Okay, we're a day late, but it's better than never.
So what do we have? Besides the biggest release I've ever made? Well, since 1.0 hit the net I've spent my free time working on these skin packs.

You have no less than three (3) different camouflage sets to pick from for the Germans, the 2nd Ranger and 82nd Airborne to fill out the American side and the always popular British No. 2 Commandos.

Throw in a matching pack of textures for the view models and I think we've got a good release going.

However, that's not it. I've also got an exclusive movie here from the well known, if not downright famous, Faceman. I do believe it is the first 1.0 based movie made, too.

Our mirrors are provided by the following:
Phokus (lost his host, but thanks still)
Faceman of http://www.dodstudios.net
and
Spike of www.dodsupply.co.uk (Make sure to visit his site a whole lot. Why? Cause I said so.)

Huge thanks to them.

Thanks to RealyPssd for helping me get me hosts for the files.
Also, a big thanks goes to Tekkobra for helping me test the skins out.


Exlusive movie: "Private Van"
http://thrik.dodnetwork.com/vandori/cow.JPG

http://www.dodsupply.co.uk/files/vandori/privatevan.zip
http://www.dodstudios.net/~chris/van/privatevan.zip


Now, for the skins:

German Heer infantry decked out in standard tunics and sporting redone (darker) helmets with full Heer decals.
http://thrik.dodnetwork.com/vandori/heer-peadot.jpg

http://www.dodsupply.co.uk/files/vandori/heer-peadot-Set.zip
www.dodstudios.net/~chris/van/heer-peadot-set.zip

German SS Infantry in black tunic and trousers sporting Autumn Oak Leaf camouflage and redone (darker) helmets with full SS decals.
http://thrik.dodnetwork.com/vandori/ss-autumn.jpg

http://www.dodsupply.co.uk/files/vandori/ss-autumn-set.zip
www.dodstudios.net/~chris/van/ss-autumn-set.zip

German SS Infantry in green tunic and trousers sporting Spring Oak Leaf camouflage and redone (darker) helmets with full SS decals.
http://thrik.dodnetwork.com/vandori/ss-spring.jpg

http://www.dodsupply.co.uk/files/vandori/ss-spring-set.zip
www.dodstudios.net/~chris/van/ss-spring-set.zip

British No. 2 Commandos in dark green fatigues with proper shoulder patch and redone helmet texture.
http://thrik.dodnetwork.com/vandori/british-commandos.jpg

http://www.dodsupply.co.uk/files/vandori/british-commando-set.zip
www.dodstudios.net/~chris/van/british-commando-set.zip

American 2nd Rangers sporting green service coat and trousers, brown tanker jacket and redone helmets.
http://thrik.dodnetwork.com/vandori/2ndrangers.jpg

http://www.dodsupply.co.uk/files/vandori/2nd-ranger-set.zip
http://www.dodstudios.net/~chris/van/2nd-ranger-set.zip

American 82nd Airborne Paratroopers with green jumpsuits, proper patches and redone helmet.
http://thrik.dodnetwork.com/vandori/82nd-airborne.jpg

http://www.dodsupply.co.uk/files/vandori/82nd-airborne-set.zip
http://www.dodstudios.net/~chris/van/82nd-airborne-set.zip

Sleeve Pack to match the skins released here:
http://www.dodsupply.co.uk/files/vandori/sleeve-pack.zip
www.dodstudios.net/~chris/van/sleeve-pack.zip

Read the readme's for installation instructions and last minute details.

That'll do it!

Comments are welcome as always, feel free to PM or Email me with any questions or comments.

And of course, if you want to use anything here in a pack of your own, please contact me first about it.

amazing, thanks a lot :D

edit: 1st post gg :D

oh jesus, dont start the 'FIRST POST LOOK AT ME'

Very good and sexy.

/me tests

Nice, thx for your efforts.

Sweetness!

WOW.

nicely done vandori much appreciated

Great work! WELL worth the wait!

they're all so good..im not sure which ones to dl:( guess ill just havta get em all;)

These are absolutely fantastic. Great work.

