Historical Skin Mod v0.36 1 Introduction 2 2 Version Status 2 3 Model changes 2 3.1 Concept of the mod 2 3.2 Opposing Front / Fallschirmjager 3 3.3 Opposing Front / Luftwaffe field division soldier 4 3.4 Opposing Front / TankBuster 5 3.5 Opposing Front / Hetzer 5 3.6 Opposing Front / Marder III 6 3.7 COH/Opposing Front / Flakvierling 20mm 7 3.8 Opposing Front / Panzer Elite Panzer Grenadier 7 3.9 Opposing Front / Kettenrad 8 3.10 Opposing Front / Jagdpanther 8 3.11 Opposing Front / Sdkfz 221/222/223 9 3.12 Opposing Front / Sdkfz 250/ 01, 03, 07, 10 10 3.13 PE / Panzer IV 11 3.14 CoH / Pak38 11 3.15 vcoh / Pioneer 12 3.16 vcoh Pz IV 13 3.17 vcoh Sd.Kfz. 251 13 3.18 OF / Tommy 14 3.19 Opposing Front / Wirblewind(PE) 15 3.20 Bren Carrier 15 3.21 Tetrach 16 3.22 Nebelwerfer 17 3.23 Stuart 17 3.24 Puma 18 4 Change log: 19 5 Technical Notes 20 5.1 Installation: 20 6 Miscellaneous: 20 6.1 Thanks: 20 6.2 Copyright (updated) 20
6.3 Contact: 21 6.4 Links: 21 1 Introduction The Historical Skin Mod aims to change original textures and environment of the game Company of heroes / Opposing Fronts into a more historical looking one. 2 Version Status Version : 0.36 Release date : July 26, 2008 Creator : Rodolphe QUEMERAIS 3 Model changes 3.1 Concept of the mod The Axis/Wehrmacht (from genuine COH) faction will be changed from Wehrmacht to Waffen SS because units available for this faction suit very well to what really were SS divisions in Normandy or Holland. For this mod, I choose the 10 th Panzer SS Division Frundsberg. The Panzer Elite will represent Wehrmacht units like those from the Panzer Lehr division, or other heavily mechanized German divisions like 116 th Panzer Div. The Commonwealth faction will represent members of the 7th th armoured division.
3.2 Opposing Front / Fallschirmjager Historical Notes: In Normandy or Holland, Luftwaffe fallschirmjager were wearing splinter B camo smock and brown/green trousers. Skin notes: This skin has been created using a photo of a real fallschirmjager jacket for the main part of the chest. For the other parts of the jacket, a splinter B pattern has been created from a pattern found on internet. This one has been resized and colour adjusted to match the chest photo part. The tent worn in the back is changed to Splinter A camo pattern.
3.3 Opposing Front / Luftwaffe field division soldier Original version of the luftwaffe field soldier Modified version with luftwaffe splinter B camo Historical Notes: The Luftwaffe field division soldiers could wear either Luftwaffe blue grey or field grey color uniforms especially when uniforms were supplied by Wehrmacht. They were also using camo jackets with splinter B pattern. Occasionally, field division soldiers could use the same jacket as the one from the falschirmjager. Skin Notes: For this model, the cap and trousers have been set to blue grey. The jacket worn is Splinter B which was only used by Luftwaffe. The tent worn in the back is changed to Splinter A camo pattern.
3.4 Opposing Front / TankBuster New versions for the TankBuster compared to the genuine one on the left. Historical Notes: Wehrmacht used different camo patterns and colours especially at the end of war. This skin change is supposed to chow a hooded smock with M1931 splinter pattern. Skin Notes: Colour of the trousers has been changed to a more field grey. Belt buckle, collar patches have been changed to more real one. Helmet is paint with a 3 colour camo which was usual in 1944 and finally the smock is turned to a splinter A pattern scheme. 3.5 Opposing Front / Hetzer New versions for the Hetzer compared to the genuine one on the left.
Historical Notes: From 1943, germans used dark yellow instead of grey over their vehicles for the base colour. Over this colour, several patterns could be applied using dark-red brown and olive green. Local commanders were free to change patterns and to choose to use or not brown or green colours. More over, paint was applied mixed with petrol or water so that depending on the odd painting/petrol colours could seem more or less dark. Art COH engine, HSM Hetzer s skin and post work with Photoshop. 3.6 Opposing Front / Marder III
Skin Notes: 3 colours camo applied with team colour markings removed. 3.7 COH/Opposing Front / Flakvierling 20mm 3.8 Opposing Front / Panzer Elite Panzer Grenadier left, the genuine PG right, the modified one. Skin Notes: Jacket of the PanzerGrenadier comes from the grenadier s jacket of the COH (vanilla) skin Mod of Halftrack (pseudo on Relic forum). Helmet cover has been modified to show usual Zehltbahn 31 pattern (diff, nrm, ocs modified). The black scarf has been erased as well as gloves. Trousers have been turned to feldgrau.
