Upcoming lost brother addons

[FireflyPL 0]

The flag size is unfortunately hard coded.  

Is it?? There are several flag proxies in DATA3D

As for Shermans and M3's we already got those made and ready to roll....they just need a historic era crew with just overalls.  

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

I m glad to hear that. Don't forget to give tank gogles to tank crews. People seem to forget about this fine detail these days.

[miles teg 1]

Good point about the goggles.   Yeah there are some workarounds...although I think those large Israeli flags are primarily for parades, plus I don't want all the flags in OFP to be huge. I've stuck Israel flags on the Zeldas (in my mission in addonpack #1) and I thought they looked pretty good and were clearly visible.  

Anyhoo...if we have time we'll check it out but right now we got tons of other stuff we got to work on. But for sure the goggles will go on.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[FireflyPL 0]

Can you give a list of addons from the 40s-70s, which you have or might have to remade? I know you have some in your previous pack like M-60, Kfir, A4 Skyhawk, FN MAG, Galil, Uzi etc, but do you have any other tanks and vehicles (M4/M50, Willis, Centurion, M48, C47 etc)? I m just curious what you ve got and I know these would require some changes.

[adrenaline red 0]

If you guys dont already have them I know of and use a centurian and AMX-13 addon.

[miles teg 1]

Ok right now... here's what we got so far for the historic periods.

Egypt:

T-34

IS-2

BTR-60

T-55

Mig-21

SA-2

BMP-1

Mirage III

IL-28 Beagle

OT-62

PT-76

ZSU-23-2

Port Said SMG

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Jordan:

Aloquette III helicopter (not converted yet but we have permission to use one made by another addon maker).

I may have forgotten a unit or two but right now thats about it.

We did notice that AMX-13 addon put out a while back. The interior is in rough shape but could probably be easily fixed up. So yeah we'll probably contact the author of that addon to ask permission to use it.

Right now our main area that we are lacking in is historical infantry and weapons.

We'll probably be contacting some of the WWII mods for permission to use some of their weapons.

I also will contact Remo to see if we can use his 57mm towed AT gun in his North Korean pack. It was used extensively by the Egyptians.

Below are some pics of some of our historic stuff:

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[bucket man 2]

Wtf Miles I thought you guys had not even started on the historical stuff?!? This is great! I have wanted quite some time to do some Yom Kippur war missions.

Though I would like to point out one detail. That turret on the T-34/85 is the same one that the T-34 with 76mm gun has. In the 85mm version the turret also is different. I suggest you to check out the recently released BE45 T-34 pack.

Also are you planning on doing the MiG-21 that EAF currently use aswell as the older version? The new version has new radar, Matra Magic missiles from France and Sidewinders from USA. Old one uses AA-2 Atoll missiles I think.

[adrenaline red 0]

Looking good! Cant wait!

[miles teg 1]

Yeah we have already new and old versions of the Mig-21.  No Matras, but the new ones have Sidewinders and the old ones ATOLL missiles.  Both will have rocket pods and cannon.

Ok I will check out that new T-34/85 model to see what the difference is in the turrets.  

As for the Shermans, those pictures are actually old.  We have newer versions retextured by Stratos that have been painted tan (because very few IDF Shermans were green).  

I'll try to make some new screenshots of those and of the m3 halftrack.   Hopefully soon we'll be able to make a small simple IDF historic infantry pack beta.  Nothing fancy, but just some basic units from the 60's/70's era with FNFAL rifles and Uzis.

The big problem with Uzis however is that soldiers do not hold the Uzis properly because they are too short.  So we can only have them used as pistols unfortunately.  We could modify the animation of the soldier holding the rifle but then it would effect all the units.  So we are stuck with mini/micro Uzis only unfortunately unless we make them silenced where they hold the silencer like the BIS Uzi.  

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[FireflyPL 0]

Why not giving them Galils and FN MAGs?

BTW, any chance of Galil SAR with M203? I also noticed that you have made AKM with M203 like the from the picture on isayeret site but you forgot to add the russian scope .

[miles teg 1]

Yeah for 80s units we'll be giving them Galils and FNMags. We also have some CS models of Galils that have underbarrel M203's that we might use.  However we need to do some research to see what GPMG's were used in the 60's and 70's.  I know early on there was the Dror and before that the MG-42...but not sure if there was any GPMG in between the Dror and the FNMAG.

Here's some pics of the latest Shermans/Ishermans and the M3 Halftrack.   The Sherman is originally by SturmTiger and the M3 is originally from the Inv1944 Mod both used with their permission.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[FireflyPL 0]

Here are DVD BOX cover and CD label I made for Lost Brother mod. I hope you like it. If not let me know what should I change or if I should add some more info to this covers.

Bigger version

Bigger version

FIXED version with label on the side of DVD BOX.

