Hired Guns Reinforced

[Reinforce]

Ya that's what I ended up getting click click refresh my windows and boom everything can be opened in Photoshop... Pink cammo cloths here I come. This also means I might put together new skin packs for people to download too. Like Russian camo suits, Jungle warfare. CADPAT.... ah so many more ideas now.. damn you Mraah why do you have to be so helpful. x_x
 
But first I need to finish adding the last 3 weapons and polishing off the rest of the mod update. I wanna get it out tonight and I should be ok. 3 more weapons to add and 8 more text files... Well more then that I still need to make the little text files for all the FMJ clips. *sigh* The more I think the more work I get. x_x
 
Much Love,
Reinforce

[Mraah]

Reinforce,

[:D] ... You might think I'm helpfull now but later you'll be cursing me because your task load has increased by 10 !!

Ok ... anyway [;)] ... About the M1 Garand semi-auto ... or in other words ... the DOUBLE-TAP feature...

I was thinking about converting all the semi-auto handguns too. Giving them that double-tap feature may increase the popularity of the handguns. I'm not talking about converting them to full APS capability ... but a little POP---POP can go a long way ... especially if your mercs aim is true. If your merc misses with the first POP ... the second shot is gonna miss too (maybe)

So .... using the double-tap leads to one question ....

.... Do you feal lucky, punk?
(ok, two questions)
.... Do you feel confident your merc will hit with the first shot?

The double-tap is sweet on the M1 Garand ... POP--POP ... ching-ching (sound of brass hitting the ground) ... bad guy folds over after his hip is blown off. I made the burst AP=11 .... Results in a full aim double tap, followed by a quick-snap/double-tap of a less aimed shot.

Hmmm ... I'm a poet ... Quick-Snap/Double-Tap ... works for me!

Rob

[Reinforce]

Oddly I was looking at the ability to add in a bolt to the game that would add an extra bullet to single fire mode. Ala a double tap bolt. But I haven't tested adding in new fields for weapon mods yet as I don't want people to be able to turn everything into little machine pistols. Getting what I've done so far done done is takeing up my time so I can't play with all my weapon mods. Next mod Patch will more then likely be mostly if not totaly about weapon mods. Unless I end up with more weapons I wanna add.. Like a Hello Kitty AR-15... or if I can do it I'm totaly adding an OICW I don't care if it's been tossed out I likes it. I got quite the list of weapon mods I'm looking to add. Mostly in the fourm of new scopes, Special forces addons, Grips, Triggers/bolts... that crazy berral extention thing people keep asking about idk why but I'll look into it. Under berral weapons and such. I was also thinking of doing a line of tricked out SOPMOD weapons as well. Like I said I got a list, Got time to do it too.. problem is everytime I start something I get more and more I wanna do. Why does modding always go like this. :P
 
Much Love,
Reinforce

[Mraah]

Reinforce,

Oh yeah ... so now that you're into skinning then I might recommend a website for pulling off some photos ...

Goto the Cheaper Than Dirt store ... www.cheaperthandirt.com

You may find some tid-bits to image ... perhaps even a pistol scope or an ammo magazine.

Rob

[Mraah]

Reinforce,

And .... For some pink gear images .... try Silberman's Workinggear ... www.workinggear.com

Here's something under the bandana's ... some hot pink camo image for ya [;)] ... I'll post an in-game image of a camo helmet in the next post... in hot pink for ya!

Rob

[Mraah]

Not perfect .... too much white ... But we know you could do better [;)]

Might I add ... if you go hot pink then drop the camo effeciency value down to a negative number ...

The price you have to pay for having the latest fashion!

[Reinforce]

Lies nothing blends in better with the jungle.

I'm going to play around with skinning tonight. I'm just finishing up the Mod files befor I zip it and upload it. Wanna make sure I got everything and it's all in the right place, I skiped some of the little details so I could get this out asap. However those little details are cosmetic more then anything as I've been test playing without them and haven't had any problems.


Played around.. There's alittle coloring glitch becouse of the differant angles of the skin layout. Makes patterns hard to show off. [:D]



Now for the rest of it then the face and hair then to make it all unique... This also means that by all rights I could make new skins for the troops that would display what armor level they're useing. Based on recolored Merc skins.... Damn Mraah you really did like 10x my work load. x_x

Much Love,
Reinforce

[Reinforce]

New Updates out. Rawr... I hope it works. Works for me but if there's any problems please PM me with it or Post here please.

