Here is my biggest release to date, i made it to complement Jeds Para models, which can be found HERE (http://www.wunderboy.org/3d_games/dod/brit_can_airborne.php)

I've decided to get V.1 of this pack out into the community, as it's going to be sometime before i get some more of my custom models ready for release. And it's just gathering dust at the min, because i'm putting alot of my time at present, into learning new modeling methods for modern game engines.

I've not included my hand models with this release, because i did not want to up the polycount anymore, in the hope more peeps could make use of this pack. I will release the hand models on there own for others to use if they should wish to, sometime soon.

Here is some info about some of the changes i have made to the default models.

All transparent textures have been remapped to there own UV maps, except the bren, which has had the transparences removed, by adding some extra polys to the model. I've done this because some graphic drivers down grade the textures when transparent flags are used, so by doing this more peeps will get the max quality out of the textures.

There are two bren models, one is default, with default anim's the other is the enhanced 3 arm version, i've taken the magazine that i enhanced for the 3 arm version and added this to the default one, as that part of the model has always bugged me.

The enfields have been reskined by Jed, and he remeshed the wood, to use one UV map instead of the original two. I've added my Hi poly scope to the scoped version, which Jed remeshed to fit Rustys scope texture. I've then rearranged the UV map, which left enough room to blend this with skin5 UV map, making the model a little more efficient.

I've also redone the right hand bones, so there smaller, to compensate for FOV, and reworked the shoot, reload anim's and also the draw anim for the scoped version.

The webley has had many changes, i've totally rebuilt the hammer and pin, added cylinders for the bullet chambers, and a slot for the pin to pass through, these use transparences, to make it more efficient. I've then added another 16 bones to the model, for the individual bullets and bullet ends, and speed loader to be animated. All the anim's have been reworked or tweaked in some way. I also UV mapped and skinned the Speed loader and release catch to a new UV map, other UV maps have also been changed a little in places from the default. Some custom sounds have been added.

The Knife is default, but i've used the enhanced Hand model originally edited by ripa, and re edited by me, from Triggers elite tommy knife, that i released sometime ago.

The PIAT has been enhanced, by making the main tube, and main dome of the bomb rounder.

The pack also includes my three custom Sten models, the MK2, Mk2S AND MK5, aswell as my custom Mills granade.

Most sleeves have been tweaked for the individual models, and some thumb ends have been enhanced.

I would just like to say a big thanks to Jed for he's great enfield skins, and giving me support through out the making of this pack, and the idea to make the pack in the first place. And big thanks to all those others that have suppled material for this pack.

Here is the text taken from the readme.

British Para Weapon Pack By MaRzY


Credits:

Sleeve models: MaRzY
Sleeve skin: camo Trp.Cow, cuffs MaRzY

Enfields:

Models: Dod Dev Team
Skins: Trp. Jed
Scope Model: MaRzY
Scope Skin: Rusty
Animations: Dod Dev Team & MaRzY

Brens:

Models: Dod Dev Team, Glimsharp, MaRzY
Skins: Dod Dev Team
Animations: Dod Dev Team, Glimsharp, MaRzY


Mills Grenade:

Model: MaRzY
Skins: MarzY
Animations: Dod Dev Team & MaRzY

Webley:

Model: Dod Dev Team & MaRzY
Skins: Dod Dev Team & MaRzY
Animations: Dod Dev Team & MaRzY

PIAT:

Model: Dod Dev Team & MaRzY
Skins: Dod Dev Team
Animations: Dod Dev Team

Knife:

Model: Dod Dev Team
Skins: Dod Dev Team
Animations: Dod Dev Team

Stens:

Sten Mk5, Mk2, Mk2S Models: MaRzY
Skins: Polygon,BruTaLiz@tioN and rotzbua, With further edits by MaRzY
Animations: Dod Dev Team & MaRzY

Hands:

Knife hand models: Dod Dev Team, Ripa, with futher edits made by MaRzY
All other hand models: Dod Dev Team, with some having edited thumb ends by MaRzY.
Hand Skins: Dod Dev Team

UV mapping:

Enfield wood and scope Trp. Jed
All other UV editing MaRzY.

Extra Bones: MaRzY.

Sounds: Unknown

THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED


Para weapons pic (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scitzo/para_packv1.jpg)

Please use the mirror if possible, so as to save on my bandwith, thanks.

Mirror (http://dodec.hlgaming.com/filedb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=1093)

Download (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sonofroy/Para_pack_v1.zip)

Bugs:

Theres a glitch when reloading the PIAT, i can't work out why, so if anyone can shed some light on this problem so i can fix it, that would be great.