[miles teg 1]

WOW!!!! Awesome! That looks fantastic! Thanks!!!!

Nah don't change a thing. Looks great!

Sorry I didn't reply sooner but LoBo has been very busy trying to debug all the Addonpack #3 stuff now that we have it all finalized.

Also here is one of our newest addons based on Footmunch's F-16 but heavily modified by Calm Terror. It is the Israeli F-16I Sufa:

There will be many different weapon configurations as well. So far its working perfectly and really is a lot of fun to fly. It also is unique in that it has a seperate "gunsight" view for pilot (HUD view) and copilot (Gun camera view).

Calm Terror did an excellent job on it.

We were about to release the Arab militant/Arab civilian pack but we found a major bug regarding addon dependencies that we're trying to sort out right now. But hopefully that should be fixed soon.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[FireflyPL 0]

Absolutely great F16I. I love all sufot . Can You please consider making jeep M240 Sufa? Pleeeeeseee. I just love this car.

Ps. I m glad yoiu like my cover

[CanadianTerror 0]

The model looks great but the textures look kinda washed out.

I dont want to sound harsh but...

The pilot textures look real good though.

[FireflyPL 0]

Yup and pilots should have only pistols not rifles.

[miles teg 1]

Actually they're holding Uzis. Hehehe. The only reason why they're holding Uzis is because I'm using Sanctuary's animations with the replaced "at ease" animation and it looks strange if nothing is in their hands. But don't worry. In the game, the pilots are only carrying pistols.

As for the washed out textures, yeah the conformal fuel tanks need some better texture mapping. I'm not sure if Calm Terror will be able to fix that part or not or if we can get someone to help texture map the conformal fuel tanks so that the sides don't look all stretched.

But trust me once you fly this baby around, you'll quickly forget about the conformal fuel tank textures. At any rate, we'll do our best to fix that but no guarantees.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[CanadianTerror 0]

Well I dunno if it's just the pic then but the cammo looks like it needs an overhaul as well.

Are you using low rez texes?

I dont want to sound like a broken record, im just trying to point out something that tends to kill good addons...bad textures.

Just my 2 cents

[miles teg 1]

It could just be just the picture as I edited the contrast and brightess a bit with photoshop. However the textures are not super high quality textures...but neither are the textures for most of our addons. We simply don't have a top knotch texture artist to do the highest quality textures. So we just do our best. Better something then nothing.

But I think most people will be ok with the textures. They're not much worse then many other aircraft addons that have been released.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[Major Gripe 0]

Well I dunno if it's just the pic then but the cammo looks like it needs an overhaul as well.

Are you using low rez texes?

I dont want to sound like a broken record, im just trying to point out something that tends to kill good addons...bad textures.

Just my 2 cents

Personally at least I would far rather have an addon with weaker textures (which i don't think these are!!) ingame than an amazing looking addon which is released much later due to excessive texture work and flies like a brick shithouse!

Excellent looking work Lobo i'm looking forward with bated breath to your next release, its time to cause some chaos in the desert!!

[FireflyPL 0]

Can you post some new pics of next pack?

[DKM Jaguar 0]

CD cover

What C-130 model have you used there? It looks like the OPGWC one.. I guess I should strike that version off my list.

Nice idea with the CD covers to.. interesting..

[FireflyPL 0]

CD cover

What C-130 model have you used there?   It looks like the OPGWC one.. I guess I should strike that version off my list.

Nice idea with the CD covers to.. interesting..  

No its not OPGWC. It's Lost Brothers israeli C-130 (Magen David on the tail) included in one of the packs. All the pictures are from infos about this mod on ofp.info and this forum. RL pics are from my pic library . I m glad You like my DVD cover.

[Kin Hil 0]

Will there be D9's?

Qassim Rockets?

Tall, fortified, sniper towers?

Checkpoints?

Bunkers?

[miles teg 1]

No, no D9's.  That would take an extremely good model maker to create as it would require a lot of polys and detail.

So far no tall sniper towers however there are smaller guard towers.  There will be bunkers but just the BIS bunkers and yes there will also be checkpoints.  

Right now no Quassim rockets, although that is an interesting idea.  We will look into making some.  However I'm not sure if they will be CoC compatible...probably not. It would probably function more like a mortar, but it will be a little tricky as it will need a disappearing proxy of the rocket after it is fired that then will reappear when it is loaded unless we just stick it in a big tube.

Oh...and DKM Jaguar, the C130 we use is a modified version of Adammo's second C130 addon. We actually wanted to use a new improved IAF C130 so if you make an IAF version that would be very cool. But if not thats ok.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[miles teg 1]

New Pics:

Egyptian An-12 Cub:

Egyptian Ra'ad-T Tandem Warhead Sagger Variant:

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>