We could work together. I've done Guines and Audembert so far. Next in the queue will be some bomber bases. I ordered a book about Luftwaffe vehicles. Ian, could you get the source files from that guy?
Cees
Cees
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Freeware vehicles for WW2 sceneries
- Thread starter Cees Donker
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xpelekis: Creating them as Simobjects is a lot more work than creating them as compiled bgl files.
Cees: He says no. I told him "harrumph" and said "pretty please", but it didn't make any difference. I'm supposed to be working on Lille Nord, which was a He111 station (built by the BEF, used by the Germans, typically) but information on Luftwaffe bases is actually quite difficult to come by.
Have you seen the Opel Blitz trucks, half tracks and Flakvierlings in my libraries? I need to revisit and massively improve my Kubelwagen (ditto the Austin K2Y) but most of my German vehicles are royalty free purchased models, so if you include my library (or link to it) then those are both better than my efforts and available.
Ian P.
Cees: He says no. I told him "harrumph" and said "pretty please", but it didn't make any difference. I'm supposed to be working on Lille Nord, which was a He111 station (built by the BEF, used by the Germans, typically) but information on Luftwaffe bases is actually quite difficult to come by.
Have you seen the Opel Blitz trucks, half tracks and Flakvierlings in my libraries? I need to revisit and massively improve my Kubelwagen (ditto the Austin K2Y) but most of my German vehicles are royalty free purchased models, so if you include my library (or link to it) then those are both better than my efforts and available.
Ian P.
I conjecture a lot having nothing to rely on, but nothing beats the pleasure you get from flying your own repaint out of your own made base. I use your libraries, they're great. I added a Kettenkrad and an Firetruck from Edmundo Abad. He has also a K6 Austin fire truck. I started to build one myself more in line with the fsx details we're now used to. I want to make a recovery vehicle too, with a crane. Plans in abundance. It will take time. Lots of it.
Cees
Cees
If you are still looking for vehicles Cees I made a bunch of US ones for my Hobbs USAAF base that I released several years ago. They are all part of a library so they can easily be placed in other scenarios.
The library includes several truck styles (covered and open and also with fuel bowsers), Jeeps (including some with trailers), Dodge Carryalls (as ambulances and staff cars), fire trucks and even a tracked tractor towing bomb trailers.
The download for Hobbs can be found here: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...tid=113&nameid=&sort=d&page=1&pp=20&keyid=129
The library includes several truck styles (covered and open and also with fuel bowsers), Jeeps (including some with trailers), Dodge Carryalls (as ambulances and staff cars), fire trucks and even a tracked tractor towing bomb trailers.
The download for Hobbs can be found here: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...tid=113&nameid=&sort=d&page=1&pp=20&keyid=129
I'll check it out Larry, thanks!
Cees
Edit: That's great! These vehicles are really awesome!
Cees
Edit: That's great! These vehicles are really awesome!
Glad you like them Cees. 
If these are going into a package you plan on releasing could I get a credit in the documentation as the creator please.
Thanks.
Oh BTW, if you are planning on releasing this scenery you should point out that if the end user already has Hobbs installed they should not install the truck library again as they will already have it and as you probably know you can't have multiple instances of the same library files active at the same time.
If these are going into a package you plan on releasing could I get a credit in the documentation as the creator please.
Thanks.
Oh BTW, if you are planning on releasing this scenery you should point out that if the end user already has Hobbs installed they should not install the truck library again as they will already have it and as you probably know you can't have multiple instances of the same library files active at the same time.
Francois
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I too am still looking for more vehicles (got all Ian's and Roger-Wilco's already.....) I also am making photos of German vehicles and was hoping to build some myself... but the 'Italian Move' sorta got in the way of things. Sandra-Marion - an internet friend of mine - also made some German WW2 trucks..... I will ask her, they are freeware I think.
Glad you like them Cees.
If these are going into a package you plan on releasing could I get a credit in the documentation as the creator please.
Thanks.
Oh BTW, if you are planning on releasing this scenery you should point out that if the end user already has Hobbs installed they should not install the truck library again as they will already have it and as you probably know you can't have multiple instances of the same library files active at the same time.
That is very obvious to me. I never let the work of other people pass as my own. Thank you so much for bringing your objects to my attention and for letting me use them.
Cees
His work is outstanding, but it is not really airfield stuff!
Cees
Cees
My WOT8 gained something resembling a transmission this morning. It's plodding along very slowly, but I intend to get there in the end.
I've downloaded the models you recommended, Cees, but not had chance to look at them yet. Most of today has been spent upping lumens in DAZ Studio and failing to make the bit I want to light get lighter!
Ian P.
I've downloaded the models you recommended, Cees, but not had chance to look at them yet. Most of today has been spent upping lumens in DAZ Studio and failing to make the bit I want to light get lighter!
Ian P.
Great!
Cees
Cees
They're breeding, I tell you... (Although they've been told to stop now!)
Not sure what's next on the table, but I've zipped them up if Cees, Francois or anyone else wants to use them. In case of confusion, "bu" is blue, "bn" is tan (brown) and "od" is olive drab: http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/ijpobjects/WOT8.zip.
Ian P.
Not sure what's next on the table, but I've zipped them up if Cees, Francois or anyone else wants to use them. In case of confusion, "bu" is blue, "bn" is tan (brown) and "od" is olive drab: http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/ijpobjects/WOT8.zip.
Ian P.
Blender, Cees.
It was a bit of a learning curve to get used to after dealing with gmax (and briefly 3DS Max) for so long, but now I'm more used to it, I can turn out much better models, much quicker, than I could in gmax. The UVW mapping, in particular, is massively easier and you can do Ambient Occlusion renders to improve texturing. Add to that the fact that the 3d preview window actually works, rather than being an abstract painting and, in general, I can see no reason whatsoever to go back to gmax, once I have ported over the remaining models that I haven't, yet.
In many cases, recreating them in Blender will actually be quicker and easier than getting them out of gmax in a format that anything else can read!
Ian P.
It was a bit of a learning curve to get used to after dealing with gmax (and briefly 3DS Max) for so long, but now I'm more used to it, I can turn out much better models, much quicker, than I could in gmax. The UVW mapping, in particular, is massively easier and you can do Ambient Occlusion renders to improve texturing. Add to that the fact that the 3d preview window actually works, rather than being an abstract painting and, in general, I can see no reason whatsoever to go back to gmax, once I have ported over the remaining models that I haven't, yet.
In many cases, recreating them in Blender will actually be quicker and easier than getting them out of gmax in a format that anything else can read!
Ian P.
Bad netiquette, replying to yourself, but I doubt that Cees will object in this instance... 
They may not look like much, but they're an addition to the collection. Red and Black chequered RAF runway caravans - equally usable by any other Allied aerial unit, because the things were scratch-built on the airfield, by whoever had nothing better to do and from whatever was to hand!
I really should finish the K6 that I started, to go with yours, Cees (it's got a different back but, as usual, I'm planning on making it a bit modular...) although I think I'd better do something else that can fit on the same texture sheet as the caravans, first.
Ian P.
They may not look like much, but they're an addition to the collection. Red and Black chequered RAF runway caravans - equally usable by any other Allied aerial unit, because the things were scratch-built on the airfield, by whoever had nothing better to do and from whatever was to hand!
I really should finish the K6 that I started, to go with yours, Cees (it's got a different back but, as usual, I'm planning on making it a bit modular...) although I think I'd better do something else that can fit on the same texture sheet as the caravans, first.
Ian P.