ECA Grey Skin Pack, bring on the fascists Options

[Skitt]

Grey Skin pack for ECA Structures and vehicle's
Give the European's a fascist Feel

Did this a cupple of weeks ago for myself and Comrade Crimson so thought it was about time i shared it with you guys.


All Structures and Vehicles for ECA have been given a dark grey theme

You can see Pics of all the units here > http://imgur.com/a/QrF1c

Installation instructions are included in the download however i will say it here as well.

How to install.
1. Create in your Rise of the Reds/Zero hour folder a Folder called Art (the same folder as where your ROTR185_Lnchr.exe is located)
2. In the Art folder Create another folder called Textures
3. Copy the .DDS files from the Structures and Vechile's folders. into your Textures folder.

To uninstall:
Delete your art folder in your Rise of the Reds/Zero Hour folder.


This was designed to work alongside and compliment the Helgan Forever infantry Skin pack for eca made by Imperium
Which you can find here if you want it > http://forums.swr-productions.com/index.php?showtopic=8351

And here is the download link for my grey skin pack for Structures and Vechile's
Skin Pack Download Link

[Shiro]

Now make screenshots with red faction colour: Brotherhood of Nod Europe! Peace! Through! Power!

[Skitt]

Tempting, the units look quite sexy with red house colour

[M.P]

Now make screenshots with red faction colour: Brotherhood of Nod Europe! Peace! Through! Power!

>.>
Not a bad idea...

[Shiro]

Btw, the blue glow of the nano-tech on the Manticore could become orange (if you can do that).

[Imperium]

Well done.

What method did you use for the recolouring? If you did this manually then hats off, I did that for my IDF vehicles and it took god damn ages.

[Skitt]

did the claymore by hand, after that and seeing that the RC has 42 texture files....
gimp + fiddling with the saturation, brightness and contrast levels for each of the colors

[Imperium]

And didnt that mess with snow or damage sub-skins? *genuinely curious*

If it can be done the easy way then I could do building skin packs and dear lord do buildings (for china and usa) need it.

[Skitt]

sort of, the snow on the snow skins is its own color channel, left that alone and just changed the others.

[Omnius64]

Awesome! ITs more, this could be polemycal, but with the ECA being a Pan-european army, then it its the modern version of the Schutzstaffel/SS. So it would be cool if someone could add SS symbols to the ECA textures. Nothing extravagant. Just a thought.

[Teozamait]

Awesome! ITs more, this could be polemycal, but with the ECA being a Pan-european army, then it its the modern version of the Schutzstaffel/SS. So it would be cool if someone could add SS symbols to the ECA textures. Nothing extravagant. Just a thought.

That can go wrong in so many ways....

[Maelstrom]

Awesome! ITs more, this could be polemycal, but with the ECA being a Pan-european army, then it its the modern version of the Schutzstaffel/SS. So it would be cool if someone could add SS symbols to the ECA textures. Nothing extravagant. Just a thought.

Well SS is not what I'd call a good idea to be honest. You know... history.
Since this pack mixes quite well with Imperium's Helghast pack, I'd personnally prefer to add Helghast logo (with maybe variations for different generals).

[Omnius64]

Well SS is not what I'd call a good idea to be honest. You know... history.
Since this pack mixes quite well with Imperium's Helghast pack, I'd personnally prefer to add Helghast logo (with maybe variations for different generals).

And? By that following, all Soviet and Allied symbols should be not used, because of feels.

[Maelstrom]

And? By that following, all Soviet and Allied symbols should be not used, because of feels.

They are not used in ROTR

[MARS]

Awesome! ITs more, this could be polemycal, but with the ECA being a Pan-european army, then it its the modern version of the Schutzstaffel/SS. So it would be cool if someone could add SS symbols to the ECA textures. Nothing extravagant. Just a thought.

And how would this make any sense from a story angle? The SS may have had non-German elements, but that doesn't change the fact that it was an army of the national socialist ideology and not some expression of genuine pan-European sentiment. The ECA in ROTR consists of democratic countries, not a single one of which is openly fascist, so the chance of them styling their military after the sodding Waffen SS of all things is about as slim as United Korea borrowing aesthetics from the Imperial Japanese Army. Also, if you want to talk pan-European military forces, I suggest you read up on things like the EU Battlegroups, Eurocorps, or the Franco-German Brigade, which would be actual present day organisations that the ECA is made to invoke. Finally, there is also the fact that displaying nazi symbols, particularly in video games, is downright illegal in some countries. Nothing to do with 'feels' but more with laws and the fact that there is no in-story justification for why the ECA should resemble literal nazis.

This post has been edited by MARS: 26 Nov 2016, 16:14

[Knjaz.]

Awesome! ITs more, this could be polemycal, but with the ECA being a Pan-european army, then it its the modern version of the Schutzstaffel/SS. So it would be cool if someone could add SS symbols to the ECA textures. Nothing extravagant. Just a thought.

[Omnius64]

Stop believing that the SS was evil, and about the evil natzees mythos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nKEKhgGsAI

Watch the video, and start to truly learn about history.

[Hanfield]

Stay woke

[Tobæ]

You're stepping on thin ice. Not only could this topic be offensive to some German forum members but you're also breaking the forum's 6th rule.

[rey]

Stop believing that the SS was evil, and about the evil natzees mythos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nKEKhgGsAI

Watch the video, and start to truly learn about history.

best way to know something about history - from youtube, marvelous. probably other your trustful source is wikipedia?!
tell this bullshit to my grand-fathers who were fighting against SS-scums! so you better stop.

[Omnius64]

Okay, lets not talk about politics. I dindt wanted to start a discussion, sorry.

[Skitt]

this topics for discussion on the skins not for politics, please do not derail the topic any further thank you.
questions about politics and personal views on said subjects should be taken to the general chat section of the forum.

[Shiro]

In fact, politics are banned forum-wide, so not even there. I advise everyone to go back to discussing the skins and not mention the other stuff again.

[Teozamait]

In fact, politics are banned forum-wide, so not even there. I advise everyone to go back to discussing the skins and not mention the other stuff again.

While I agree to some extent about real-life politics, not discussing politics at all within the game setting is a bit difficult - Zero Hour's story is based on armed conflicts generated by international politics which drew parallels to many real-life events at the time (I mean, Suicide Bombers in 2004? Not to mention the first campaign mission takes place in Baghdad). Rotr goes even further with this by adding Russia invading Europe - parallels can be made to real life.

Allusions to historical concepts such as communism are made by in-game voices (in a satirical way, but it's still there). Plus I think there is a Hammer and Sickle graffiti on one of the Russian Buildings.

At the end of the day, it's a game heavily inspired by real-life elements with conflicts generated by politics. Not discussing that at all seems very odd. The extend to which that is to be discussed is another matter.

And even the name of the thread for the skins is 'Bring on the Fascists'...and no one had an issue with that. I feel like MARS's approach to this issue was the proper one, explaining how SS banners would not fit from a story and legal perspective.

[Shiro]

Ok, let me ammend that.

Real Life politics are banned. Politics in the sense and context of the mod's backstory are fine, just remember the other rules when discussing them. Bringing up some obscure bullshit documentary interview from YouTube to justify/explain away Real Life historic atrocities is not fine.