TRIPARTITE PACK for AoD (new graphics and audio)

[rosseau]

Sorry, it's the main TRI menu screen when you first choose single player, etc. I should have said "paper pusher" instead of dork.

 

[Hister]

Oh you mean the main screen. Don't know but Titan knows for sure - just wait until he is back.

 

[unmerged(59604)]

● ARG
FMA I.Ae 33 Pulqui II
FMA I.Ae-22 DL
FMA I.Ae 27 Pulqui
FMA Ae-MB2 Bombi

● AST
Dassault Mirage III

● BEL

SABCA Fox VI
SABCA S.47
SABCA Battle (Color scheme)

● BUL

Lazarov Laz-14
Aero MB.200 En-4 Buhal
Dornier Do 11 Prilep (Bulgarian colors)
DAR DAR-10 Bekas (Colors)
Bulgara KB-6 Papagal (Colors)

● CZE
Avia B-135 (Czech colors)
Avia S-199
Avia S-92 (Czech colors)
Avia CS-102
Bloch MB.200 (See Bulgaria, Czech colors)
Aero A.300
Avia B-228
Avia A-304

● FRA
Nord Noratlas

● ITA
Reggiane Re.2007 (Color)

● YUG
Avia Fokker F.39 (Yugoslav colors)

 

[Hister]

Wow, so many finds! Thank you manfred.

 

[Titan79]

BTW, can you identify the little dork standing next to Hitler and the big guy on the right? I've never seen that photo published anywhere. Thanks.

Oh you mean the main screen. Don't know but Titan knows for sure - just wait until he is back.

Sorry to let the both of you down but, for strange as it might seem, I'm not omniscient :laugh:

...and, re: that picture, I have absolutely no idea who those two orderlies are. I'm only able to recognize Wilhelm Keitel, whose part of the body can be seen on the far left of the picture.

By the way, should someone know the name of the two other soldiers, please ID them - same for the date (I'd say the picture had been taken in 1944 but I'm not sure).

(a LOT of aircraft views)

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:laugh:

This is the first reaction I had when I saw your post, Manfred.

Excellent...!!! This is simply unbelievable... thank you so much for all those links, they are of invaluable importance.

A huge thanks for your contribution to my mod - I can't even stress enough how much appreciated your help is! Now, just give me some time to make the icons - it will take a while

 

[rosseau]

Just reinstalled AoD with CORE and TRI (thank you, Hister), and it is going well. With more icons coming, this one should stay on top of the AoD mod list for some time. Well deserved, thank you.

 

[bestmajor]

By the way, should someone know the name of the two other soldiers, please ID them - same for the date (I'd say the picture had been taken in 1944 but I'm not sure).

General der Pioniere Alfred Jacob on far right ( L146 in HoI ). maybe you should use my colour pics . you would have known then

http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/WEHRMACHT/HEER/General2/JACOB_ALFRED.html
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=5880
http://www.balsi.de/Homepage-Generale/Heer/J/Ja/Jacob-Alfred.htm


EDIT: as for the date you should be close at least, Titan:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4306
please take a look at the post of "Bernhard H. Holst" in this thread.


EDIT2:

Excellent...!!! This is simply unbelievable... thank you so much for all those links, they are of invaluable importance.

yes Manfred is a good searcher, i can confirm this!

 

[rosseau]

Thanks Major. I am downloading your pics. I would not have wanted to meet Alfred in a trench. Looks like a big guy.

 

[bestmajor]

Thanks Major. I am downloading your pics. I would not have wanted to meet Alfred in a trench. Looks like a big guy.

(@ Titan: just one post, i'm not hijacking your thread)

what you have to do is:

- copy the german pics in your ...AoD\gfx\interface\pics folder
- copy the CSVs from "ZZZZZ - CSVs" in the right folders and go (more gfx are at the bottom)

apologies if this is very complicated, but this is getting really big (and good). and for now i would like to have all these things separated (means difficult to install). if you have questions, additions or complaints please post here

thanks Titan, i appreciate your tolerance (1st and last time)


EDIT: and yes, Jacob is completely overrated, i correct this for the next version

 

[Titan79]

With more icons coming, this one should stay on top of the AoD mod list for some time. Well deserved, thank you.

You're welcome... I've started to work on these icons in late 2005, so you can understand my satisfaction when people show their appreciation for this pack!

General der Pioniere Alfred Jacob on far right ( L146 in HoI ). maybe you should use my colour pics . you would have known then

Maybe

Thanks for the ID! I guess that the Colonel will stay unnamed, though? (albeit that's of minor importance)

EDIT: as for the date you should be close at least, Titan:
(link)
please take a look at the post of "Bernhard H. Holst" in this thread.

At least June, 1943 then. Judging by AH's rather oldish look, however, I keep thinking that the snapshot has been taken in (late?) 1944.

Would be interesting to find out.

EDIT2:
yes Manfred is a good searcher, i can confirm this!

You and Manfred have proven to be the most proficient image searchers around... I take the chance to thank the both of you again, bestmajor and manfred, for your extraordinary contribution to the Tripartite Pack - very, very appreciated!

(@ Titan: just one post, i'm not hijacking your thread)
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thanks Titan, i appreciate your tolerance (1st and last time)

No problem, don't worry: there's nothing for me to feel upset about! You were very kind to explicitly ask me for permission - not everyone behaves this way, you know... and, besides, could I ever be "angry" after all the help you gave me in finding aircraft/land images for this mod?

