mikwarleo's Land of Tasty Treats

[mikwarleo]

UPDATED 24 APR 2012


Gentlemen, announcing the release of

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>>> mikwarleo's Sprite My Baby v1d - 24 Apr 2012

>>> A sprite compendium for HoI2: Armageddon.

mikwarleo's SMB is a collection of existing sprites and modified existing sprites. It is an attempt at a complete, historical, visually appealing and bug free one stop sprite solution for HoI2.

Download HERE:
- mikwarleo's SMB v1e - 24 Apr 2012

NB. I anticipate this version (v1e) will be my LAST UPDATE. Feel free to amend and improve the package as you see fit. As far as I know there are no bugs and in my tests it's working fine with ARMG v1.3 beta and earlier patches.

compressed rar package is ~25mb, uncompressed is 630mb!
See readme in package for full details.
Tested and working with Armageddon (no known issues).
Untested and unsupported with other HoI2 versions but others have confirmed it works fine.
Latest update included minor changes to commonly used special forces infantry sprite, see last post or read me for details.

[mikwarleo]

Gentlemen...

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mLL is a collection of existing interface graphics and units models from many different mods/creators. It is an attempt at a complete, visually appealing and bug free one stop interface modding solution for HoI2-Armageddon.

Download HERE:
- mikwarleo's Little Lovelies v1d - 22 Apr 2012 (~200mb)

Extensively play tested with Armageddon v1.3 beta and earlier versions. No known issues. Not tested or supported with other HoI versions but other players have reported it works fine. See package readme for full details. Latest update resulted from me dusting off HoI2 for a game with italy, made some changes to brigade pictures for italy so there is now a clear progression in pics for ART, AA, SPG, AT brigades.
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[idiot]

do they work with HOI 2 vanila?

[mikwarleo]

It should work but I've not tested it and don't support it.

[albso437]

Any Screen shoots?

What sprites ar included?

[webhop]

I tried your sprites. They look pretty good, but all the minors are flashing. It does not seem to matter whether the sprite is standing still or walking.

[mikwarleo]

albso437: Full details of sprites used in readme in package. Screenshots will follow. For now I'm getting some game time (and contining beta testing ) after much work getting the package together. You could review the bmps in package to get some ideas on what I've used.

webhop: EDIT: should be fixed now try latest update

[idiot]

just downloaded the mod. it took me several times to finally have a successful download. gonna try it out tonight.

anyhow, i have a question for you in regard with sprites, maybe you can give me a hand. in order for sprites to show up in the game correctly, a proper string name (name tag) and order of string is a must. take infantry for example, that will be T-INFANTRY A-FIRE/WALK C-AUSTRALIA in the bmp (.bmp file) and unit (spr. file) folder. how am i doing so far?

now, my quesion is, can you name anything you want for the HOI 2 spirtes or do you have to use the name tag from the unit_name cvs. in the db folder (ie. INFANTRY, PANZER, TACTICAL, HQ ... ect, all in capital letters).

also, how many sprites does HOI 2 support? it seems i'm not getting gebirgs, fallschirms, HQ sprites for the land unit, interceptor, escort figher, divebomber (CAS), tactical bomber, and strategic bomber sprites. (i haven't really test the sea units yet).

why am i not getting any while others are getting theirs. I WANT SOME ACTIONS AND I DEMAND IT well, here my rant and thank you being patient with me

cheers

[mikwarleo]

Hi, feel free to ask questions: you're right about file structure and the read me in my package has a two page guide on this. I'm not really understanding your question but there is a definate convention on file names but not case sensitive. As far as I know you cannot assign different sprites for strat bomber or transports (I tried). I do however have separate sprites for CAS and TAC (tac unfortunately is the same sprite for strat, tran, tac and nav - this is part of HoI2 and unchangeable as far as I'm aware). Likewise for fighters/interceptors. Hope that helps.

There will probably be some more refinements to sprites over time there are some I'm not entirely happy with for various reasons. Latest beta 1.0b fixes some minor issues, change log in package.

Also please elaborate if you're having troubles with download site and I'll look into it.

[idiot]

hello there,

that was fast, i believed you just solved most of my puzzle. so you are saying only CAS, Tac, and fighter sprites exist in the game but no stra, trans, naval bomber interceptor and escort fighter.

what about land units? i'm just checking the unzipping-files (still unzipping) while i'm writing this, i think it's safe to say there is a place for gebirgs. i downloaded the gebirgs sprite from Puma (he's a cool guy by the way, you can find him in DMP and Stony Road forum), and changed his naming-string from T-GEBIRGSJAEGER C-GER A-FIRE/A-WALK to T-GEBIRGSJAEGER A-FIRE/A-WALK C-GER. ( L-1 is optional, right? i noticed that is the standard practice for HOI 2 DD sprites) and they are still shown as the regular infantry

i'm currently playing original HOI 2 without any mod, only some changes/update on the sprites in the GFX file

about the download site, it just kept showing me error message and asked me to come back and try again. i kept going until it yielded i also had similar problems when i try to download something else from that site. maybe it's just me, who knows?

cheers

[mikwarleo]

sorry to be unclear: fighters and interceptors are there.
mountain troops are T-BERGSJAEGER A-action C-country etc try that.
all different land units have different sprites iirc

[KleinFaz]

Yay, just what I needed for a long night in a week of hard earned holidays

[Skarion]

screenshots?

[Malteser]

I have downloaded and installed both compendiums, and i can say that they're a great collection which will greatly enhance the graphics of HOI 2. Rather than having to search for loads of individual files, this mod provides all the best graphical modifications released in a single package - worth the download in my opinion.

Sorry for not posting any screenshots, but as i said the graphical mods included are amongst the best released for HOI 2.

[mikwarleo]

Bump -

Little lovelies compendium updated new version v1c (previous v1b)

Details in readme in package.

Tested and no known issues but if you find anything please PM me!

Enjoy.

[mikwarleo]

Some screenshots form my compendiums:
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[Ranger mike]

Links were down, have uploaded again, should be more reliable now.

thanks...

[mikwarleo]

updated links again

[Axis]

I think you shoud at least give credit to people who made those sprites.

[jmbunnelle]

I think you shoud at least give credit to people who made those sprites.

Agreed. That's grinding work. Actually, all modding is pretty grinding. I know sources are hard to track sometimes, especially this far in.