Happy hunting oh and that Rifle I posted that people though was the SCAR. It's the Prototype for the Bushmaster ACR, the Magpul Masada I like it's look better as I added the HK416/417 and they all look the same. x_x

Oh and I need a sticky.

Much Love,
Reinforce

[Hard Sarge]

ORIGINAL: Reinforce

Lies nothing blends in better with the jungle.

I'm going to play around with skinning tonight. I'm just finishing up the Mod files befor I zip it and upload it. Wanna make sure I got everything and it's all in the right place, I skiped some of the little details so I could get this out asap. However those little details are cosmetic more then anything as I've been test playing without them and haven't had any problems.


Played around.. There's alittle coloring glitch becouse of the differant angles of the skin layout. Makes patterns hard to show off. [:D]



Now for the rest of it then the face and hair then to make it all unique... This also means that by all rights I could make new skins for the troops that would display what armor level they're useing. Based on recolored Merc skins.... Damn Mraah you really did like 10x my work load. x_x

Much Love,
Reinforce

hmmm, Sexy

always did go for a gal with ammo pouches

[Hard Sarge]

got it, will start up a new one (ahhh, was close to taking the Palace anyway)

[R@S]

Did you add the OICW? It´s a favourite of mine too[:D]. Going to give the new update a try tomorrow.

Are you still taking requests? If you do here´s one:

http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn85-e.htm

and this one:

http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg38-e.htm

Edit: Couldn't wait until tomorrow and took a quick peek. Found a thing that might interest you. The 7.62x51 FMJ (20 round, 5 round)ammo doesn't show the picture, just the number of bullets in the clip. Will continue to play tomorrow and report anything(if there is) when I find it.

[Reinforce]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge


hmmm, Sexy

always did go for a gal with ammo pouches

lol thanks I think.

Much love,
Reinforce

[Reinforce]

ORIGINAL: R@S

Did you add the OICW? It´s a favourite of mine too[:D]. Going to give the new update a try tomorrow.

Are you still taking requests? If you do here´s one:

http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn85-e.htm

and this one:

http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg38-e.htm

No OICW yet I want one bad myself. But till I can get a weapon in that'll take both 5.56 and 20mm at the same time in differant slots I'll sadly be putting my beloved OICW on hold.


Sniper rifle looks good should once again be a simple add. I'm not really looking for more .50's though. But a guns a gun few changes here and there and It'll be good I would like smaller more scaled down version of a 50 for the more urban maps the ones I have added up to this point are well.. huge.


Hmmm A MK48.. Should be a simple add I was planing on a Special Forces/SOCOM weapons pack this will work into it nicely. Based on what I've been able to dig up quick it's a scaled up/down bullet up size down version of the M249 SAW which I've already added so it'll be a simple addition.


Much Love,
Reinforce

[clayog123]

Reinforce,

I have been checking this post daily just to be entertained by your enthusiasim for this game. Your talent speaks for itself. Thank you for your efforts. I made a few mods of my own and enjoyed playing this game. But now I can download your mod and play a completely new game.

Your work has allowed all of us to enjoy this title to the fullest, and beyond.

I for one just wanted to say thank you.

Oh, and Matrix....you may want to hire her.

[Hard Sarge]

roger on the FMJ ammo, in battle, when I found it, I didn't get a pic just the ammo number, but off map, it has the image

nasty first round battle

kind of ruff when the AI can out distance you with pistols

had a odd one though, got the pass, and then the guys opened fired on me, so ended up a long and very confused battle

[Reinforce]

Ok well funny story I was messing around trying to get a totaly new model/skin set into the game useing my pink cammo pants. As just to say I could kinda of thing.. But now for whatever reason when I set it back to default my merc dosn't get her skin back... its just this yellow blob and I got no idea what I did... I think I might have really killed my game this time. T_T
 
Or not got it fixed.. seems it hates me or something Had to resave it afew times with photoshop to get it to work...
 
Skinning looks like it's going to be a pain though 4 files to change/edit and there all over the place. I wish there was a tool that would do all the name/file changes for me.
 
For those of you who wanna skin the first parts easy. But you need to make a new Materials file and edit it with a text editor and point it at whatever skins/textures your useing. If you want it I'll write up a better walkthough for skinning. Hell I might even add pictures I wub you all that much.
 
There also seems to be some SAS, GSG and Swat skeletons in the game.. not sure what they do but I might see if I can get them to load with dummy skins just to see what the model itself looks like.
 
Anyways I'm off break time. I'll drop back in later tonight.
 
