Upcoming lost brother addons

[Miles Teg]

Here is a screenshot of a Galil Sniper (GALAT'Z) rifle I'm working on. ***It's based off of an old galil addon I found in the old IDF weapons pack#1. ***The rifle is made by Bergmania however I haven't been able to get in contact with him to ask his permission to use his rifle. ***So I can only give him credit for it as he made a damn good GalilARM. ***
So I give full credit to Bergmania for the model and textures.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to add a custom site for the Nimrod scope. ***I did it before but forgot how I did it. ***I have the scope picture and everything but I'm having a tough time with all the alpha textures and stuff. ***
If anyone can help me with that please let me know. ***Thx.
At any rate here's a pic of the Galil. ***Modifications on the original Galil model include adding a scope, widening the magazine, and adding a realistic and correctly positioned side scope mount. ***



Below is a pic of the real rifle:




Right now the only other things that need work are an accurate muzzle flash hider (different then the Galil ARM) and a proper solid stock with the cheek rest on it. ***
That and of coarse the Nimrod site picture that I need help on. ***


Chris G.
aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[m21man]

You have an extra face near the front iron sight, it&#39;s visible in first person view.

[Miles Teg]

Oooh. Thanks for pointing that out. I didn&#39;t notice that.
I&#39;ll make sure to remove that.
Thank you.

Chris G.
aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[Miles Teg]

The Lost Brothers Mod Team is also now working on some Sherman tanks originally by Sturmtiger but modified with his permission into a series of IDF Sherman tanks by Calm_Terror. So far he has made the M1 Super Sherman, the M50 Super Sherman, the M51 Isherman, and the M60 HVMS Sherman tank (not to be confused with the M60 Patton). There are also plans for an Ambultank as well.
Below are some pics:








Chris G.
aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[sniperuk02]

nice

[CanadianTerror]

Looks good&#33; ***

Do you have Egyptian units coming with these or are you just releasing the IDF by themselves.

[sniperuk02]

more pictures&#33;
im really looking foward to these units

[rufusmac]

Looking great miles, but the tzahal texture is reversed on the turret of the sherman.

And the galil looks really good.

Are you running the ship over at IDFsquad now? If so, your doing some good work, nice to see some progress from one of the longest running OFP mods.

[Miles Teg]

Well, right now we&#39;re still waiting on Vipersheart for the Egyptian units... but if you all want we can re-release the NoONe&#39;s old units. ***I recently made them equipped with JAM weapons. ***
If anything they&#39;d be good as place holders until our LoBo Egypt pack is released. ***

However the problem is this.... they are all jpeg textures and the programs needed to change the texture paths for unbinarized, retextured BIS units does not work on my computer or on that of any of our members except for Vipersheart who is difficult to contact due to his active military career in which he has precious little time to work on the addons. *** However, with that said, I could very quickly finish the pack if I had a good Middle Eastern soldier model and some textures to modify... ***at the very least I could create a small Egyptian Army demo pack using JAM weapons.
So I&#39;m currently talking to a few other Middle Eastern mod teams to see if that&#39;s possible.
But aside from the Egyptian infantry I have an Egyptian M60A3 tank ready to go, an SA-6 beta (it needs disappearing Missile proxies), and an Egyptian Mig-21. ***Also Calm_Terror is working on an Egyptian T-34 tank.
But all those need Egyptian crew and I&#39;m reluctant to release them before we have at least an Egyptian soldier demo pack that includes a pilot and tank crew. *** Alot of people complained that the Egyptian C130 I released awhile back didn&#39;t have an Egyptian crew on it like in the pictures. ***The crew in those pics were from our last LoBo Egypt beta which had some bugs with the Egyptian infantry that Vipersheart was working on fixing. ***
So right now basically I&#39;m trying to coordinate things with Vipersheart as I don&#39;t want to undermine his hard work by releasing my own version of the pack with new infantry models unless he tells me to. ***If I did that it would be very uncool. ***I prefer to keep the team unity strong and not try to mess up our relationships just because I&#39;m in a hurry to release stuff. ***Better to be patient then to see an addon team fall apart in bitter infighting. *** That&#39;s happed way too often in the past with other mod teams. ***But aside from AL leaving us (her and Uzi don&#39;t like each other), everybody is getting along just fine and things are progressing nicely. ***
So hopefully the community will work with us and we&#39;ll get some kick ass addons released very soon. ***They may not be perfect, but they&#39;ll provide some fun. ***


Chris G.
aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[Miles Teg]

Looking great miles, but the tzahal texture is reversed on the turret of the sherman.

And the galil looks really good.

Are you running the ship over at IDFsquad now? ***If so, your doing some good work, nice to see some progress from one of the longest running OFP mods.

No actually Uzi is running the IDF Squad which is sorta seperate from Lost Brothers although Lost Brothers serves as a the base of OFP playing for the IDF Squad.
Me and Uzi talked about this and thought it was best to keep them seperate because the IDF Squad is more nationalistic while the Lost Brothers is a bit more encompassing of both sides of the Israeli-Arab conflicts in the region. I have an airborne mission that&#39;s almost ready, however as soon as the Egypt pack comes out I&#39;ll also be making missions from the Egyptian perspective. The missions will also be based upon a future fictional conflict between Israel and Egypt however as you can see we are making historical vehicles to allow you history buffs out there to re-create historic battles in the Sinai. We are also working with several Middle East mod teams (including several with Muslim members) which is another reason why it wouldn&#39;t be a good idea to link LoBo with the IDF Squad as one and the same.

But Uzi has been doing a great job in fixing up the IDFsquad website and really updating it nicely.
If you haven&#39;t seen the new page for the IDF squad its at:
http://www.idfsquad.com/index.php


Chris G.
aka-Miles Teg<GD>