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Those patches are killing me Cam&Steve tommorow is the release day so please try to give it to me on time, ty

I'm waiting for this pack with a lot of anticipation Jackal326 , from you I expect nothing less than perfection my friend If you intend to give full animations to all this weapons let me suggest you Panda[PL] 's help (if you need and if he's willing to of course) he's very impressive animating weapons, he goes away beyond what I thought would be possible to achieve in ARMA.

That's something I missed big time, I will do it in Version 4 for sure. I'll be the first one playing your campaign

Release is close people, just one day and a half left Here's 3 pictures taken by Wilco while beta testing our work, ty mate Note that the soldiers helmets and the AK74M are both from the old version, new ones look a lot better

Ok mate

I'll keep that in mind wipman, ty for the sugestion mate

Not for now mate

Thanks for you help guys, your knowledge leads us Update: Weapons are 100% tested and ready to be fired, some changes have been made since the pictures I posted (18 weapons) I made 100% new textures for the AK-74M I wasn't happy with the weapon and also something you can't see but... I changed all iron sights big time. Something I'm still not 100% happy are the scopes but bionic will be helping us in Version 2 modeling 2 new scopes for us so for now the scopes will do fine but for the future they will be a lot better for certain, since I'm a very bad modeler. All beta testers please contact me over msn, ty Also you guys are weapons free now, take the screens you want and post them if you feel like it

Than I think I have that bug in all my normal and specular maps, I'm pretty sure I have alpha channels in all of them. I only use TV2 for the normal textures. On normal/specular maps I use photoshop plugin made by Kegetys, is there any advantage/disadvantage on this? If you intend to change anything on the soldiers, talk to Cameron so he can normal map the new textures and then send them to me. The soldiers are easier to beta test so if we change for better than let's do it  The weapons are closed and will not be changed any more, beta testing on them is like at 95% so it's closed Â

@ Griffon79 - Ty mate your reference material will be a great help for Version 2, if you have more please keep it coming  @ nephilim&Panda[PL] - Ty both. @ Cameron -  Taking the white out means to take the white from the Alpha Channel instead of the texture directely (if I got the idea correctely, If I didn't than we're both lost hehe). But you can do something else that will probably work, select the area around the helmet in the specular map and give it something between 10% and 30% of less brighness (so darken yes) than try it and see if it works. I can help you out if you don't crack it, in case you do later send me those files by msn, ty Cam. You made me like 150 questions last time we were on the msn, next time ask me that one and I'll teach you (you'll save some days to be with your girlfriend) ahahahaha Â

Well I don't like Skaven's addons they suck big time so I don't use them at all cough cough But I like Ebud, Cameron, MechStalin and RHS work so they are part of my addons folder No wait, on second thought, I don't like RHS either, they suck, specially the Marines they are doing now with those horrible AKs Garbage just pure garbage ahaha Now seriously, I think all addons are really the same, it's all taste really, some guys prefer realism than some prefer beauty to realism than others performance... I really think all addons are equal no matter what. However my perssonel choices as stated above go to Ebud, Cameron, MechStalin, 6th Sense and RHS work mainely (but not only), although there are lots of stuff on the closet ready to pop out from all sorts of MOD teams and addon makers that will certainly rock the place, but with just some months of ARMA I think things are going well and I'm happy about it Just my 2 cents

Amazing job Neph, congrats

Congrats for the release and ty for your hard work

After trying the textures you sent me yesterday I think it won't be hard to find new surprises from you Those are truly unbalievable my friend, we must use them on the GRU in version 2

Thanks for the help Greg147

And the Crew we made? I believe we must join the vehicles and also that we should do regular infantry so we can take advantage of all weapons, please think about it for Version 2 Now let's Focus on Version 1, first thing first, beta testing is going extremely well I think Saturday will defenetaly be the day of the release, is it ok for you Steve?

I had vehicles reserved for Version 2 And not just reskins to be honest Besides, that will make me restart the beta testing all over again since I will have to change the structure of the pack, is it really important to release now, can't it just wait for Version 2? If not... I'll do it but this will delay the release.

As usual the walking library Master FW200 That pic from the AK74M will be very handy, I needed a good side picture to make that magazine, ty About the slanted brake, I'll try to change it for this version, let's see how beta testing is going, if I have to change any of those models I will change the muzzle, if not in Version 2 I will.

The MTLB is what I had in mind Steve, don't forget the email about the Cobra

Ok, later I'll send you a pm, ty

Oh ok, nevertheless if you intend to merge the ones you are using I can help you if you need me to since I'll do it for myself btw, are you thinking on importing any other vehicle? There are quiet a few that would fit ARMA perfectely

Yep, very close Beta testing has started, all small bugs have been easily fixed so... unless something dramatical happens, we intend to release Version 1 this weekend I do not intened to add anything more (besides a small change on the Cobra scope) so this Version (1), will feature the 18 weapons posted before as well as the VDV and Marines. In Version 2 I will as usual take some of your suggestions and I will make them come true, like the AK-47, RPK the RPK-74M just to mention a few and of course we will add new Russian Units, Steve (Shadow NX) start planning this please. @MechaStalin - I checked your BMD-1 and it's truly a master piece of an addon, I do intend to use it in my missions alongside with my Russians but... I noticed something bad on it, the ammount of textures is incredable. You must be using like 40 or more? You should be using 1 or 2 tops I noticed that it won't be easy to merge all of them, if you intend to do it, I can help you on this, since I'll do it for myself anyway

Now it's all working well, ty Griffon79. PS: Shadow NX, the normal maps on the soldiers are done, changing the textures on the soldiers now may be a problem for Cameron so... please talk to him before changing anything on this version, ty.

Yes that's true, maybe I'll do an AK-47 and RPK in Version 2

The second picture isn't an RPK-74, that seems like a modified RPK-74M and that man isn't from the Russian army I even doubt that he's Russian at all The first and the last pictures are RPK with Drum,I have like 75 pictures here with the large 45 bullets magazine, some of this pictures were taken like 3 or 4 months ago and they are equipped in VDV soldiers as well as GRU SpetsNaz. In my 400 pictures total I think I have 80 with RPK-74 and RPK-74M, you know how many have that Drum? 3 pictures You can check this website, it has lots of nice pictures http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=99988