[MREQ]-Canadian/british landing craft


Cpl.1nsane
05-30-2003, 02:00 PM
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.

Ska Wars
05-30-2003, 02:04 PM
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

Strider
05-30-2003, 02:28 PM
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...

Strider
05-30-2003, 02:28 PM
http://search.eb.com/normandy/art/onormay191p1.jpg

Dodge
05-30-2003, 02:40 PM
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 :(

Arsenal
05-30-2003, 02:52 PM
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.

Ska Wars
05-30-2003, 03:04 PM
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

Private-88
05-30-2003, 03:26 PM
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

Trp. Jed
05-30-2003, 04:23 PM
That boat in the pic in an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry).

- Jed

Cpl.1nsane
05-31-2003, 01:43 AM
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?

E.B. Sledge
05-31-2003, 02:29 AM
many americans used LCA's (the brit boats) in the normandy landings. mainly the ranger battalions.

Trp. Jed
05-31-2003, 06:56 AM
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

Dredd
05-31-2003, 07:06 AM
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...

Trp. Jed
05-31-2003, 07:41 AM
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

Dredd
05-31-2003, 07:51 AM
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.

Trp. Jed
05-31-2003, 08:18 AM
Yesh, but how will you make a moving bounding clip box so you dont fall through the floor and drown?

- Jed

Dredd
05-31-2003, 08:47 AM
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.

PolyHead84
05-31-2003, 08:47 AM
a func_train ????????????????????????

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

Trp. Jed
05-31-2003, 09:06 AM
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

Dredd
05-31-2003, 09:22 AM
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..

Cpl.1nsane
05-31-2003, 01:36 PM
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.

Cpl.1nsane
05-31-2003, 02:05 PM
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

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