Italian Special Operation Forces for CO

[massi 772]

by massi

ITALIAN SPECIAL OPERATION FORCES for Combined Operation

Now with working wound textures!!!

Hi all,

I decided to start a new tread because these units are for CO, and they are also pretty different , in organization, from my previous work .

The previous Italian SOF are still working and operational for Arma 2 only version users, you’ll find them there : http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=92069 .

From version 1.01 working wound texture thanks to help and RVMAT reference from StalkerGB.

As always please report bugs and suggestions , hope you’ll enjoy this new pack.

Description

This addon is a retexture of Arma2 OA Delta Force , German and Czeck SF units, meant to rapresent Italian Special Operation Forces in all the different camouflages actually used by Italian SOF, as following :

- Ranger(vegetata): for temperate and woodland environment.

- Ranger(desert): for desert and arid environment.

- SF(heavy multicam): for both desert, temperate and woodland environments, in heavy gear.

- GOI (light multicam): they're Navy special forces,same as SF but for gameplay reasons they're rapresented in lightweight gear.

- SF\Ranger(Winter): for snow covered and artic environment.

- Ghillie snipers and Spotter : desert and woodland, you'll find them under Rangers Vegetata and Desert categories .

- Support\Other Units : Officers, Guards and Off Duty soldiers in all camos, plus crews and pilot.

- Undercover optional units: SF in local dressing.

I used what I found on web as reference sources.

Features:

- All the models HAVE WORKING WOUND TEXTURES .

- Units are equipped with M4, I've tried to balance the gear as best as I could.

- Every class (sorted by camos) has a wide variety of roles, and featured groups in the editor.

- New "Engineer" ability for the sapper , and all the others can hide bodies.

- Featured content rucksacks.

- Optional ACE config with ACEX gear available, including ACE "AI talk" module support.

- 3 Replacement files that replace standard BI US delta force models with the ones in your preferred camo ( des, mult or veget), with WORKING WOUND TEXTURES off course!

Installation.

Put the addons in the "mod folder" of your preference, you will find the units in the editor under:

Bluefor - Italian SOF (CO) (sorted by different camos)

you'll find groups also under:

Bluefor - Italian SOF (CO) (as above).

Requirements.

It requires Arma 2 Combined Operations (A2 + OA) to run , because it uses OA models and some A2 weapons.

ACE2 config files Installation.

Just put the ACE2 Optional Config (called "mas_ita_unit_ACE.pbo") in the modfolder of your preference and you'll see in the editor another faction added : "Italian SOF (CO-ACE)".

Units and organizzation are the same as for standard Italian SOF, but they're all equipped with ACEX gear and weapons (this means for example that all of them have one bandage, and medics have drugs too, or that spotters have spotter scopes and rangefiders, demo expert uses ACEX explosives too, etc).

The units are also already set to use "English" if Ace AI Talk is enabled.

Units and Groups are the same as for vanilla game, as following:.

Bluefor - Italian SOF (CO-ACE2) (sorted by different camos)

you'll find groups also under:

Bluefor - Italian SOF (CO- ACE2) (as above).

Replacement Pack Installation.

You'll find 2 different replacement types of file, you can use both at the same time if you wanna replace both US Army and Delta Force models with Italian ones.

- "US Army Replacement" : replace all US Army models with the italian ones, Pilots and Crews too.

You can choose to install the "vegetata" or the "desert" replacement depending on the environment you're playing in.

- "Delta Force Replacement" : replace only the Delta Force BI models with the Italian multicam ones.

Changelog.

v1.04 date 31/OCT/2011

- Added new units: Ranger Sniper M107 and Sniper Ghillie LRR.

- Added new Undercover units: Rifleman, Grenadier, Sniper M107 and Sniper LRR.

- Solved RPT "update class" error.

v1.03 date 09/SEP/2011

- Added new "basic" classes : Rifleman and Grenadier, as requested.

- Added new specialist classes : CQB Operator , Breacher and PSD Operator.

- Reduced number of units with mixed camos, as requested.

