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Grow up >_> Then again..... don't

Hello and welcome to this week's blog where we have a lot of stuff for you to see and watch. I havn't been too quick this week at making this since I have a cold which I can't seem to shake off. Ah well onto the blog! <h3>New Wheels</h3> I recently made some new wheels which look 100 times better than the old round crap we were using before. Here is a selection of units that have had some sexy wheel treatment. <h3>Competition Results</h3> Here are the results for the competiton. TagDaze has won but since he is being a gentleman, he has let his prize slip to second place, so the winners are as follows. -=Winner=- Jupiter =Runners Up= Iscream4pork Mammutpanzer Tomatoslayer/cmatt42 Congratulations to everyone who entered. It was a great competition <h3>AR Alpha Video</h3> Today, I cobbled up a video for you all to see which mainly shows off our Mirage Tank logic and how awesome it is. Also you get to hear what I sound like with a cold [/sympathyvote] Alright here it is. >>>Video<<< <h3>New Old Website</h3> People have been asking "where is the AR site?"... Some people have even been going on as to accuse APB of hogging all the glory. Well the answer to all your queries (except forum skin ones) is right below this paragraph. Our old friend Assassin made us this website a while ago when we were back at C&C Source. As a testament to the time they put up with us for, we are going to be recoding and reusing it (once I get it). This is not to be confused with the forum skin that drunkill has offered to cook up after APB Beta has been released. AR Website <h3>Miscellaneous Items</h3> Info's for this week are as follows. We are now testing what we have in a series of tests with our new Core. We hope to get this standalone as soon as we can get some more assets completed. I'm off to London tomorrow on a college trip to the science meseum, but also to seek out the ellusive creature known only as Aidoneus! Expect pictures in the member photo's forum soon after my return It was Coolrock's birthday yesterday! Everybody wish him a Happy Late Birthday! Congratulations to Eggman891 who recently became an AR tester (There's your cue Chronojam) We have some secret internal discussions going on at the moment that could potentially propell us forward to that December release date as more of a confirmation than of a vague idea. Expect updates on this to follow. Tune in next week for more RA2:AR!

Cheers Steppo Very witty as usual

You couldn't have been more wrong

1. The Allies will hear a ticking noise if the big TnT is placed on an MCT or bridge control thingy. 2. Yes you are right. The Harrier will crash if not on an airpad. It is still to be debated on whether we add the extra functionality of being able to land at tech airports. The Harrier may also feature a small feature that enables you to check whether the harrier is occupied from a distance. If the the Harrier is empty the top hatch will be open, but if someone is inside it the hatch will be closed. We like attention to detail like that. 3. Around the 3000 poly mark. Cheers Aido

