Waxbutter

@FormerHITPmodTeam & @FOWmodteam & contributors & players & Bohemia & Community etc.... Keep up the good work, keep developing your excellent modding gaming craftman skills. Big up for keeping and expanding this beautifull mod. It lifts up my spirit. Greetz Waxbutter+SD, former HIPmod Nerd 😉

Hell in the Pacific 0.5 beta release Finally after many years of development, we witness the first release of Hell in the Pacific, a mod that tries to cover the events that took place in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War. We decided to give our first release the rather arbitrary version number 0.5. We felt the need to release the mod now for various reasons, but would like to point out that the mod is still in beta phase as there are many unfinished and missing things we have yet to implement. This first release is dedicated to land combat in the Pacific and the India/Burma theatres, mainly on the finished or at least almost finished maps 'Tarawa', 'Peleliu' and 'Kohima Ridge'. We will include other WIP islands as well, so you can see what we are working on. The same is true for many of the air and sea components of the mod. These things are still in beta stage of development, but will be included as some sort of sneak peek or preview. Feature List Below is a small feature list of what is included in HIP 0.5 beta: -Three factions complete with vehicles and aircraft -Three more or less finished islands along with some very WIP ones -Several Modules that add new features like Logistics, Artillery, Suppression, ... -A mission pack Requirements & Installation Hell in the Pacific requires: ArmA 2: Combined Operations (CO; this is ArmA 2 and the Add-on Operation Arrowhead combined into one game) with at least Patch 1.62 Community Base Addons (CBA) Installation: If you are installing the archive version of Hell in the Pacific: -Extract the archive and copy its contents (the mod folder) to your ArmA 2 main folder. -Get more information on how to use mod folders on Armaholic. If you are using programs like Yoma or Six Updater, follow the instructions provided by their respective authors. Startup parameter example: "C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\arma2OA.exe" -nosplash -mod=@CBA;@CBA_A2;@CBA_OA;@Pacific_beta Manuals & Class Lists The Manuals and Class lists are included in the Mod archive/installation. They are located in the root of @ Pacific_beta folder under : @Pacific_beta\documentation\ Download links : Armaholic : see next posts, tnx Foxhound for your support :-) Sixupdater : see next post, tnx for your support Sickboy ;-) Startup parameter example including beta patch : "C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\Expansion\beta\arma2oa.exe" -mod=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion;@CBA;@CBA_A2;@CBA_OA;@Pacific_beta; If you like our mod and like to contribute, you may vote on our mod on Moddb Enjoy! The Hell in the Pacific mod team Bug tracker : dev-heaven.net/projects/hip

Addon Mod to run alongside with 31stWWA2 mod @WX_WW2.rar =>> http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/57103911/file.html Readme_WX_WW2.txt : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Models, Textures, Sounds and Configs by Waxbutter This addon-Mod is to be used together with 31stWWA2 mod. The Vehicles use the 31stWWA2 Drivers, Gunners, Commanders and Pilots. Allied Vehicles : SuperMarine Spitfire Allied Vehicles : UniversalCarrier (BrenCarrier) Allied Vehicles : UniversalCarrier Ambulance Allied Vehicles : Ordance QuickFiring 6 pounder Allied Vehicles : Morris - Field Artillery Tractor Allied Vehicles : GMC Truck Allied Weapons : Boys AntiTankRifle Allied Weapons : Bren LightMachineGun Allied Weapons : Lee Enfield SMLE No.1 Allied Weapons : Lee Enfield SMLE No.1 with No32 SCope Allied Weapons : Thompson Allied Weapons : Owen Allied Weapons : Sten Allied Weapons : PIAT Allied Weapons : Webley pistol Allied Weapons : Ammobox (containing these weapons) Axis Vehicles : BMW R75 The UniversalCarrier, MorrisFat and GMC-Truck are equipped with some weapons and ammo. You can drop your weapon on the ground, and it will display the weapon model with the correct ammo models, no pouches. Its work in progress so the textures are far from finished, some models dont even have good UV-maps, tho its still very playable. Please use this mod in a save manner so you can have lotsa fun with it. Greetz Waxbutter. 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

as a fellow dutch i cant resist to show everybody anutter style of presentation : come with content first or proof of concept before spilling out whishlists like for instance : http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?96563-Wx_ww2 The way this is presented is prone to the featurecreepingcreature, beware of the beast !! Greetz and welcome to the Golden Age, Waxbutter - WhiteWolf

