Alex150201 894 Posted December 7, 2015 Oh really? Release next week? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 9, 2015 Some of the missions that will be released along with the map will involve missions where the Rhodesian Infantry or the Selous Scouts are patrolling an area covered with mist in the early morning. For this map I am doing a tonne of research using books written by Rhodesian National Service Officers or by other veterans, even one book I found by Wilbur Smith called "Vicious Circle"........ I was not even 18 when I left Rhodesia so reading stories by people who were in the actual war along with my memories of the location this map is based on will hopefully make this map as true to the bush war as possible. Each and every story I have read talks about morning mist rolling across the Matabele plains clinging to the branches of the taller trees and therefore mist is an important effect I want to have in the map for early morning missions. To get the mist effect that I am after I use a reference picture as seen in Picture 1 below to give my results to date as shown in picture 2. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 10, 2015 This version of mist in my map is closer to the color I want but needs to be more grey than blue 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 10, 2015 The Rhodesian infantry spots a camp fire in the distant hills and a patrol goes out to check it.......... with this mission there are many things that may randomly happen. 1.... ZAPU or ZANU terrorists have set up camp here and will be easy targets to take out. 2.... The camp is abandoned and the terrorists have recently fled 3.... While searching the abandoned camp the Rhodesian infantry come under fire from the surrounding trees cloaked in darkness 4.... The terrorists are found to be holding hostages in the camp. or as in option 2 above there is nothing found in the camp. There is also the possibility something else may randomly happen such as incoming mortar fire. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 10, 2015 A screenshot taken while using X-cam Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alex150201 894 Posted December 10, 2015 This map is really starting to get in shape, it looks very good and I love the fog! I'd surely create missions on this map! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 10, 2015 This Christmas I will hopefully finalize the conversion of characters such as the one shown below created in Autodesk Character Generator in high res mode to a low res version for characters customized for my map. Plans are to create 5 different faces for : - ZANLA - ZAPU - Rhodesian Infantry - Locals - Hostages If I have time I will also have made more progress on the uniforms and clothing for each character. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 11, 2015 Some more pictures of characters I created in autodesk ...these ones specifically representing tourists, civilians or members of the Rhodesian Infantry. ....currently in my queue waiting to be transferred to Arma III 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bullsh 22 Posted December 13, 2015 https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/151366-african-conflict-a3/page-7Just a heads up, the latest version of African Conflict by massi now also featured Rhodesian forces! (alas without the characteristical shorts, so there definitely is room for improvement for you :D ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 16, 2015 https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/151366-african-conflict-a3/page-7Just a heads up, the latest version of African Conflict by massi now also featured Rhodesian forces! (alas without the characteristical shorts, so there definitely is room for improvement for you :D ) Massi has introduced the 80s style Rhodesian forces and the Rhodesian Light Infantry were banned from wearing shorts from 1977 as the soldiers' white legs apparently made the soldiers too visible....... Massi's version is after the ban took place. I will have both styles so you can chooses if you want long pants or if you want the shorts version. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 17, 2015 I should be back to working on this map with a lot more time on my hands after tomorrow night...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
domokun 515 Posted December 17, 2015 Really looking forward to this. Here's an interesting piece of IMINT for you going: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/3x68rr/members_of_the_rhodesian_african_rifles_pose/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adumb 0 Posted December 18, 2015 Had to login just to make a comment, this is such an awesome project! I wish Arma had more maps like this. It would make me buy a new PC just to play around on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 18, 2015 Really looking forward to this. Here's an interesting piece of IMINT for you going: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/3x68rr/members_of_the_rhodesian_african_rifles_pose/ I thought I would mention here that not only will this map feature the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts but I am also Including the RAR. Over the last couple of weeks I have picked up a tonne of resource material and yesterday I found the official RAR uniform patches. Horses .............. Over the Christmas and New Year period I will be looking at whether I can add the Grey Scouts....Rhodesian Mounted Infantry Called Grey's Scouts 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