 

[bestmajor]

You and Manfred have proven to be the most proficient image searchers around... I take the chance to thank the both of you again, bestmajor and manfred, for your extraordinary contribution to the Tripartite Pack - very, very appreciated!

thanks, maybe you should ask manfred for a USA improvement package? he has a good one.

Thanks for the ID! I guess that the Colonel will stay unnamed, though? (albeit that's of minor importance)

nope, no idea sorry



EDIT: about the time frame of this picture: as the person in the AHF thread mentioned:

Gen. Jacobs was awarded the Knightscross to the War Merit Cross with date of 4.June 1943 so the date of the photo would be subsequent to that date.

and Jacob was responsible for fortifications (including the "Atlantikwall"). so picture probably taken between June 43 and the allied landing in 1944.

 

[Titan79]

thanks, maybe you should ask manfred for a USA improvement package? he has a good one.

Thanks for the tip but, as you well know, I'm in the "do it myself" phase - so I'll most probably not take advantage of Manfred's work (given he would give me permission to do so, of course).

Now you've got me curious, though: which kind of improvement package, if I may ask...?

picture probably taken between June 43 and the allied landing in 1944.

Thank you. Spring 1944 is the most probable timeframe, IMHO.

 

[bestmajor]

Now you've got me curious, though: which kind of improvement package, if I may ask...?

a leader package for USA in B&W (a good one). manfred tweaked Finnland in B&W as well (at least for AoD 1.02) i'm using it and i'm more then happy with it.



EDIT:

Thank you. Spring 1944 is the most probable timeframe, IMHO.

hear, hear! - thats a word!
may i ask you why?

 

[Titan79]

a leader package for USA in B&W (a good one). manfred tweaked Finnland in B&W as well (at least for AoD 1.02) i'm using it and i'm more then happy with it.

Oh, thanks for the info. However, I guess I'll stick to the "do it yourself" rule and thus won't add his (great) work into the TP.

hear, hear! - thats a word!
may i ask you why?

Of course you may! I'd say spring 1944 judging by AH's appearance (already rather oldish - notice his gray moustache). This fits better with mid 1944 than late (or even mid) 1943.

 

[bestmajor]

Oh, thanks for the info. However, I guess I'll stick to the "do it yourself" rule and thus won't add his (great) work into the TP.

i did not mean that you should integrate it in your mod, i just thought manfred should upload it and you should use it.

Of course you may! I'd say spring 1944 judging by AH's appearance (already rather oldish - notice his gray moustache). This fits better with mid 1944 than late (or even mid) 1943.

brave, very brave LOL - ok to be serious i doubt that you (or any other person) can tell the year (or even month) just by the skin tone or hair colour - these things dont change within a couple of weeks or months.
nothing against you personally, but i'm definately not convinced


EDIT: oh, btw - comrade Titan, i saw your commie cursor in the other thread - good idea! - just is it possible for you to make a cursor out of this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_Guards_Order.png

 

[Titan79]

i did not mean that you should integrate it in your mod, i just thought manfred should upload it and you should use it.

Ah, that's another kettle of fish . Yes, of course, I can use it, then.

brave, very brave LOL - ok to be serious i doubt that you (or any other person) can tell the year (or even month) just by the skin tone or hair colour - these things dont change within a couple of weeks or months.
nothing against you personally, but i'm definately not convinced

Let's take this quote, which refers to the end of 1944:

«Crossing this last high plateau of his fortunes, Hitler still radiated determination (...) to his visitors (...). But he had aged: (...) his hair was grey, and the famous moustache was snowwhite.»

Since that sentence refers to an encounter with people who had not seen AH for some months, it would seem rather odd to me to report that he had grown so much older if that process had taken a whole year (end of 1943 - end of 1944) or, even worse, a year and a half (mid 1943 - end of 1944).
Thus, I'd assume that there had been an exponential acceleration of his aging process as time went by; so, as his moustache in that snapshot is already white, and we know that the timeframe can be the first days of June at the latest, it would come natural to me to take the latest timeframe possible to put this photograph in, i.e. spring 1944.
I could be wrong, of course, but that's how I see it .

oh, btw - comrade Titan, i saw your commie cursor in the other thread - good idea! - just is it possible for you to make a cursor out of this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_Guards_Order.png

Sure it is - here you go:

Soviet Guards cursor

(I've to admit, however, that I'm not very satisfacted with it: the starting image, i.e. the Guards badge, is a rather difficult one to be turned into a cursor. I could try to put it on a background, since the main problem was that, like for the other cursors I've made, I put it on transparent background, and it doesn't look very good this way IMO. Tell me if it's ok for you - if not, I'll try by adding a background).

Anyway, do you know that there's a unique cursor, as well as unique sounds, for each one of the six major powers, don't you...? You just have to access the \Country-specific themes\ directory in your main AoD folder, then access either ENG or GER or JAP etc. subfolders, and follow the instructions in the readme; et voila .

 

[Hister]

Whoa, awesome new cursor! Maybe it's time I try Ruskies for the first time...

 

[Titan79]

Whoa, awesome new cursor! Maybe it's time I try Ruskies for the first time...

Thank you! But I really think I could do it better. The only thing is that I'd have to change something in its look... let's wait for bestmajor's opinion on that.

 

[bestmajor]

Sure it is - here you go:

Soviet Guards cursor

thats something i'll definately keep. its even better without background. thanks a lot comrade!

 

[Titan79]

thats something i'll definately keep. its even better without background.

You're welcome - and ok, glad you liked it. Anyway, maybe there's still room for improving it...


EDIT: done. Try this one - it looks better, IMO:

Improved Soviet Guards cursor