Unfortunate Son's counters

[Unfortunate Son]

Wow; Lovely, Lovely. It's beautiful!

Thanks jinkit621

[Unfortunate Son]

The Regia Aeronautica have arrived!

Now I went ahead and added an Easter egg for our modding colleague Kirk23. Don't tell him what it might be, let's see if he can find it. Hehehehe

Kirk23 I will give you a hint: To boldly go where no Facist has gone before.

[HarrySmith]

They look great Unfortunate Son, yes we would all like to purchase the Starship

[kirk23]

My old friend the Starship Enterprise, does James T know the Italians have now aquired it? I'm sure he will soon have his ship back with the help of Spock and Scotty, then he will get down to the serious business of fighting the Klingons hehehehehe!

[OldCrowBalthazor]

These are great Ray!
I would have to say though you are missing an essential item on the Enterprise.

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Here's Episode 2 of a video series featuring Unfortunate Son's excellent counter mod project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isKg7bvbXFk&t=117s

[gkersh]

These are really Cool Unfortunate Son! This must have taken a humungous amount of work to complete. Which nations do you have left to finish?

I really love the shadows and attention to detail. I'll have to look at the YouTube videos to see what they look like in game.

Congratulations on all your hard work and good luck in finishing them.

Greg

[Unfortunate Son]

These are really Cool Unfortunate Son! This must have taken a humungous amount of work to complete. Which nations do you have left to finish?

I really love the shadows and attention to detail. I'll have to look at the YouTube videos to see what they look like in game.

Congratulations on all your hard work and good luck in finishing them.

Greg

Thanks Greg

Please take a look at OCB's video and I will be posting more counters soon! So be on the look out for them.

[SilentHunter]

Hello brand new to this game and trying to figure out how to install these counters. I assume you download the attachments and place them somewhere but I have not been able to figure out where they go - anyone mind helping a newb understand how to use these? Thanks

Edit: I created the following folder and tried to place the attachments/.jpg files here and enable the mod but it did not appear to do anything.

C:\Users\SR\Documents\My Games\Strategic Command WWII - World at War\Mods\Bitmaps

[BillRunacre]

Hello brand new to this game and trying to figure out how to install these counters. I assume you download the attachments and place them somewhere but I have not been able to figure out where they go - anyone mind helping a newb understand how to use these? Thanks

Edit: I created the following folder and tried to place the attachments/.jpg files here and enable the mod but it did not appear to do anything.

C:\Users\SR\Documents\My Games\Strategic Command WWII - World at War\Mods\Bitmaps

Hello

Hopefully this thread will help you get the mod up and running ok:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 9&t=333915

Looks like you just need a slight edit to the folder name!

Bill

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Hello brand new to this game and trying to figure out how to install these counters. I assume you download the attachments and place them somewhere but I have not been able to figure out where they go - anyone mind helping a newb understand how to use these? Thanks

Edit: I created the following folder and tried to place the attachments/.jpg files here and enable the mod but it did not appear to do anything.

C:\Users\SR\Documents\My Games\Strategic Command WWII - World at War\Mods\Bitmaps

Hi SilentHunter.
Ray (Unfortunate Son) is just wrapping up the Italians and is on to the French now.
He sent me some more images of the Italian land units and they are great.
It's a long labor of love this project is and we can't wait to see all the sets done.

[SilentHunter]

Thank you for the reply Bill and OldCrowBalthazor. I agree these look great, when I started looking through the counter & map mods these really stood out from the others. I'm excited to see them in the game and will try the instructions Bill linked me to this week.

[SilentHunter]

I guess I'm missing something here;

As a test I download and used Big WaW NATOs counter. This was straight forward because it had a main folder and just dropped in to the mods folder. But these counters, at least on this forum, are just .jpg images uploaded as an attachment and I can't download them so I just right click and save as. I have no "modfoldername" and if I create one then put the jpg images in the bitmap folder it does not appear to do anything after activating. I don't really understand how the jpg's could work so feel like I'm missing something.

1) Right click on the attachment and save as
2) download and place in this folder
3) Users\<username>\Documents\My Games\Strategic Command WWII - World at War\Mods\test\Bitmaps
4) Activate the test mod

Thanks

[BillRunacre]

The file type used in game need to be .png files. I think you have been right clicking on the example images to download them?

I think the crucial thing is that Unfortunate Son's counter set aren't finished and released yet, so the examples shown won't work in game without a lot of sorting out work. I must admit I didn't realise this the other day when you first asked.

[SilentHunter]

The file type used in game need to be .png files. I think you have been right clicking on the example images to download them?

I think the crucial thing is that Unfortunate Son's counter set aren't finished and released yet, so the examples shown won't work in game without a lot of sorting out work. I must admit I didn't realise this the other day when you first asked.

You are correct Bill, thanks for the additional info I will wait until this is complete or I've spent more time with the game and the mods to understand the how-to's further. Much appreciated

[Unfortunate Son]

Thank you for the reply Bill and OldCrowBalthazor. I agree these look great, when I started looking through the counter & map mods these really stood out from the others. I'm excited to see them in the game and will try the instructions Bill linked me to this week.

Silent Hunter, Thanks for the complement on my counters. As Old Crow has stated these are a labor of love that I continue to work on in my spare time.

I have completed the balance of the Italian counters. Unfortunately due to the Italians inefficient industrial complex and the realization they were duped by IL Duce they will change sides at some point. So the land units do not change when upgraded

Countries completed thus far are: Germany, USSR, United Kingdom, Italy. Keep in mind I do have the USN & IJN completed. Also some of the vehicles I have already created for Lend Lease will be used for US this include M3-M5 halftracks (UK & USSR), *M1-155mm howitzer (UK), AA 40mm bofers (UK & USSR).
* I will create a SP version of the M1-155mm howitzer for US the M12-1555mm.

[Unfortunate Son]

I forgot to mention which country I was going to work on next...

Also just want to mention I will complete a full set of counters for SC-WIE first. This will get the counters out there quicker for those who like to turn the tide in their games sooner rather than later.

[OldCrowBalthazor]

I forgot to mention which country I was going to work on next...

Also just want to mention I will complete a full set of counters for SC-WIE first. This will get the counters out there quicker for those who like to turn the tide in their games sooner rather than later.

More please!

[Unfortunate Son]

I have completed the French and will now create the Polish counters then the US for a complete set for SC-WIE.

[kirk23]

Your Graphics are still the best I have seen for these games.