McLupo 118 Posted December 18, 2015 Hi, I never get tire of saying how great and useful this work is.Further I cannot repeat this too often how much I appreciate your workand all your efforts, in particular those related to the constant infos. Thank you for that! I wish you continued success. :) GreetingsMcLupo 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 18, 2015 On certain missions the Alouette will be required to take you in to areas of the map not reachable by road........ at times you will come under fire. Below is a picture used in Rhodesia for trooping drills which was an early requirement for use of the Alouette III. Obviously not all of the trooping drills will be followed in Arma III but where possible I will include some aspects of the drill . Depending on the timeframe of the mission, you may be in an Alouette not armed with machine gun...in this case the Alouette will carry 6 soldiers each. With Alouettes armed with machine guns, the soldiers will also be fully armed and the Alouette will be limited to 4 soldiers on board. Another mission will involve the Rhodesian Infantry searching for a camouflaged SAP Cessna 185 missing somewhere in the map. These aircraft were used for courier duties during the Bush War and the missing SAP Cessna holds valuable information about Mugabe's troop movements in Mozambique and his planned incursion of these forces across the border into Rhodesia. Finding the Cessna will save the lives of many Rhodesians near the Mozambique border and will deal a blow to Robert Mugabe who was leading the ZANU insurgency against Rhodesia from several bases inside Mozambique. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 18, 2015 In January I will start work on the L1A1 SLR, 7.62x51mm NATO, FNFAL derivative self loading rifle used in the Rhodesian Bush War. I have been able to locate a sound byte for this rifle which sounds great and will use this sound with the rifle. Below is a picture showing early concept art of what the L1A1 SLR may look like in my map.......not intended to be high quality but a shot I created in photoshop to see what the rifle would look like in the map before I start working on it. Simply a source picture I have of the SLR superimposed on a new picture from my map. The background scenery shows scenery from the map with some changes made to the map which is now slightly larger in size. The next step is to find or create a 360 degree view of the rifle including sight view for purpose of creating the model. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
war_lord 934 Posted December 19, 2015 Why not just ask Toadie2k if you can use his L1A1? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 21, 2015 From 69 meg to 872 ================= When I started on my map the map was just 69 megabytes in size........ today the map is just over 872 megabytes in size with a lot more to be added. The map is 40km square in size which should give all Arma 3 wargamers a good arena for fighting. Below is a more detailed view of some of the hills in the map....... the grey spots on the hills are marking where single granite boulders are to be placed or a complete kopje. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 22, 2015 .... from a different view 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 22, 2015 With Arma 3 it is great to see so many people working on new maps and new ideas for Arma 3. However if you are working on a map set in the time period of World War 1 for example, the one issue people will find is that objects for this time era is pretty much limited if existing at all and to give some realism to the map you would have to custom design the WW1 objects yourself such as uniforms, tanks, guns, buildings and so on. To do this a newcomer to mod making needs a good set of tutorials to follow. I thought in this post that I would mention a good set of modding tutorials for Arma 3 by GameDev Byrne whose Blender tutorials I know many people have followed. For those who have seen the tutorials or those who want to learn how to use Blender for modding, Gamedev Byrne has been adding Remastered tutorials to his youtube channel which are well worth looking at. For example, he uploaded a video 2 days ago titled "Adding and Baking Detail to Low Poly Models" The picture below is from that video and shows 2 wheels. The wheel on the right is a high res model of the wheel while the wheel on the left is a low res model with the details baked onto the low res model. I highly recommend everyone look at GameDev Byrne's remastered videos here if you want to learn how to do modding for Arma 3 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqRU_EL4pwOHOJ6L2P5XlpfmNoWqulZqf ARMA 3 ModMaking Tutorials by Gamedev Byrne Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ornoes99 18 Posted December 24, 2015 I have managed to get my Landrover Series 3 to work. What do you think? The Rhodesian Army and Police used it in decent numbers. So if Rhodesian Scout is planing to add vehicles to his mod, I think this would be fitting one. 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yevgeni89 163 Posted December 24, 2015 That is very beautiful Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RhodesianScout 189 Posted December 29, 2015 I was not 100% happy with the color of the scenery in the distance of the map and have done a final tweak of the colors to get a look as shown below. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alex150201 894 Posted December 29, 2015 Looks good as always! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites