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Thread: How to Make Zimmerit Skin in Photoshop?22 Aug 2019, 20:42 PM Here are the two templates I use for zimmerit: and Make sure to set the layer as overlay and play around with the opacity to get your desired look. You will probably have to tile the each template to fit your tank correctly. Here are the results with those 2 templates: Hope that helps you. Good luck In: Modding and Tools
Thread: skin ambulance aleman16 Aug 2019, 11:54 AM I see you've extracted my Opel skin. What is it you're trying to do with it exactly? In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Question about UI6 Oct 2017, 20:36 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Oct 2017, 15:41 PMSneakEye The option the add it to the buildlog is called "show_in_build_log" in sbps. I've always cloned existing units so I don't know exactly what triggers this. But I just had a look through the files and maybe this is linked with ebps/ui_ext/kill_type. It seems that all my 3rd row units have the value 'building'. This works only with sbps indeed, but I managed to link a building with sbps. The ebps file should have the team_weapon category and the construction_squad must link to the sbps file. The team_weapon_type is 'stationary'. This sbps file has only the following categories: I answered this at b. The game thinks your building is now a stationary team weapon . I haven't encountered any consequences of this, it acts like all other buildings. Good luck! Excellent! Thank you very much! Adding in the team_weapon category and setting to "tp_stationary" along with linking the sbps to the on_construction_squad did the trick. Thanks again for your help. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Force the T34/85 red banner skin to be active?7 May 2017, 00:33 AM Excellent tips guys! Here's a Beutepanzer skin for the Wikinger Mod I was able to come up with while using your "Hull_extras" along with Armor_upgrade: I'm curious if you guys know of any other models that have these extra hull_extras that are hidden by default. Thanks again for the help! In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Controlling File Sizes of Skins6 Aug 2016, 03:08 AM Jump back to quoted post6 Aug 2016, 00:38 AMCyanara You know, I was just looking at the German 1944 - Macular skin and wondering how he got 2 armies in only 47MB. Then I realised: I used a lot of wear and tear layers on my skin packs, which would have shot the compression ratios to hell. What was only two colours suddenly becomes a huge variety of shades that are nowhere near as easy to compress, so the smallest I could get was 70MB for one army. My German skin packs contain both armies as well and the highest one is, I believe, around 55 mb. That also includes some vehicles from US, British, and Russian Beutepanzers for some mods that use them. They are summer only or winter only skins. As far as multiple layers, most of mine have numerous additional layers bloating the psd files to well above 600mb. I'm curious as to your psd file size. However, for exporting, I only include the _dif and sometimes an _alp file(to make parts of the vehicle disappear like side skirts, etc) for each vehicle. Including a _nrm and _gls, etc, will definitely increase the overall file size. If you didn't export with any other files other than the _dif, you'd probably be around the 50mb mark for a German skin pack that includes vehicles from both armies. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Controlling File Sizes of Skins4 Aug 2016, 22:37 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Aug 2016, 13:49 PMCyanara Hey, I'm just curious as to whether anyone has any tips regarding keeping custom skin file sizes low. I have two ready to use skins (winter and summer) that add up to 200MB collectively. However, I made a curated version that combines the same files of those two and it's coming out at nearly 400MB. Is there something about setting a curated version that does this, or am I maybe missing something else? Edit: Found this in the wiki: "NOTE: If you are submitting to the curated pathway then your mod will be big as it will include your source files. This may cause you to hit the upload file size limit of 300MB. If this is the case try splitting your mod into summer and winter packs and upload each separately." Oh wow. 100mb each is very high for a non-curated, ready-to-use skinpack. How many files are you exporting with each vehicle? Are you including, dif, nrm, spc, and gls? Curated skin packs are a much larger export, so that is normal. It is usually necessary to release a summer and winter separately for the 300mb single file limit. If you look on the workshop you'll see that many follow this practice. Also keep in mind that steam workshop has a 1gb cap on uploaded workshop files per account. I've had to create 3 separate accounts to be able to post curated stuff in addition to the ready-to-use stuff. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Mod Maker Stalls When Burning Skins4 Aug 2016, 22:29 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Aug 2016, 06:02 AMCyanara Hi all, This is an issue I encountered seemingly at random early on. It stopped being a problem for a while, but now has re-emerged. Basically, I start burning my skin pack, and at a certain unit (currently Panzer IV, the last one in the list) it just gets stuck forever. No error message. It doesn't even seem to realise something is wrong. It just keeps saying "Working..." until I kill Burn.exe. Has anyone ever encountered this and found a solution? So far I've tried: Cleaning the mod Deleted existing mods Deleting Intermediate Cache manually Making sure I have disk space Checking the burn settings Rebooting the computer All to no avail. Thanks Yes, in fact it has happened to me recently. I just figured I made a mistake somewhere in the naming of folders or all the other countless places that could make it crash or hang. Does your skin pack export all the way without stalling when the PIV is not included? One thing that I've done to minimize problems is that I keep my mod folder on the desktop. Other than that, my only solution is to make another skin pack from scratch and cross your fingers... Not really what you wanted to hear. You might try rebuilding the skin pack and start with the PIV and then if that works, try the rest. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Broken Sdkfz 250 Halftrack Spec/Gloss Maps?16 Jul 2016, 15:30 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Jul 2016, 01:52 AMCyanara Huh. Interesting catch on the randomness. Odd that it's happened every time for me, but I'll try some more tests on my end. As for the lighting, I only tried including the nrm/spc/gls files because I was experiencing the same issue as this: https://www.coh2.org/topic/37265/skin-mod-gloss-question/page/1#post_id554377 I meant to include screenshots, but didn't get around to it, sorry. Several vehicles are probably too light, but the Sdkfz 250 is the most noticeable. What should be pure black is nothing like it. It just seems to be a mistake with the default files the mod maker uses (my best guess is that it's using the much lighter snow-based textures on some vehicles instead of summer textures). So for that reason I tried using textures from the PSD files, but that sends the lighting on pretty much all the vehicles completely crazy. It's most noticeable on low-angle lighting maps like Crossing in the Woods when you turn the vehicle around. After some research last night, it's possible I need to disable 'flip' for the nrm/gls/spc burn settings. If you have successfully burned nrm/gls/spc files, I'd definitely love to see your settings. Try these burn settings. There are two you need to have. http://imgur.com/a/ll45J I believe Eliwood provided these to me awhile ago. Let me know if that solves your lighting issue. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Broken Sdkfz 250 Halftrack Spec/Gloss Maps?15 Jul 2016, 15:58 PM Hello. What I think is happening is that the game has a few different, random "appearances" for the upgraded SdKfz 251. I did a quick test with Janne's cheatmod and spawned 15 halftracks, upgraded them to flame, and 2 out the 15 had the covering all the way. The rest looked like what you've described as "broken". It appears there's no reason or requirement why sometimes it spawns fully covered or not. Similarly, the SdKfz 222/221 will spawn with a random look as well. Sometimes they will have a rolled up canvas with a chest on the front end, sometimes nothing, sometimes rolled up canvas on rear only, etc.. As far as your lighting question, I believe your problem is your burn settings if you are saving _nrm, _gls, and _spc separately. I personally don't export all those because the file size of the skin pack starts to get really large. I just try to adjust the _dif's coloring, lightness, etc. to compensate. I can send you my burn settings if you want to see if that works for you. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Wanted: Improved Model/Mesh Vehicle Exports from COH23 Jul 2016, 19:06 PM Yes, but it would be infinitely more amazing if actual 3d modelling were allowed to be used in game. Then the options would be endless as far as adding new vehicles, or even modifying the meshes on existing vehicles. In: Modding and Tools