News
New icon set and Guardsman texture
Two new downloads have now been added to the site - one a texture and one a set of icons.
Iron_Father's Imperial Guard with no Cadia markins texture cleans up the Guardsmen and Heavy Weapons to make them more generic. The Heavy Weapons Team have already had similar treatment previously but this covers all normal Guardsmen.
mdcertainty has contributed a second set of HUD icons, this time a set of Ultramarine icons for the Space Marine interface. The download actually contains two versions - one with and one without borders - that replace the icons with pictures of in-game models.
Thanks to Iron_Father for his first submission and mdcertainty for continuing his work on improving the icons.
Dawn of War to get third expansion pack
According to the THQ Investor Relations news article then Dawn of War will be getting a third expansion pack featuring two new races in Spring 2008.
One race is known to be the Dark Eldar, and screenshots have already been released. The other race is currently unknown.
As per usual, all existing races will also be getting new units, and fliers are apparently now going to be a possibility.
As with the release of the other expansion packs, Skins@HWT will provide hosting for new skins, badges, banners and other related content for the new races and the new units. So get planning your ideas now - the battle is now spreading to the star system!
More bloodied Chaos and a full set of Orks
Newly added today are two new textures and a full texture set.
Thunderrat has added the Bloody Chaos Horrors and the Bloody Khorne Berserkers, which add blood to the normal textures.
BobaHat has added the full set of his fluffy Orks, which makes the eyes red, the checks team colourable and changes several other areas. The set even includes updated building and structure textures!
Thanks to both for their submissions, and hopefully people will enjoy the updates.
Pending files
Having returned from my holiday, I found five new submissions in the pending queue. Two have now been approved (with an announcement to follow shortly) but three have been declined or are still pending.
Firstly, I would like to remind everyone that they should ensure they comply with the guidelines in the Submitting your work article to ensure that there are no unnecessary slowdowns in approving your work.
Secondly, the submission form is for submitting files. It is not for submitting images or other content. If you have submitted a file then please host the images on a site such as ImageShack and point us to them.
Finally, if you do not include your email address in a readme then not only are you failing to comply with the guidelines, but you leave me with no way to contact you to tell you that you're not complying with the guidelines. That's what causes the current situation - files left pending because of an issue that I cannot contact the author about.
Frost Slayers scheme declined
Over a month ago, Iceman5549 submitted his own "Frost Slayers" scheme to the site. Due to a minor issue with the submission, he was contacted on the supplied email address but the email address was invalid. It was then announced that download was being left in the pending queue awaiting contact from the author.
We have still not received any contact from Iceman5549. As such the download has been declined.
Apologies to anyone who was watching the pending downloads list and waiting for this download to be approved. It is very rare that we have to decline downloads due to a lack of author contact but when there is an issue and we cannot resolve it then we are left with no choice.
Advanced warning of temporary closure
Just in case anyone has been planning to complete and submit any files, please do it soon.
As of Thursday 13th September we will not be approving new submissions, although you will still be able to submit files in the normal ways.
Submission approval should restart on or after Sunday 23rd September.
Apologies for any delays this may cause, but I'll be getting married and then be on honeymoon so the sites are taking a back seat.
Downloads section fixed
Apologies to anyone who tried to access the downloads section of the site in the last twenty four hours. Last night I made some changes to the code that powers the downloads and thought I had fixed all of the issues. It turns out I had missed some.
The downloads section should now be fully functional and back to normal operations.
Caelien returns with more Chaos Renegades
Caelien has recently submitted a new set of Chaos Renegade teamcolours. The list is more extensive than the original version and now includes a total of twenty-seven teamcolours taken from the Codex: Chaos book.
More textures from Diviator
Diviator has been busy again and has now submitted more textures, including his first non-Guard texture.
The new textures are the Golden Commissar, Alternative Captain Lukas Alexander, General Sturnn for Dark Crusade and Diviator's Space Marine texture, based on Hangar-8's Golden Eagles.
Thanks to Diviator for his continued submissions.
New Dark Crusade hero icons
Newly released today are two sets of hero icons for Dark Crusade. The original set of Dark Crusade hero icons were created by mdcertainty using screenshots from the game. Diviator has then updated the icons to create a set of Dark Crusade hero icons with frames.
Additionally, some minor changes have been made to rearrange and clarify the download categories. The General Dawn of War category now includes all graphical changes, while the Pattern Switcher is now in the Miscellaneous category along with the Winter Assault desktops.
