Darkest Hour - A Multiplayer Mod

[von_Manstein11]

Hello,

I am in the beginning of making a mod designed for MP balance after trying to correct some of the issues with Darkest Hour Full and some of the selective realism of TRP and I am fairly deep in the midst of the mapping and statistics etc to make it. I am however terrible for the graphically element and some parts of the coding so I am just reaching out to see if anyone might be interested to see if its worth the time to build. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or would like to get added to the Discord to discuss it. I have been playing with a group for multiplayer for over 15 years so being able to build on that group with a better game is the ideal goal.


The main concept is to have a level of economic realism where there is plenty of reserves for the war to go on past 1944 with the axis getting the early initiative and specifically the Germans the combat efficiency that allows for the base economics to work.

 

[Altruist]

I am a graphical illiterate and thus of no help to you... but, when seeing your 6-year break in the forums, at least I want to say:

Welcome back!

 

[von_Manstein11]

I am a graphical illiterate and thus of no help to you... but, when seeing your 6-year break in the forums, at least I want to say:

Welcome back!

Thank you lol, been mostly off the grid with my little group off the old game since HOI4 doesnt have that same feel.

 

[macgregor2150]

I just hope when it comes to creating 'balance' you do it with the victory conditions, and not by altering history. You're free to do whatever you want. I'm grateful for any mod. But I'd prefer outcomes I can compare to history over a game of 'who can take over the world' but that's just me.

 

[Tommy Vercetti]

Good luck, and awesome to see more DH mods coming out.

 

[von_Manstein11]

Okay this is bugging me,

I am trying to add new models to the game but whenever I add a new Sprite to the counter strip .bmp file it glitches out the game graphics to this for every single unit:

Even if I just rename an unmodded counterstrip file I get this, does anyone know what im doing wrong int he formatting to cause this?

 

[Bad4play]

Can I ask which program you use for doing the graphic stuff ?
I used paint.net before and whenever I saved at the good format (24 or 8 bit don't remember), it went wrong even if it was just a name change. I spent so many hour trying to solve this to finally discover that in the end it was just due to the program itself, I just dl Gimp (it's free) and it worked fine the first try.
I hope it might help

 

[von_Manstein11]

Can I ask which program you use for doing the graphic stuff ?
I used paint.net before and whenever I saved at the good format (24 or 8 bit don't remember), it went wrong even if it was just a name change. I spent so many hour trying to solve this to finally discover that in the end it was just due to the program itself, I just dl Gimp (it's free) and it worked fine the first try.
I hope it might help

You Sir are a life saver! As soon as I wrote over them using Gimp it all works like clock work! Was getting annoyed making my 1-2-3 Regiment Infantry division template without having them all as Infantry counters!

 

[Bad4play]

You Sir are a life saver! As soon as I wrote over them using Gimp it all works like clock work! Was getting annoyed making my 1-2-3 Regiment Infantry division template without having them all as Infantry counters!

My pleasure, good luck for your mod !

 

[macgregor2150]

Whatever becomes of this mod, I really love the idea that you are doing it. I only play multiplayer anymore. And on my server on discord, I've done a bit of thinking to sort of 'standardize multiplayer'. I love for you to look at it. And maybe get your feedback. I'll pm you.