[UNIT] Infantries

[kine100]

Thanks a lot for your time.
I thought I set the alpha things wrong in blender.
Have happy Halloween~

 

[PPQ_Purple]

No problem. I like helping.

To elaborate a bit more for those interested. The alpha controller is just a static controller that handles graphical blending. As in, it basically serves to determine how transparent or semi transparent bits of the model are rendered in relation to the things that are in front or behind them. You want to copy the one from the original into your units because otherwise once it starts fading out things might look odd.

The actual fade effect however is done in the .kf using the NiAlphaController of a models NiMaterialProperty. The .kf essentially searches for a NiTriShape with a very specific name that's hardcoded in the .kf it self (for example "Infantry" or "Editable Mesh"), grabs the NiMaterialProperty and than adjusts the transparency setting of its NiAlphaController. So in order to get the fade effect to work you need to match those names and make sure the material and alpha controller are set up the same way.

Also, because it manipulates the material this way if you attach the same material by ID to multiple objects the fade effect will effect all of them. So you only have to match the node name on one of the NiTriShape and yet any transforms effecting them will effect them all.

The .kf files do this a lot actually. Literally everything goes by hardcoded node names.

 

[kine100]

WW2 German Infantry Units: Download

Thanks for: (Alphabetical order)
asioasioasio : MP44, FG42
PPQ_Purple : Tutorial for Fading out
Walter Hawkwood : Tutoring for Animation
and Unknown creator of MP40 which is from WW2 German Mountain Troop in Realism Invictus Mode

Unit animation infos are in the folders.

Early WW2 German Infantry: Kar98k Rifleman, MP40 Gunner, MG34 SAW Gunner, MG34 Gunner.

Late WW2 German Infantry: Kar98 Rifleman, MP40 Gunner, MG42 SAW Gunner, MP44(StG44) Assult rifle gunner.

WW2 German Mountain Troops: Kar98k Rifleman, MP40 Gunner, MP44(StG44) Assult rifle gunner.

WW2 German Panzergrenadier: Kar98k Rifleman, MP40 Gunner, MP44(StG44) Assult rifle gunner, MG42 SAW Gunner.
MG42 Gunner.

WW2 German Fallschirmjager: Kar98k Rifleman, MP40 Gunner, FG42 Gunner.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

By god those are good looking.

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

Those are absolutely awesome! Absolutely no nitpicks this time; they go straight into RI. One mild surprise is the lack of marines, but truth be told I don't know if their uniforms were actually all that distinct.

 

[kine100]

By god those are good looking.

Thanks~

 

[kine100]

Those are absolutely awesome! Absolutely no nitpicks this time; they go straight into RI. One mild surprise is the lack of marines, but truth be told I don't know if their uniforms were actually all that distinct.

Thanks~

Yes, Marines..
There's WW1 German Marines: Kaiser's Marines done by Wonderblunder

and.. I'd just found references for ww2 German Seabatalion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seebataillon

note: they're wearing balck (or very, very, very dark blue) double buttoned jacket's and white trousers.
seems they are not designed for full scaled landing battles unlike U.S. marines and IJN landing troops in the same era.
Some how more look like ship crews.
BTW, they would come with Afrika Korps after the missing WW1 units.

Honestly, having difficulties a bit to find references for distinction between army troops and naval infantries in all ears.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Honestly, having difficulties a bit to find references for distinction between army troops and naval infantries in all ears.

That's because in most situation there wasn't one. In the vast majority of situations "marine" jobs were either ship crew randomly drafted from what ever ship needed to do a landing or just army troops that were packed onto a ship for transportation. And even when proper marine units existed they would often look just like ship crews or army troops, maybe with a special badge or something.

Actual full time marines are basically the purvey of nations like america or Britain whose primary means of waging war is amphibious landings and the money to spend on maintaining them.

Even the Japanese didn't have "proper" marines as such but just drifted random ship crews into ad-hoc formations issued with infantry weapons.


Really, the USMC is a very strange historical oddity born from a nation whose only means of waging war is to do naval landings and that has money to throw around. Everyone else just sort of made due.

 

[kine100]

That's because in most situation there wasn't one. In the vast majority of situations "marine" jobs were either ship crew randomly drafted from what ever ship needed to do a landing or just army troops that were packed onto a ship for transportation. And even when proper marine units existed they would often look just like ship crews or army troops, maybe with a special badge or something.

Actual full time marines are basically the purvey of nations like america or Britain whose primary means of waging war is amphibious landings and the money to spend on maintaining them.

Even the Japanese didn't have "proper" marines as such but just drifted random ship crews into ad-hoc formations issued with infantry weapons.


Really, the USMC is a very strange historical oddity born from a nation whose only means of waging war is to do naval landings and that has money to throw around. Everyone else just sort of made due.

true..

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

I think these guys are a good uniform reference: https://www.facebook.com/grhmarineabteilung/

 

[PPQ_Purple]

There is more to consider here than realism as well. The specialist units such as marines or paratroopers have to be visually distinct enough in the game that you can pick them out from regular infantry when playing without having to zoom in. In fact in my view that is more important than historicity.

For the paratroopers that should be easy enough. All one has to do is skin them to the paratrooper model from vanilla and add the big parachute backpack to the units. But for marines I don't know what one would do.

 

[kine100]

WW1 French infantry units: 1914/ 1915
WW1 French mountain troops: 1914
WW1 French cavalry units: 1914/ 1915/ later
Download Here

Thanks for: (Alphabetical order)
PPQ_Purple : Tutorial for Fading out
Walter Hawkwood : Tutoring for Animation

animation xml paths are included in the folders.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Isn't it just frightening to think they went into WW1 wearing that...

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

Thank you very much for those! They're excellent; it's always so cool to see someone's skills getting progressively better all the time!

 

[kine100]

Isn't it just frightening to think they went into WW1 wearing that...

It was the biggest tragedy that they had the 19th century generals in 20th century.
An incompetent commander terrifies more than enemies.

Wish, wars break out only in the games.

 

[kine100]

someone's skills getting progressively better all the time!

Guess who causes someone's getting better

 

[kine100]

WW1 British Soldiers: Download

Early and late WW1 Infantries.
Early and late WW1 cavalries.
WW1 raid unit
WW1 Machinegun unit

Thank for:
Animating tutor: Walter Hawkwood
Fading tutorial: PPQ_Purple

Cavalry commander animation is from MightyToad's Pistol cavalry in Gatling Gun and Pistol Cavalry

Infantry commander animation is from SaibotLieh's Female Trooper.

 

[tantanmen]

Awesome! Great to see you back with more superb units, kine100. Happy Holidays~!!

 

[pecheneg]

Wow! By the way, if you need any exotic model, you can use me as a search engine. I was quite actively looking for 3d content, so the knowledge of the "terrain" should not be lost.

 

[kine100]

Awesome! Great to see you back with more superb units, kine100. Happy Holidays~!!

Nice to you again and you too have Happy Holidays