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Welcome to blog 57. Here is some stuff for you to look at. <h3>Testing</h3> We have been playing about in the AR test and one day we decided it would be cool to make forts out of sandbags. The results were funny. We barricaded ourselves in next to the allied barracks with a tank and some infantry. Cool glitch huh? <h3>Flak Trooper</h3> I whipped up some concept art for the Flak Trooper today. The way I see it is that to target enemy aircraft, the flak trooper is going to need something to magnify his sight, so he has a pair of military grade binoculars strapped to his helm. Because of the flak his gun fire's he must be protected with a respiratory mask so he can breath through the clouds of dust his flak cannon whips up. Also, since his gun is so loud, his helm must incorperate ear defenders so that his hearing stays intact. Who said that the soviets don't look after their troops eh? <h3>Bunker</h3> Here is a bunker for you all to hide in courtesy of dtrngd and drunkill! These will be found around the various levels so that you can fire from them. There may well be a snow version coming soon as well. Looks like concrete. <h3>Team Messages</h3> I'll be glad when this coursework is handed in. I also recently completed 'Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes' again which was nostalgic cfehunter went to the Black Crusade to see Dragonforce, Machinehead, Trivium, Shadows Fall and others. It was awesome apparently. dtrngd went ranger racing in the official APB server. Not much else happening really as exams are drawing near, as well as christmas. <h3>OWA's Community Support Shed</h3> Nothing for me to talk about this week, so you all get March of the RA2 Penguins. <h3>Grand Finale</h3> Ok, time to close this up for the night, seeya next week Teh Edn

What video?

Welcome to this week's blog. sadly, I don't have many new things to show you, but I'll see what I can find. (scraping the barrel again kids ) <h3>Harrier Improvements</h3> DannyCon has finished up the Harrier now to RA2 spec. Now all that is left to do is model the cockpit, get it textured, rigged and animated. Exciting stuff! Although the soviets may crap themselves if they see the full requisition of four harriers coming for their war factory. <h3>Air Force Command HQ</h3> The team has been deciding on the interior for the Airforce Command HQ. We have come to a decision that there will beaccess to the top control tower and access to the basement. The basement will be accessed via a nice big cargo elevator and possibly a ladder as well for all you elevator-haters out there. The basement will contain missile racks and fuel for the aircraft. One of these will probably be a weakpoint for the building. Up top we have the command tower which is accessed using the stairs in the front of the structure. These will provide access to the gantries and the uppper comm tower. In the comm tower there will be another weakpoint (probably a flight control computer). The gantries will be the allies lifeline if the soviets get up into the upper comm centre as they can be used to land rocketeers on before running up to engage in combat. Updates on the internals will follow in the coming weeks. <h3>Tankmaster's Suprise</h3> Tankmaster has been cooking something extra special up for the installer. As we are going for a really immersive atmosphere, we are going to try as much as possible to make you feel as if you are actually playing RA2 but from a differant perspective. But it's not just going to be the game that gets the glory. Oh no. Tankmaster has gone as far as to recreate the RA2 installer in all it's glory. The installer will be a fullscreen fixture eventually and it's going to rock your world. (RA2 logo will be switched in for the AR logo) <h3>Flak Track</h3> Well, the flak track needs re-unwrapping.... so it's a good opportunity to do some model updates! I basically cleaned up the whole mesh and made the back section a little taller. I also made the gun mountings bigger so the gun can actually point vertically without clipping the rest of the model. Check it out with a new render background that I'm testing out. (Check the next few weeks for a few background variations.) <h3>Testing Screenshots</h3> dtrngd and [FW]Wolf have been playing around in our infantry-only map, RA2_Rocky_Pass.mix! Take a look at the cool screenies that they have taken. Duel under the Tom Bridgedtrngd: "Hey Wolf, I'm behind you!" [FW]Wolf:" Ahhh!" Stoneslab walkway Watching for Seagulls whilst skimming stones A bridge too far (it was bound to appear somewhere) <h3>Team Notices</h3> I'm a Mechanical Man cfehunter is a college linux man with XP. Merovingian is a bi-sexual furry. You heard me right. danpaul88 is a coder and a leet one at that. Ric is a model making machine dtrngd is a map making machine rm5248 is a Blender crash course expert nameme99 is an aerial ace BogdanV is a professor with a degree in kick ass level edit arm twisting Poggel is an infernal designer that designs inferiors. Tankmaster is a Tankmaster Eggman891 is the Eggman with a master plan. Soviet_Deso is a texturiser who just got nuclear Coolrock is a PR man with a flashy car and a license the thrill.... allegedly Chronojam is unofficially a California man And drunkill is a leetcake baker, any questions? <h3>OWA's Community Support Shed</h3> It's that time again. I actually got a notice from someone this time! Great huh? [FW]Wolf and cnc95fan have started the Battle For Dune mod from where it left off. A few maps have been made and vehicles are being tested. Check out their moddb page over here with older screenshots from eons ago located here. I have also heard that a website and forums are coming soon. RenEvo have a voice acting competition! You could be a mechanical an and win prozes! Details are here. The deadline for this competition is on the first of December so break out the microphones! (You can hear a sample of my entry above in the "team notices" section of the blog). <h3>FINISH</h3> Ok, I guess we had more than I said we did Seeya next week for more Apocalypse Rising News! Remember to close the door on your way out and try not to bang it too hard please.

