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#1: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: Sapper_D,

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 1:04 am
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Well I've dug out my old CC3 GW sub-mod: AIF - The Western Front after many,many years of lying dormant and now it's long overdue to get completed and it doesn't need too much to finish but I need some help remembering what to do for some graphics work I need to complete - it's been at least 8 years since I did any CC graphics mod work!!

1) There are a couple of gun graphics I want to change. I've run the zfx program to unpack the guns.zfx file but I don't have nntpack to covert the nnt files to bmp. Where can I DL nntpack from? I can't find it anywhere anymore....or is there another program that I can use?

2) I did some work on a couple of Gadget0 buttons but when I repacked the tga's the graphics didn't work in-game. I seem to remember that they need to be a certain bit-type? When I save the files using my graphics program they are turning out larger then they should be, ie byte-wise...

any help would be greatly appreciated...

#2: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: Sapper_D,

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 1:28 am
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OK after digging around the net I found G.O.D's old CC links site which has a working link to Konrad's Polish (?) site and this still has a working link for TinTin's NNT and his NNTPack tools which I've DLed - just had to trawl through a few links to find them as it's all in Polish.

Here's the link to the site:

Konrad's Close Combat III tools

Wow I can't believe this stuff is still lurking around after so long!

Still need to know if there is a particular file type I need to save tga's in...

#3: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: Sapper_D,

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 8:51 am
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Further research and work has led me to discover that NNTPack doesn't work with the unpacked files from the guns.zfx... So, is the only way to change gun graphics is the method in Dreaded_88's gun guide, ie changing the header in a tga file with a hex editor then repacking the zfx file?

Also, I now know that I need to be using 16 bit tga's but I don't have a graphics program that saves tga's as 16-bit. Does anybody know of a free graphics program I can download that will save tga's as 16-bit?

#4: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: CSO_Sbufkle, Location: Canada

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 12:21 pm
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Sapper, check you PM, email me and I can take of of TGAs for you.. maybe even cruncch a fiel or two for you big guy!

#5: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: Pzt_Kanov, Location: México

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 4:52 pm
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Sapper use Mafi's RtB tool to unpack graphics and other stuff, it unpacks all 8 or so images per vehicle so you can have tilted effect provided you have the time to make them for all of them!

#6: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: Sapper_D,

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 9:42 pm
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Thanks for the replies guys.

@Buf
I've sent you a PM.

@Kanov
Looking at the description for RTBtool it looks like it doesn't work with CC3 files. Is this correct as I'm wanting to mod CC3 Gadget0 and guns.zfx files.

#7: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: Pzt_Kanov, Location: México

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 9:49 pm
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I have RtB tool open and I'm seeing a lot of options for CC3 under the File menu. It says it can extract nnt/nnh files for tanks and guns. For CC3 Gadgets I think you need gadgetmunger.

#8: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: Sapper_D,

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 10:01 pm
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Excellent, I'll DL it and give it a go.

#9: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: Tejszd, Location: Canada

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 4:24 am
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Sapper_D, good to see you back and that CC along with the Great War still is holding some interest for you....

#10: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: Sapper_D,

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:26 pm
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@Kanov

RtB Tool is great!
It actually has the ability to convert BMP's to 16-bit TGAs so all my problems are over...it took no time at all to add the new buttons I wanted to Gadget0 and I have started playing around with the Guns.zfx graphics.

Once again thanks for the heads up on that one :D

@Tejszd

It's good to be back modding and I'm surprised and pleased to see a CC community still kicking.

#11: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: GWL_Tim,

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:45 pm
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Sapper_D! How the hell are you? Robo told me you were back and posting on cc websites. Great to see you still slogging it out in the trenches again. I'm still in touch with Fish by the way.

No modding for me I'm afraid - I've actually done some work on a game which was released a few months ago. Its American Civil War rather not WW1 but you can't have everything. http://www.norbsoftdev.com/ - I made the sprites and some of the graphics.

Drop me a line and let me know how you are. Very Happy

Cheers

Tim

#12: Re: Modding help for an old warhorse Author: diggin.robat, Location: Land of the krauts

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:41 pm
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Wow! A GW modder meeting here!The first one for ages. Only Fish is missing. Now, nice to see you all mud diggers alive and kicking. Even didn´t saw Damon´s first post here until today. Still can offer you help with the germans for your mod, Damon.

cheers to all.

diggin

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