The developer Event is taking place on KellysHeroes server, Developer Waxbutter is present on the server the whole day. The rest of the developers soon will follow into the Online battle. -=Kellys Heroes=- A2OA HIP (required 1.62.99515) there is no password active to join to the server. KellysHeroes Teamspeak access Greetz and hopefully cya there, Waxbutter

Its released, the beast is out ;-) Greetz and Enjoy, HIP-Team

sorry but i only gots the unarchived size : @Pacific_beta = 1.1.65.850.451 = ~ 1.2Gb, so the archived version will be smaller ;-) Greetz Waxbutter

Realtime ingame footage from last sundays playtest @ ForgottenHopeWarzone http://fh-warzone.de/wbb3/index.php?page=Thread&postID=30213#post30213 Team vs Team Mission, TvT: Norfolk Ridge (v3) by Dimitri Harkov CoopMission, Terror of Tarawa part 2 by [KH]Foxy Video Recorded/Edited/Produced by [KH]DaOarge Greetz Waxbutter

Excellent work Gachopin !!

Hi Nickmow, yes we are planning LVT (A) 1 and / or (A) 4 for the second phase of the mod. But first we are focussing on gameplay and basic/most common vehicles (Beta release) . Getting all variations of vehicles will require more time/work for our small developer crew, which will push back our Beta release date. So expect a beta release without the variations, and additional releases/patches will contain variation for most of the vehicles. Greetz Waxbutter

very nice job there, ProfTournesol do you wanna put your skills back in action for Arma2/OA/CO ? Greetz Waxbutter ;-)

@ Yamatoforever : we would like to cover the whole period but due to our limited resources we will focus our efforts on the time frame of the Tarawa and Peleliu campaigns. @ Stephsen : we will keep the autozoom on the weapons as is for now, but will take you advise/suggestion under consideration.

Mitsubishi A6M Zero :

Peleliu : 2.5x2.5 km (512x512px*5meters) (Progress 80%) Tarawa : 5x5 km (1024x1024px*5meters) (Progress 75%) Guadalcanal : 20x20 km (2048x2048px*10meters) (Progress 30%) Birma : 20x20km (2048x2048px*10meters) (Progress 0%) We did test real life scaled terrain and its huge ingame, eats alot of time to get from A to B. So the terrain is scaled down, for the following reasons : - game engine handling, (less memory usage)(good FPS) - gameplay, players arent spread out too much, greater change of running into enemy troops. - Higher resolution on terrain vertex's so we can use trenches drawn into the terrain heightmap. The smaller maps are great for infantry battles and offcourse the larger maps support larger battles (Ships Airplanes Tanks etc.). The challange always is the balance between : Small-Map/HighResolution and Large-Map/Medium to Low Resolution. Greetz Waxbutter

Its a combination of both, heightmap has the shape of the trenches, and with the custom objects you simulate the dug up sand/dirt walls. Its a trade off because you'll need some resolution on the heightmap, so its very hard to use this technique on large maps. I hope you'll find the right balance to achieve something similair. Greetz Waxbutter

The issue hasnt been completely ignored, as Rip31st has contacted me and politely asked me to remove any models of which you guys claim to be the original owners, i will comply to this request. Also in that conversation Rip31st stated that Troc and Alper never gave us permission. But i can recall we had permission of all involded modellers !! : Troc told/emailed Pedersen he would be glad to help us out by contributing models to us, and i personally have asked Alper permission to use his base model of the LCM3, uponwhich i allready moddeled/build further, unwrapped, textured and rigged/configged. All this was shortly after Troc, Pedersen and Waxbutter left FOW due to a copyright issue. But as requested : We will stop using 31stMod/FOW content for our gameplaytests, so no upcoming gameplaytestvideos should contain any of these models. Hopefully this will suffise to clear up the issue, Greetz Waxbutter.

To avoid personal confrontations, i am departing from this MOD (Fields of War). Waxbutter

class list by Doolittle post number = #804 on page #81

With AI as Commander or you as Commander ? I know i was able to direct fire as commander. If the AI on its own doesn't and if anyone knows a solution to that problem please let me know. Thanx Waxbutter

Thanx for the Classes list Doolittle !!

haha you got me there Beton ;-) Thanx for your awesome maps, hope to see your Normandy map in Arma2 without the need of running CBA. Greetz Waxbutter

I just posted and addon mod to run alongside 31stWWA2 mod, http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=96563 Some British vehicles and weapons Rip if wanna have this stuff included you got my permission ;-) Greetz Waxbutter