I am goign to attempt to release open beta 3 later today/tonight however still reworking Dystopia v1.2 and I would like to get to making final .50 cal texture. Its spec map is a temp one but it still looks pretty good.

The Road is totally overhauled from first open beta and SHOULD be complete minus working air supports. For final release (after sabow patch) there is a strong possiblity that susangerd map will get a bit of modification by me.
Mardga Expert 2.0 is totally over hauled and shorter per feedback.......SHOULD be done.
Dystopia V1.2 beta......we will see if it works correct after I complete changes. So far I feel I have done good....


Crescent moon and operation SAfari have gotten no love yet and probably will not untill SABOW patch is released. Crescent moon WILL get an off shoot MEGA mission at that time.

However next mission will be my first APOS campaign......Karvkov 42 (ya probably steel K42 name). Should begin on that one next weekend.

And need to get back to modeling making stuff........

Doing final play thru of Dystopia V1.2. Only have finished up turn 1, but so far so good. This should be a real good mission IMO for folks new to SABOW and so far pretty fun for a SABOW vet. The AI is doing interesting things with its reserves. 1st time it kept all the aaa I gave it and totally hosed down my air supports before they could do anything. 2nd time the ai rearranged its unit structure and removed its aaa guns and swapped them for other stuff. My chopper supports went to town that time. Blew all there heavy stuff up execpt a t55 (which ai swapped aaa for) and a bmp1. Both dispatched by my t62. Yet another reason i love sabow........ai does what it wants......sometimes it does real freaken good, other times it chooses poorly. Usuallly somewhere in the middle and suprises even the guy that made the freaken campaign.


OMG.........spotted a major issue with point score.........muhahahah I have 45464023423 victory points....oops. Glad I ttok this for a quick spin.

Ok not happening on FRI.....ran into small and annoying issues that can be fixed quick. So SATurday...oh wait it is saturday! ok later on saturday.

HA! MAJOR SUCCESS! I am super happy about this one......






Yes........that is the first screen shots of my F5E in SABOW. Ya problems like no pilot for some wierd reason and bombs (not my mk82, not in gmae yet) all wonky but SUCCESS!!!!! 1st user vehicle in sabow HA!. If I can do this with supplied VARY basic mod tools and next to no documents I am pretty sure I can get models into pretty much anything now. Oh ya......flaps work right out the gate.

Now to finish the thing............



This will be by next test at vehicles........as this I made a bit over a year ago and is just sitting on the hard drive doing nothing. Alas, no default sides use saladin armored cars. Will be AI only as I am not about to try and rework the damned thing to playable. Maybe add into some camapigns under non historical just for the hell of it.

If anyone wants updated mini mod with missions dystopia V1.2 or WAY updated Mardga 2.0 Expert......PM or post me here. I think I will postpone open beta until F5E is further along and *mayby*? working properly in current patch. Should know soon enough

Well it bombs stuff........



my mk82 bomb.

Nice, looking forward to it!

Looks nice! Just spent 2 hours playing crescent moon, forgot how much fun it was!

F5E........now with a midget! UGH. Been trying to bring in working aim9 sidewinders. So far crashes game everytime on load with no error message. Still attempting to figure out WTF is going on with canopy glass. It has to be added in seperate from f5 model. Not sure where it is. For all I know its rendering inside the freaken f5's fusalage.





While all my models are sized correct in meters in 3ds max I am beggining to think SABOW's stuff as about 90% smaller or so. AH well....small easy fix potato's.

Hmmmm maybe a wierd issue with not reseting Xform on part of mesh. grrrrr.

Fix one thing........brake something else. ARGH! What I would not give right now for a super slick model editor.





FIXED........well that one lol.

Well looks like this *SHOULD* be in next SABOW patch. Yes Andrey at Graviteam has pick it up for propper insertion into SABOW. MArry American 4th of July. . I certainly did what I set out to do in so far as convincing myself I could get somewhat complex models into SABOW/APOS game engine but there is a HECK of alot of config work behind this which values do what........I can not say. Not a freaken clue in fact. The amount of time it would take me to do this correct is huge as requires a ton of trial and error. Still.........I made the f5e bomb stuff.

So now off to do final texture of my .50 cal mg and begin the process of bringing in my saladin armored car. Oh and attempt to collect more data for APOS campaign..... Wow....I make alot of stuff don't I? Oh ya........and final testing of missions............NEED HELP still on that. Just 2 thin as a one man show.



OPpps.....screwed up my spec/roughness maps on lol. But the .50 should finally now me done! YAY.