Geezer

While looking for British/Canadian vehicles for 1944 Bastogne, I dusted off and up-dated some old 1940 Libya vehicles.

I've dusted off the old CR32 model and will finish it for the SCW mod that Stephan1918 and I are working on again.

Tank and mobile infantry units moved faster than supply units, so they often carried what they needed on their vehicles. We'll see if the game engine can handle lots of high poly vehicles. Update below.

That is doable, but depends on what Baffmeister has to say. He's the guy who has to attribute the models so they run ingame. Progress shot of fender trash below. I'm tinkering with the cluttered look that so many US vehicles had during WW2. It may be more trouble than it is worth, but it doesn't hurt to experiment.

When I get tired of making buildings, I work on vehicles. Bulge progress shot below.

Thanks. I don't have anything specific made yet, but I can probably make parked aircraft from the LOD2 models of each aircraft I release. On the subject, Stephen1918 and I have just agreed to resume work on Spanish Civil War aircraft.

Baffmeister requested two large churches - first of two shown below.

Below are experiments with clusters of buildings - each cluster is one 3D model. Models shown are for towns and villages, though they can also be placed on the outskirts of big cities. Now that I have figured out how to combine several buildings together into one 3D model, I will try making entire blocks, with fences, utility poles, and maybe even civilian figures. Depends on how much the game engine can handle.

Unfortunately, the two game systems are incompatible. I can't find it, but someone asked the same question in the SF2 forums and Wrench responded with the specific reasons why FE2 maps won't run properly in SF2. Damn shame really, as FE/FE2 still does a few things better than SF/SF2 - among them is the better looking maps at low altitude. That's one reason why I won't work in SF/SF2. If the day ever comes when modders get access to the source code, what is needed is a third sim that combines the best of both - Strike Eagles.

Been busy with Real World stuff, but got a little work done on Baffmeister's Bulge vehicles.

As Time Goes By ain't bad either...

The White Cliffs Of Dover: London (AFP) - Renowned World War II singer Vera Lynn will celebrate her next birthday by becoming the first singer in history to release a new album at age 100, her record label said on Thursday. "Vera Lynn 100" will feature Lynn's original vocals set to re-orchestrated versions of some of her most famous songs including "The White Cliffs of Dover" and "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart." The album is being released on March 17, three days before the singer's milestone birthday. "It's truly humbling that people still enjoy these songs from so many years ago, reliving the emotions of that time," Lynn said in a statement released by Decca Records. "It's so wonderful for me to hear 'my songs' again so beautifully presented in a completely new way," she said. Known as the "forces' sweetheart", Lynn famously boosted troops' morale during World War II, travelling thousands of miles to Egypt, India and Myanmar to entertain soldiers with her songs. Lynn, who started performing at the age of seven, has won many accolades during her illustrious career. She became the first British artist to top the US charts in 1952 as well as the oldest living artist to feature in the UK top 20 chart at the age of 97. Honoured many times by Queen Elizabeth II, Lynn was made a dame in 1975. Asked on Thursday if she thought her new album could surpass the previous one and reach number one in UK charts, Lynn told BBC radio: "I doubt that." "It might seem quite tame to these young people, the music. But for us it was very exciting and very meaningful and it meant a lot to people." The singer, who has described reaching her 100th birthday as "an incredible adventure of song, dance and friendship". It will be celebrated in a charity concert, held at the London Palladium on March 18. Lynn will not join in the singing, telling the BBC: "It's best I can remember me as I was." https://www.yahoo.com/news/british-singer-vera-lynn-release-album-100-112856914.html

Shot of revised station. The photos of lorraine ancienne train stations showed the blue in shadow, so I had to guess what the blue looked like in sunlight. Also threw in some French soldiers and a Citroen T23.

Thanks! I'll modify the station tonight.

The "color"? Do you mean the color of the building's plaster? Working from an old B&W photo, I had to guess. What color should it be?

Interesting stuff about each company using the same design? You can see I simplified the train station, but it looks authentic when flying at low level. Also shown is a 1938 Citroen TA and Millet locomotive.

Thanks for that information. It looked like they were standardized designs, but I don't read French so I could not be certain.

My 'Nam chopper buddy wondered how I scaled the buildings, figures, horses, etc. I make all my models in 3dsMax, the industry standard for computer game stuff - the movie Avatar was made with Max. When working in Max, you can toggle a grid on/off at any time, and set the grid for any dimensions you want. I usually work with a one meter x one meter grid - you can see the faint grid in shot below. When building something specific, like an airplane or truck, I can key in the dimensions from data found in references. When making buildings, I use a figure as a kind of yardstick and eyeball the doors to sorta/kinda fit the figure. Obviously, there is a lot of slop to this method but so long as the figure/door relationship looks about right, the buildings will look about right. :o)

Another shot of rural, village, and town stuff. Most art is 256x256 JPEG, with larger objects 512x512 JPEG. It remains to be seen if the game engine can draw all this, but I aim to find out.

Keep adding more stuff - some winter versions for Baffmeister shown below.

Close up of some of the new buildings, figures, and vehicles.

Thanks for the vote of appreciation. I realize you are really busy, but when you finish your present Verdun terrain, would you be interested in adapting gterl's new Vosges map to 1938? It would be "the same...only different" to his present map. EDIT: shot of some of the aircraft that would be employed in the 1938 "what if."

I sent the above shot to a buddy, who liked the train station. Its something I've had laying around for several years, and is sort of a generic station based on a French design used in the colonies and rural areas of France. Bottom two shots are from Tunisia 1943, during the battles around Kasserine Pass.

Shot below of most of the new objects. Primarily, they are rural, village, and town objects, with one big city fragment for evaluation. Only the French figures and vehicles - for 1938 - are shown here.