Old Scud Storm is clever, but very flawwed.

They just will.

Not in RA2. We may open up this feature though. It all depends. The tech airport pads may be used for Cargo Planes.

serves them right for: A) Not reading the manual. B)Trying to land a Harrier with it's landing gear up. This is true.

I don't see any textures or unwraps on them yet, so don't expect to see them ingame until they are unwrapped.

Yes They probably will for balance. Say no to Tanya chariots!

1. Undecided but probably 2-4 2. Devastating 3. Probably

Welcome to this week's AR blog. Bringing you fun and delights with the smell of burning tanks with a hint of minty freshness. <h3>Soviet Apocalypse Assault Tank</h3> The Apocalypse Tank is back with an updated model whihc is miles better than it's current iteration. This tank is the heaviest tank in the soviet arsenal and it boasts a set of massive twin cannons, that deal with the ground targets, with some AA missile launchers (tusk missiles) that rip through air targets. The tank is heavily armoured and can take a lot of punishment before it is destroyed. Here it is! Model by One Winged Angel, Svensmokavich and Skulking Ferrit. <h3>Allied Harrier</h3> Our new model maestro, DannyCon, has been working on the allied harrier. This aircraft is very fast and packs a punch with it's maverick missiles. Subsequently, the armour of this craft is quite light and can be ripped apart by flak quite easily. To stop this happening the allies have employed a new train regime which allows their pilots to barrel roll and loop the loop to evade enemy AA fire. This should give pilots a chance now that the war has changed. The harrier can only be landed at the Air Force Command HQ and possibly the Tech Airport. This means that if you try and land elsewhere, you will crash and burn. If you try getting out midair, you will crash and burn. When you land at a safe zone, the landing gear will deploy and the harrier will be re-armed with maverick missiles. Model by DannyCon <h3>Moddb</h3> As you may know, Moddb have completely changed their layout and format of how everything is presented. This is good in some ways, but bad in others. At the moment, Bluehell Productions is one of the most popular groups on Moddb. How about that? Both projects are also listed as indie (independent) games. With the moddb awards beginning this month, make sure to vote for us in full force so we can hopefully win some awards for our trouble. <h3>Team Notices</h3> I'm good, thanks for asking. cfehunter has windows back after he relaised that he can't do his coursework on linux/ubuntu. danpaul88 is doing a great job helping out oxi and getting the stats up and running again. Fear not, players of APB! chevy787 is unwrapping the welder ready for drunkill to texture it. Flak Track need re-unwrapping. A lot of secret stuff is floating around. So secret that your brain would explode if I told you. <h3>OWA's Community Support Shed</h3> No one has approached me again for stuff to put here so I'll fill it with stuff I feel is relevant. Go and check out Tiberian Eclipse! It is a mod for Cysis that converts it into the world of Tiberian Sun but with a radical design change (even more so that Reborn). This mod is leader by ex-Reborn staff member Three9 (known as SpartnII back in the day). This mod will be awesome as the graphical quality of the assets being produced at the moment is phenomenal. Check it out at http://www.solar-fissure.com/te-mod/nod.php With the upcoming release of Unreal Tournament 3 imminent, we must all cast our eyes upon Renegade 2007 as they begin to get things ingame and rigged. They already have a number of graphical assets completed so it is only a matter of time before they get some cool videos for us to drool over. Go and see [NE]Fobby[GEN]'s brainchild over at http://www.renegade2007.com Also we must not forget Crysis and Dante's team over at RenEvo. Development of the Command and Crysis mod is going to be fun to watch as the C&C mode of gameplay is reproduced in Crysis for many people to enjoy. This is definitely on my watch list. Head over to http://www.renevo.com for the latest news and updates regarding their hosted projects. <h3>End/Finish/Stop/etc....</h3> Same time next week? What? Oh ok, just because it's you

