Does anyone no of any one that has made Canadian/british landing craft if not can anyone make some for me???. I was thinking of having a few destroyed ones and a couple upturned.

As far as i know the Brits used Higgins boats the same as the yanks. We did have some amphibious armoured vechicles too but i cant remember the name for them lol

Ska

In the landings on Juno beach, the Canadians did not use higgins boats...

Though I do not know the name of it, the landing craft they used were much larger and more heavily amrmored, plus the soldiers exited via ramps from the sides and the front...

http://search.eb.com/normandy/art/onormay191p1.jpg

those are GMC made crafts i think.

on the 2nd day of the war after the british declaired war the canadians being a free country joined and assaulted the beaches of france with a ton of those and lost most of them :(

Originally posted by Dodge
on the 2nd day of the war after the british declaired war the canadians being a free country joined and assaulted the beaches of france with a ton of those and lost most of them :(

WHAT?!?!?!

Anyways, Canuck is right. There were also some other smaller craft used by the British and Canadians at Sword. They had 2 doors that opened in the middle and swung outwards. Don't remember thier name.

And Ska, were you talking about DUKWS (http://mitglied.lycos.de/amphicar/amphib1/06220008.jpg). They had them there as well I beleive.

Question about map, is it being made from actual maps and photos of what Juno should look like, or a generic beach map with that name like the last one. Sorry to ask, but the last one made me very bitter lol.

Yeah those are the things i was on about.

If your gonna make any of the beaches that the brits/canadians landed on (gold/sword/Juno) please make them accurate and not like bloody SPR lol

If you could have the occasional stuka dive bomber MG the beach that would be cool lol

Ska

This will be very nice to see finished one day bro........

In alot of the pictures i have seen, there where like houses and stores on the edges of the shore, that will be neat to see one day, enough with the bunkers, and being accurate at the same time.


God bless Canada

That boat in the pic in an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry).

- Jed

Well thanks for all the info can anyone make some of these lc for my map Juno beach???? or no were i can get them?

many americans used LCA's (the brit boats) in the normandy landings. mainly the ranger battalions.

Originally posted by Cpl.1nsane
Well thanks for all the info can anyone make some of these lc for my map Juno beach???? or no were i can get them?

Only one problem with having one in a map - they are bloody HUGE!

I made a Uboat model for DoD once and it was so bit it almost took up the entire map.

- Jed

since were here and on about landing crafts anyone want to animate the higgins boat polyhead or bots made, i mean like animate it so it looks like its going forward..... well a forward animation would be nice... so i can have a bit were you come ashore on the boat...

Originally posted by Dredd
since were here and on about landing crafts anyone want to animate the higgins boat pinhead or bots made, i mean like animate it so it looks like its going forward..... well a forward animation would be nice... so i can have a bit were you come ashore on the boat...

Um wouldnt be too hard. S'pose you want the door to drop too?

- Jed

the floor animation is already in the file.

and the mapping part is easy once you know how.
just a simple forward animation is needed cos in worldcraft you trigger the animtion and its lookps it till you tell it to stop.
so i would loop the animation till it gets ashore then trigger the door animation to make the door go down.

Yesh, but how will you make a moving bounding clip box so you dont fall through the floor and drown?

- Jed

well i got make it so teh func train that has a blue texture on it so its invisible and goes the exact speed of the model.sao you wont fall out.

a func_train ????????????????????????

who did those boats ? I wanne see them, could anyone post a link here ?

Originally posted by Dredd
well i got make it so teh func train that has a blue texture on it so its invisible and goes the exact speed of the model.sao you wont fall out.

Easier said than done.

Your model movement will be rendered client side, but the func_train and its position will be sent from the server side.

Theres a very high chance that any lag and your model and func_train will get out of sync.

- Jed

hmmm well hopefully it wont be affected to much ...

if ya got any ideas on how to make a higgins boat thats looks good go to the shore then plz tell..

I do have a higgins boat that has an anim of the front opening but not of it moving and comes with some destroyed versions.

If any one could make a lct (6) i got lots of links and pic of what it looks like if you could make it email me at glenlea.johnnywelsh@btinternet.com