This thread compiles all kinds of modifications to FHSW client files which do not block the ability to play online with the latest released version If you search for tips for graphical improvements without additional game files, look into our BF42tweak collection
Historical Sound & Textures The famous improvement package with custom sound and textures, originally a compilation of Mr_Cheese's textures and GeRmAn~Bratwurst's sound pack for FH1 which has been adjusted for use with FHSW and equipped with completely new sounds by BigV.
Installation: unpack the zip file and move the FHSW and STFHSW folders to ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\ , overwrite init.con
Disclaimer: This texture pack was not made to promote any actions or beliefs of Nazism nor Japanese Imperialism. It's only purpose is to put historically accurate textures into the Forgotten Hope Secret Weapon mod for the sake of historical authenticity.
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Historical Textures
menu - French, German, Finnish flags, French weapon selection pics
Desert - Bofors 1st pers, Bofors trailer, Flak 38 desert camo Night - 109, 110, 190, 219 and 262 swastikas added, flags Winter - ammo box, barrels, boxes, crates, medic box, mil.fence, Aus - flags Brit Africa - Matilda correct camo Brit Navy - uniform, flags Brit Para - Brit WACO Canadian - flags, uniform, helmet Chinese - P40 Finland - 109, flags, Hanomag, Wespe, BT42, T26 French - flags German - flags, ammo tin, ammo box, all fh planes swastikas, Wespe 3-tone camo, Goliath dunkelgelb, ammo crates swastikas, backpack, officer/tanker caps, StuGIIIG 3-tone, faces (Scope) DAK - Flak 38 desert camo, backpack, plane swastikas (Bf109, Bf110, Fw190, He111, Ju87, Me262), officer/tanker caps, Hanomag, DAK swastika insignia (PzII, PzIIIJ, PzIIIJ long barrel, Kubel) Ger Winter - backpack, plane swastikas (Bf109, Bf110, He111, He219, Ju87), Flak 38 winter, helmet, Pz747(r) turret, PAK 40, PzIV, various LODs Ger Kriegsmarine - officer/tanker caps, uniform Italy - Scope's faces, flags, pain grenade Poland - flags Russia Winter - Il2 camo, backpack US Winter - M36, 50 cal, helmets, Priest, M3 APC Scope's guns - Arisaka, BAR, Jap grenade, K98/scope, M1 Carbine, Garand, Tommygun, Brit grenade, Moisin, Mp44, No4, Luger, PPSh, USSR grenade, Springfield, SVT40, Thompson Scope's cockpits - Val, Hellcat, Bf109, Ju87, Wildcat, Zero General - camo net, medic box (Scope), parachute, rubber dingy
Credits go to Mr_Cheese, Rikupsoni, Hanley, Scope, Gauntlet, SaUrOn
map specific textures the non-general uniform skins & textures which were created for specific maps to present them historically accurate
DOWNLOAD STFHSW map files These files enable them when you have Historical Sound & Textures installed. adaptation to FHSW0.51 by Mayer
Installation: unzip the file and place folder 'bf1942' into ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\STFHSW\Archives\
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Alpenfestung - SS hats/helmets, SS uniform, SS Kubel, M41a1 Sherman with swastika kill marks Arnhem - SS hats/helmets, SS uniform, Hohenstaufen vehicles (Hanomag, Kubel, PzIV, Panther, Puma, StuGIII, Tiger) Battle of Britain - Brit/Ger pilot skins, Bf109 skin, Luftwaffe Kubel Battle of the Bulge - winter SS uniform/helmets/hats Battle of Orel - Heer uniform/helmets, camo SdKfz 222 and Wespe Berlin Streets - SS/Heer/Volssturm uniforms, Hitler Jugend dagger, dirtied and bloodied uniforms and faces Bombing the Reich - night Brit/Ger pilot skins Breakthrough - Luftwaffe ground troops uniforms/hats/helmets, Luftwaffe Kubel Counterattack - Heer uniform/helmet Cretan Village - emplacement ammo boxes, German flag, Ju52 skin Crete - Bf110 camo/swastikas, Fallschirmjaeger uniform Eastern Blitz - Heer uniform/helmets, ammo box swastika, early war armour markings (PzII, Pz38(t)) Fall Weiss - Heer uniform/helmets, ammo box swastika, early war armour markings (PzII, Pz38(t)) Gold Beach - Heer uniform/helmets Goodwood - SS uniform/hats/helmets, SS Kubel Kharkov Winter - Heer uniform/helmets Kiew - swastikas on FJ hats Liberation of Caen - SS uniforms/hats/helmets, Hitler Jungend dagger, SS Hanomag and Kubel Pegasus - Heer uniform/helmet Prokhorovka - SS uniform/hats/helmets Ramelle Neuville - SS uniform/hats/helmets, SS Kubel Sector 318 - SS uniform Spurning Fate - SS licence plate on Falke and Uhu, removed sleeve eagles on German uniform Stalingrad - Heer uniform/helmet
