Vilas' addons

[GAU-8 vs Life 0]

Haven't updated my Vilas pack lately. Just before the summer holidays I updated at least twice a week so I'm kinda tired of doing that but now there seems to happen bigger things faster   .

@Topas posted pic: ( )

US soldier:

Stop! Sorry but you can't go here now, sir. We're having orders to keep everyone from passing through here today.

Soviet sniper:

Darn! I was on my way to spearhead the surprise attack that would start WWIII today. Oh well, I guess I have some spare time next weekend, will it be okay by then?

US soldier:

Well, while I'm not supposed to know exactly when we leave, I'm pretty sure we're gone by... let's see... Yeah, by Wendsday next week.

Soviet sniper:

It'll do. I'm free again next Saturday so I'll come over and try pick off your commander around noon then, will that be allright for you?

US soldier:

No problem. We'll be running ordinary base duty by then so anytime after breakfast will be just fine. You see that man who just drove by? That's our colonel.

Soviet sniper:

That guy? I always pictured him a bit taller. Thanks. I have to go now. Managed to get a pirate satellite dish working and Dallas runs in about two hours. Nice, but you westerners sure got a lot of commercials. How do you manage to buy so much crap all during one liftime? I mean it takes my wife a whole day to just get some milk and a loaf of bread!

US soldier:

We don't. And our goverments think that's our third biggest problem after the prospect of Soviet invasion of Europe and rising oil prices.

Soviet sniper:

Heavy... Awright. See you by Saturday. Bye!

US soldier:

By Saturday then. Bye!

[topas 1]

I'm writing this down man...

It's so good we may incorporate this into one of the Mission Intros  

And they say that convoy duty is boring...

[GAU-8 vs Life 0]

Just had to do something! You see, I have to stay sober for three days and then it's monday again!  

The moment I saw the pic, my mind circulated around a 1950s cop saying 'Turn around - there's nothing to see here' but that would be just plain and boring after 50 years!

Peace man, and goodnight. *logging out*  

[vilas 478]

about this weapons not made by me:

RHS SVD has errors in mapping of handgrip :/

MP5 shown above is model from 1995 or later :P

I made proper 1985 MP-5 model "S-E-F" receiver :]

show with real MP-5

i also made new SVD basing on BIS model, but updated (everyone who knows this BIS model knows that receiver is one part, so animation of bolt is impossible in BIS model and weapon is in safe mode)

also RPG 7 will get PSO-7

[WazZzaaa! 0]

New soviet units looks very nice. GJ

[vilas 478]

I hope now DDR AK has good colour

comparision of BIS SVD with one-part receiver model with updated model, now it has receiver with cuts, bolt animated, weapon is not in safe position like in game and new muzzle flash hider

and start to work on PSO-7 for RPG

[Mr_Tea 0]

How is it now?

Texture made brighter and desaturated as opposed to vivid colors shown above by NSXr

additionally I am taking earlier community suggestions into account and have already removed the US flag from the shoulders. Cat-eyes on the back of the helmet will disappear as well. Apart fropm that some very minor changes will be done

Nearly perfect, only the dark parts of the camo should be darker, the other colors seems to be ok so far.

Edit: It could be ok now, the influence of the light has an big impact. Had to see this ingame.

[NSX 8]

Vilas and Topas - check your PMs, fellows - there are some reference material for you.

Nice work on PGO-7V and, finally, normal SVD. I vish it would have RHS textures though... Btw will you replace SVD's crappy PSO-1 sight with one installed on vanilla AK74?

[Shadow NX 1]

Very nice weapons, only things im no friend of are the far too strong shine effect and that we reuse the BIS body texture for all the AKs, bit odd if even the fresh weapons are already completely scratched.

Possibly we can find some mix with rhs textures especially on the SVD and the AK handguards.

Also id recommend the PSO model and textures from our pack for it.

@NSXr

Check PMs, some new textures for you to try out

[NSX 8]

@Shadow NX

[offtop]Guess I hadn't receive any messages, mate. Check your PMs for bit more longer description to keep this thread clear. [/offtop]

[Clavicula_nox4817 0]

What badges are the US soldiers wearing?

[topas 1]

What badges are the US soldiers wearing?

At the moment none; no US flags, no unit badges. Only patches over the chest pockets of the BDU, which we discussed on page 70

I am going to implement the suggestions made there by you soon as the woodland itself is being completely reworked this very second; or to be precise - it will be replaced with a more fitting pattern that ressembles M81 more than the current one.

I am testing the first results right now.

