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GreenAsJade	Long Live CMMODS	Lead	[-]
Lieutenant General Posts: 4732 (05-04-09 11:32:00) Chief of BoBster Club Treasurer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Remove this ad Hi All, I've started in earnest to create a replacement CMMODS site. You can have a look at the basics that are there now. (Very much the basics) GaJ's beginnings of new CMMODs Where it's at is that the CMMODS Mod data from the spreadsheet I received is loaded, and you can look at it (in ugly tables that I haven't tarted up yet). The next steps are: 1. GaJ enables Uploads of mods 2. You guys start uploading like mad 3. GaJ makes it all look a bit nicer 4. GaJ adds the stuff it needs like searching mods by unit etc etc. Feedback welcome. GaJ
GreenAsJade		#1	[-]
Lieutenant General Posts: 4733 (05-04-09 11:34:03) Chief of BoBster Club Treasurer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Suggestions I've received so far (from mfred) - Enable log-in to this site using WeBoB password - Add a field where the uploader can record the original artist GaJ
GreenAsJade		#2	[-]
Lieutenant General Posts: 4734 (05-04-09 14:06:24) Chief of BoBster Club Treasurer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've made it so you can look at what is there without logging in (doh!) I've also fixed up a problem that happened when you register. I had to delete mike8g & dt accounts (I presume you had an error message when you signed up?) GaJ
Erwin		#3	[-]
General Posts: 7058 (05-04-09 15:03:09) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is great, GAJ. Quite a a few folks incl. yours truly contributed funds to the old CMMODS, and am sure we'd be happy to do so again if you need it. This is so valuable to the CM community. I have no idea re work involved so plz take these suggestions with that in mind: 1) Cross-referencing. Would be very useful to be able to select "TYPE" of mods as well as "BY DATE." 2) Also, by ERA (which year first seen in WW2) 3) FRONT (East, Italian, African, Normandy, ETO, Bulge etc.) 4) CLEAN or DIRTIED, 5) REGULAR/WINTER I have started categorizing the mods I downloaded by FRONT. I also only use realistically DIRTIED/WEATHERED mods wherever possible. So, I could help out with those at least. Last Edited By: Erwin 05-04-09 15:11:20. Edited 1 times.
GreenAsJade		#4	[-]
Lieutenant General Posts: 4735 (05-04-09 15:34:40) Chief of BoBster Club Treasurer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	These things can relatively easily be enabled if folk are willing to go through all the mods and set the data for them! It might almost be easiest to do this by entering it into the spreadsheet that I have, then loading them all at once from the spreadsheet. Erwin, do you have this information for the CMMODs mods - could you enter it for each one if I sent you the spreadsheet?
GreyWolf BoB		#5	[-]
General Posts: 6002 (05-04-09 15:53:54) Club President Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Fabulous job !!! We have 2 main page buttons at the top of the forums, one of these could be changed to "CMMODS" Edit: Now appearing at the top of your page "CMMODS" Last Edited By: GreyWolf BoB 06-04-09 17:07:56. Edited 1 times.
DrVonCool		#6	[-]
General of the Army Posts: 10420 (05-04-09 17:06:25) Club Vice President Tournament Director Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Great work, GaJ! I don't understand though why the mods would have to be loaded up separately - wouldn't it be easier to do that in one woosh from the DVD?
GreenAsJade		#7	[-]
Lieutenant General Posts: 4737 (05-04-09 22:47:52) Chief of BoBster Club Treasurer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hmmm - "woosh" is an interesting choice of word. I don't have a clear idea how long a single person would have to leave hthe DVD plugged in and spinning to upload 16G of data? That's about 2 months worth of bandwidth on my home plan... I did actually consider (still could be persuaded) to use bittorrent for all this, which helps to solve the "upload" problem (as well as the hosting cost problem). The problem with _that_ is I can't find a web-based way of delivering it - people would have to have a client. The only real way to "woosh" would be to host it on a local server, and plug the DVD into it. But who's going to pay for a 200GB plan, for a start. Hence my conclusion that uploading will be a shared exercise that can be expected to take some time to get to completion... GaJ
DrVonCool		#8	[-]
General of the Army Posts: 10423 (06-04-09 00:04:18) Club Vice President Tournament Director Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ah, ok, I see. Well, let's share the wooshing then.
turretlord		#9	[-]
Colonel Posts: 953 (06-04-09 05:28:35) Invasion Italy Campaign XO Knight of the Round Table Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	FWIW, at my best, my upload rate is about 5 MB/s, but generally around 3-4 MB/s.