Mirrors and Host welcome as always.

If you you think i've missed anyone out in the credits, please let me know, so i can correct them.

Enjoy....:)

Thanks to Canuck and the rest of the DoD Editing Center team for the mirror....:).

Have my Babies...

DoDEC Mirror (http://dodec.hlgaming.com/filedb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=1093)

OMFG, /me dies :D :D :D

brutal pointed out to me that there's a missing face on the errr top metal where it meets the wood

Sweet mother of pearl! yay. Really hoping for the hands ready though, but no worries.

OMFG!!! Thank You! These are AWESOME!

Awesome. Thanks for the hard work and great release!!!!

I do have one question. What happened to that incredible sawed off enfield? I've been waiting for a P & W model for that for a long while. Again, great job.

Bloody nice work mate, love the new reload animations on the webley. I always felt really sort changed by the way it ducked out of shot for most of it.

- Ska

Excellent absoluetly great, great job Jed & MaRzYking

WHOA!

Jed/marzy... that's genious. it's AMAZING !
first of all the webley, that anim is so... impressive, it's one of the best anims i ever saw for HL.

The enfields are great, love the wood and the scope mmm mmm mmmmmmm.... i like how you make all those little sounds to fit the custom anims, it adds so much to the game.

brens/stens were already released but of course they are top quality.

im glad you released it all so fast :D

im going to use Each and every model.
Damn fine job.

Just one thing i was hoping for... dillinger's axis sleeves.

Cheers ;]

Great pack, top notch stuff!

Thanks for your hard work..it's paid off, bigtime;)

very good job, me uses:)

Thanks for all your great comments and feedback, it warms me inners.........:).

Originally posted by Omni One
I do have one question. What happened to that incredible sawed off enfield? I've been waiting for a P & W model for that for a long while. Again, great job.

Sawed of enfield.......:confused: , i'm not sure what you mean by this, i've never made a Sawed of enfield, do you mean a delisle, if so i've never modeled one as yet.

Originally posted by Ska_Wars
Bloody nice work mate, love the new reload animations on the webley. I always felt really sort changed by the way it ducked out of shot for most of it.

- Ska

I agree, i always thought it a little cheap, which is why i went about changing it, and i'm really pleased you like it. I probably put more time into editing this model, then any other weapon in the pack, but i'm really pleased i did, i think it came out rather well, and is probably my best animation work to date. though i should maybe try using MAX in the future for animating, because milkshape is so limited.

The other thing that really bugged me was the massive looking right hand when pulling the bolt back, or reloading the enfields, i think it looks much better now i've scaled the bones down and resized the hand and arm model, and redid the anim's. I was not sure if peeps would like the shoot anim though, with the weapon being tilted back more when pulling the bolt back, blocking a bit more of you view then default, but i like it.


Originally posted by Mortar
stens were already released

Just one thing i was hoping for... dillinger's axis sleeves.

Cheers ;]


Only the Mk5 had been released before this pack, the MK2 and MK2S are new, if you look at them next to the MK5 you will notice little changes here and there, which reflect the differences these weapons have in the real world. I've also edited my MK5 anims to fit both the MK2 and MK2S sten, as both hold the weapon in different places.


Maybe in version 2 i might make some new German sleeve models..:)

Jus noticed in game that the mills bomb is a new model. Love the added fuse cap bit, bloody great work.

- Ska

all i can say is 'FINALLY'. i've been waiting for someone to release this.

Well done Marzy ;)

Your as bad as me - the eternal tweaker and never "quite" happy with something.

Can I tell them about the Enfield Easter Eggs now? LOL

- Jed

Originally posted by Trp. Jed
Can I tell them about the Enfield Easter Eggs now? LOL


What the one i code named magic mushroom..........lol

Yeah go on then.......:D

Absolutely gorgeous, you're the De@dMe@t of the DoD community (and that's a very good thing :D ). I love it all, now I can discard my recoloured Brit sleeves I made to tide me over until this release. I already use your MkV Sten and 3-arm Bren, they're fab, and I absolutely love the new models. It's nice to have the 3 Stens on matching anims etc to swap around if I ever get bored of them, The Enfield is great, just the right wood colour, fab scope, and the new anims seem faster, which is a good thing. ;) The bolt-forward looks good too, as if it's actually being gripped now. Also, the scoped draw is a good idea, wouldn't have thought of that myself. The Webley is great, the anims are much better than the old one, and all the extra detail is well worth it. I think the only change I'll make is attempting to skinhack Bots' skin onto the Webley, the rest is perfect. :)

:confused: :eek: :D
great pack, all my british weapons will be replaced by these B-E-Autiful weapon models

Originally posted by Peril
I think the only change I'll make is attempting to skinhack Bots' skin onto the Webley, the rest is perfect. :)

lol same same :D

Originally posted by Pvt.Malarkey
lol same same :D

ooooo nice.

