American Infantry Pack

[stein123]

Nice!

 

[SonsOfSami]

Excellent work!
I like the new shotgun animations!
Very nice to see that you added a parachute animation to the paratrooper.

Shouldn't the WW1 rifleman use a rifle that is less M1 Garand-ish and more like a Bolt-action rifle? I know it won't be very noticeable in-game but still...
Edit: There is a bug with the Paratrooper's M1 carbine, its trigger is TC.

 

[FlameofChange]

I'm desperately waiting for a TRENCH MORTAR, as well as MODERN MORTAR.
Nonetheless your models are awesome.

 

[Homor]

America!

 

[Hazop]

Very nice!

Now I can finally get the Americans into my map...

 

[HerrDave]

I'm desperately waiting for a TRENCH MORTAR, as well as MODERN MORTAR.
Nonetheless your models are awesome.

Understandable, says I - with enough unit variety we could actually replicate Company of Heroes

Members working on the WWII project

Zess is the Crew-unit guy
- Wheeled HMG
- Anti-tank cannons
- Mortar teams
* Makes the groundwork for new unit types

SonsOfSami is the Vehicle guy
- Heavy tanks
- Armoured cars
- Entire French line
- Animation transfering & model adaptation
* Makes the High-quality advanced/complicated vehicles, quality-checker, Gun analyst, HMG designer

HerrDave is the Texture and Infantry guy
- Great War Infantry
- World War II Infantry
- Unique Infantry (SS Officers, watchmen, workers, Russian Commissars)
- Minor-faction infantry (Austrian, Chinese, Belgian, Serbian)
* Plans the factions, makes the textures, animates the infantry, creates the soldier meshes, makes the props, makes the buildings

 

[Wayshan]

I love you man! Been waiting for these for so long and now You (and the spirit of Uncle Sam) provided! Thanks!!!

 

[General Frank]

A nice comprehensive pack of WW1/2 inspired models.

 

[BrothForMyPeople]

Very well of course, but a little detail - Attack animation shouldn't have reload move. American troops used M1 Garand which is a semi-automatic rifle.

 

[HerrDave]

Entirely true, you're actually seeing my clumsy attempts to undo the bolt-action animation without breaking the rifle bone

Initially all of the animations were based off of the WWI German Rifleman, so they had rigid "at-attention" stand animations and chunky reloading animations - when I began work on the American models, I first started by making a new mesh, then editing the old skin, then sort of reverse-engineering my own animations to make them more relaxed and cocky, like in the movies.

I used a lot of rough tricks to get the animations right on the German, so when it came to undo them I found myself at a loss trying to undo a puzzle I had built

I'll look into smoothing it out for you, as that animation didn't age particularly well

 

[BrothForMyPeople]

It's okay, this little detail isn't that important anyway. Maybe it's not even worth an effort.

EDIT. Oh I can see you already did this both for the Rifleman and Paratrooper's Carbine M1A1 as well. Nicely.

PS. Is Paratrooper going to have parachute animation or is it available as spell effect somewhere in spell section?

 

[HerrDave]

The Paratrooper's parachute animation is tied to his Birth animation, this way when he is summoned/spawned/trained, he'll drop in from off-map

I'd have made the shadow of a plane pass overhead first, but I'm a colossal noob with ubersplats

 

[BrothForMyPeople]

Oh, I haven't noticed at first. Sorry.

 

[HerrDave]

Don't worry about it, it's easy to glance at the model and think he's a reskin of the rifleman (which isn't that far from the truth of it)

 

[u wot m8_]

i need a simple modification: can you make a unit with the normal american WW2's infantry skin but with the ranger's SMG and animations?

 

[Jaccouille]

Love it, allows me to imagine new games to make.