FredKors		#10	[-]
Major Posts: 1153 (06-04-09 09:18:44) Combat Mission League GM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad Great work indeed!
Calibration		#11	[-]
Captain Posts: 618 (06-04-09 16:22:54) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Very good indeed GaJ! I've changed PC's several times over the years and never bothered to keep up with a consistent set of MOD's. Sorry to be a lazy git, but anyone care to summarize (if possible) a good basic set for CMAK and CMBB that generally improves the look of the game?
Erwin		#12	[-]
General Posts: 7059 (06-04-09 17:00:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	GAJ: "go through all the mods and set the data for them!..." Not sure what that entails. I have the zipped mods but no other info, sorry...
Mauser GDog		#13	[-]
Captain Posts: 448 (07-04-09 05:11:31) Battle of Moscow Campaign GM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well done GaJ! I have lots of bandwidth available, and good upload speeds if you need my help. MGD
GreenAsJade		#14	[-]
Lieutenant General Posts: 4743 (07-04-09 05:24:07) Chief of BoBster Club Treasurer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Upload volunteers will be a great help. I'm still hung up just before the point of enabling uploads, because I want to make sure it's to the right place. I haven't quite decided where 'the right place' is, largely because the choices all involve money at some point. Either up front (signing up with a plan) or down the track (with free now, pay for use as you go services). If someone has storage and bandwidth they've already paid for that we could piggy back that would be nice (depending on what I have to learn to use it) Or if there's some sense that a call for donations would deliver the goods, then I could choose the easiest to implement solution and just get on with it! GaJ
GreenAsJade		#15	[-]
Lieutenant General Posts: 4747 (07-04-09 12:52:19) Chief of BoBster Club Treasurer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Does the DVD have the preview pictures for the mods on it?
GreenAsJade		#16	[-]
Lieutenant General Posts: 4753 (10-04-09 08:41:19) Chief of BoBster Club Treasurer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In case y'all are wondering if anything is happening, I'm inching forwards. My website did it's first sucessful upload today http://cmmods-zips.greenasjade.net/test_upload.png Getting that one little file there is actually a major hurdle overcome Fingers crossed it's downhill from here... (in the good sense) GaJ Last Edited By: GreenAsJade 10-04-09 12:10:37. Edited 3 times.
GreenAsJade		#17	[-]
Lieutenant General Posts: 4755 (11-04-09 12:53:34) Chief of BoBster Club Treasurer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Anyone still interested? Outstanding questions: - Does the DVD have the preview pictures for the mods on it? - Are the names of the zip files on the DVD all in capitals (because they are in the spreadsheet) Thanks, GaJ
Erwin		#18	[-]
General Posts: 7066 (11-04-09 13:26:14) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Who actually has the DVD????
GreenAsJade		#19	[-]
Lieutenant General Posts: 4756 (11-04-09 13:45:32) Chief of BoBster Club Treasurer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I poked around a bit and guessed, based on what's at CMMODS, that the zips will be captials I dunno about the previews, but I guess they are secondary. Is there anyone willing to try out what I have at the moment? You have to understand that it's in development, changing all the time ... I just need someone to kick the tyres. Drop me a note if you're up for it. At the very least, you can see if you can register. You won't be able to upload till I enable you. I uploaded my first mod just now - you can see what the table looks like when a mod is uploaded here I haven't made a way to download the mod yet But that's the easy bit. GaJ
DrVonCool		#20	[-]
General of the Army Posts: 10450 (11-04-09 15:27:00) Club Vice President Tournament Director Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad It seems quite important that someone who does have the DVDs sends a copy to GaJ, at least of one set of mods so he knows what data is available.

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