Welcome to this week's blog. I'll rattle through some new features that we will be adding soon. <h3>Running through houses! Whoooo!!!</h3> This is great. BogdanV has been working on map objects that you can run over or through. Essentially, destructable scenery. I talked about this a little in the podcast a few weeks ago and I think I remember saying that I would find you a video. So I will. Note: Ignore the screaming on the first video, replacing humans with walls does that Tanks > Walls & Trees WallTreeTests4.WMV Tanks > Houses CrushTest2.wmv <h3>I'm TnT, I'm Dyanamite!</h3> Crazy Ivan usually explodes onto the battlefiled with his throwing arm ready to throw sticks of dynamite at everything that moves. Ivan carrys a lot of small separate sticks of dynamite that he can throw a long way with ease. This makes him dangerous to the allies. He can't throw his bigger charges very far compared to his smaller charges so he chooses to only carry a certain number of them. Nobody knows how he can carry all of those smaller charges though, he seems to pull them out from everywhere. One such charge has miraculously appeared in one of our renders. Model by Svensmokavich, unwrap and texture by Chevy787. (This texture may only be a temporary fixture however) <h3>Random stuff</h3> Frankly there isn't anything else that really deserves it's own section, so I'll sum it up here. Harriers and other planes: with our plane units, we are hoping to incorperate evasive manouvers. This means you'll be able to loop the loop, dive down sharply and also "DO A BARREL ROLL!" by holding a certain key down and pushing one of the movement buttons (WSAD etc.). This will enable harrier pilots to really become pilots and not just be flying a plane with helicopter physics. Be careful though, your planes cannot land anywhere but at your Air Force Command. Landing elsewhere will result in you and your plane blowing up horribly. This is primarily because the landing gear only interacts with the Air Force Command HQ and that Harriers are only designed for quick strike missons and not a fast unit transport to the enemy base. That is what the Nighthawk is for. V3 unwrap: Ric has been hard at work on the V3 unrwrap and it is now complete. Check it out! Expect this ingame soon Exams: Are all done and dusted for most of the AR staff if not all of them. We'll be working like stink on the mod over the holidays to get most of the assets done ready for some testing. <h3>Competiton</h3> The competition is currently being judged. The winners will be announced next week and given their prizes! Note to entrants: TagDaze has said that if he comes first in the competition he is offering to give his prize to second place so everyone moves up a rank. The reasoning behind this is that he didn't seem it fair because he has been doing voice over work for over a year now. Big respect to TagDaze for doing this. It take a lot of balls to potentially give up such a fabulous prize. Speaking of TagDaze, it is his Birthday today so I would like to take this oppertunity to wish him a happy birthday and best wishes for the future! <h3>The Ultimate Sound Mod!</h3> Thats right my friends. My sound mod is done. Me and my brother, TurboDiRT, created some sounds, I edited them to go ingame and Saberhawk made me an installer for it This is not your average sound mod. This mod does not try to make the sounds realistic in any way. This is a comedy mod for Red Alert: A Path Beyond Version 0.9935 (Another version will be released when APB Beta is released). Most of the sounds are replaced with human sounds. It is hard to explain but you will get what I mean once you try it out. >>Link to download<< <h3>End of File</h3> Thats it folks. Check back here next week for some cool stuff and yeah.... cool stuff EDITHAX: Lets play a game of spot the Mirage Tank! Brought to you by DP88 Games!

True. ^5 to Category5 for being like a hawk on any mention of this cursed date.

December hopefully. (Not December 31st 2006)

Soon

Happy birthday to you

Fixed

Welcome to the 33rd edition of the AR blog. We, the team, have loads of cool stuff to show you so take a look below <h3>Terror Drone Console</h3> Poggel recently provided us with a new set piece to appear in the Soviet Radar. The Terror Drone Control Console. Poke the console and you will be controlling a terror drone (either fresh out of the War factory or an existing one that has been left without an operator). Be careful though, Allies could shoot you whilst you are at the console and Allied Spies may be able to hijack your drones if they are left unnoccupied. <h3>Sidebar Icons</h3> endepende has been hard at work creating the templates that we can use for the ingame sidebar icons. We have a few examples of what you'll expect to see for each side's roster of units. As I said, these are just examples currently. The SEAL's pose will be redone for the scene and the Tesla Trooper will have the correct model implemented. <h3>War..... Harvester?</h3> You may be wondering what the title of this subsection is all about. Well the story is that danpaul88 needed the model for the War Miner so that he could try out his new War Miner scripts. I went offline before he got the file so he improvised with this, the fearsome War Harvester™! Compromised of a Nod Harvester and a Turret, this behemoth ploughed through a Humvee and tried to destroy the the GDAllied Chrono Harvester™ before it was stopped by Dan in his medium tank. ^^ Then when I sent the model over we got the full picture on what was happening with these new scripts. Camping the ore field In transit between the Ore Refinery and Ore Field Before you all start asking, yes the War Miner will be promotable, yes the AI War Miner will be promotable (spot the chevron) and yes when fully promoted it will gain the anti armour cannon, just like RA2. Big ups to danpaul88 for this new innovation Coupled with the target priority scripts, this should be an awesome beast. It would be a good idea to rush the War Miner in the early game so that it will shoot you instead of targeting your Chrono Miner <h3>Renegade 2 Mod</h3> You may have been wondering about BogdanV's thread here in the general discussion forums. Well, back in the days of Blazemods we agreed to a merger with BogdanV. Now we work alongside him. His goals at the moment are primarily with a Singleplayer campaign at the moment but to be able to achieve this, new logic must be created. Logic such as pushable boxes, radiation, crushable walls, custom vehicle/troop drops, destructable houses that you can drive through etc. All this kind of interactive scenery content is being developed currently for use in both mods. Having BogdanV and his mod onboard with us does not impede our progress on AR since any assets that we make or aquire, he is welcome to use. Note: Crashing whilst in the back of a C-130 has never been done so well on the Renegade engine Expect to hear more about BogdanV's project in the coming months. Moddb Link <h3>Competition Update!</h3> The competition is into it's third week and we have 18 entries so far! TagDaze with "Fall back to base!" Jupiter with "This is Dr Eintein" Iscream4pork with "Tanya in the Field" Westy543 with "I'm Gone!" TagDaze again with "Cillit Sniper" Iscream4pork again with "The Humorous Spy" chaos1219 with "Awaiting Orders" Godlord with "Mind Control" Iscream4pork again with "Want Flak with that?" Iscream4pork yet again with "Tanks and Vodka" TagDaze again with "Hayulp!" And CMDBob/MartynM with "CMDBob Rations" rm5248 with "Rockets in the Sky" Herr General with "Weather Control Device is ready" Herr General again with "Tanya: Final Take" Mammutpanzer with "Soviet News from the Battlefield" (Contact either me or Mammutpanzer for the uncut, unedited version) Tomatoslayer/cmatt42 with "Lets give 'em hell Allies!" And finally Jupiter with "Stealthy Whisper" Enter now for the chance to win a spot on our TESTING team and the privilage of your sound in the mod with your name on the credits list! 3 days til the competition is finished, get your entries in now! Enter The Competition Here! <h3>Closing Notes</h3> I'd just like to say thanks to all the people who attended the Live Q&A session on Sunday. It was really fun and I forsee another one happening in the near future so keep preparing the questions and me and the team will hopefully be able to answer them for you. Big credit to Ackart for broadcasting through his laptop and to drunkill for recording and editing. Also to The_Aces_Of_Razgriz for his ace Solid Snake voice DJBloodmoss and TruYuri have been made testers! DJBloodmoss for his valiant efforts on the radio and TruYuri because me and the team agreed that he was tester material, also being a regular APB Beta tester. The exam was tricky but in the end I crushed it with my knowledge of Tesla Technology. Huzzah! See you next week where we shall be announcing the winners of the competition!

