A little more done. Found some decent time to spend today on this......even if I was getting bothered every ten minutes.

In case anyone cares........I'm after 15000 triangles (without tracks) for 1st LOD. I COULD go crazy with 25000.....but why would I do that with a silly M113 and no good referances/measurements? Currently sit just over 9000 triangles. So next thing to do is finish the important stuff, then blow the rest of my triangles on details.

Hello and greetings from Greece...
some questions for u my friend....
...(Idont know if these are possible to a modder...)

I am newbie with sabow and AchtungPanzer games and realy i have many years to play such a good RTS Tank Simgame since from CloseCombat 1-2-3-4-5 & Panzer Elite. Iwant to asc that, if they can do Updates to missions at the game SABOW. can Anyone Creat Scenario Campaing like Yogoslavia-Kossovo-VosniaEszergovina? Or Chad-Somalia-Libye? Or campaings At Israel-Egypt-Syria? At Least with the same armies, just changing the ColoursFlags. I think Maps will be easy thing to create, or not? Must Create New Tanks? army? and all that stuffs?? Sorry to bother u but i dont know were to post my questions....
waiting reply.... mn tx

panos....


Also... Can u or anyone make me A list with all the modes that exists from older to newest mods for SABOW, to select them with the correct order?Just only the names and i ll search them. i see many modes but some crashes some missing other versions. Only guarrantee is the FlushBurn moderman and other two guys...(keep good work my friends...)

many thanx again....

game has been released only for just under 3 months..... With alll the new patches it brakes stuff in mods. But its freaken great that Graviteam keeps making both SABOW and APOS better. Just annoying that I feel like I am always hunting new bugs in my mod.

thanx for he tips... keep good moding....

A few more major parts, then refine, more detail work, and optimiZe then modeling should be good to go. Oh boy texture work, and LOTS of it. Followed by how the **** do I get this in game without going nuts.

Hope Im not the only one who wants a playable apc......i really want my playable bmp1.... But have no idea what that thing looks like on the inside. OH, for some reason I feel the urge to make an F5 freedom fighter for Iran side.... Always liked that plane. For SABOW purposes a hell of alot easier than this thing.........Ie your face will not be planted in it. Just has too look good from 100 meters or further away.

Other things floating in my mind are....

M106 ------mortar version of m113
M113 with m40
A crazy m113 with a saladin turret (oh thats right, I also have that saladin armored car last year). Vary NAM for the AUSSIE's in us all. Hmmm?
M113 ACAV.........casue I love the Cav? Oh ya, my MOS.......

Smaller projects like an old school steel pot helmet and a G3 also could be fun........and pretty fast to make.

Who knows if ill ever get that far along.............

But got my 73mm energa in game now and an M2HB with tripod that just needs to be brought into game.........oh and this thing which should be done in a couple weeks.



Just two more BIG bits of model then finish up with detail work. Looks like Ill have 2500 to 300o tris to make stuff better with. Not totally sure how SABOW handles interiors so Im not sure as of yet how much detail I need on the inside of the damned thing for the 1st LOD. Need to figure that one out quick, but I have a lot of room to breath with at least 10000 more Triangles I could use.

think I may take a little break from the m113 and focus on getting m2hb in game as well as that silly mission 3 I was talking about. Well it has a name now.......Dystopia and the basic out line in mission editor. Still alot to do on playable m113. Texturing and rigging for game (me learning to get it in game :D) and fixing the problems that come up.

Just a little annoyed comment/rant. No one has stepped up to help out getting this stuff in game........story of my life.

So I'll figure it out myself....once again.

Thank gawd I still have K42........without the way old unlocked patch stuff I would be totally lost. Just saying......

Ok, reviewed everything. ThinK I have it all down. Tomorrow I get that damned .50 in game or die trying.

Dystopia is going to be a pretty short mission. Many reasons....1st I am actually getting tired of Angola map, 2nd I wnt to try out a more skripted (i mean that vary lightly) experience. Likly do something simular for mission 4 (still going to do it) .......but using smaller, better bits of that Iran/Iraq map I dislike...lol.

Need new maps! Just saying.

15000...20000 triangles will be well. M113's wheels have too few segments. Increase segments in the double. Dual wheel is better to do so:

Back side of the wheel - only 1 poligon, 2 triangles + alpha channel in the diffuse map:

Oh hiyas. Vary good idea. Yes they do at that. But a road wheel takes what.....3 minutes to make . I may need your help in a week or so.......just how to advice.

Ok.

Diffuse map with alpha channel from the previous example:

Is that off a T34 model? And I am tracking. Or in my really bad Russian...... ya ponimyou.