[vilas 478]

yes, new PSO from AKS is better

also - just reticle to do for optics model

this PSO has battery where Zenit factory makes it, other and earlier models of PSO-7 scope had battery in other place

[NSX 8]

Correction, mate - It's PGO (pritsel granotometnyi optycheskyi), not PSO.   Really the sexiest grenade launcher ever made.

Message me, when it'll be available - Steve sent me new textures, so these novelties will looks great on screens.

[Q1184 0]

Thanks a lot for making a scoped RPG-7.

[vilas 478]

i found another dissapointment of ARMA here :/

"modelspecial" of grenadelauncher (loaded/empty) is taken by engine from "magazine" defnitions, no matter of "weapon" class definitions

so...

so it causes that there can be NO one magazine "PGO7V" to use in all launchers

if player would like to rearm than... scope is lost because "modelspecial" will be used from other launcher, for example vanila RPG-7V

:/

sorry, engine limiation :/

[Clavicula_nox4817 0]

What badges are the US soldiers wearing?

At the moment none; no US flags, no unit badges. Only patches over the chest pockets of the BDU, which we discussed on page 70

I am going to implement the suggestions made there by you soon as the woodland itself is being completely reworked this very second; or to be precise - it will be replaced with a more fitting pattern that ressembles M81 more than the current one.

I am testing the first results right now.

Alright Topas, I am a big fan of your texture work and I know it will be pretty cool regardless of anything else.

[Jahve 0]

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Those pouches (MOLLE) on the right guy in the lower pic are not preriod correct... neither is the acog, wich has a picatinny rail mount ontop of an m16a2 receiver carryhandle.

ACOG wasnt around until recent years and picatinny rails werent around until the late 90's..

[NSX 8]

Updated textures by Steve (Shadow NX).

[topas 1]

Just a quick sidenote from me here...

My PC suffered from a rapid power spike last night; had to format the main partition...

Will take some time to recover; lost some of the wips but everything of any value has been shared with / sent to Vilas so Project'85 should not suffer..

Yet; no Photoshop, no plugins, no ArmA atm..

Shall be back on my feet sometime next week (we'll see...)

PS; Vilas, PM me your GG, lost the contacts too...

[ShadowY 0]

Updated textures by Steve (Shadow NX).

It is hard to tell that the textures are updated

Stop overediting the screenshots so much?

The weapons are so dark that you can`t see that much  

I suggest natural screenshots is the best way to promote the project.

[NSX 8]

Quote[/b] ]Stop overediting the screenshots so much?

The weapons are so dark that you can`t see that much

I do only slight contrast correction in PS, but that's hard to call "so much". SVD's metal body is dark, because I use old RHS texture replacement for vanilla SLA weapons, that resemble actual weapons' look much better.

That's how real SVD should look like:

Too dark, eh?

I guess you like old silver'n'shiny vanilla textures? Well, I'm definitely not fan of them.

Quote[/b] ]It is hard to tell that the textures are updated

Well, at least here updated KZM, bandana, APS holster and cap textures absolutely clearly visible. Updated doesn't mean completely new look.

Quote[/b] ]I suggest natural screenshots is the best way to promote the project.

There're many suggestions from many sides in this point. From "natural and undedited" battle-art to vivid glamurous pics. I try to hold somewhere in the golden middle. At least as I stated I don't edit pics "that much".

[ShadowY 0]

I dare you to post natural shots then besides the edited ones..

When I reverse your edited screenies it takes a bit longer as slightly a bit of contrast

Anyway the rest I dont go into because I am only talking about your screenshots and how they kinda should promote the project

edit*

Can you take for my pleasure the screenshots between 11:59am and 3:30pm?

[miles teg 1]

But then everyone complains that you don't know how to make good screenshots when you do natural ones. I know I always get complaints when I do natural pics for my mod.

At any rate, I can tell quite clearly that the textures kick ass.

Also PLEASE NO VANILLA-SILVER SVD rifles. Shiny rifles= dead sniper. I like the nice dark SVD textures. Thats the way a sniper rifle should look....not shiny.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[ShadowY 0]

And what is wrong with a natural(looking) screenshot?

To stay between limitation of the 100kb, natural lightning and it`s now 800x600 + poorly saved in jpg.

Still it looks nice I think .....don`t you think?

Now imagine I had the addons and post a promo screenie in lets say 1280x1024...would be nice looking so natural.

nice.. kinda his way

Natural shots and whole ArmA looks dissapointing when you edit so much

That was it...I go further with other threads