Company of Heroes: Eastern Front

Eastern Front Mod (Read-Only) => Suggestions => Topic started by: Chancellor on February 01, 2012, 05:04:42 AM

Title: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Chancellor on February 01, 2012, 05:04:42 AM
I just saw Halftrack's BotB snow atmosphere add-on for Relic maps, and I was wondering if EF could do the same thing, considering the weather actually played such an important part on the Eastern Front.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Pac-Fish on February 01, 2012, 05:08:27 AM
I wanna see Ruskies in winter outfits too ;D. But the snow map thing is cool too :P. I think BotB has ALL snow maps IIRC (edited it and stuff :P)
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: neosdark on February 01, 2012, 05:10:57 AM
I second this option, it seems like wouldn't be the biggest ass pain to implement (at least compared to some other things)
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Chancellor on February 01, 2012, 05:14:50 AM
@ Hooker:

Ruskies don't need fucking winter clothes lol  They're used to the cold.

I seriously wouldn't mind even if winter became the ONLY atmosphere option, even for the Relic maps.  Snow is just epic and makes the battles seem even more brutal.  If you get hit by a bullet, your blood spays all over the white snow like fucking Kool-Aid, and you get to freeze to death while you bleed out and whimper like a little bitch.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Pac-Fish on February 01, 2012, 05:18:26 AM
If you get hit by a bullet, your blood spays all over the white snow like fucking Kool-Aid, and you get to freeze to death.

I dont think it looks like this in game play :P. Especially not like Kool Aid on the side of the road ;D. Nor do some ppl pay attention to the blood (sometmes its cool to see the bodies lying around like a real battle scene though). But regardless I still would like winter maps.

But wouldnt that mean all the maps have to be winter, wheter you want it or not ???

@ Hooker:

Its Fish for everyone else that knows me ;)
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Tankbuster on February 01, 2012, 05:51:38 AM
But then we will need a skinpack for the Russians, -winter clothes, white tanks and all- otherwise it would look funny
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Pac-Fish on February 01, 2012, 05:54:35 AM
But then we will need a skinpack for the Russians, -winter clothes, white tanks and all- otherwise it would look funny

Not really :P. As me teacher put it: "Russians just go out in the winter with no shirt and with a bottle of VOdka in one hand and a AK-47 in the other hand screaming "I am Ruskie Grizzly bear! Fear me!". And they are still fine" ^^
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Tankbuster on February 01, 2012, 05:56:36 AM
Ah, your teacher has much respect for other cultures.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Blackbishop on February 01, 2012, 07:00:17 AM
Well, we are discusing something a bit similar on the dev section ;).
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: GodlikeDennis on February 01, 2012, 10:19:36 AM
But Kharkov and Leningrad do have snow don't they?
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Walentin 'Walki' L. on February 01, 2012, 10:21:25 AM
Leningrad only had snow until patch 1.2 xD.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: GodlikeDennis on February 01, 2012, 10:22:14 AM
I haven't played it since 1.0 :P
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Walentin 'Walki' L. on February 01, 2012, 10:30:08 AM
What a honour at least you played it once :D.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: GodlikeDennis on February 01, 2012, 10:30:38 AM
I played it twice.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Walentin 'Walki' L. on February 01, 2012, 10:43:31 AM
Then it's a shame :D.

Anyway we are probably going to include the snow weather option.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Pac-Fish on February 01, 2012, 12:10:37 PM
Will it actually be snowing during the game or will there just be some snow on the ground ???
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Walentin 'Walki' L. on February 01, 2012, 12:16:12 PM
some models & textures are getting changed also the weather settings.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Chancellor on February 01, 2012, 05:01:22 PM
That's good, but please don't tell me the vCoH faction skins will also be touched.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Walentin 'Walki' L. on February 01, 2012, 05:17:27 PM
That's good, but please don't tell me the vCoH faction skins will also be touched.

tbh I have no idea :P.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: SublimeSnugz on February 01, 2012, 05:23:20 PM
The snow from "Battle of the Bulge mod" is epic! Would be very cool to have a atmosphere option that said snowy (for snow maps only), wich you could select just like you select rain. I like the retextured trees with snow aswell those could be added also giving the snow maps a little more icy/snowy feeling.

That's good, but please don't tell me the vCoH faction skins will also be touched.

YEA! they should be seperate from the vcoh stuff and only affect snow maps
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Blackbishop on February 01, 2012, 06:05:22 PM
Don't you feel bad about the poor guys that will fight under these harsh conditions :D?