Much Love,
Reinforce

[Reinforce]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

roger on the FMJ ammo, in battle, when I found it, I didn't get a pic just the ammo number, but off map, it has the image

nasty first round battle

kind of ruff when the AI can out distance you with pistols

had a odd one though, got the pass, and then the guys opened fired on me, so ended up a long and very confused battle

Oh frigging duh. God I'm stupid I forgot to add in the FMJ icon images. Wow epic fail on my part.

I'm so sorry guys I'll add that in right now and update it. Sorry again for that mistake I can't belive I forgot about it. T_T

Much Love,
Reinforce

[Reinforce]

Ok now it should work. Sorry again about that, Totaly sliped my mind I normaly move things over to the mod folder as I add/change them but I guess that was a friday night job. x_x
 
Let me know if anything else isn't showing up right.
 
Much Love,
Reinforce

[Reinforce]

Well after playing around with it.. and spending an hour zipping all my game files so I have backups I was able to edit heads and hair and make them there own thing so rawr. I also ran into of all things throwing knifes. But that's another story here's alittle shot of a reskin, Please keep in mind it's rough I'm tired it's late only sugers keeping me going... well that and the knowlage I am gaining bwhaha.

Here's alittle pic of what I've been able to do.. with my sexy UN hat. No hair in this shot.. It's more of a pain to work with I kept loseing the alpha channels.. mostly becouse I'm stupid.



My biggest complaint is this game uses small textures... looks super ugly when I blow it up on my TV to edit. They're 256x256.. I'm going to see if I can up the resolution of one to see if I can get a much more detailed and sharper look... Don't know how it'll go but we'll see. Given I've worked with some textures for oblivion that were 4280x4280 or something like that. But I'll work with what I have.. But I'm still going to try and make the textures bigger. Bigger means a better looking image but sadly it'll take more power to run the game.

Now I'm off for the night I'm going to see about makeing a good skin tomorrow.. Going to look into weapons too... so much closer to my Hello kitty AR15.


Much Love,
Reinforce

[Reinforce]

So good news bad news time. Good news is I can totaly add a new slot on every weapon in the game to take new weapon mods. Like Ok This weapon will accept a new stock or grip or whatever. I can get that new item into the game and the weapon knowing it can take that new weapon addon when I buy it. Now for the bad news.. Thats all I can get it to do atm. When I try to put the weapon addon onto the weapon it reds everything out.
 
Most annoying but I'm 90% sure there's a call to check what weapon mod can go in what slot. I have however been unable to find it. So has anyone happend across this info in there file diveing?
 
Brick wall too with Dual ammo type weapons. Like a weapon that has 2 differant berrals ala an OICW with a 20mm and a 5.56 in it. No matter what I try I can't get it to call on that second ammo type... funny thing is I can make a weapon use more then 1 type of primary ammo. I think this might of been one of those cut fetures, Makes me sad. However if I could get the new weapon mods in and working it would be simple to just make them 2 parts you could put together and rawr new gun... kinda that's a real hack and slash way to do it but I'm sure that would work.
 
Oddly the way the Grenade Launcher works is it calls on a weapon at the bottem of the list and uses that as the launcher itself. There dosn't seem to be a field in the weapons file though for this type of call.. So I'm going to play around with adding a new underberral weapon later tonight and see if I can at least get that working befor I break my keyboard.
 
Oh and I did get the Icons made up for a new 40mm round. Thankfuly I know how to add that easily how it'll work in game is well.. debatable it's basicly a super shotgun round. I'm also mulling over a mini-grenade round for the shotguns, They look neat. For you folk out there going she's crazy I'm totaly not go look up FRAG-12 it's totaly a new style of mini shotgun launched Grenade.
 
I've looked into the duckbill more and have been unable to get much done with that blasted thing. I'm going to try messing around with it more later.. Who ever made it shoot in a line should line up and be shot. That might work in some old 2D game but in a 3D world it's really really usless. I'd like to try modeling it more as a O then a --- so you could get more pellets on the target.
 
I'm also thinking of a range change to the carbine weapons like the M4 and the G36C Keep everything about them as is but make them more between the full ARs and SMGs becouse I want to try and build the game up in steping stones. So like Pistols, Shotguns, SMGs, Carbines, Rifles, Assault Rifles then everything else over the phases better. I'd also look at tech level and stuff so you'd see lower tech weapons alittle sooner then there ultra modern ones and they would be more common as the game went on. Not sure if I would go that far though as I'd have to dive into the... things file again... *Shutter* the horrors. So I may just leave it as it is...
 
Much Love,
Reinforce