and furthermore unlisted texture changes of static objects, terrain and uniforms
MG15 fix this fix restores the missing sounds for the MG 15 in the Historical S&T for 0.51
Installation: place rfa into ..\Battlefield 1942\Mods\STFHSW\Archives\bf1942\levels
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- Removed finnish roundels on soviet I-153 - Replaced ahistorical Nazi Posters with Finnish War Posters - Replaced FH spring camouflage for french modèle 1897 with original bf1918 texture (grey) and custom wheel texture - Replaced german description on ammoboxes in allied base
Installation: place sound_001.rfa into folder When using FHSW pure: ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\FHSW\Archives When using FHSW with S&T pack: ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\STFHSW\Archive
Installation: place sound_001.rfa into ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\FHSW\Archives When there is already a file with the same name, rename it into sound_002
FHSW sound pack ver0.25 from S&T OptionPack 0.1 includes the above real gun sounds & transmission voices + alternative death & wounded sounds + a few alternative voices (except for germans only one new) for GER, UK/AUS, USA, JAP, SOV
Installation: place sound_001.rfa into folder When using FHSW pure: ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\FHSW\Archives When using FHSW with S&T pack: ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\STFHSW\Archive
Installation: When using S&T put animations.rfa into ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\STFHSW\Archives Otherwise rename it to animations_001.rfa and put it in ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\FHSW\Archives
wounded vision being injured gives you a bloody screen, made by ActionMan & Commander, converted to FHSW by Mayer
Installation: put menu_001.rfa into When using S&T ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\STFHSW\Archives otherwise ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\FHSW\Archives
custom music Tired of hearing the FH1 loading theme for the thousandth time? Annoyed by the FHSW menu music (Ode to Joy)? Then you are right here. Choose whatever music file you like
vehicle4.bik = loading song slaughter4.bik = menu music
Installation: download file and replace the one in ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\FHSW\music I recommend to backup the original file by moving it in another folder or renaming it
As you see, i was unable to recognize all songs. If you can, please help us to identify the remaining songs: Download pack with unidentified songs in mp3 ----------------------------------------------
Quote Endless_Nameless ()Thanks, thankfully it was just a minor bug, hopfully I didn't add another one while I fixed it
Did you just add the sounds folder in objects/stationary_weapons/MG15_air? Any other changes? (i couldn't find them) Also the same problem was reported with the MG17
btw. i already fixed the problem with stug_g_late textures on operation blackknight and liberation of caen: Download
just put the content into your Mods/STFHSW folder
However i do want that we merge all these fixes into a final ST0.51 fix, which will resolve all problems for users who downloaded the above S&T pack
Today I couldn´t join "Liberation of Caen" I had to overwrite ur new fixed .rfa of Caen with the old one, than I could join.
Game crashed with battlefield.exe has a problem ...etc.
Don´t know if anyone else had that kind of problem? Gameserver admin on our FHSW Europ server
Message edited by Robert_von_Eberhahn - Thursday, 2014-01-16, 11:18 PM
Today I couldn´t join "Liberation of Caen" I had to overwrite ur new fixed .rfa of Caen with the old one, than I could join.
Game crashed with battlefield.exe has a problem ...etc.
I downloaded it and compared the .rfa with the one i use in my STFHSW folder and with which i could join and play on the server. They are identical. I doubt that your crash has something to do with my fix (all i changed was one text line which says to use different textures)
hm, I tryed several times and did a restart and try again. The only way that worked was to switch to the original .rfa Gameserver admin on our FHSW Europ server
Message edited by Robert_von_Eberhahn - Friday, 2014-01-17, 11:52 PM
Im convinced that there is a bug either with the ragdoll death animations or real gun sounds, because ive been having nothing but crashes since i installed them, anyone else having issues with them?
