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Blog #111

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:20:08 +0000

Hello and welcome to a very much needed, blog 111. As you may have noticed, we've been very quiet over the past month, this is mainly due to exams and the fact that we've been more working on game balancing and our latest internal build! But now for what we have been up to in more detail.

Forums

If you are one of our forum visitors you may of noticed that we have upgraded to IPB 3. This was due to the fact that IPB has stopped all support for IPB2 now and therefore we saw it as something we must do to make sure our forums are safe and secure. If you are not a member of our forums and wish to see what we've been up to then please visit www.battlefordune.eu.

Alpha 5

As I said in the intro, we have been very busy with our latest build, Alpha 5. This build is our best so far with all infantry models in, updated rigs, weapons and more! We've been focusing a lot on our infantry balancing lately due to that side of the game being the most complete (including mapwise). More on the build and maps to come at a later date (sooner rather than later).

Atriedes Rifle

Due to our current Atreides rifle being a very low poly textured model from the old team back in 2003, we've decided to finally make a new one! Eeevil has been busy designing and modelling this weapon, we are going through many ideas with how this should look and what fits with the House in general. At the moment we have the basic ideas down but the size and details of the weapon are still very much WIP.

As you can see, it currently looks a little too big and bulky, not something a soldier wants to be carrying around in the deep desert.

Atreides Pistol

The Atreides pistol (as seen in the 1980's cult film) has been something we haven't been sure on for awhile now. The design and main shape of the pistol are alright but apart from that is looks really bad and just lacking in every way. Our first attempt at remaking it kind of failed so Fz007 has been busy redesigning it and remodelling the gun. Thinking more about how pistol actually look and work has given us a lot more ideas on how it should be, just see for yourselves!

As you can see, we've even made sure the iron sight is easy to look down through.

Harkonnen Jackhammer

Eeevil has once again been busy working on weapons, this time he is texturing the Harkonnen shotgun, the Jackhammer. As you can see the texture is a early WIP but the just of it is there. More to come of this next update but for now, have some images!

Atreides Doors

If you have been following the game, watching the videos, looking at the building images, you would of seen that we really are lacking any sort of doors. Well we are finally designing and putting them ingame. Due to a lot of infantry rape from vehicles in open buildings in testing games and something we have been meaning to put in, here is the Atreides building doors by LR01.

LR01 also wanted to say a few words on the matter.

"We've used dummy doors for the Atreides for awhile (and any other house, so they will be made to) and now we have decided to make one.

Both the model and texture are made by myself, this is the first texture I have made.

It's a WIP, so the final will be better but I need to learn to texture so I thought this would be something nice to start with."

Team Notices

I have been busy with work and trying to get back into education!

LR01 has been busy with exams and the build.

cnc95fan has been doing exams as well.

gtp0rong has finally finished his exams and is back working!

Fz007 has been working on touching up the Atreides pistol and some stuff for Tiberium Redux!

Tester Recruitment

Final Warriors Productions are looking for new testers! We are looking for testers to help look for bugs and other bad things in Battle for Dune and SCUD Storm. You must post the following information in this format or pm me here:

Name:
Age:
Testing Experiance:
Contact Information:
Other Info:

All applications will be looked over and interviewed, so make sure you have all your information correct!

Not dead, and never will be!

That's it for this over due blog, more next time!

SCUD Storm Release 1.2

Mon, 17 May 2010 14:15:00 +0000

SCUD Storm version 1.2 is finally here! After a lot of work, changes, new stuff being modelled and a new gametype going in we are finally able to release this to the public!

Release Patch 1.2

1.2 is at last here with us and with a load of stuff new, changed and balanced. Here is the change log so you can all see what's new!

-added MiniMap of C&C_Confrontation
-fixed that you could enter your PT from both Base Zones
-modified "Attack Icon" displayed in Aircrafts for better visibility of your current Bulletcount
-added Reload & Heal Zones to Airfields so Aircrafts can Reload there and get healed. Healing is 10% per 3 seconds while Reloading is 1 Ammo per 3 seconds.
-due to the new Heal & Reload Zones the Bug where Aircrafts reload after Exit and Re-Enter them is now fixed.
-due to the shaders fix in 1.1 the wireframe technique for Building Dummies is no longer possible. Building Dummy Materials are now setup as Screens so they become a Ghost-like look.
-Added 5 Oil Derricks to C&C_Confrontation.
-Re-Enabled CTO(Capture The Oil)-Mode known from the old Version
-fixed that PT-access didn't work after Character change
-fixed that you lost your Flag on any Weapon changes (promotion, Strategy change ...)
-added the new Raptor Model with a simple basic Texture made by LR01 for the USA None General
-added Deploy/Undeploy Icons for the Outpost and switched from Q-Key to Upgrade_1 Key to link it to the Icon
-fixed the Promotion Progress Bar that indicates how far the next Promotion is away.
-added PowerBar to the HUD (on the left to the Radar and only visible for the TeamCommander) which indicates the available Power. This changes color to yellow as soon as the half capacity of 1 PowerPlant is left, changes to red as soon as available Power goes lower than 30% of 1 PowerPlant.
-added Team Credits to the HUD (underneath the Team Upgrade Bar and only visible for the TeamCommander)
-added queued Team Info Messages
-added HUD adjustment to make the HUD fit any Screen Resolution
-fixed HUD Team switch to show the correct HUD for each Team (i.e. after Team change the HUD didn't change so you could have had the USA HUD as China)
-added Map 'C&C_Dust_Devil' made by TeamWolf + MiniMap
-increased DrawDistance from 300->800
-enabled TechTree for Team Upgrades. Team Upgrades are now only buyable when their Building exists(i.e. Barracks is needed for Capture Buildings Upgrade)
-fixed the "invisible Body"-Bug of the Chinese Tank Hunter