1680x1050 version of the wallpaper.

Cheers Steppo, thats leet.

We havn't got it ingame yet....

The checker map is a type of skin. It shows you how even the unwrap is.

Moving

Check the blog again I edited it since your post.

Hey guys and welcome to the latest Apocalypse Rising Blog! Due to the exam season and APB Beta nearing release, we have been unable to produce as much as we would have liked to over last month. We'll try and make a significant push forward in the coming months though. Stay tuned. Now comes the renders <h3>Soviet Radar Infernals/Inferior </h3> Our new model artist Poggel (or Aramour on msn) has made us some internals for the Soviet Radar. Check out the images below. (Click the images for bigger ones ) Do you see the radio apparatus on the table? That is going to be used to call in the Spyplane which will fly over the enemy base allowing you to see what they are up to. The spyplane also disables the shroud from the Gap Generator momentarily allowing the Soviets to spot the incoming rushes. In the basement there will be Terror Drone Remote Consoles which you can use to control the terror drones across the battlefield whilst you remain safely inside the base. <h3>The New V3 is being Unwrapped!</h3> Ric has been furiously unwrapping the V3 Rocket Launcher model that Spice made a while back. Here is progress so far. <h3>The First Apocalypse Rising Wallpaper!</h3> I was thinking about what we hadn't done on the mod then it occured to me..... wallpapers! So I made one up using Svensmockavich's Prism Tank being attacked by Ric's Terror Drone. I may do a load more wallpapers like this with more units in, perhaps on request for the future? We'll have to see. (Click the logo to see the wallpaper) So far it is only in 1024 x 768. I'll update this later with more sizes if people request it. <h3>Competition Update!</h3> The competition is into it's third week and we have 12 entries so far! TagDaze with "Fall back to base!" Jupiter with "This is Dr Eintein" Iscream4pork with "Tanya in the Field" Westy543 with "I'm Gone!" TagDaze again with "Cillit Sniper" Iscream4pork again with "The Humorous Spy" chaos1219 with "Awaiting Orders" Godlord with "Mind Control" Iscream4pork again with "Want Flak with that?" Iscream4pork yet again with "Tanks and Vodka" TagDaze again with "Hayulp!" And CMDBob/MartynM with "CMDBob Rations" rm5248 with "Rockets in the Sky" Herr General with "Weather Control Device is ready" Herr General again with "Tanya: Final Take" And finally Mammutpanzer with "Soviet News from the Battlefield" (Contact either me or Mammutpanzer for the uncut, unedited version) Enter now for the chance to win a spot on our TESTING team and the privilage of your sound in the mod with your name on the credits list! 17 days til the competition is finished, get your entries in now! Enter The Competition Here! Special offer!!! Since we are now into the last 10 days of the contest you are allowed to senda single new entry to me for editing if you wish. (sounds added in, radio crackle etc.) This offer is only available for one entry and it must be a new entry. Have fun <h3>Thats your lot!</h3> Thats it for this week. I've an exam on friday, wish me luck :X Happy birthday to AR community veteran and tester, Phoenixx! He is 18 today! Have a good one man! Tune in next week for more AR goodness! Perhaps even a video