But yeah, vanilla skins won't be touched, I even committed @Snug's request and rolledback the vanilla skin for the sherman ;D!
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Chancellor on February 01, 2012, 06:14:03 PM
Don't you feel bad about the poor guys that will fight under these harsh conditions :D?

But yeah, vanilla skins won't be touched, I even committed @Snug's request and rolledback the vanilla skin for the sherman ;D!

Leave it to me to supply my guys with my own winter coats.  :)

That's great news that vCoH skins will be untouched!
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: stealthattack1 on February 01, 2012, 06:42:18 PM
yauz, where the heck do you find/make your skinpacks anyways? you got a 2d artist up your sleeve or somthing?
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Chancellor on February 01, 2012, 07:44:02 PM
Sometimes, I download and modify myself (which is why I can't release publicly), sometimes I work with others to create the perfect model, and sometimes for some infantry models I just make entirely myself.

Also, getting special models and things like the wounded Volks variation into normal CoH was done by myself.  Everyone said it wasn't possible, but it is, as long as you don't mess with the unit stats.

I basically have the same perfectionist attitude towards my skins/models/sounds that Snugz has towards his maps.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: stealthattack1 on February 01, 2012, 09:07:33 PM
very cool.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Mattdamon07 on February 01, 2012, 09:42:29 PM
this reminds me of having the option in some games to turn on/off blood and gore, but i dont want a turn off i want a bigger turn on :3
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Pac-Fish on February 01, 2012, 10:47:29 PM
As long as the snow doesn't obscure the battlefield :P
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: HyperSniper999 on February 02, 2012, 11:15:12 PM
I'd get and use a Soviet Winter Skinpack.

And the Wehrmacht Grenadiers are kind of ready for winter, I guess.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Lord van Dalen on February 03, 2012, 02:03:48 AM
Wintertextures from BotB will come with the Ostheer-patch. Here is a little preview.

(http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/421/worldbuilderfixed201112.th.jpg) (http://img252.imageshack.us/i/worldbuilderfixed201112.jpg/)  (http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/421/worldbuilderfixed201112.th.jpg) (http://img847.imageshack.us/i/worldbuilderfixed201112.jpg/)  (http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/421/worldbuilderfixed201112.th.jpg) (http://img820.imageshack.us/i/worldbuilderfixed201112.jpg/)
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: cephalos on February 03, 2012, 10:30:11 AM
O.o ... this is epic! I always wanted to have EF in BotB scenery... looks like more snowy maps is about to come :)
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Pac-Fish on February 03, 2012, 12:20:03 PM
Could we ask BotB for their maps ???. Just curious :P
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: cephalos on February 03, 2012, 12:59:33 PM
or we can make our own  ;)
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Walentin 'Walki' L. on February 03, 2012, 02:03:09 PM
Yes we have our own.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Max 'DonXavi' von B. on February 03, 2012, 03:52:30 PM
Brilliant, Lord van Dalen :D
Now you've got the patch, you can work on the winter maps :)

Or is this unneccesary because the objects are replaced by their winter counterparts when the winter weather option is selected?
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: cephalos on February 03, 2012, 04:12:31 PM
Or is this unneccesary because the objects are replaced by their winter counterparts when the winter weather option is selected?

I wish it could work. But then almost all trees and bushes would need new textures.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: SublimeSnugz on February 03, 2012, 04:14:08 PM
But yeah, vanilla skins won't be touched, I even committed @Snug's request and rolledback the vanilla skin for the sherman ;D!

I knew deep inside my heart that you were a genuinely good guy Bishie
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: jaime on February 03, 2012, 11:06:07 PM
It would be cool see snow on Stalingrad .
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Pac-Fish on February 03, 2012, 11:07:40 PM
It would be cool see snow on Stalingrad .

We could renact the last battles of Stalingrad ;D

I happened to have liked that new Sherman skin :P
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Lord van Dalen on February 04, 2012, 12:28:04 AM
Now you've got the patch, you can work on the winter maps :)

Like this?
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Max 'DonXavi' von B. on February 04, 2012, 12:57:11 AM
Weeee :D
That looks great, well done :)
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: SublimeSnugz on February 04, 2012, 01:39:03 AM
Fucking epic Lord van dalen!! This looks like Stalingrad, this is real russian urban terrain.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: Lord van Dalen on February 04, 2012, 01:53:35 AM

Thanks, I did my best.
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: stealthattack1 on February 04, 2012, 01:53:57 AM
nice work man, keep it up!
Title: Re: Snow Weather Option
Post by: conscript900 on February 04, 2012, 07:55:11 AM
Then it's a shame :D.

Anyway we are probably going to include the snow weather option.
wonderful, more soviet cold winter, make you man!