so much stuff for this game...if i only had the time to play it, i'd have already bought it!

I.E. I bought EiANW and i just patched it today, then i realized i have never played it....

< Message edited by GShock -- 5/29/2008 11:18:30 PM >

(in reply to Motomouse)
Post #: 8
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/30/2008 4:40:30 AM   
SAF_Biffa


Posts: 131
Joined: 4/16/2008
From: Wiltshire
Status: offline 		I've rushed it a bit to get it done in time so I've labelled it a Beta. Also next week I will include an addon to it which can be used to simply overwrite the graphic files to make them non-winter since most of the current rooves have frost/snow on them.

The final release will hopefully take into account any comments from you guys here and will include the summer graphics mentioned above. Hopefully the next pack should be simpler and quicker to produce.

Thanks for your encouragement and ofc thanks go to Stridor .

Some screens-





http://www.4shared.com/file/49458579/e6bbc05d/Biffas-real-estate-pack1_beta_-for-PCK.html

Just thought I'd mention one sweet website that gives you a real flavour for the region and some nice reference material, the pictures certainly inspired me: http://www.galenfrysinger.com/ukraine_folk_museum.htm

(in reply to GShock)
Post #: 9
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/30/2008 5:36:07 AM   
Stridor


Posts: 5074
Joined: 9/8/2007
Status: offline 		now all we need is Erik to ask Kevin about this mythical smoke particle to get smoke outta those chimneys.

I like your little Ukranian Real Estate icon

(in reply to SAF_Biffa)
Post #: 10
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/30/2008 5:52:20 AM   
Erik Rutins

 

Posts: 31388
Joined: 3/28/2000
From: Vermont, USA
Status: online 		Whoops, forgot about that - not mythical at all though, check out Winterstorm Level 2 in the Scene Editor.






Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Erik Rutins
Director of Product Development and Business Relations


For official support, please use our Help Desk: http://www.matrixgames.com/helpdesk/

Freedom is not Free.

(in reply to Stridor)
Post #: 11
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/30/2008 6:27:15 AM   
Stridor


Posts: 5074
Joined: 9/8/2007
Status: offline 		Thanks Erik.

That is good news.

I had a look ...

It seems you can't add a particle emiter in scenedit you need to go into the scene xml and do it by hand

So this goes under the main child list 

<particleEmitterNodeDo particleEmitterNodeType="SmokePlume">
        <vector x="X" y="Y" z="Z" />
        <orientation yaw="0" pitch="0" roll="0" />
</particleEmitterNodeDo>


Where X/Y/Z are the map coords you want the plume to be.

I had a look in the game dlls and found a whole bunch of others particle emiters like

Smoke
SmokePlume
SmolderCloud
SmolderFlame
SnowExplosion

+ others

But none other than SmokePlume seems to work in the game

Maybe Kevin can enlighten us further

(in reply to Erik Rutins)
Post #: 12
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/30/2008 11:23:59 AM   
Cougar_DK


Posts: 430
Joined: 5/3/2005
From: Denmark
Status: offline 		Looking great Biffa!

_____________________________

Cougars Corner

(in reply to Stridor)
Post #: 13
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/30/2008 1:59:49 PM   
SAF_Biffa


Posts: 131
Joined: 4/16/2008
From: Wiltshire
Status: offline 		Thanks guys, damn 2.40am that was a squeeze.

Maybe save the smoke for a nice ruined buildings set, who's gonna be warming up the bread stove with the German Army rolling through their neighbourhood? One of my thoughts was to do a totally wasted village with charred and piled bodies behind walls and out in the streets, great way to get the Russian player to fight more aggressively! Anyone seen the movie Elem Klimov's Come and See?

Wondering if using smoke will mean some ppl with basic machines may have problems?

Anyway keep spotting the odd texture that needs tweaking but I'll take the weekend off and await any extra comments. Windmills, barricades, more peasant huts, wreckage etc all coming up.

Here's a nice pic, a bit LoTR but probably pretty close to how dire some of these places would have been:


(in reply to Cougar_DK)
Post #: 14
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 5/30/2008 3:22:20 PM   
Motomouse

 

Posts: 239
Joined: 4/1/2005
Status: offline 		My Opinion on atrocities and games: I prefer cruelities and war crime not depicted  in a game. I do not shut my eyes, but when I deal with grave atrocities, I prefer to refer to literature and art.

Regards
Motomouse



(in reply to SAF_Biffa)
Post #: 15
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/1/2008 11:40:26 PM   
SAF_Biffa


Posts: 131
Joined: 4/16/2008
From: Wiltshire
Status: offline 		Well said and a good point, maybe focus on the destruction rather than the gore.