- Improved gear and equipment variety tanks to patch 1.59 .

v1.02 date 11/SEP/2010

- Now units are called "Italian Special Operation"

- ACE config now hide standard Italian SOF units

- Small textures updates.

- left a free shoulder for squad xml patch.

- Added custom backpacks in ACE config.

v1.01 date 30/AUG/2010

- FIXED: wound textures now are working on All models (thanks to StalkerGB Rvmat and support)!!!

- Improved textures.

- Added more faces.

- Added custom loadout rucksacks.

- Added "Engineer" function (patch 1.54) for "sapper" and "demo exp".

- Added "Hide bodies" function (patch 1.54).

- Improved equipment and gear.

- Added optional "UNDERCOVER UNITS", just install "mas_ita_undc.pbo" and if you want its own optional ACE config.

- Integrated wound textures in replacement files.

v1.00 date 23/AUG/2010

- first release

Bugs.

No problems found so far, no RPT errors, tested both in vanilla, beta and with ACE2.

Credit.

ThankYou very much to StalkerGB, without his great Rvmat and support I would never had solved the wound textures issue... thanks a lot mate !!!

Download Links to version v. 1.04:

Filefront:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20947003/Italian_SOF_CO_v1.04.7z

Rangers regroup with a recon undercover team in Takistan

Edited October 31, 2011 by massi

[massi 772]

Thanks.

Thanks to BI for the great game and to all the community for their great support and addons!

Thanks to all the people that enjoied my previous units and supported me in the forum!

Hope you'll enjoy these units too!

Regards

massi

Edited September 11, 2011 by massi

[(st6)predator 0]

Hi Massi.

As usual, you have once again delivered great work!

I hope and wish that you relaise your U.S. Special Forces and the U.S. Rangers too.

Thank you very much ! Keep up the good work !!

With best Regards

(ST6)Predator

[miller 49]

Thanks massi great

ArmA2Base.de Mirror:

Italian Special Operation Forces for CO v1.0 by massi

Kind regards

Miller

[enad 11]

Love it! :)

Some issues Ive noticed. On the some of the units. The TF Knight patch is still in ACU. They all have the same faces. The textures seem overall lower quality compared to your pack for ArmA 2.

Edited August 23, 2010 by Enad

[massi 772]

Thanks a lot to all of you guys ;) and thank You very much Miller for the mirror !

And thanks for the feedback Enad , I'll try to fix them in next version:

The TF Knight patch is still in ACU.

I'll change them in TAN.

They all have the same faces.

Yes... I've still to learn how to config faces in OA, till now I gave them all German faces, that unfortunately is only one :)

The textures seem overall lower quality compared to your pack for ArmA 2.

True ... I used the same textures as I did for my previous pack, but I dunno why they look so "stretched" ingame ... I'll try to improve them anyway.

thanks a lot, and please feel fre to report other issue and suggestions :)

cheers

massi

---------- Post added at 06:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:15 PM ----------

Hi Massi.

As usual, you have once again delivered great work!

I hope and wish that you relaise your U.S. Special Forces and the U.S. Rangers too.

Thank you very much ! Keep up the good work !!

With best Regards

(ST6)Predator

Thanks a lot Predator, and yes ... I'm already working on US Ranger ;)

chers

massi

Edited August 23, 2010 by massi

[AnimalMother92 10]

Congrats on the release massi! Looking forward to your US SF/Rangers :)

[Nightrain 10]

Thanks for releasing it at Armaholic as well :)

Release frontpaged on the Armaholic homepage.

Italian Special Operation Forces



ArmA 2

[massi 772]

Thanks a lot for the kind words and for the mirror ;) !

cheers

massi

[oldbear 390]

Thanks for informing us ;)

New on front page at Armed Assault.info

Link to mirror :

Italian Special Operation Forces for CO (v 1.00) : http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?game=1&cat=addons&id=1524

[massi 772]

ThankYou very much Old Bear ;) really appreciate

working on :

-faces : fixed, now there are more faces (finally I found how to let 'em use termal text).

