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TERRAIN & LANDSCAPES:
1. Tall Heavy Buildings by Magua
RuralBuildings_v1.zip located at CM Outpost


Very nice. A classic CM mod. As you can see there are lots of details, like the rust stain on the upper right of the image. Has a beautiful 3D effect when close up and far away. Just the right amount of sharpness: not like a generated image but not blurry.
2. Summer Blue Sky by Magua
6_Normandy_v1_Subdued_Trees_and_Other_Terrain.zip located at CM Outpost


Everytime a screenshot with that sky in the background, there is the inevitable "Where can I get that sky mod!?" Very beautiful and serene, with subtle coloring. Part of Magua's Normandy Mod, you have to download a big zip to get at the sky. But well worth it! (Another Magua sky is shown in the image below)
3. Pavement by Gunslinger
Terrain-V1.zip located at CM Outpost


Grey pavement. The way it should be! Been on my hard drive for ages now.


4. Church by Magua
4_Normandy_v1_Buildings.zip located at CM Outpost


A variation on his original church (included with his Heavy Rural Buildings above). This one has some nice moss coloring and was from his Normandy Mod Pack.
5. Autumn Dawn/Dusk Sky by Magua
6_Normandy_v1_Subdued_Trees_and_Other_Terrain.zip located at CM Outpost


A marvelous sky that really brings the autumn colors out. Again, part of his Normandy Mod Pack.
6. Wall by Magua
v1_Rural Building Supplement.zip located at CM Outpost


Once again, Magua has done a great mod. A European type rural stone wall. Very realistic.
7. Tall Light Buildings by Panzertruppen
PZ_bldg_mod2.zip located at CMHQ


Panzertruppen did a great job on the tall light buildings. Lots of detail, from the grass at the bottom of the walls to the signs and posters on the building. As you can see I chose Magua's Tall Heavy Buildings and Panzertruppen for the other buildings and they work with each other well.


8. Light & Heavy Houses by Panzertruppen
PZ_bldg_mod2.zip located at CMHQ


Some nicely shaded small buildings. The two buildings on the right are heavy while the two on the left are light. The JPEG image has been lightened so that you can see the details.
9. Van Gogh's Starry Night Sky by Me!
Not located anywhere


Hey, I don't know art but I know what I like...
10. Bocage/Hedgerow & hedge by Magua
6_Normandy_v1_Subdued_Trees_and_Other_Terrain.zip located at CM Outpost


Once again, from Magua's Normandy Mod. Softer and much easier on the eyes than the normal green hedges. Also has a few transparent spots to give a realistic, light coming through quality.


11. Brown Railroad tracks by Bfamily33
Brown_Railroad_tracks.zip located at The Last Defense


Some nice color here. Lo-red but very good looking. Fits in well with the building mods.
12. Wooden Bridge by
1.zip located at CM Outpost


Looks much better than the original. A venerable old-timer on my hard drive. Also looks good blown up by engineers in my Bridge Demolition Scenario: Decision.
13. Stone Bridge by Magua
4_Normandy_v1_Buildings.zip located at CM Outpost


Nice and used looking! The older mod I had was too clean...
14. Overcast Sky by gkump then modified by me after I got it
(Original) gmk_skyscapes_v1.zip located at CM Outpost


gkump had these cool single color skies. My favorite was the one color grey sky. The burning city on the skyline? I got the idea when someone suggested a burning skyline in a post where I was showing off hypothethical art skies like Starry Night. So I took a long distance screenshot of a CM burning city block and then shrunk it several times. Then the shrunken image was repeatedly pasted on Kump's sky.
15. Water by Magua and modified by me after I got it
(Original) 3_Normandy_v1_Terrain.zip located at CM Outpost


It took a long time to get a great water mod. Almost every water mod has trouble looking good when you have a lake or turn in a river. Even Magua's had a problem. I tried to fix the edges by hand, not to just line up on one edge, but all four! Needless to say I failed. But when Gyrene gave me a link to a tessellation filter that solved my problems. Thanks Gyrene!


16. Rubble & Roadblock by Tiger
.zip located at Tom's Combat Mission HQ


The bmp file for rubble is the same texture for roadblocks. The rubble tile is great because it when a house is destroyed, it seems to leave a crater in the fround. The illusion is lessened as more and more rubble is added, but this one
17. Target Reference Point by Me!
Not located anywhere


A nice solid target, with angled crosshair.


18. Barbed Wire by Tom
TomsWire.zip located at Tom's Combat Mission HQ


Cool looking 3D wire! Much better than coiled strands, this takes advantage of the 3D model used for barbed wire.
19. Minefields by Mr. Bill and modified by me after I got them
mrbill_mines.zip located at CM Outpost


Has an actual picture of whether it is an anti-tank or anti-personnel minefield for easy identification. To further clarify things, I inverted the black and white of the AT minefield in MS Paint.
20. Summer Dawn/Dusk Sky by Magua
6_Normandy_v1_Subdued_Trees_and_Other_Terrain.zip located at CM Outpost


Another beautiful Magua skyline. Even if you don't want your CM looking like Normandy, at least get the skies!



21. Wooden Bunker by Pud
damaged-wood-bunker.zip located at Puds Bits N' Pieces


No (or at least, very, very few) trees were killed in making this excellent mod. Notice the pits and dents.
22. Concrete Bunker by Tiger
bunker_by_tiger.zip located at COMBAT MISSIONS


Look at the worn concrete on this mod. The shading makes this beauty a joy to behold.


Thanks to all the great modders out there. Plus, extra thanks to Manx for his Mod List, which I used as easy reference for most of the links.

copyright 2001 Russell M. Zah
You may email comments, suggestions, and questions to russellmz@yahoo.com