The Lost Brothers -Isaac and Ishmael Mod

[Col. Faulkner 0]

[...] it would probably next to impossible to find a high quality Ugandan camo texture pattern from that era.  lol!

Not really impossible. They wore a 3 colour vertical lizard pattern almost

identical to the Portuguese. Anyway forget what I was raving on about. It's

better to think of it more as a mission idea than a specific addon set.

[...]I know that the Golani

brigade has always been a key player so they are a standard.  I just need to

do a bit more historical research to see who the main players were in the

SF units for the 1968, 1973, and 1982 conflicts.

A new elite formation in the 1980s was the Giva'ati brigade. They were formed

in 1983 and quickly established a place for themselves as the elite infantry

unit of the IDF. They trained twice as hard as everyone else and soon after

their formation they outperformed both the Tzanhanim and the Golani

brigade in exercises. Their shu'alei shimshon recce units were supposed

to be especially good.

But they were "just" an infantry brigade, I suppose you were thinking more

of sneaky-beaky, cloak-and-dagger units.

At any rate, here is our Golani 1970's units.  Note that they aren't much different then other IDF units as IDF uniforms were standaridzed in 1968.  Only a few small differences differentiate them from the paratroopers and Sayeret MATKAL.

[/img]http://www.idfsquad.com/downloads/milesteg/LoBo_HistoricIDF_Golani1.jpg[/img]

LOL at the "MAGist" holding the gun in a kneeling "yank stance".  

[miles teg 1]

Yeah I might add Givati in the 80's units as they are standard units in the modern IDF and were the first to receive the new Tavor rifles as standard issue. Golani however is a standard as are the paratroopers. It's the Sayeret that are a bit tricky as they all have interesting roles that they played.

I wish we had some working canine addons as dogs played an important role int he 80's and today.

If things go well, hopefully Vilas or someone else will help us develop rifle grenades to make things more realistic. I'm just not sure if it's possible without a tremendous amount of scripting as ArmA did not make it a standard part of the game engine as far as I know.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[Raafatah64 0]

miles the updated m60s will b in the next addon or its gonna b only the syrian addon...

[miles teg 1]

The Syrian pack update will be a standalone release. Shortly after that we'll release an update pack with bug fixes and new stuff. Our historic pack is also almost ready but we're just waiting on permissions and bug fixes on a few things. I also need to put together a mission for the pack.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[wld427 1705]

i almost cried when i saw the Golani brigate troops......

Nice job........... nice job..........

[Col. Faulkner 0]

If things go well, hopefully Vilas or someone else will help us develop rifle grenades

I'm reasonably certain that those are possible with a bit of

work. Possibly messing with the grenade launcher setup and

some proxies. I want them too for No.94 "Energa" grenades

for my own 1960s British troops.

[miles teg 1]

Our historic IDF needed air transport.  So we gave them the Super Frelon by Bazaroid (who also made our Merkava Mk4).

The cammo pattern is correct for the historical time period however just in the wrong color  I'm having tons of problems with alpha layers on the windows that keep turning solid every time I try editing the colors of the textures that include alpha window textures.    So we may end up just having to keep it in this navy blue-grey color.  

Still the Super Frelon was one of the most important helicopters (despite their small number) used by the IAF/IDF in the 1968 and 1973 wars.  

The good news is that the rear ramp animations are working nicely.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[GD Mast 0]

Wow...loving the Super Frelon.  I'm sure someone will help you with the color problem.  Can't wait for it's release.  

GD Mast

[modemmaik 53]

...I'm having tons of problems with alpha layers on the windows that keep turning solid every time I try editing the colors of the textures that include alpha window textures. So we may end up just having to keep it in this navy blue-grey color.

I encountered the same problem and switched to use png as file format for alpha-channel textures.

Paint.NET always changed the alpha regions to plain colored. png file format is handled correct and is also ready to import for textview2.

[blazer01 0]

wow now thats sexy lovein the Super Frelon

why wots up with the colors of the textures m8e

[miles teg 1]

The problem with the colors is not converting the colors on most of the textures (although there are a TON of textures..ugh). Instead it's just the areas of the cockpit with the windows that turn black and lose transparency when they are converted. What's wierd the fuselage windows don't have this problem. Only the cockpit windows. So I'm not sure what's going on there, but I'm going to try out a few more things to fix it. Also before anyone says it, no, I can't just replace the glass textures as they are not seperate faces. The cockpit is just one big model section with no individual faces for the windows. But hopefully we'll figure out a solution.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[miles teg 1]

New OFP conversion to the Egyptian side:

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[blazer01 0]

