WinSP MBT: Das Reich

RecruitMonty · #1 April 25th, 2016, 01:10 PM

Hello Gents,

I'm almost done updating the mod. Just had a question. Someone, I believe it was MarkSheppard, supplied me with some lovely colour pictures of tanks as well as a background / title screen. Only trouble is I don't know what to do with them so that they appear in the game. Any ideas?

The update, when it is ready, will be a straight forward enough job to do.

I've copied all the files that remained the same from version 1.0P (text, ranks, names and a few odds and sods) and have filled in the gaps with all the new ones for 1.1P (which now works with version 10 of the game).

You have two choices. Make a clean copy of version 10 of MBT and then install version 1.1P of the mod over it or update the copy of mbt you installed the mod to with the version 10 patch of MBT and then install the 1.1P Update (April 2016) of the mod over it making sure you overwrite everything you need to overwrite in both cases.

Be sure to save your scenarios etc. Some of them may be broken as of this updapte as the icons were changed around for most of the turret-less units. Although when I fired up one of my scenarios after updating all seemed in order on the icon front at least. Just read the readme for the update and be sure to take a look in the general Readme too for new acknowledgements.

scorpio_rocks · #2 April 25th, 2016, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RecruitMonty

Just had a question. Someone, I believe it was MarkSheppard, supplied me with some lovely colour pictures of tanks as well as a background / title screen. Only trouble is I don't know what to do with them so that they appear in the game. Any ideas?

The "Splash" screens are stored in the
...Shrapnel Games/Game Data/Pictures/Interface
folder.
Just replace the MCPPic, MCPPic1, MCPPic2, MCPPic3 files.

Mark's Links seem to be broken... Can get to his site but no longer seem to be able to find the screens or Das Reich files.

MarkSheppard · #3 April 25th, 2016, 04:42 PM

http://alternatewars.com/Games/SP/DA..._SPLASH_V2.zip
Splash v2

http://alternatewars.com/Games/SP/Wi...sReich1-0p.zip
DAS Reich 1.0P

I changed the URL from /Games/SPanthers to /Games/SP/

Sorry about that; but I intend to eventually put up an icon database, and I need to economize on URL length (even in 2016).

RecruitMonty · #4 April 26th, 2016, 11:08 AM

UPDATE:

Version 1.1P (compatible with WinSPMBT 10) is here!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ayh13c8ik...v--6x2ona?dl=0

Now, who would like to help me develop and test some scenarios for the mod?

MarkSheppard · #5 April 26th, 2016, 04:13 PM

I've actually got an idea for a few scenarios.

RecruitMonty · #6 April 26th, 2016, 05:04 PM

Here are three American strategic bombers.

The B36, a B52 in silver with stars and stripes on the wings and a B70.

I made these a while ago but I think you will like them.

MarkSheppard · #7 April 26th, 2016, 06:49 PM

Here's a fixed version of ICON0188.shp -- the Ju 252 icons were off-color with incorrect palette conversions, losing a bit of detail. I re-input them into the SHP file and rebuilt their offsets, plus I made a modified color LBM for the Fa. 223Z.

RecruitMonty · #8 April 26th, 2016, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by MarkSheppard

I've actually got an idea for a few scenarios.

Do tell

... ?

MarkSheppard · #9 April 26th, 2016, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RecruitMonty

Do tell

... ?

Switzerland Must Be Swallowed!
Gebirgsjäger Air Assault

Date: June 1948
Location: Switzerland

Essentially, the Swiss find out in a series of scenarios that their alpine redoubt(s) are no longer impregnable, once the Heer deploys air assault units with the first primitive helicopters -- I checked, and the majority of Switzerland is well within the payload capacity of the 1.5 generation of piston helicopters (at altitude).