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A screwup on my part, try now. The Apoc tank has got a totally new turret and back section. I'm also aiming to redo the wheels and tracks and most of the object faces.

Welcome to this week's blog. I'm really rather shattered at the moment from all the intense coursework deadlines. (I redid my entire graphics coursework within the space of 24 hours, 11 A3 pages so far). So yeah. But we have some cool stuff for you to see nonetheless. <h3>Model Updates</h3> Thought our Apocalypse Tank was good? Think again. I'm currently upgrading the model so that it will truly be the icon that it is meant to be. Click for a nice image of the current Apocalypse Tank. So here is a work in progress shot of the re-equipped Apocalypse Tank so far. I have also been preparing some new resources to harvest. That's right! New Ore! This will be used in both AR and APB with textures to come from Venompawz They are just like cheesy peas at the moment though. Finally, to go with the ore we have the Ore Extractor. This model has been endited and finished off by me. Chevy787 is currently unwrapping it. Check it out. <h3>Animations</h3> You may know that we are planning landing zones for harrieres so that they will automatically deploy the landing gear when they get close to an Air Force Command HQ. This will trigger an animation (there is a video of the legendary boxplane around somewhere). dtrngd was taking a look at how these kinda of animations can be triggered for almost anything and has produced two nice experimental videos which hint at some of the future possibilities. <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src=" http://i153.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid153.photobucket.com/albums/s206/dtrngd/RandomAnims.flv"></embed> <embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i153.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid153.photobucket.com/albums/s206/dtrngd/Elevators.flv"></embed> <h3>Team Notices</h3> Breaking News! The Soviets are back��‚��€�this time on American soil. And their mysterious mind-control technology is turning Americans into mindless automatons faster than a season of back-to-back Jerry Springer. Take up arms for the Red, White and Blue........ or just the Red. Whatever your allegiance, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Apocalypse Rising pushes the frontier of FPS/TPS/RTS hybrid gaming. In other news...... Coursework is handed in, for now...... cfehunter is back on XP, so he'll be getting back to work as his compatibility issues have gone. We have a new staff member! Give a big warm welcome to DannyCon, who has joined Bluehell Productions to make models and textures. His help will be greatly appretiated and will help to propell both projects forward and an ever increasing rate. Also, to top it off, he is british! Another one of use on the team can't be bad! He has begun by making a start on the Allied Harrier, expect some news on that soon BogdanV returned to us briefly with a staggeringly awesome new feature that he had managed to accomplish in the game. We aren't going to show you just yet though. It is really quite special. Dutch Sunshine, an avid AR & APB fan, has translated APB into Dutch for us. This means that dutch fans will expect a version in their native language. In the fufutre, AR will also be translated into dutch, so watch this space. <h3>OWA's Community Support Shed</h3> No one approached me about mods this week. So I can put what ever I want here. Red Alert: A Path Beyond is curently showcased on the official EA C&C site (proof). Check it out at commandandconquer.com Next up is a cool, real life RA2 Tesla Coil..... but stylised Check it out at tesladownunder.com Finally, assassin over at C&C Source put up an awesome, official storyboard depicting two tesla troopers playing poker. Check it out here. <h3>Closure</h3> We are closed, sorry. Please return next week for more stuff. -The Management-

I've already shown off the Battle Fortress. If you want to apply, drop me a pm or email

Get him to recruite more texture artists and we'll see

dante isn't really a new face (since he used to lead APB when it was renalert), but he should get the results that Reborn have been wanting. Indeed. I don't think we'll make december.