Awesome, thanks Steppo I rofl'd.

Funnily enough, that is exactly how I feel about the APB blog.

Use Windows Media Player

Hi there. Welcome to another edition of the AR blog typed by yours truly. As per usual we have some stuff to show you. Two new models, an update of the contest and some other cool stuff. Look down for infos. <h3>New Grizzly Tank</h3> Me and Nameme recently had a modelling competition in which I was the victor. The challenge was to model a new turret for the Grizzly Tank. Here is what I came up with. Enjoy. <h3>Guardian GI's Spectre Sub-Machinegun</h3> Ric has been hard at work on the Guardian GI's Spectre Sub-Machingun. The results are hot and to top it all off, it is unwrapped and ready for texturing. Big ups to Ric for that. <h3>Radiation Test</h3> This was done ages ago but I dont think that it was ever formally anounced. Yes! Apocalypse Rising has proper radiation for the Nuke/Demotruck/Desolator. This is all thanks to BogdanV! The innovative genious that is always coming up with new ways to make the w3d engine perform properly. Get the video here. RadTest2.wmv <h3>General Infos</h3> Here we go! I have an exam next Friday :X I also have various things to do model wise, that includes sprucing up some of our older content. cfehunter is texturing the drill. It is a Bosch! No doubt about it! Although we may have to change the name due to copyright. Merovingian is back! Give him a warm welcome back readers! Nameme is starting work on Ric's Nighthawk Transport this Friday, finishing it up and adding little details that will make it look awesome. Expect the race of the century to occur soon. Flak Tracks vs IFVs who will win? This means more games of darts and hopefully a costom map for playing darts on. Ackart has been and taken loads of photos of the Alamo so expect our Alamo model to be really accurate when I set Ric on it soon. We have been coming up with a team name for the whole APB and AR dev roster. Expect this to be announce soon. DJBloodmoss has been pumping out the tunes on N00bstories Radio, go listen to it! For great justice! Oh.... and in case you didn't hear it.... Kremlin_Fried_Chicken_Advert.mp3 That was dedicated to drunkill for his leet signature that he puts up from time to time. Expect more updates than this during summer when everyone is finished with School/College/University. <h3>The Contest So Far</h3> The competition is into it's second week and we have 12 entries so far! TagDaze with "Fall back to base!" Jupiter with "This is Dr Eintein" Iscream4pork with "Tanya in the Field" Westy543 with "I'm Gone!" TagDaze again with "Cillit Sniper" Iscream4pork again with "The Humorous Spy" chaos1219 with "Awaiting Orders" Godlord with "Mind Control" Iscream4pork again with "Want Flak with that?" Iscream4pork yet again with "Tanks and Vodka" TagDaze again with "Hayulp!" And CMDBob/MartynM with "CMDBob Rations" Enter now for the chance to win a spot on our TESTING team and the privilage of your sound in the mod with your name on the credits list! 17 days til the competition is finished, get your entries in now! Enter The Competition Here! <h3>Finish!</h3> Thats it. See you next time for more stuff!

Meh, we <3 APB. We may be separate mods but we are all on the same side You may get PR crossovers like this from time to time.