News
Default Imperial Guard Captain update
KommissarReb has updated their default-coloured Imperial Guard Captain to better match the Winter Assault and Dark Crusade campaign colours, fixing some of the minor issues in the v1 texture.
Multi-version downloads fixed
If you've downloaded any files from Skins@HWT in the last few days that have multiple versions then there's a reasonable probability that you got the wrong version of the file. I've been making some changed to the backend code for the site and a bug slipped in with the updated download mechanism.
It's all fixed now and versioned downloads should now be serving the correct version!
Thanks to An Earthling Scum for telling us about the problem.
New "default" Imperial Guard Command Squad
Dawn of War is about to turn 20 years old. But there's still some people making content for it!
We've just published our first community contribution in the last decade, thanks to KommissarReb and their non-teamcolourable Default Command Squad, Default Priest and Default Psyker
Modding tool crash fixes released
New versions of the Dawn of War Texture Tool and IChunky Viewer have been released after Max C found a bug that caused them to crash when trying to handle certain RSH files.
Thanks to Max C for reporting the bug.
Dawn of War Texture Tool fixed for 64-bit systems
If you used the Dawn of War Texture Tool to convert TGA images to DDS images on a 64-bit Windows machine then you would have found that it errored. This is because the Texture Tool is from an era when 64-bit OSes were uncommon because people rarely had as much as 4GB RAM.
As it is apparently still being used, the Dawn of War Texture Tool v1.9.1 has now been released with a fix for TGA to DDS conversion on 64-bit Windows systems!
RAR downloads fixed for Chrome users
Earlier today I received an email pointing out that one download was appearing as a page of gibberish text. It appears that a misconfiguration on the server was causing some downloads (RAR files) to be displayed as text rather than downloaded.
This only appears to have affected Google Chrome/Chromium users. Firefox users should still have been able to download RAR files successfully.
This issue has now been fixed and all RAR files should be working for all users.
Storm Wardens army scheme
Dawn of War is into its 10th year since the initial release, but still there are people interested in customising it!
Today, we've added the Storm Wardens Space Marine Chapter army scheme - a badge, banner and team colour pack to create Sacris' finest.
Tau FX fix available
On the back of helping us restore one of our missing textures, Crystalking52 has now release a new Tau Vehicles FX Fix pack. While most vehicles had blue thrusters, some used red effects (FX). This pack makes it all a nice, consistent blue.
Necrons return!
One year on since our announcement, and thanks to Crystalking and his archive of textures, EvilTermite's Necrons with Badges and Banners texture has returned!
Necrons texture missing-in-action
It has just been brought to our attention that Evil-Termite's "Necrons with badges and banners" texture (which was hosted on his site and linked to from Skins@HWT) is no longer available. It looks like Evil-Termite's site has been taken down. Until we can find a copy of the texture then the download has, unfortunately, had to be removed.
We're sorry for anyone who is disappointed by this and wanted badges and banners on their Necrons.
