I searched through a lot of editing sites and on this forums and have yet to find a realistic mp40 model and or reskin for dod 1.3. For as long as dod on hl1 ben around, i am realy surprised there (as far as my knowledge) a realistic reskin at the least.

Some other things that bug me is i dont see any real good ammo sprite replacements. The only good ammo sprites in the game are the mg belt ones imo. All the others just show some thin little bullet stacked directly on top of each other. And some guns use the same ones like the thompson and mp40. The only ones i seen are just different recolors to look nicer.

I also never see any new and better look hand models. Sure some have new sleeves and textures, or textured to have gloves on them, but the original skin isnt even fixed. Like the finger nail tends to take up the entire tip segment of the fingers.

Do any of you still plan to make custom graphic content for 1.3?

I have ben trying to get back into modeling stuff and model some things for 1.3, but my problem is i rarely finish things and get them into games and i am not a good skinner ( i dont practice that enough to be even average).

I have plans to model some high poly ammunition, texture them the best i can and render them, then edit it in photoshop and try to get it ingame to make some good replacements.

I am also working on a garand model atm from all of the refs i dled from short_fuse's ref link (which are all very good, and by looking at the refs i find his model to contain a few inaccuracies.)

Btw, imho, jeds british models are some of the best player models i have seen released for dod on hl1. Its a shame there arent more for the germans and americans on par with those.

I have found the allied para model that had all these little extras and higher poly count, but i found it to be a waste of that polycount, you couldnt tell to much of a difference in the player itself, and some of the little addons were to high poly and detailed for as little as you saw of them or would ever see even up close.

Thoughts on this? Or if any of you know of some better stuff that i might not have seen feel free to tell me. lol i also noticed i started off most of the paragraphs with I, english class was always my least favorite, i hate writing for grades! D:

Just a quick model, polycount doesnt matter since i will just be using it for renders atm.

Im going to texture it now, any one care to tell me which is the way it was back then? i seen some pics of it beign plain, but also pics where the tips are black and the tip fo the shell casing was black as well.

Quick? That model would have taken me all day! :)

If I were you I'd go with the ref from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Garand_clip.jpg).

Only 6/10 paragraphs.

lol ya might as well.

here is a render that i will use for the full clip sprite.

I just photosourced it, edited it a tiny bit. I think i might need to do some post editing on it too...

Do you mean you're photoskinning it? That pic needs sharpening.

Originally posted by Forral
Do you mean you're photoskinning it? That pic needs sharpening. Yes, i photoskined it, other wise im sure it would of turned out like crap XD though i think the clip part still looks like crap.

Would any one be kind enough to show me how exactly to edit the ammunition sprites? i exported tem etc.. but im a little confused how the bullets part works.

edit: i edited the extras part, and it works for the most part, but that green background shows up and isnt transparent :/

I also never see any new and better look hand models. Sure some have new sleeves and textures, or textured to have gloves on them, but the original skin isnt even fixed. Like the finger nail tends to take up the entire tip segment of the fingers. Have you seen Splinters' hands & sleeves?

Lol i havnt seen them untill about 2 days ago. They are nice :) i am using them now. My one nit pick on them though would be the tips of the fingers with the finger nail :o

I realy like the way they look, gives it kind of a "Red Orchestra" feeling to it imo.

And btw im still looking for help on these ammunition sprites :( if any one has messed with them before your advice would be greatly appreciated D: