Player icon mods: wants

[PlasmaKrab]

No, you can fix it using the sp fix function of shp edit without moving the gun.
Just move the crosshairs around until its right.

That will displace the centerpoint of the icon in the hex. But AFAIK this centerpoint must be the same for both turret and body, i.e. the common rotation axis, otherwise your turret will end up wandering all over the roof of your vehicle.

Or is there a way to use SHPed to offset (dynamically) the turret axis from the vehicle rotation axis?
I know there is an 'offset' value in the SPfix module, that I never saw used.
If someone knows about that, I think that feature could come in handy

[Alby]

PlasmaKrab said:

That will displace the centerpoint of the icon in the hex. But AFAIK this centerpoint must be the same for both turret and body, i.e. the common rotation axis, otherwise your turret will end up wandering all over the roof of your vehicle.

Or is there a way to use SHPed to offset (dynamically) the turret axis from the vehicle rotation axis?
I know there is an 'offset' value in the SPfix module, that I never saw used.
If someone knows about that, I think that feature could come in handy

I have not had a problem using sp fix..
in fact, I have moved alot of the ID flags on top of the vehicles so you can actually see the vehicle Icon when you have the id flags on.

[JaM]

I forgot one icon! It will be nice to have Abrams with TUSK upgrade (grill armor in the rear, ERA at the sides, etc...)

[PlasmaKrab]

Nothing undoable... except possibly that awful black slat pack under the engine exhaust. Slat is a bugger to figure, since it is mostly vertical.

Should give it a try, the thing will look like a Magach-Abrams Frankenstein tank!
Oh, and 3-tone center-europe camo version as well...

[BunyipLuke]

Err, Laurent, do you mean Panzer or pachyderm?

cheers

Luke

[PlasmaKrab]

He means pachyderm...

Yeah, I know, but that's for his Vietnam mod. Quite like the cavalry units really, only when you don't have horses you make do of elephants ro water buffaloes...

[thatguy96]

I was hoping someone would eventually quickly hack an actual ACH-47A icon, and perhaps a UH-1B/C gunship icon without the M5 nose turret, since none of the units in game actually have the AGL fitted (though I did make some that did). Also, an Australian Bushranger with the dual support assemblies would be nice.

[PlasmaKrab]

I forgot one icon! It will be nice to have Abrams with TUSK upgrade (grill armor in the rear, ERA at the sides, etc...)

Here it comes!

Sorry, I know I have promised a center-europe camoed variant, but after much reflection (2, 3 sec or so ) I decided it was much bother for a non-existing thing altogether.
Now if someoneabsolutely craves for it or it appears it could come up IRL any time, just pass on the info, I'll add it here. Or edit it yourself, for what it takes...

This one is a shortly crash-built version with the various TUSK elements (ERA, slat pack, armored MG post, OHWS) added on the existing desert-tan Abrams A2, which is largely good enough as is.
Could have posted it a week ago, were it not for the reflection over EURCENT camo or not...

[BunyipLuke]

Just thought I would have a go at modifying some .shp files. It has been a whilce since I have done this, but.

I checked that the right pallette was loaded, imported a 24 bit bmp file, converted, but when I went to find bignew.shp, it was not there. I did a check with Find, and nothing....

However, I seem to have made a new .shp file, entitled newshp.shp, which contains only one image, the one I uploaded, but the pallette seems to be inverted. All I can say is WTF....

Any advice?

cheers

Luke the perplexed.

[PlasmaKrab]

Luke,

First of all, where have you been loking for your bignew.shp?

Whatever you do, it should be in the same folder where the original .shp stays, no matter where you have loaded your images from.

I also stumbled on the newshp.shp recently (in the image folder), dunno the purpose of it, or if it is a side effect of the shp conversion.

All I can tell you for now!