- Ska

Originally posted by Pvt.Malarkey
lol same same :D

Release! ;)

;[

Has this turned into a WIP thread for skinning the webley, cause if so sod off and make your own thread.........lol.

No the reason i never used bots skin is because i wanted a skin that looked more like this, although it's a different webley to the one in dod. Which i know is unusual compared to the average looking webley in the real world, but maybe thats why i like it.....:).

Webley pic (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scitzo/webfinish.jpg)

Hmm.... Someone should make a nice animation to sync the Hi-Standard's reload time with the default Webley.

Nice pack, Marzy. as usual.

I have one question though, wasn't the Colt 1911 used more than the webley by the paratroopers? Just wonderin. :)

Originally posted by -Sp|inter
Nice pack, Marzy. as usual.

I have one question though, wasn't the Colt 1911 used more than the webley by the paratroopers? Just wonderin. :)
Meh yeah, but It'd be confusing to have Colts for both US and British. :/

BTW, I stole your sleeves. Gorgeous. :D

Originally posted by swedish
Hmm.... Someone should make a nice animation to sync the Hi-Standard's reload time with the default Webley.

On my PC the timing is fine, i sent the pack to Jed not long back for testing, and asked him to test the timings of the animations on his PC, he never came back with any problems, so i thought they where fine. If anyone else finds the timing out on any of the custom anim's please say so. I know what can cause these problems for some though, because the frame rate is set higher then the default anim's for some weapons, so if you have things running in the background, or a low end PC, these anim's might not run at there normal frame rate, so would be out of sync, what are your PC spec's, it maybe this.

Originally posted by -Sp|inter
I have one question though, wasn't the Colt 1911 used more than the webley by the paratroopers? Just wonderin. :)

I don't know Sp|inter they probably did, but i really like the webley, especially now i've enhanced it. So if they did use the Colt 1911, we will just have to pretend that these paras preferred the webley aswell...........:D

Originally posted by swedish
BTW, I stole your sleeves. Gorgeous. :D

Did you now...:)

Just remember if you use these sleeves on other models, to take the sleeves off the same weapon as your wishing to put them on. Because some have been reshaped to look and fit just that weapon properly, so may not fit right on a different type of weapon, as in the hands clipping the cuffs etc. And also if you release these sleeves on other models, don't forget to put the right credits in the readme...:)

By looking at your sig, is that a brit paratrooper holding a Colt? :p :p

Originally posted by -Sp|inter
By looking at your sig, is that a brit paratrooper holding a Colt? :p :p

Go on P*ss of you nit picking B*stard.........lol.........:D


Only ......J/KING.........:)

As far as I know some paras were equiped with Colts and Browning pistols but the majorirty were still given Webley's. Some were lucky enough to get the para customised version with the rounded hammer to stop it snagging on their webbing.

Bloody great work mate, I cant stop using the webley now lol I get killed alot more but i go out in style :p lol

- Ska

Originally posted by Ska_Wars
Bloody great work mate, I cant stop using the webley now lol I get killed alot more but i go out in style :p lol

- Ska

:D a man after me own heart.....thats me boy.:D .....LMAO

I love the nade too, i dunno why but i jus prefer it that you can see the yellow fuse cap, looks quality.

I remember when you first showed WIP for it back in 3.1 days along with the...... whats it called now.....

ah yes..







































































THE LEWIS GUN! lol

jk mate, great work on the pack.

- Ska

i want a lewis :(

I got an idea.

Hey Cheeto, for your Russian Pack V2 why don't you slap Marzy's custom sleeves and a new custom texture for it on your Russian Models? It'd surely make it a whole lot better looking then those ugly default British sleeves.

The custom sound for firing doesnt work well. There is too much time before the actual gunshot goes off. So is ytou fire fast, the shot gets cut off and it sounds pretty bad.

Sorry to bump and older thread, but any chance of P&W models for this great pack?

Uhhh, I guess that's a "no"?

:(

omg thanks for bumping this thread! I haven't seen these yet(was on holiday) and omfg, these are beauties Marzy :D great job!

wow good work as always