3.9 Opposing Front / Kettenrad Skin Notes: This Kettenrad shows a 1943 usual 3 colours camo pattern with a sand yellow base and green and brown stripes. 3.10 Opposing Front / Jagdpanther
3.11 Opposing Front / Sdkfz 221/222/223 Skin Notes: 3 colour camo applied. Still ID numbers to change.
3.12 Opposing Front / Sdkfz 250/ 01, 03, 07, 10 Skin Notes: Different skins, one for each kind of Half-Track. From 0.26 version, the base SdKfz 250 has been tuned:
3.13 PE / Panzer IV 3.14 CoH / Pak38
3.15 vcoh / Pioneer Notes: The standard german sapper has been turned to a Waffen SS one. Changes are : - peadot pattern trousers; - oakleaf pattern helmet cover; - zehltbahn (tent part) with another variant of oakleaf pattern; - MP40 ammo pouch changed to a late war model; - Belt buckle changed to a waffen SS model; - Use of a modified Halftrack (Relic Forum pseudo) jacket; - SS collar symbols added.
3.16 vcoh Pz IV Notes: 3.17 vcoh Sd.Kfz. 251 Notes:
This HT is representing one of the 10 th SS PZ. DIV. Frundsberg 3.18 OF / Tommy Historical Notes: This tommy has been changed to represent a soldier member of the 7 th armoured division which fought in Normandy and Holland. The new skin shows the brownish uniform and green webbing as brits soldiers were wearing from D-Day.
3.19 Opposing Front / Wirblewind(PE) 3.20 Bren Carrier Skin Notes:
The skin colour has been turned to bronze green commonly used for British armoured vehicles. New markings show a vehicle from the 7 th armoured division that fought in Normandy and Holland in 1944. 3.21 Tetrach Skin Notes: The skin is based on an historical picture from a tetrarch of the 6 th airborne division.
3.22 Nebelwerfer 3.23 Stuart Skin Notes:
This Stuart wears the basic bronze green used by brits troops. Further markings will be added on turret sides in next patch. 3.24 Puma Skin Notes:
This vehicle is representing a Puma from the Frundsberg division. 4 Change log: V0.36 (28/06/2008) - Bren carrier added; - Tetrach added; - Nebelwerfer added; - Stuart added; - SdKfz 234 Puma added; - SdKfz 251 added; - Tommy updated; - SdKfz 250 updated; - Wirblewind updated. V0.32 (05/13/2008) - German vcoh Pioneer added; - vcoh Pz IV added; - Hetzer updated. V0.30 (05/16/2008) - New skin for Panzer Elite Panzer IV. - Skin updates for Hetzer, Jagdpanther, Sdkfz 221/2/3 V0.29 (04/15/2008) - New skin for Panzer Elite Wirblewind V0.28 (03/16/2008) - New skin for Tommy V0.27 (03/02/2008) - New skin for pak38 (still beta) - 4 differents skins for PE Half Tracks - Skin adjustments for Kettenrad, Jagdpanther and Sdkfz 221 (still beta). V0.22 (02/17/2008) - New skins for the PE PanzerGrenadier, Kettenrad, Jagdpanther and Sdkfz 221; - Update of the Hetzer (gold MG fixed); - All team coulours marking removed for vehicles; - Kettenrad driven by tankbuster character. V0.18 (01/28/2008) - New skin for PE Marder III; - New skin for COH/PE quad 20mm flakvierling; - Luftwaffe field soldier and tankbuster colours adjusted; - Default flak (20mm quad) crew are Luftwaffe soldiers; V0.17 (01/20/2008) - New skin for the Hetzer panzer (pre-final version); - Tankbuster from Panzer Elite get new skins with camo helmet and Splinter A jacket. - Default flak crew are Luftwaffe soldiers; v0.15 (01/04/08) - Luftwaffe Field division soldier with blue grey trousers and M43 cap, Splinter B jacket, and splinter A tent.
- Fallschirmjäger trousers and tent color adjusted. v0.1 (12/30/07) - Full new skin of the Opposing Fronts Falschirmjäger with historical splinter B camo pattern. 5 Technical Notes This Mod has been realised with Corsix Mod Tool and Photoshop. Skins are extracted from the ww2art.sga file from Company of Heroes with Corsix. Skin s format is originally *.rgd file. Actually, ww2art.sga is a compressed file containing sub-directories in which are the textures. For exemple, fallschirmjager texture is in data/models/races/panzerelite/soldiers/sharedtexture. Corsix allows to convert *.rgd to *.dds. *.dds files can be imported in Photoshop using a plug-in found on NVidia web site. Once opened in Photoshop, skins can be modified. Once done, the *.dds files can be converted back to *.rgd. To use the mod online, a new ww2art.sga file needs to be created with the sgapacker tool from Corsix. 5.1 Installation: Since 2.30 patch has been applied, only modification of the ww2art.sga file is possible for an online game. Get tutorial at : http://rodolphe.quemerais.free.fr/cms/ BEWARE: Changing ww2art.sga and AttribArchive.sga prevents any further Relic patch to be applied. Make a copy of this file before any modification. 6 Miscellaneous: 6.1 Thanks: Thanks to: - Corsix for tool and to Nordland for informations on Luftwaffe units; - My wife who s patient enough to let me work on those skins; - Particular thanks to Monkeys, Lethal Dosage and Anykey on Relic forum for critics and advises; - Shaverman on Relic Forum; - To everybody who gave me useful advises on Relic Forum. 6.2 Copyright (updated) Everybody is free to use those to play but not for a commercial use. If someone wants to reuse them (modified or not) in another mod, please ask me first and use the banners procedure from the banner page.
6.3 Contact: Messenger : Mail: lukieart@hotmail.com webmaster@quemerais.com 6.4 Links: Get more screenshots for the work in progress and finalized skins: http://rodolphe.quemerais.free.fr/cms/ http://rodolphe.quemerais.free.fr/coh_tactica.html (in French)