[12.6] Unique Camouflage Plus

[TheKingOfUm]

The next hotfix for the game has been deployed. You can either download Update 0.8.0.2 for the mod, or you can DIY it by moving the mod files from res_mods/0.8.0.1 to res_mods/0.8.0.2.

 

Meanwhile, work on the camouflages for Lightning and Jutland is coming along nicely. I'm planning to include them in the next full update.

[TheKingOfUm]

You know how this works by now: The game has been patched to version 0.8.0.3, so you can move the mod from your res_mods/0.8.0.2 folder to res_mods/0.8.0.3 yourself, or you can download and install Update 0.8.0.3.

[th3freakie]

About time WG just flat out hire you and wawan.

[TheKingOfUm]

With Update 0.8.1, we're bringing Type 1 and Type 5 for Lightning and Jutland. Daring is almost finished, but I'd like to take a little more time to polish her camouflages, so that will come in the next update.

 

 

 

And then, once I'm no longer being held hostage at work (I kid! Mostly...), the British carriers are waiting for us. I already got to take a look at them, and the models are just amazing. You remember when you were a child and you visited a naval museum and couldn't stop looking at all the cool ship models because they were so beautiful and full of small details and there was so much to discover? Like that.

[TheKingOfUm]

It's like Wargaming wanted to give me the opportunity to release the Type 1 and 5 camouflages for Daring before the next big update, and that's why they made Update 0.8.1.1.

 

 

And that's that for the British destroyers. I really enjoyed working on them, because all the history and camouflage patterns and just general britishness provides a wealth of background that I could draw inspiration from.

[Obokan]

The Royal Navy DD camos are looking absolutly awesome! Keep up the good work. 

[TheKingOfUm]

The first British carrier, Hermes, gets unique camouflages for Type 1/2/5 in Update 0.8.2. Work on the camouflages for Furious have already started, but I don't have that much time at the moment, and carriers are kinda complicated, and Furious is complicated squared.

 

[Wawan25]

Great job !!! I love your new camouflages !!

I will try to replay a little. So, I will download the mod.

Don't worry, I never resume the support for the mod. Only playing for me !!!

 

Thank you for your work ! 

[TheKingOfUm]

On 4/9/2019 at 1:46 PM, Wawan25 said:

Great job !!! I love your new camouflages !!

I will try to replay a little. So, I will download the mod.

Don't worry, I never resume the support for the mod. Only playing for me !!!

 

Thank you for your work ! 

Oh thank you, that really means a lot to me 

[TheKingOfUm]

Here's HMS Furious, named after the way that you're feeling when you try to locate all the small parts in the texture files.

 

 

This ship is probably the weirdest that we have in the game at the moment. Just read up on the history of the ship and the different iterations that it was transformed into. Throughout her service, they literally bolted on all kinds of structures for whatever purpose the ship was used for. The Type 5 Special camouflage is heavily inspired by the camouflage she wore in 1918, when she was still a very different ship.

 

Also included in Update 0.8.3 are Type 1/2 for Furious, as well as Type 1/2/5 for Implacable.

 

 

Next up is Audacious, and then the Russian and Soviet battleships.

[PopeyeTSM]

 

 

Graf Zeppelin maybe ?

[TheKingOfUm]

22 hours ago, PanzzerKunst said:

Graf Zeppelin maybe ?

 

The Unique Camouflage mod is only for making the standard Type 1/2/5 look more interesting, so there are no modded permanent camouflages and premium ships here (Dunkerque being the exception for old time's sake).

 

I have another mod in which I do work on permanent and premium ship camouflages, among others, but only those that look unrealistic. Usually, the standard perma camouflages for premiums look okay, so I don't change them. Which is why I left Graf Zeppelin's regular perma camo as it is, but modded the Eagle camouflage.

 

[PopeyeTSM]

 

 

Thx King of Um

 

Unfortunately WG removed Me 109 T and Ju 87 C Stuka ....

 

 

 

[FreetheBrain]

Is there any way to disable some of the older camo reworks? I love most of these, but I really dislike the UK cruiser camos in this mod for example. I'd like to disable just them.

[TheKingOfUm]

On 5/15/2019 at 4:06 PM, FreetheBrain said:

Is there any way to disable some of the older camo reworks? I love most of these, but I really dislike the UK cruiser camos in this mod for example. I'd like to disable just them.

 

Yes, that is not hard to do: All the camouflages are defined in the camouflages.xml file. Each camouflage is one entry defined by the <camouflage>...</camouflage> tags. For example, the entry for Danae Type 1 looks like this:

 

Quote

<camouflage>
<annotation>DANAE WAWAN Type 1</annotation>
<name>camo_1_tile</name>
<targetShip>PBSC104_Danae</targetShip>
<tiled>true</tiled>
<UV>
<Tile>2.4 2.4</Tile>
<DeckHouse>1.5 1.5</DeckHouse>
<Gun>0.3 0.3</Gun>
<Bulge>1.5 1.5</Bulge>
</UV>
<Textures>
<Tile>content/gameplay/common/camouflage/textures/UK-FLAMMES-2.dds</Tile>
</Textures>
<colorSchemes>DANAE WAWAN Type 1</colorSchemes>
</camouflage>

 

 

<annotation> is the internal name, you can use that to find the camouflages you want to remove. Just delete the entire entry, including the <camouflage>...</camouflage> tags, and this camouflage is removed from the mod. The game will then use the standard pattern for Type 1 on Danae. Do this for all camouflages you want to remove and save the XML file.