Infantry-only beta.

Hi, welcome to the forums

Ok lets hit into our second year of blogs! Before I begin I would like to wish everyone a happy halloween. Now for updates! <h3>Flak Track</h3> Aside from the terror drone, the soviet's fastest land unit is the flak track. This unit acts as an APC, as well as filling anti-infantry and anti-air roles. The flak track can carry one driver and four passengers bringing the total to 5. It's flak gun can fire an arced shot for taking out ground units or a high velocity shot for taking out those pesky harriers and rocketeers. The talented Mjfabian has been working away on the texture for this unit and the base detail has been put down. The colour is only a temporary fixture and the final unit will come in a flavour of four differant camos, much like the V2 and Tesla Tank on APB. <h3>The Allied All Seeing Eye</h3> The allied spysat uplink, in RA2, revealed the whole map. We are not sure how this will work in AR but we'll give it a good go. It may end up turning out like the spyplane but better, who knows at this stage. Anyway, here is the model by Sven and Ric (combo mambo by me). <h3>Germany's Can Opener</h3> Are the soviet tanks getting you down? Having trouble with that superior armour and massive firepower? You are? Well never fear, for the Germans are here! Utilising their gun making prowess, they have managed to put a monsterous anti-tank cannon onto a normal tank chassis to create a soviet tank commander's worst nightmare. These mobile guns have been known to tear even the toughest of units apart, even the mighty Apocalypse Tank has fallen to a squad of these ferocious units. With strength comes weakness and this unit is no exception. Due to the special shells, designed to penetrate tank armour, the tank destroyer is useless against the bricked-up structures of the soviets. It is also completely useless against infantry. Since the gun is aimed forward the tank destroyer is vulnerable against anything that isn't a frontal attack. This also limits the aiming capabilities of the unit, forcing it to use the terrain to it's advantage. Model by Sven and Retrocide (combo mambo by me). <h3>Mapping on the Move</h3> dtrngd has been mapping as usual and he has pulled out two new screenshots of his latest map, Rocky Pass. Check 'em out! <h3>Team Messages</h3> Oh noes! Coursework! Wednesday next week is going to be much less of a rush, that's for sure. cfehunter has linux (could be kubuntu). Tankmaster is getting our website ready. We should probably have it by christmas. I'll have to check about the forum theme though. It looked awesome when I last saw it though. A screenshot of the website can be found here. [FW]Wolf has been appointed as a tester. Well done to him! A Path Beyond and to a lesser extent, Apocalypse Rising were featured on the latest episode of battlecast primetime. APB was on for about 3 seconds then a screenshot of the website was shown (with a render of AR on the front page) along with Apoc pretending to cry about the nostalgia or something. Anyway, the footage they used isn't a patch on the newest trailer, due to release soon. Talking about releases, patch 2 for APB Beta is to release very soon, this is going to be quite a significant patch so make sure to get it when it goes live. <h3>OWA's Community Support Shed</h3> C&C Reborn is drawing ever near to completion. Will it finally be released? What will become of the dev team after? Will I shutup now? Find out on the next saga of C&C Re-ball Z [FW]Wolf informed me that him and cnc95fan have acquired the old Battle For Dune mod from Leaubi and have restarted development. I think this will be good if it is completed as BFD would make quite a nice FPS. I mean who doesn't want to rip round in a Harkonnen Buzzsaw? CMDBob has restarted his Homeworld 2 mod after a period of abscence. The test for this was pretty fun, not to mention the crazy aircraft physics. That's it for now, more from the shed next week. (Yes! I had more w3d based coverage than Apoc's community corner!) <h3>End</h3> "That's a wrap! " "Roger that! "

Yeah, that's a piece of RA2 concept art by Eric Gooch (I think).

We'll see about the bigger defences. It may be a hassle because of the firepower bonuses they get.

Hopefully.

Go Dan go! *cheers*

I'll jump in one of the Flak Cannons then We may release more replacements, but this has not been decided yet.