Okay, I'm an idiot, I'll admit that. What do I do with the sleeve textures? Is it an HLMV thing? It is, isn't it? I knew it. Is it?

i thought there was going to be a 1stID one as well? Im not trying to be ungrateful or anything, because these are great, but i was kinda looking forward to those :D

All skins, awesome work, very very good. I have all 6, but I haven't left the pea-dot camo yet. Soon enough they'll all come through.

Top notch work, who said your comeback would be small? (I think it was TGKB, let's pants him.)

Originally posted by HS The Whap
Great work! WELL worth the wait!

i agree... these are great, thanks !!!

I'll do them, just ran out of steam.
Give me a couple days to do something else. Hehe.

all files mirrored (http://dodec.dodstudios.net) at the dod editing center.

Originally posted by Bishop
oh jesus, dont start the 'FIRST POST LOOK AT ME'


Lovely skins, I'll be using them for sure!

I love the spring SS great work on all of them.

Excellent work, Vandori!

We need to collaborate on v3.0 of the 3rd ID skins. I'll have to talk to Devin Kryss and see if he's still interested as well.

Omg..hard to decide which to use!

/cries

/excellent


btw im a skin noob how i apply the sleeves textures in HLMV?

Amazing work brother, thank you so much.

Awsome! GJ man:eek:

Can I mix and match these things or is that not possible?

bump =P

GJ!
photorealistic textures...

you the man van...finally i been waitin for these rangers since 2.0

Someone needs to make it so we can have each of these incredible skins in different maps, i.e. forest camo in dod_forest, fall camo in dod_flash, etc.

And then winter camo for dod_kalt and dod_zalec

Wow, great work. Thanks!! :D

nice job man, love the brits and krauts the most :D

omg vandori these are great

Someone needs to make it so we can have each of these incredible skins in different maps, i.e. forest camo in dod_forest, fall camo in dod_flash, etc.

And then winter camo for dod_kalt and dod_zalec

Beautiful work Vandori. Top drawer.

one word::::::::::::EXCELENT M8:::::::::::::::::::::

Originally posted by Cath0de
Someone needs to make it so we can have each of these incredible skins in different maps, i.e. forest camo in dod_forest, fall camo in dod_flash, etc.

And then winter camo for dod_kalt and dod_zalec

I've been saying that since 1.1. Would be nice.

Spike of www.dodsupply.co.uk (Make sure to visit his site a whole lot. Why? Cause I said so.)

:D

DO IT!

Nah, we've got loadsa things going on there feel free to ASK if we can upload your model or whatnot up there plus plenty of custom maps, sprites ( ;) ) models etc etc and for the love of god register, and get whoring in the forums!! ...no dont really ;)

i want the cow player model

Very nice indeed. I have been using the peadot skins since their release. I will have to give the others a try now. Finally an Allied set that I will actually try!

My only beef with these models is this: the Allied Sergeant's skin is far too yellow.

The tanker jacket?
Yeah, kinda feel the same way, but it is pretty accurate based on the photos I have. I amy darken it later, but I dunno.

Count me In Higgins. Be glad to help.

Oh, and I love the allied models, but i think seeing germans runnign around with grey tuncs and pea dot camo pants looks too strange, but there really isnt much of a way to fix that, good job none the less.

Just curious, I'm new to HLMV. How can I set the sleeve models for all the weapons without going into each one and changing the textures?

Ill work dude...I've been a fan of your stuff for the longest time, but this work takes the cake. Any chance you could do a Gross Deutschland set?

Beautiful...

Originally posted by Devin Kryss
...I think seeing germans runnign around with grey tuncs and pea dot camo pants looks too strange, but there really isnt much of a way to fix that, good job none the less.

That was actually quite common. There was a large array of uniform variations. Some with camo tunics and plain pants, and vice versus.