The problem with the colors is not converting the colors on most of the textures (although there are a TON of textures..ugh).  Instead it's just the areas of the cockpit with the windows that turn black and lose transparency when they are converted.  What's wierd the fuselage windows don't have this problem.  Only the cockpit windows.  So I'm not sure what's going on there, but I'm going to try out a few more things to fix it.  Also before anyone says it, no, I can't just replace the glass textures as they are not seperate faces.  The cockpit is just one big model section with no individual faces for the windows.   But hopefully we'll figure out a solution.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

is it like when you look at the addon you cant see any thing els if it is some thing like it i had it on the Mk7 viper am doing the fix for me wos make all new for the glass id have to have a look at it for ya and see wots going on with the model in the UV maping tool think that may be the bug ya is geting m8 pm me if you need me to have a look at it for ya and keep up the good work

[miles teg 1]

If the stuff I try doesn't work, I'll send it over to ya to have a crack at it.  By the way, do you still have that Magach 6 and were you ever able to fix it up?  If so, can you send it over to me as I never got it.   Thanks.

Oh quick pic of the IDF 80's Golani soldier with PASGT vest.

Modern South African made G-5 155mm Howitzer in action:

Our 60's/70's era artillery crew:

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[blazer01 0]

Np m8 still have tham all ill have a look later for ya

[miles teg 1]

Newly converted for us, is the MD-500 Defender in two versions: FFAR and TOW ATGM.  

UH-1N Anafa.  This was the main transport/assault helicopter used by the IDF during the 80's and 90's.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[eble 3]

Good work guys, I like the MD500's

Southy

[lennard 447]

Wow, you guys make a lot of stuff. Looks good

Lennard.

[blazer01 0]

well you need a bit more work on the textures for the 500 but still looks good and i like the un1n all ways did like the Un1 nice work peeps

[OChristie 0]

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[miles teg 1]

Historic Egyptian forces:

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[manzilla 1]

Just a thought here but did you guys ever make some 1980's style terrorists for the OFP mod, civilian style dress maybe. What I had in mind was some from Abu Nidal. I'd love to lay some pain on the f*#kin' terrorists that murdered my cousin at the da Vinci Airport just after Xmas 1985.

I hesitated to ask but after I saw your 80's era IDF, I figured what the hell.

R.I.P. Fred Gage Jr. Gone but not forgotten.

[miles teg 1]

We got some Hamas insurgents in civilian clothes (some with mixed military and civilian clothes) but that's about all we have.  We weren't planning on doing any of the 80's international terrorist groups.  They were wierd back then...all mixed up together with European and Middle East terrorists often working together.  Abu Nidal was one nasty s.o.b.   It's ironic that Saddam Hussein finally had him assassinated (most likely anyways) right before the start of the last war as he had become a liability.

But anyhoo...no, no ANO terrorists.  It would perhaps be a good independent addon for someone to make...maybe a terrorist pack to include also some of the notorious European terrorist groups from the 80's as well.  Might even be a good fit for the Project 85 mod.

p.s. sorry to hear about your cousin. That sucks.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[Col. Faulkner 0]

Is the "tiny" model there actually physically smaller than the "humus" one?

I think you mean "SVT 40 rifles pretending to be Hakim rifles"

[miles teg 1]

Nah, the camera angle and the animation used just made one look bigger then the other. I should have switched the names around with the tall guy being "tiny". lol However, actually I might experiment with making some of the addons different sizes.

Ah and yes you are correct and have an excellent eye. Yes indeed that is Vilas's SVT-40 from which some Swedish rifle was based on that Egypt bought the machinery for and manufactured the Hakim. However since they are so similar I decided to just call it a Hakim. I'm actually looking around locally for a Hakim. After reading all the reviews on the rifle, it apparently is one of better semi-auto battle rifles out there on the market with surprisingly good manufacturing compared to latter crappy Egyptian Ak-47 clones.

I wanted to ask Vilas to make his SVT-40 into a proper Hakim for us, but he never replied to whether he could make the IMI FAL support variant so I assume that he is just insanely busy.

I still need to get his permission to use this rifle, the K98 and K98S, and the Panzerfaust for our historic pack. I ran across some pics of 1967 IDF units with a Panzerfaust so I figured that I should include that.

I would also include the Lee Enfield rifles but those go back to the 40's and 50's era which our mod is not going to cover as there are just WAY too many wierd uniforms and equipment. We can barely manage to simulate the 60's and 70's era as it is since we don't have our own addon model designer or texture artists. Everything you see are basically a mixture of modified Vilas/Topas units and BIS stuff mixed in with stuff converted from our OFP mod.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>