-TF knight in ACU : fixed now is TAN.

-textures: ...edit Fixed...hopefully the're better than before ;)

Thanks to Enad for spotting the problems, please reports if other problems're found !

Probably I'll release an updated version after BAF release in order to include new features (if possible).

cheers

massi

Edited August 25, 2010 by massi

[massi 772]

by massi

ITALIAN SPECIAL OPERATION FORCES for Combined Operation.

Hi all,

I’ve updated my Italian SOF to version 1.01.

In this update you’ll see many changes, such as the new “engineer†ability, the “old†hide bodies , new faces and a mayor textures update.

Anyway the most significant change is that now all the models HAVE WORKING WOUNDS TEXTURES , and this is thanks to the precious help and RVMAT references from StalkerGB … ThankYou very much mate!

You’ll find also new undercover optional units, you’ll find the .pbo inside this package.

I hope you’ll enjoy the new version, for further details please read the following changelog.

Changelog.

v1.01 date 30/AUG/2010

- FIXED: wound textures now are working on All models (thanks to StalkerGB Rvmat and support)!!!

- Improved textures.

- Added more faces.

- Added custom loadout rucksacks.

- Added "Engineer" function (patch 1.54) for "sapper" and "demo exp".

- Added "Hide bodies" function (patch 1.54).

- Improved equipment and gear.

- Added optional "UNDERCOVER UNITS", just install "mas_ita_undc.pbo" and if you want its own optional ACE config.

- Integrated wound textures in replacement files.

v1.00 date 23/AUG/2010

- first release

Bugs.

No problems found so far, no RPT errors, tested both in vanilla, beta and with ACE2.

Credit.

ThankYou very much to StalkerGB, without his great Rvmat and support I would never had solved the wound textures issue... thanks a lot mate !!!

Download Links to version v. 1.01:

Mediafire:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/e77vexce67qm9fu/Italian_SOF_CombOps_v1.01.7z

Filefront:

http://www.filefront.com/17248373/Italian_SOF_CombOps_v1.01.7z

SF and Rangers taking care of the wounded after an heavy firefight:

SF and Rangers arresting local insurgents

Ranger and SF checking a suspect facility

Rangers regroup with a recon undercover team in Takistan

Thanks.

Thanks to BI for the great game and to all the community for their great support and addons!

Thanks to all the people that enjoied my previous units and supported me in the forum!

Cheers

massi

[buliwyf 4]

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:p

btw... nice work! ;)

[oldbear 390]

Thanks for informing us ;)

New on front page at Armed Assault.info

Link to mirror :

Italian Special Operation Forces for CO (v 1.01) : http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?game=1&cat=addons&id=1524

[massi 772]

ThankYou very much Old Bear... really appreciate :) !

cheers

massi

[massi 772]

by massi

ITALIAN SPECIAL OPERATION FORCES for Combined Operation.

Hi all,

I’ve updated my Italian SOF to version 1.02.

In this update I’ve worked a little bit more on textures, and I’ve set ACE config in a way to automatically hide standard Italian SOF units, showing only the ACE ones, in this way there’s no need to change any “class name†(for mix makers).

Now the units will be found under “Italian Special Operations†in the editor.

I hope you’ll enjoy the new version, for further details please read the following changelog.

Changelog.

v1.02 date 11/SEP/2010

- Now units are called "Italian Special Operation"

- ACE config now hide standard Italian SOF units

- Small textures updates.

- left a free shoulder for squad xml patch.

- Added custom backpacks in ACE config.

v1.01 date 30/AUG/2010

- FIXED: wound textures now are working on All models (thanks to StalkerGB Rvmat and support)!!!

- Improved textures.

- Added more faces.

- Added custom loadout rucksacks.

- Added "Engineer" function (patch 1.54) for "sapper" and "demo exp".

- Added "Hide bodies" function (patch 1.54).

- Improved equipment and gear.

- Added optional "UNDERCOVER UNITS", just install "mas_ita_undc.pbo" and if you want its own optional ACE config.