 

You'll have to repeat that after every mod update.

 

NB: For some reason, XML files edited with Windows Editor are unreadable for the game. Windows WordPad works fine for me, however.

[TheKingOfUm]

For Update 0.8.4, Audacious gets Type 1/2/5 camouflages in lighter colours, reminiscent of the light grey that the British carriers wore in the 1950s.

 

Time to get the Soviet battleships painted. We're starting with Type 1/2/5 patterns for Pyotr Velikiy.

 

 

I'm already busy working on Gangut and the other Soviet legendary battleships, so those will come next.

 

Also, Yamato got a new model in the last patch; the scaling of the Type 1/2/5 camouflages has been modified so that they appear closer to the original look on the old model.

[FreetheBrain]

On 5/16/2019 at 7:40 PM, TheKingOfUm said:

 

Yes, that is not hard to do: All the camouflages are defined in the camouflages.xml file. Each camouflage is one entry defined by the <camouflage>...</camouflage> tags. For example, the entry for Danae Type 1 looks like this:

 

 

<annotation> is the internal name, you can use that to find the camouflages you want to remove. Just delete the entire entry, including the <camouflage>...</camouflage> tags, and this camouflage is removed from the mod. The game will then use the standard pattern for Type 1 on Danae. Do this for all camouflages you want to remove and save the XML file.

 

You'll have to repeat that after every mod update.

 

NB: For some reason, XML files edited with Windows Editor are unreadable for the game. Windows WordPad works fine for me, however.

Thank you so much! I cannot play the game without your mod. :D 

[TheKingOfUm]

Update 0.8.5 is released, and here are Type 1/2/5 for Gangut, Izmail, Sinop and Vladivostok.

 

Izmail has just been taken over and repainted by the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Fleet:

 

The Siberian Tiger is taken from the coat of arms of the city of Vladivostok:
 

 

Two more Soviet battleships to go, and then I can start preparing the French destroyers.

[Wawan25]

Whaou, I love it !!!!

Thank for these new camouflages.

[TheKingOfUm]

Here's the new download for Update 0.8.5.1. This also fixes a bug which caused the Type 5 on Vladivostok to not display.

[TheKingOfUm]

With Update 0.8.6, Type 1/2/5 for Sovetskiy Soyuz and Kreml are added, completing the Soviet battleship camouflages.

 

As Operation Crossroads had shown, surface ships are quite vulnerable to nuclear explosions. In order to increase the chance of survival, large areas of Kremlin get painted in anti-flash white. Being the swan song of the Soviet battleships, it's only fitting that she should look accordingly.

 

Coinciding with the release of the French destroyers, Jaguar gets Type 1/2/5 camouflages.

 

 

The other ships of the line are already in the works and will be released in the coming updates.

 

In the past, this mod only had destroyer camouflages for Type 1 and Type 5, the reason being that for a destroyer, the dispersion bonus that Type 2 brings is a lot less valuable than concealment. However, you still see destroyer captains who make the (misguided, in my eyes) choice for Type 2 camouflage. It's bad enough to have a teammate in a destroyer who doesn't understand the value of concealment, but having to look at the standard camouflage pattern on their ship is just rubbing salt in the wound. So, since making these rather simple camouflages with reused textures is not that hard to do, I have decided to include them for this line as well.

[TheKingOfUm]

For Update 0.8.7, I have been busy painting the French destroyers. Bourrasque, Guépard, Vauquelin and Le Fantasque get Type 1/2/5 camouflages. As usual, the Type 5s for tier VI and up are special camouflages with hull numbers and names.

 

The hull number design from tiers VI to X will be a nice progression from the simple numbers of the 1920s through the various styles of "X" numbers to post-war Western numbering scheme.

 

 

Every French ship had her own insignia. They had a distinct style that was much less heraldic than the Royal Navy crests. You'll find some of them in the new French collection, and I have included the respective insignias in the special camouflages as well.

 

I swear I had the idea for this camouflage before the Gloire style permacamo for Le Terrible, which looks kind of similar, was announced by Wargaming...

 

[Shooter359]

Very good work!

 

Thank you!

[TheKingOfUm]

Here's Update 0.8.7.1 for you. No changes compared to 0.8.7.0, but behind the scenes the camouflages for Mogador and Kléber are taking shape. They should be ready by the next update, when those ships will be freely researchable.

[TheKingOfUm]

With Update 0.8.8, Mogador and Kléber become available as regular silver ships, and I got the camouflages finished just in time.

 

Kléber in game is a paper ship, but was given the name of a real ship. This mod is playing along and using the hull number and insignia of the real ship for the Type 5 camouflage (no picture because the ship is not available at the moment, you'll have to discover it yourself).

 

In other news, I hear that with the new update, AA turrets will be included in the camouflages. For some ships, this should make the camouflages look better (looking at you, Kremlin Type 5), for other ships it means that I will have to update the camouflages. This will happen over time, as I come across those camouflages in the game.

 

Now that the French destroyers are finished, I guess you already know what's coming next...