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Clean Space Marines
Just freshly released is a new 'Clean Space Marines' skin.
Although some people believe Space Marines should be even more battle damaged, due to the amount of wars and skirmishes they take part it, the background says that they revere their armour and make sure that it's spirit is happy. In this way, most Space Marines will have pristine armour with no wear on it, giving a much more dangerous and almost invulnerable look to the Angels of Death!
The skin currently only covers the normal Space Marines, but later additions will hopefully cover the other troops, characters and maybe even the vehicles!
Halved and Quartered Marines enter Winter Assault
It's a busy day of updates today! I have just released the Halved Marines Mod Hotfix for Winter Assault and the Quartered Marines Mod Hotfix for Winter Assault.
Both of these hotfixes make the current version of the mod playable in Winter Assault, although with no tech tree changes and with no stats changes.
A later version, which will probably have to wait until the new year, will make a full 1.4 and WA version, however the current hotfixes allow the existing version to be played in all versions of Dawn of War after v1.3.
Three new downloads from three new authors
This site is all about the contributions, and we now have three more authors who have joined in and shared their amazing works.
Meretrix has contributed a badge and banner pack that contains a mix of badges and banners for different races.
Québec_Dug has released his team colourable Dire Drakes Terminator skin. It is based on Xen's Terminator skin and details of the Chapter are available in Dug's development thread on Relic Forums. Hopefully we will see the rest of the army in a team colourable format in due time.
Finally Malhavok, one of the testers for the Halved and Quartered Marine Mods, has released his variation on canon Dark Reaper Aspect Warriors. The skin adds some extra detailing and alters the colouring to make them closer to some models painted by Games Workshop.
Thanks to all of the authors for all of their contributions, and I hope people enjoy using them. If anyone has any other canon contributions, then I'm always willing to host them or even just list them.
Dawn of War Pattern Switcher for Winter Assault released!
This should have been announced on Sunday when I uploaded it, but I've forgotten until now.
A new version of the Dawn of War Pattern Switcher is now available. This version adds Winter Assault compatibility by adding the ability to load Imperial Guard textures.
My next plans for the Pattern Switcher involve a major overhaul that will allow it to do pattern switching for any race added by a mod. This is currently entirely theoretical and will take a while to implement, even if it is possible.
Corrected 1.3 style Force Commander released
Following a request on the Relic Forums (a request that I'd unfortunately forgotten about for a couple of months!) I've created a minorly changed Force Commander texture.
Having already hosted the Original 1.3 Force Commander for people who didn't like the additional gold of the 1.4 Force Commander, we now have a Corrected 1.3 Force Commander that retains the lack of gold while adding the correction of the inner shoulder pad colour.
No longer do 1.3-style Black Templar Force Commanders have to have black shoulder pads, now they can have the correct white shoulder inners!
Hangar-8's Golden Eagles reach 1.5
Following technical problems with his computer and a worrying period when we thought we might not see anything from Hangar-8 for another few months, he has now released another set of the Golden Eagle Space Marines.
Having originally created the set to clear up some of the graphical errors in the skins and add detail, Hangar-8 now has an impressivly long list of changes he's made!
The new set of Golden Eagle Space Marines are now available, as is an additional pack containing what are now known as "Golden Eagles Characters with Supercharged Powerswords.
Hangar-8 has commented that this might be all of the details that he wants to add to the skins. We are all now waiting patiently to see what he can do next, other than the ever impressive badges and banners of the Space Marine chapters.
Codex Chaplain added
With work soon to begin on a fully updated Winter Assault version of the Halved Marines Mod and Quartered Marine Mod, I needed to update the Chaplain texture to something closer to the Codex colours so that he was ready to be converted into Halved and Quartered versions.
This work (the basic Codex Chaplain) is now available for download, and makes a perfect companion to the Codex Apothecary and Librarian.
New skins from Havoc
Following on from his Iron Hands Space Marines textures, Havoc (formerly havoc[night]) has been working on several more textures. These textures include Iron Hands Terminators and our first set of skinned buildings in the form of Camouflaged Imperial Guard Buildings.
For a full list of work by Havoc, check out the Authored By Havoc list.
As a side-note, thanks to whichever user submitted Daemon Prince mod, but unfortunately I have no contact information, no details of exactly what it does and no information on which version of the game it is compatible with. If this was submitted by you, then please contact us.
Space Marine Texture-Race Hotfixes Released
With the patch 1.4 compatible Mod Tools almost released by Relic, I have now created a 1.4 compatible 'Hotfix' for the Halved Marine Mod and Quartered Marine Mod. These hotfixes make the original mod compatible with the changes made by patch 1.4.
Please note that this is not a fully balanced 1.4 race, these are just quick-fixes to make the mod and the AI work in 1.4 using the 1.3 stats. A full 1.4 patch will be released soon.
Also, thanks to Malhavok who has created a Frontend model patch for the Halved Marines mod. This gains nothing in the way of game play, but does mean that you can now see the Halved Marine Force Commander next to the main menu. This feature was always planned, but never implemented, so thanks to Malhavok for testing the 1.4 hotfix and creating this addition.
Space Marine Texture-Race Mods Released
Within the last hour, the Halved Marines Mod and Quartered Marines Mod have been released!
These Mods have been in progress for a while now (although no-where near as long as some of the full race Mods) and allow you to fight with Space Marines in Halved or Quartered textures along side 'normal' Space Marines.
No longer do you need to see the terrible blue-grey and yellow quartering of a Space Wolf in the quartered texture - instead you can play as a Quartered Marine Army while your friend plays as 'normal' Space Marines.
So, download the Mods and enjoy! All that is needed now are the v1.4 Mod Tools so I can make a 1.4 version of this v1.3 Mod.