- Integrated wound textures in replacement files.

v1.00 date 23/AUG/2010

- first release

Bugs.

No problems found so far, no RPT errors, tested both in vanilla, beta and with ACE2.

Download Links to version v. 1.02:

Filefront:

http://www.filefront.com/17281633/Italian_SOF_CO_v1.02.7z

Thanks.

Thanks to BI for the great game and to all the community for their great support and addons!

Thanks to all the people that enjoied my previous units and supported me in the forum!

Cheers

massi

[miller 49]

Thanks massi

ArmA2Base.de Mirror updated:

Italian Special Operation Forces for CO v1.02 by massi

Kind regards

Miller

[massi 772]

thankYou very much for the mirror Miller really appreciate ;) !

cheers

massi

[Guest]

Thanks for informing us about the updated version :cool:

Updated release frontpaged on the Armaholic homepage.

Italian Special Operation Forces v1.02



ArmA 2

[massi 772]

thankYou very much Foxhound for mirror and frontpage ;) !

cheers

massi

[massi 772]

by massi

ITALIAN SPECIAL OPERATION FORCES for Combined Operation.

I’ve updated my Italian SOF to version 1.03.

Hi all,

Sorry for the long wait , but I was, and actually am, a little busy, anyway I’ve found some time to update some of the retexture packages I’ve released a year ago.

I tried to follow advices form the forum (And thanks a lot for that !!!) in order to improve a little bit the quality of the addons, hope you’ll enjoy this new version too!!!

In this update you’ll find new unit classes: Rifleman an Grenadier and also CQB Operator, Breacher and PSD (Personal Security Detachment) Operator .

I’ve also reduced the number of mixed camos units due to requests, and improved a little bit the loadout configuration of some of the units due to patch 1.59 possibilities, and also the ACE optional config included in the package has been updated.

I hope you’ll enjoy the new version, for further details please read the following changelog.

Changelog.

v1.03 date 09/SEP/2011

- Added new "basic" classes : Rifleman and Grenadier, as requested.

- Added new specialist classes : CQB Operator , Breacher and PSD Operator.

- Reduced number of units with mixed camos, as requested.

- Improved gear and equipment variety tanks to patch 1.59 .

v1.02 date 11/SEP/2010

- Now units are called "Italian Special Operation"

- ACE config now hide standard Italian SOF units

- Small textures updates.

- left a free shoulder for squad xml patch.

- Added custom backpacks in ACE config.

v1.01 date 30/AUG/2010

- FIXED: wound textures now are working on All models (thanks to StalkerGB Rvmat and support)!!!

- Improved textures.

- Added more faces.

- Added custom loadout rucksacks.

- Added "Engineer" function (patch 1.54) for "sapper" and "demo exp".

- Added "Hide bodies" function (patch 1.54).

- Improved equipment and gear.

- Added optional "UNDERCOVER UNITS", just install "mas_ita_undc.pbo" and if you want its own optional ACE config.

- Integrated wound textures in replacement files.

v1.00 date 23/AUG/2010

- first release

Bugs.

No problems found so far, no RPT errors, tested both in vanilla, beta and with ACE2.

Thanks.

Thanks to BI for the great game and to all the community for their great support and addons!

Thanks to all the people that enjoied my previous units and supported me in the forum!

Cheers

Massi

Edited October 31, 2011 by massi

[SyNcRoNiCzZ 0]

Nice massi !!!

Download Now.

[Guest]

Thanks again for informing us about the updated version mate :cool:

Updated release frontpaged on the Armaholic homepage.

Italian Special Operation Forces v1.03



Arma 2

[massi 772]

Thank you very much for the DL links and nice comments ;)

NOW THE UNITS HAVE SOMETHING TO MOVE WITH ...

Check the vehicle pack for ITALIAN SPECIAL OPERATIONS HERE!!!

... and few more pics of the units:

cheers

massi

Edited September 11, 2011 by massi

[oldbear 390]

New on front page at Armed Assault.info

Link to mirror :

Italian Special Operation Forces for CO (v 1.03) : http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?game=1&cat=addons&id=1524