EDIT: now im convinced theres something wrong with the universe, i have done like a dozen full reinstallations and i even left out s&t pack on my most recent one and every map i try to load either crashes bf or it just says i was disconnected from server.. its sad but if it keeps up i may stop trying to fix it..
i think you have placed some file in a wrong place. But you need to delete the bf1942 folder manually before reinstallation! the BF1942 deinstallation procedure won't remove files which aren't affilated with BF42/vanilla and the FHSW installer won't overwrite FHSW addons
ive been deleting fhsw and stfhsw from mods folder before reinstallation, should this be enough? now im starting over with fresh FH as well lets see if it works...
It is an improvement on all menu and HUD textures, most are doubled in resolution and you'll notice the difference if you play in higher than 800x600 resolution or widescreen resolutions. All credits go to tuia and unexpectedpanda. I removed some icons that looked out of place (vanilla kit menu on the left e.q.)
Installation: When using S&T put menu_001.rfa in ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\STFHSW\Archives\ otherwise put it in ...\Battlefield 1942\Mods\FHSW\Archives\
Message edited by RADIOSMERSH - Sunday, 2014-01-19, 7:23 PM
ive been deleting fhsw and stfhsw from mods folder before reinstallation, should this be enough?
when you placed a fhsw addon file into the fh folder, then it's not enough. To be sure, delete the whole bf1942 folder. Then you can be sure to have a clean installation.
i thin i found my problem, one of the parts of my install was corrupt, i downloaded a fresh installationand the crashes have stopped, for now at least..
I managed to make 3d ironsights from FHE work in S&T pack and it works in multiplayer:
I think it could be a great addition to S&T pack and I will post an update to pack with availible weapons soon. But I can't get in contact with the developer of the mod to ask permission, since he was't active on forums since 2009.
For those who want to know, how 3d ironsights were made:
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The way you make ironsights H, is to go into the Objects.con and locate the position of the soldiers camera inside the Soldier data .inc file thats in there.
You then write those coordinates down, and place a camera in 3ds Max at those coordinates. Note the coordinates from the game are not identical to those in 3ds Max because of the scale of the game. After you have the camera in place, wtih a 47 degree field of view, seeing what the soldier would see in-game. You proceed to line up the ironsights to the center of the camera.
This is best done by placing a cylinder at the exact location of the camera, parallel with the cameras point of view. If you do it correctly the cylinder will be placed in the center of the camera and will be a dot marking where your ironsights should line up to.
You then animate you weapon. In order to make ironsights work, you have to line them up before you do any animating, and then animate from that position, always returning the gun to that position at the end of the animation.
Then after you export all your animations, you go into the Objects.con of the weapon, and set the soldier zoom to 0/0/0, and its ironsights.
I managed to make 3d ironsights from FHE work in S&T pack and it works in multiplayer:
NICE WORK!
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how do you know when your accuracy has steadied without a reticle?
luck i guess. A custom animation could make the gun wobbling around while holding it unstable. But i don't have any knowledge(and tool) for creating animations.
Good job I tried to do that as well some time ago but some sights aren't really optimised for that, the MP40 looks good though.
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this is interesting, but i dunno how i feel about it, how do you know when your accuracy has steadied without a reticle?
That's a problem, it doesn't really work with the current super sensitive reticles. Maybe you could change this too in the S&T pack but that's definitely going too far gameplay-wise.
I have a question for you guys: Currently in tank combat sound and visuals appear at the same time, e. g. a tank fires 300 m away from you but you hear the sound at the same time as you see the muzzle flash when in reality there's almost a second delay. Would you like to have that? My Youtube Channel aka eYe.ris
Currently in tank combat sound and visuals appear at the same time, e. g. a tank fires 300 m away from you but you hear the sound at the same time as you see the muzzle flash when in reality there's almost a second delay. Would you like to have that?
I think this is cool, makes it much more realistic, youd be surprised how long th delay can be.. the only thing is some noobs probably dont understand how sound actually works so they might think its mis timed, but im all for it!
EDIT: Perhaps its possible to find one or two weapons to intergrate it with(such as submachineguns like mp40s, stens, and thompsons) i think as these are close range weapons it may not make too much difference as there is a tendency to spray and pray anyway.
I have a question for you guys: Currently in tank combat sound and visuals appear at the same time, e. g. a tank fires 300 m away from you but you hear the sound at the same time as you see the muzzle flash when in reality there's almost a second delay. Would you like to have that?
NICE WORK! 