[REL] Flower Class Corvette Pack

[Jace11]

Release 1.0

This pack alters a few things on the Flower Class Corvette Escorts. Anti-submarine loadout is improved, with a second set of KGuns added in Aug 1939. The colour of all corvette keels is changed from blue to red. The Flower Corvette diffuse AO skins that ate included are based on historic paint schemes, though are not date restricted as the intent was to increase the variety of colours observed during a campaign.

A01 Stock
A02 HMS Spirea
A03 HMCS Beauharnois
A04 USS Saucy
A05 HMCS Snowberry
A06 HMS Arvida

It will overwrite the second stock skin with the green along the waterline (sry I didn't like the patchy textures on the superstructure). I dont use JSGME but have made it with the appropriate file structure, please let me know if you find any problems. Also can someone please report back as to whether the red keel texture is present in their game if they have installed the game to a non-default directory? I am a bit concerned that the path redirection used during GR2 editing might limit it for those people..









http://www.gamefront.com/files/23345...vette_Pack.zip

P.S many thx to TDW for his GR2 editor...

[Cybermat47]

Excellent!

[V13dweller]

I'm impressed.

I made the flower corvette available to the Germans once France was invaded, but I have not released it yet due to the fact that people might not need it.

[Grizwald]

Nice mod Jace, I think we all love new details and textures, and V13dweller, I'd use your mod as well, just so its not the same type 34 destroyers guarding all the French bases. variety is always nice!

[gap]

Originally Posted by Jace11

Release 1.0

Originally Posted by Jace11

http://www.gamefront.com/files/23345...vette_Pack.zip

It is just me, or the above link is broken or temporily off? Even after using various anonimizer proxy services, I keep getting the message that "the resource couldn't be loaded"

[Trevally.]

Works ok for me Gap

[gap]

Originally Posted by Trevally.

Works ok for me Gap

Thank you Trev

@ Jace

If I can, I would suggest you to change media storage service for your downloads: gamefront is blocked in several countries, and you will receive many complaints like my one

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by Jace11

Release 1.0

This pack alters a few things on the Flower Class Corvette Escorts. Anti-submarine loadout is improved, with a second set of KGuns added in Aug 1939. The colour of all corvette keels is changed from blue to red. The Flower Corvette diffuse AO skins that ate included are based on historic paint schemes, though are not date restricted as the intent was to increase the variety of colours observed during a campaign.

Thank you

Originally Posted by gap

It is just me, or the above link is broken or temporily off? Even after using various anonimizer proxy services, I keep getting the message that "the resource couldn't be loaded"

Works OK for me too.. through anonimox..

Originally Posted by gap

@ Jace

If I can, I would suggest you to change media storage service for your downloads: gamefront is blocked in several countries, and you will receive many complaints like my one

[gap]

Originally Posted by volodya61

Works OK for me too.. through anonimox..

it works! long life to anonimox

Thank you mate


@ Jace11

I had a look into your files, and wow, I have to say that you did an outstanding work

My only doubt is about the usage of multiple AO maps. I suspect that the game only accepts three of them for each roster unit entry; occlusion map definitions in excess, if present, as well as date and frequency settings are probably ignored. Going by what Trevally is saying in this post, skin usage is campaign is set in gen node of campaign layer, and in fact thre valid settings are possible: 0 - early camo, 1 - mid camo, 2 - late camo

One more remark:

Originally Posted by Jace11

The colour of all corvette keels is changed from blue to red.

...

Also can someone please report back as to whether the red keel texture is present in their game if they have installed the game to a non-default directory? I am a bit concerned that the path redirection used during GR2 editing might limit it for those people..

You didn't need to change diffuse maps usage in GR2 files for doing it. You could have done it through cfg file. Have you seen this post by elanaiba?

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//sho...2&postcount=75

[Mikemike47]

Originally Posted by volodya61

Thank you
Works OK for me too.. through anonimox..

@Jace Thanks
An addon for firefox called skipscreen helps sometimes with rapidshare, gamefront and mediafire issues.

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by Mikemike47

An addon for firefox called skipscreen helps sometimes with rapidshare, gamefront and mediafire issues.

SkipScreen is a plugin for a completely different things.. we are talking about the blocked access of gamefront for some countries and anonymous access through the proxy plugin..

[Trevally.]

and in fact thre valid settings are possible: 0 - early camo, 1 - mid camo, 2 - late camo

Set within the GroupTypeDefs.cfg we have Camouflage=2 for late, 1 for mid and 0 for early

[gap]

Originally Posted by Trevally.

Set within the GroupTypeDefs.cfg we have Camouflage=2 for late, 1 for mid and 0 for early

Unless I am very much mistaken, this implies that:

- setting more than three camo schemes for each roster entry is totally pointless;

- camo start/end dates, as well as frequency settings, are ignored;

- any new camouflage added, must be set in campaign by Trevally in order to show up in game.

[Jace11]

Yeah, sort of. Seems group units have options early, mid, late for camo, but also equip... I noticed something while changing deck gun dates in eqp files for merchants. It seems the upgrade dates can pass and yet convoys merchants don't get deck guns because they are listed in the group as early, which seems to set it to a very early date as opposed to the actual date. Probably the same with camo.

[gap]

Originally Posted by Jace11

Yeah, sort of. Seems group units have options early, mid, late for camo, but also equip... I noticed something while changing deck gun dates in eqp files for merchants. It seems the upgrade dates can pass and yet convoys merchants don't get deck guns because they are listed in the group as early, which seems to set it to a very early date as opposed to the actual date. Probably the same with camo.

Exactly!

That being so, the only way to add some randomness, would be creating new unit definitions of the same model, and giving them various equipments/camouflages