News
21st Karedian colour scheme now available, and other pending downloads
The 21st Karedian colour scheme from General_Sturmm has now been approved. While the download does not follow our submission guidelines and does not include a readme, it has been decided that single .teamcolour files can be exempt from this requirement as they are effectively a collection of colours and a name. Full army schemes (.teamcolour with badge and banner) still require a complete readme file.
Also, we still have four downloads pending. If the authors do not get in contact with the site by the end of the month then the downloads will unfortunately have to be deleted.
On a more positive note Iron_Father does have a large pack of Dark Angels textures pending that were too big for the submission form, and so aren't shown in the list. These will hopefully be available in the next day or two after I clear up a couple of points with Iron_Father, so watch this space!
FAQ section now searchable
Following some development work on the code that powers the FAQ section of the site there have now been a few improvements.
Most of the FAQ section should continue to function as it always has done (although some old links may not jump to the correct point in the page any more). The main improvement for visitors, though, is the new search functionality.
As well as letting you search the content of the questions and answers in the FAQs then the search is also done in such a way that it can easily be bookmarked or linked to, making it easier to point someone to a collection of relevant results.
If anyone has any other questions that they think should be in the FAQ then please contact us.
BobaHat's Dawn of War/Winter Assault Warboss now available
Back in late September BobaHat submitted a full pack of "BobaHat's Fluffy Ork textures". The textures included the new Dark Crusade and Winter Assault units, but the Warboss texture didn't work with anything except Dark Crusade as the expansion pack had changed the leader texture file name for every race.
BobaHat later submitted an additional texture for the Winter Assault/Dawn of War version of his Warboss texture, and it is now available.
Rifle Corps get screenshots
The Rifle Corps and Naval Detachment army schemes from Squire James have now had their screenshots added. Squire James submitted the screenshots a little while ago, but I have been busy behind the scenes recently and only just got round to adding them.
If any other authors would like to contribute screenshots like Squire James has done then it would be a great help. If you do not already know the address then please contact us for details of where to send screenshots to.
Tau Commander texture approved
We've finally had a response from one of our list of long-time pending authors. Core's Team Colourable Tau Commander is now available for download.
There are now only five downloads pending, all of which have been there for between two and three months. If you know any of the authors then please tell them to get in contact with me so that their files can be corrected and approved.
Knee Pad Marines!
After a brief mix-up with files, and following on from yesterday's approval of the Trim Colourable Knee Pad Force Commander, Stfas now has the matching Tactical and Assault Marines and Sergeants available on the site.
More downloads will be approved as they are submitted and as authors of pending downloads get in contact with us.
The importance of email addresses
The following has been mentioned previously but seems to need to be mentioned again.
There are currently a number of downloads sat on our pending downloads page, some of which have been there for a couple of months.
Other than my moving house, the normal reason that downloads remain pending is that the submission is incomplete. While some downloads might just be re-using content with permission but not mentioning it, others fail to include an email address.
Including an email address in your submission is a requirement for having it approved. Part of the reason for its inclusion is if anyone wants to contact you regarding re-use in the future. It is also useful when I need to contact the author about their submission. If you don't include it then I have no way of getting in contact with you other than marking the download as "Awaiting contact from author".
If anyone knows the author of any download that is pending and has been for a while then please encourage them to get in contact with me so that their download can be fixed and approved.
For all future submissions, can authors please make sure they have read our submission guidelines (which are linked to from the submission page). The guidelines have been in place since April, and are intended to improve the quality and usefulness of submissions.
Download approvals restart
I've finally settled in to the new house and got the computer in a state where it can reasonably use the Internet and where it isn't trying to use a half-fried motherboard. That means download approvals have begun again.
Newly approved tonight are Stfas's Force Commander with colourable knee pads, SquireJames's Rifle Corps and Naval Detachment badge and banner sets, and Thunderrat's Eldar Harlequin replacement.
Hopefully more downloads will be approved as and when their authors get in contact.
Further delay in getting back online
While BT and Sky finally got our Internet access sorted about a week ago, other issues have now conspired against me getting back to working on the site.
My computer has had an "electrical whine" from the power supply for a week or so now (possibly since moving) and was unable to turn it on straight after turning it off. Having tried to investigate it after the power became more tempremental the power supply died. I now have a new power supply but still no computer. From the lack of beeps at start-up then it's almost certainly a dead motherboard.
Hopefully I should be able to get a replacement by the end of the week and finally be back to working on the site.
Sorry for the extended delay in returning to normal operations.
Halved and Quartered Marines mod finally arrives!
Over the months several people have asked me about how to combine the Halved and Quartered Marines mods. I had purposefully written the mods so that they could be easily combined, since people had asked for it in the original Dawn of War versions, but I'd never released on by the time Dark Crusade was released.
Now, in a compact 4KB, you can officially combine the Halved Marines Mod and the Quartered Marines Mod using the Halved and Quartered Marines Mod.
Also released today is a small patch for the Dark Crusade Quartered Marines Mod that fixes the Quartered Marines AI and updates their banner.
I was hoping to have my Internet access back today, but Sky and British Telecom are being slow and didn't enable it on Friday. They should apparently enable it within three working days from Friday, so by Wednesday I should be back online and more uploads should be approved.