Can't wait to get started on those 3rd ID models, Devin. By the way, Vandori... You're going in the right direction with the coloring of the tanker jacket, but the current color is just way too... vibrant. I suggest desaturization, darkening, and contrast changing.

http://216.205.92.146/usjack_Tanker_det.jpg

Originally posted by Captain Higgins
That was actually quite common. There was a large array of uniform variations. Some with camo tunics and plain pants, and vice versus.

True, but i agree with the other guy. Camo gear has never apealed to me. Its almost like action figures when you were little, and they would bring out ninja turtles in "SPACE CRIME FIGHTING FATIUGES", and they have all laser swords and stuff, and your thinking "what that wasnt in the cartoons at all". I only like the german gray uniforms. The most i ever skew away from that is the flannel coat the snipers wear. I always hated the pajamas the axis mger had in beta 2. And when the pants dont match, it just looks wierd.

Not that these arent great looking, just not a big fan. Love the brits though, thankyou.

Holy **** Vandori, you da man! Thanks!:)

good work mate.. but i cant use anything untl i get my new hd's :(

Installed the Axis Spring SS, took awhile to pick because I downloaded all of these skins and keeping the zips in a folder for future use. These look awesome! Now, how the hell does one install the sleeve textures? I know it's in HLMV, but what are the steps involved? Do you need to rename the file sleeve.bmp? Also, it has to be same size as which texture? Thanks!

Keep this tread alive for a few more days!

Very nice work - looking great!
I can't wait to see what you can do with the compiler! :)

Originally posted by TheMirage
Keep this tread alive for a few more days!

Ha, 4 pages in less than half a day? I think it's pretty much alive.

Very nice work. Gonna go play now. Faceman needs more DoD and less work.

Vandori verbally abused me during testing, I would say the old cliche's about artist being emotionally violatile are true.

It took my wife a week of reading "Winne the Pooh" books to me and a bubble bath to calm me down.

Nonetheless, Vandori is a true artist.



he wears pink tights

:D

Thanks Vandori. These are very nice. It's a good thing we got the compiler now because I'm in the process of re-assigning the axis body meshes so that they each use a different texture. I want to mix and match these textures so that I can use more than just one set at a time. Right now my axis mdls equal out to 4.2 megs. I hope H-L can handle it.

Originally posted by Heinrich M
Installed the Axis Spring SS, took awhile to pick because I downloaded all of these skins and keeping the zips in a folder for future use. These look awesome! Now, how the hell does one install the sleeve textures? I know it's in HLMV, but what are the steps involved? Do you need to rename the file sleeve.bmp? Also, it has to be same size as which texture? Thanks!

you dont have to rename it and they are already the right size for all the default models... open the model with HLMV go to the textures tab find for example axis_sleeve and hit import then import the texture you want then click save model and save it..

for axis u will need to add the texture to about EVERY weapon except american and british pistol, knives, grenades since u cant pick those up, but since axis fight both americans and british in maps they can pick up all weapons so u need the sleeve texture on every one ;)

I just did it took me about 15 minutes to add the axis and british textures to my weps

wow. just...wow.


now if you could fix up some sweet axis para skins i'd be set :D

Amazing!!..well worth the wait:)

SS-spring are the biz, and the new brit skins are amazing too

very very very very very good job!

wow- so many sets. This is hard dannamit im getting em all, its that good :confused:

gj :)

wow.

gj.

Toejam posted this:

for axis u will need to add the texture to about EVERY weapon except american and british pistol, knives, grenades since u cant pick those up

Better add the axis sleeves to those grenades too, because you
can pick them up. You just need to be closer to them than in previous DoD versions....

yeah but u cant see the sleeves on the allie grenade anyways can u?

wow, great job.



sweetness

keep it up.

lmao that really rocked...i'm gonna have to show this to my friend..he might get a kick out of that movie rofl

Much love Vandori, now to pick one hmmm.

great work!

*cough* need new fallschirmjaeger *cough*

:D

Wow, that is some good work!

I am going to get the German SS spring camo! That looks awesome, good work man!

wow, gj vandori.... very nice skins, and even nicer face textures

They look great. Gonna try them in a bit.

