I have both smoke and blood installed from the links put in this thread.  I will try them out soon.  I'll let you guys know how they work out.  I just hope the ships that carry the soldiers don't float into the sky.    
 
 
Edit: I tried it out by playing the very first level/mission and there is no blood.  What did I do wrong?  I d/l the blood patch from the link in this thread.  I extracted it using winzip to the main folder.  Then I renamed it to blood.pk3.  I also extracted the smoke patch to the main folder.  I didn't rename that one.  Is that the problem?  I have installed patch 1.10.  Thanks to anyone who can help.
[This message has been edited by RJHNY1 (edited February 04, 2002).]