New Joint Operations Mod Coming
 

Hey all!, a new mod will come by the end of the year most probably:
I'd like to share it with you all once it's completed.

It will feature the whole DFBHD single player campaign in Joint operations, same weapons, same dialogs, same soundtrack, same enemies with improved AI, but also keeping the stuff from the original JO engine :D

Drivable technicals with 50 cals
Riding the Iranian oil tanker
BHD psps
Drivable U.N. trucks

Hey great work there - minor question

Can you import BHD maps into it or only DFX stuff?

yes yes i can, that's what i'm going to do, it's just that after you import it you have to change some objects manually in MED since some objects have different IDs than in BHD.

Another mod?? Sweet :D I'll post some news about it

thanks Scott :bigthumb: . yes another mod, can i post any relevant progress here? or that could be too much spam??

That won't be to much spam. You can post it here.

decorations and buildings already added, currently working on vehicles:

next step: ai and playable dfbhd character models

more drivable technicals.

going a bit slow, 2 or 3 vehicle per day, it's really hard to create the collision boxes for every vehicle in 3ds max manually, but that's the only way. still working :)

Nice work. Keep us posted :)

thanks! ^^ more vehicles on the way :

will you add that AH-6 little bird with both minigun and rockets?

yes of course

added today:
_the 'MH53 pavelow' helicopter from DFBHD: team sabre
_The 'civilian littlebird' from DFBHD: team sabre
_the 'friendly jeep' used in Irene mission
_the desk fan with rotating blades

OMG. The US AH-6 with both minigun and rockets will have minigun and rockets working? (Switchable like Apache)

yes yes.

Ok I finished converting the vehicles at last, though some of them are not perfect, some vehicles don't have 'interior model' so they should be drivable by Ai only ( Nova's fault, they created the models, not me, i just converted them, didn't want to get into much editing ) . Still the rest look nice to me as seen in the screenshots and i'm happy with them.

Now to the next and hardest step: importing and converting the character models from dfbhd to Jo format. will be back to post progress in a couple of days

Mate, the Joint Operations trailer shows the DFBHD humvee with an interior. Will you add the DFBHD Humvee drivable with interior? Or the humvee has no interior model?

yes yes i will add it.

So i started with the hardest task of mod making: Character creation.

I added the first character from DFBHD: the Ranger friendly soldier, more coming..

:headbang:

Work In Progress. :D

nice work

ooops. something went wrong there :v

Looks like a creepy mod to me :p

LOOL this happens when i make mistakes on editing models. it gets creepy and funny at the same time :v

haha cool, somekind of halloween feature :D

so i'm still working on this mod, will be done by the next month probably. it'll be probably the last, then i will take a break from mod and map making for a while..

The hud looks pretty similar to bhd and many bhd Sp missions are now playable, I still have to fix some bugs.

Thanks for the update :)

i came with a new enemy idea: the somalian kamikaze

this guy carries 8 satchel charges on his torso and a detonator on his right hand to activate the charges when close enough to his target. he runs quickly towards his target in a suicide run attack to get close enough to activate the charges.

He also explodes when killed by a shot in the torso or by explosive weapons, so to kill him without making him explode you'll have to shoot him in other parts of his body, like head or legs.

working on player models

Looking good grenadier501

Thats great work I know it is difficult and time consuming building mods - If you need help
with a place to test the mod on a server let me know .

thanks man that would be great, i still have to do the final touches for this mod, and converting bhd mp maps and single player missions to jo format. By now the only single player mission i converted successfuly was "Besieged", the other missions are proving difficult for me to convert them, lots of bugs and desynchronized events or dialogs that i still have to fix before uploading the full final mod.

How's this going?

:fingersx:

i've just uploaded the mod to novahq. sorry for the delay, been very busy. it has all of the joint operations original missions but there is still only 1 mission of BHD playable, that is Beseiged, i'm still trying to convert the other missions.

Nice work grenadier501 I'll put it up soon!

This is really cool. Reminds me of when someone (vlad?) made a drivable vehicles mod in BHD, but way more elaborate!

Guess this couldn't be done back in the day since it would've hurt BHD's sales. If anyone ever wanted to seamlessly transition between JO/BHD maps in an online multiplayer session, this would be the only way to do it. Imagine going from Dormant Volcano to Mean Streets. Wonder how some of BHD's maps would play with drivable vehicles...

Guess this is the closest we'll ever get to a remastered BHD! Nice work! BTW, those messed up model ports had me cracking up. :haha:

Is it stand alone or like SO mod, (Special Ops) for Delta Force Xtreme? :)