But it makes you wonder.. were the germans color blind? I mean peadot pants with THAT green jacket? Thats just a fashion disaster.

lol vandori u *****, i am in the mids of making the No.2 Commandos! never mind urs looks better. good job!

Okay, figured out how to add the sleeve-pack texture. I added it to every v model that had an axis_sleeve bmp in the drop down, (Imported textures and saved the models) model in textures through HLMV. Took about 15 minutes to do them all. Next will be the British Commando ones. I'm finally starting to figure out more about using HLMV, although it can get a bit confusing sometimes. By the way, I re-named the file from the zip to match the axis_sleeve bmp before importing, I don't think it would work otherwise. Also, the axis_sleeve you are importing has to be the same size as what's in the model already, so that had to be changed because the texture in the models I was using was 256x126, the axis file from Vandori was 256x128. I was using the 3rd Panzer grenadiers pack before putting in Vandori's SS-Spring pack, which probably explains the size difference.

GJ Vandori!
And im in love with the SS-Spring Skins :D

Yeah, I think the Spring Oak is my favorite of the three. Dunno why, it's just got a great look to it.

I like these models. All you need to do now is release a Winter model pack for the Heer so I have Axis models for each season.:D

The Spring camo is definately the best for the axis. I'm also downloading your 2nd Rangers and 82nd skin packs as well. Absolutely outstanding work man.

The skins are nice, but frankly, I think I like the screenshots of them better. :D

I just used the axis spring-camo pack in-game. It's surprising how changing the skins can make the game so much more fun. Not to mention the SS are more intimidating than the normal Whermacht.

just awesome purely awesome

Take my links off when ya can, sorry man. :(

I've been playing with them a while and I like em alot
nice skins man gj

Great work mate, i especially like the SS-Spring scheme. Top job :)

vandori i dunno if you got my msg but this is the reason

click me (http://www.dayofdefeat.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4586)

Terrible news man.
Alright, I fixed the links.

Thank you very much for those wonderful packs!!!

Something new to play around with.... ;)

Very nice Vandori! I'm using the Spring SS one right now. I've got two suggestions on how to make it more realistic. First, the Waffen SS eagle on the sleeves is suppost to only be on the left sleeve. Second, the SS runes on the collar tabs are only on the right collar, the guy's rank would be on the left collar. Use this link for reference.

http://www.panzerworld.net/Billeder/SS-uniform01

Don't get me wrong, now. I think they're really good the way they are, but if you want to add a little extra realism, please feel free to take my suggestions.

PS, Your Pea-Dot camo is awesome. If you could do that pattern for Waffen-SS, that would be even better!

I can't play the movie. :(
I hear the voice, but the screen is black.
Nice job on the skins.

Originally posted by Bubbles [JBX]
I can't play the movie. :(
I hear the voice, but the screen is black.
Nice job on the skins.

update codec.

Bewis, I know about the uniform and the inaccuracies. That is a limitation of the models and how the textures are laid out on the models. I'm sure someone will release remeshed models, and when they do I will update my axis skins to use them.

'til then we gotta live with it.
Thanks for the compliments.

Bubbles, you probably need the latest version of the Divx codex to watch the movie. 5.0.3 I think it is. Get it at http://www.divx.com

I thought I had the latest codex. hehe

yeah that solved it.

Again, outstanding work man. Any chance you'll be releasing a Fallschirm pack?

I wish I wasn't too lazy to install the sleeve pack... Anyone wanna come over to my place and do it for me?

My bad Vandori, I forgot about that. In that case, then, I can't find anything wrong with the skins. Keep up the good work!

I think these are amazing and the spring camo is great - to me though they they look like the camo patterns were just layed on top of the defaults in the appropriate sections and the layers properties were made so that the underlying detail of the default uniforms get's used; a technique I often employ using seperate layers for textures, wear and tear and then overall representation. The sections without the camo looks like all that was done was a bit of color added the hue was changed to match accurate uniform coloring.