Anyway 1 download means there seems to be no rush for terrain mods of any type atm.

(in reply to Motomouse)
Post #: 16
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/1/2008 11:46:48 PM   
junk2drive


Posts: 12674
Joined: 6/27/2002
From: Arizona West Coast
Status: offline 		The title of the thread states immenent release and the download link is hard to find. Plus you label it beta.

Add to that, people are still trying to figure out how to make new maps.

(in reply to SAF_Biffa)
Post #: 17
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/1/2008 11:49:10 PM   
Motomouse

 

Posts: 239
Joined: 4/1/2005
Status: offline 		Biffa, looking forward to your great buildings. Just spending most of my available PCK time on playing the game and editing the blender bike. I thought I wait for the official release, but if you need some feedback on the beta, I will be glad to look at the beta pack.

Thanks for your good looking additions!
Motomouse

(in reply to SAF_Biffa)
Post #: 18
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/1/2008 11:49:10 PM   
von Staudt


Posts: 406
Joined: 4/25/2008
Status: offline 		Be patient. There are a lot of very talented scenario designers just getting there feet wet after transitiong from CM. Your work is beautiful and will be utilized to no end in the near future.

(in reply to SAF_Biffa)
Post #: 19
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/1/2008 11:49:36 PM   
Erik Rutins

 

Posts: 31388
Joined: 3/28/2000
From: Vermont, USA
Status: online 		I actually missed the download link too! I just grabbed it, but it looks like it should be reorganized a bit for easy installation into the game. Stridor or Cougar should be able to help with that.

Thanks, Biffa. With your permission, I'd like to add these into the next official release.

_____________________________

Erik Rutins
Director of Product Development and Business Relations


For official support, please use our Help Desk: http://www.matrixgames.com/helpdesk/

Freedom is not Free.

(in reply to junk2drive)
Post #: 20
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/2/2008 12:30:39 AM   
Mraah

 

Posts: 1084
Joined: 2/20/2008
Status: offline 		SAF_Biffa,

Just downloaded it ... great work!! Looking forward to more!!

I'll add them to my Singling map ... when I get back to it after the M4A2 is done.

Thank you sir!

Rob

(in reply to SAF_Biffa)
Post #: 21
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/2/2008 9:41:44 AM   
Cougar_DK


Posts: 430
Joined: 5/3/2005
From: Denmark
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Stridor or Cougar should be able to help with that.

Thanks, Biffa. With your permission, I'd like to add these into the next official release.


I will look into this later today

_____________________________

Cougars Corner

(in reply to Erik Rutins)
Post #: 22
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/2/2008 1:48:02 PM   
SAF_Biffa


Posts: 131
Joined: 4/16/2008
From: Wiltshire
Status: offline 		It's a Beta due the fact that I haven't had time to test the infantry mounts, as I said I rushed it to get it out for last weekend because I knew some of the map makers are starting to get quite far with their maps.

You don't really need to be a map maker to test them, just use the editors.

I keep spotting some texture faults on them too so wanted to wait till just a couple of people had looked at them and commented before doing the final, I've got the time now so it's ok.

Didn't mean for my post to sound moody or upset, I wasnt, I just realised that there was no need to rush it out afterall which is cool.

Chill

(in reply to Cougar_DK)
Post #: 23
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/2/2008 8:32:40 PM   
Cougar_DK


Posts: 430
Joined: 5/3/2005
From: Denmark
Status: offline 		Here is SAF_Biffas file in JSGME format.

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Cougars Corner

(in reply to SAF_Biffa)
Post #: 24
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/11/2008 3:45:12 AM   
SAF_Biffa


Posts: 131
Joined: 4/16/2008
From: Wiltshire
Status: offline 		Ok well I've waited and taken on board all of your comments... so I'll just press ahead with the release

All of the models in the beta plus 'summer texture variants' which you can add depending on season ofc plus these windmills that I've just finished. Infantry points are added to all buildings though not thoroughly tested.

Give me a couple of days to finish tweaks.


(in reply to Cougar_DK)
Post #: 25
RE: Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) - 6/11/2008 4:04:39 AM   
Rick

 

Posts: 11600
Joined: 4/20/2000
Status: offline 		Very nice SAF_Biffa. I plan to use some of these with the first map I make using Stridors new Map editor --

Thanks!

Rick

(in reply to SAF_Biffa)
Post #: 26
Page:   [1]
All Forums >> [Current Games From Matrix.] >> [Discontinued Games] >> Panzer Command: Kharkov >> Maps, Models and Mods >> Biffa's Real Estate Pack 1 (imminent release) Page: [1]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

0.824