News
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.
Mega Armoured Orks texture
I've finally installed Winter Assault (but I still have a v1.3 install of Dawn of War thanks to a topic in Adeptus Modificatus) and have just released a requested skin - Mega Armoured Ork Nobs with Team Colourable Eyes. This very simple texture adds the normal eye of the Nobs to the Trim 2 layer so that it is colourable in the same way as for normal Ork Boys.
In other news, the Halved and Quartered Marine Mods are very close to release! Thanks to everyone who has helped with them.
F.A.Q. section added
In an attempt to make things a bit more logical, and to try to make it easier for people to find answers to their questions, I have created an
Although all of the FAQ sections are not yet filled, they will be soon and the original FAQs from the Articles section have already been migrated over.
If you have any questions that you would like answering, then please contact us and we might list it along with the answer.
Three new textures
We now have three new offerings available, plus a fourth in the pipe-line and awaiting a confirmation!
Firstly, MadMaffMan has released another pair of textures. His Whirlwind texture is designed to compliment the rest of his MadMaffMan Marines set, and even adds some extra detail to the back of the Whirlwind.
The second texture from MadMaffMan is another Imperial Guard skin - this time a Tri-Colour Camo scheme. This texture looks like it might become very popular very quickly, as someone had grabbed a copy within minutes of it being added, and a second has been completely downloaded in the 15 minutes since then!
The other contribution is from BrSgt_Burns, a modder on the Relic Forums. He has been kind enough to provide us with the Space Marine skins from his First Wave mod.
Thanks to both authors for submitting their work, and thanks also to all of the other members of the community who contribute and enjoy the work.
Invasion of Beorg's Bearmen
Those who frequent Hangar-8's thread on the Relic Forums may have seen a preview of this before the weekend, but I have now released the Beorg's Bearmen Army Scheme.
The army scheme contains everything you need to make your army look right - the badge, the banner and the .teamcolour file with pre-selected colours.
Unfortunately my artistic skills aren't up to making an amazingly realistic bear, but I'm still quite proud of this set. Hopefully I'll be able to schedule my time better in future so that I can get more work done on badges, banners and textures.
Our first Imperial Guardsmen!
We have just released the first Imperial Guard skin available on Skins@HWT! Thanks to MadMaffMan, we now have an alternate Guardsman skin, which gives the Guardsmen a nice alternative look.
Also released today from MadMaffMan is a Land Raider to go with his MadMaffMan Marines.
Many thanks to MadMaffMan, and from comments on the forum we should be seeing more work from him soon!
More textures from MadMaffMan
I've just added the second of MadMaffMan's new textures. Again based on Hangar-8's popular "Golden Eagles" set, the MadMaffMan Heroes pack converts the Space Marine characters to match MadMaffMan's own Space Marine army.
Watch out for some MadMaffMan Vehicles coming soon!
Also updated today are Hangar-8's recent works. Hangar-8 has updated his Team Colourable Berserkers to be more generic and with more detail. This has been reflected in the download page, and screenshots have also been added to the Force Commander Variant and Chaplain.
Two new textures and some good news about the site
Firstly, the good news about the site. Following the recent downtime, connectivity problems and other issues that the site has been suffering from, we have now been migrated to our host's new data center. This move was always planned, but wasn't expected so soon. This should hopefully give us a improvement in stability and performance. As it is, everyone should now be accessing the new location. If the forums are closed or you can't submit a file, then you're still seeing the old site.
Next, and probably more importantly to most, the new skins. The first has been delayed slightly while I checked that it was an official submission. Prepare to kill the Emperor's Enemies with the Space Hulk Mod's very own Terminator Skin.
Also added are MadMaffMan's Space Marines. His first skin release, submitted not long after starting to learn how to use Photoshop, recolour the Space Marines to use the same areas as his own chapter.
There are still a couple of files waiting in the queue, but these will be added just as soon as I receive various confirmations!
Recent Downtime
Apologies to everyone who has had problems accessing the site recently. Unfortunately it has been due to issues beyond my control.
Today, the hard disk on one of my host's name servers died. This meant that the majority of requests for the website failed because one name server was unavailable and the other was overloaded with all the requests that would have been split to the other one.
The disk has now been replaced, and everything is now working again. The disk is also the suspected cause of previous downtimes over the past week or so. Hopefully, now that the disk has been replaced, the server should be able to function properly until the host's migration to the new and improved data center.
Again, I am sorry for the inaccessibility, but it was beyond my control and was due to a major hardware failure.