Regardless they are great! - and accurate in their representation.

Their only flaw is their accuracy as it pertains to being used in the locations that the default maps represent.

What Axis units were deployed at those locations would be the most important factor for me if i was reskinning them.

This is why the default skins have a general look to them - so they fit into all situations within the constrains of the games current features. "why wear green camo in the city"

Nonetheless No flames, only deep respect for you Man... great work Vandori.

MAP SPECIFIC skins are a big deal in HL - it has to be coded into the release itself. It requires each model to have all of these skins attached to it and for .txt files to be used in accordance with the map that loads to tell the engine what skin to use. It's basically submodeling and is very possible.

If not done correctly, though can lead to horrible memory leaks in the HL engine and certain portions of the skins will look as if they have been attacked by the ebola virus. Such was the case when the Frontline Force Team and myself tried to accomplish the MAP specific skin feature.

Mixing and matching Vandori's Skins:

This can be done too, but you will only be able to use 2 skins of the 6 at any given time, the way I see it. there are only 2 skins used for the body of the axis models. it's really only one model - so if you skin the pants a certain way, other models/classes on the axis team will share the same skin.

This version of DoD is great..., but really limited the custom community in the amount of variations we can have per team. The 3.1 method allowed us to have every model differently skinned and or use a different model altogether. this is not the case with 1.0

WOOTY TOOT TOOT to Vandori - good job

Van do you think you can release these without the colored pants? I really love these skins, but I think the Grenadier looks goofy with a grey jacket and green pants.

Originally posted by residuum
Van do you think you can release these without the colored pants? I really love these skins, but I think the Grenadier looks goofy with a grey jacket and green pants.

It'd be cool if you did. I went ahead and did a little customizing and recolored the original long pants to match the field grey of the SS instead of using the camo pants. I won't release them or anything like that, they're for my own personal use in the game.

Originally posted by OFM
Mixing and matching Vandori's Skins:

This can be done too, but you will only be able to use 2 skins of the 6 at any given time, the way I see it. there are only 2 skins used for the body of the axis models. it's really only one model - so if you skin the pants a certain way, other models/classes on the axis team will share the same skin.

I don't know what the texture limit is for mdl's that the compiler or H-L can handle but mixing and matching is quite possible with edited models. My Axis models are currently using 3 versions of the main1 texture and 3 versions of the main2 texture. It's easy enough to do by simply renaming the textures that you want to use and then assigning the new textures in Milkshape to whichever body groups that you want to use them. It can get a little messy though because it's easy to get confused while working with so may body groups and textures at the same time. I think I wound up with one redundant texture because I assigned a new texture to a body group when all it was actually using was the boot portion of the texture. It does raise the file size for the model a good bit though. The two files that make up the default axis player model are 3.22 megs combined. Mine are 4.22 megs so I suppose memory could become an issue if you added too many textures.

Yes Scimitar is absolutely correct. Although my description of the simplified process would be only be pertaining to the usage of HLMV to simply edit and replace. which is what most NON 3d Savvy peeps are going to attempt.

His method is of course correct. but... lets not hijack Vandori's thread hehe

I'll PM you Scimitar............K

So what's everyone using for the Germans?

I've had the Autumn Oak on for a while, since it was the last pack I did. But I'm thinking about throwing the Spring Oak in for a little change.

Sorry to dig up an old topic but does anyone have working link to these? I just need the Heer set...

Originally posted by mumblyjoe
Sorry to dig up an old topic but does anyone have working link to these? I just need the Heer set...

I think this is what you are looking for.

http://dodec.hlgaming.com/filedb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=296

Cant wait for you axis pack ;)

Cheers ;) Just need the hat!

EGAD!!! Don't scare me like that. I thought I would have to mirror all of that!!! ahahaha.

I LOVE U VANDORI!

sorry 2 go offtopic but how comes that "guests" can post ?

how comes that banned people can post?

dunno y is Nordvolk banned any way?

How come this thread is still open?

Everyone hound Vandori to release his gun sounds pack.