Patch 1.2 [Link]

Patch 1.2 at Moddb [Link]

Main Installer 1.0 [Link]

Main Installer 1.0 at Moddb [Link]

SCUD Storm FDS

We've also put together an FDS for those of you wishing to host a SCUD server! All you need to do is run the install and then you're good to go.

SCUD FDS Installer [Link]

Capture the Oil

Something many of you will remember about the old SCUD Storm are the Tech Oil Derricks that were around the maps and you could capture them to boost your team's econermy. We've now brought this back but as a cool new gametype!

Basicly capturing Oil Derricks is always possible as soon as the 'Capture Buildings'-Upgrade was bought by the TeamCommander. After an Oil Derrick is captured by a Team it produces 200$ each 60 seconds for each Team Player and for Team Credits (used for Upgrades and Buildings...). Only the standard Infantry holds a Flag and is able to capture Buildings (Ranger for USA and Red Guard for China) the only exception is Black Lotus for China. Right now she also gets a Flag with the 'Capture Buildings'-Upgrade. The CTO-Mode can be activated by the Host at 'Victory Conditions'-Screen which means that a Team that holds all Oil Derricks wins the Game. The Capture Flag is now assigned to 'Upgrade_4 Key' and is only available when the upgrade was bought (of course) and the Player is NOT inside a Vehicle. After a Flag was used it has to reload 45 seconds which counts down on the Upgrade_4 Icon.

Power Bar

The whole Bar represents the produced Power. After the first Power Plant was built the Power Bar is full because the whole produced power is also available. The Bar itself represents available Power i.e. you got 3 Power Plants and your Power Bar is 60% it means that you got 2 Power Plants producing Power that is not in use by any Building. As soon as you Power Level goes lower than 50% of 1 Power Plant the Bar changes its color to yellow. As soon as you Power Level goes lower than 30% of 1 Power Plant the Bar changes its color to red.

Recruitment

We are looking for modellers, texture artists and infantry modellers. So if you are interested then please post here on our forums stating why you'd like to join the team, some recent work to show off and contact details.

Blog #110

Mon, 10 May 2010 21:45:01 +0000

Hey and sorry for the late blog, we've been really busy with real life stuff but we finally have an update ready and here it is!

Atreides Windtrap

LR01 has been busy working on the Windtrap's interiors and I think it's coming along fairly nicely, take a look at how it's looking so far!

Upstairs

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Basement

Ordos Chemical Trooper

For awhile now we've been using the Ordos AA Trooper for all of our infantry units, we've now finally rigged up our Chemical Trooper and he's ingame!

The Chemical Trooper carries a short-range poison gas projector. The projector fires a charge out to saturate an area, damaging any unit caught within its blast, though infantry will be far more affected.

Here are a few shots.

Ordos AA Trooper

We finally have the Ordos AA launcher's 3rd person model rigged and ingame, here it is slightly too big on the AA Trooper's back!

A lightly armored fast moving infantryman, the AA Trooper carries a small but sophisticated missile launcher, which enables it to track vehicles and aircraft out to a long range with ease. It does not deliver a very large warhead, so overall firepower is less than that of the Harkonnen Trooper.

Team Notices

I've been busy with work and and other real life stuff.

LR01 is now on his holidays and is ready to get some modding done!

Fz007 has gone to vocational school untill July.

Eeevil has started work on the Jackhammer texture.

Beyond The Path!

A few Red Alert: A Path Beyond fans have got together and made an awesome machinima of it! It's called Beyond The Path and their first episode has already been released, titled The Woods Yesterday.

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.

The Woods Yesterday

Blog #109

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:25:54 +0000

Hey there and welcome to blog 109! We've been working very hard over the last two weeks and this is what we have to show for it!

Atreides Repair Tool

For awhile now we have been talking about how Engineers would work, in terms of repairing, capturing and other things. Well we knew we'd use his case for one of these things and with some brainstorming with Eeevil we've come up with something we are all happy with.

The Atreides case concept art.

Eeevil said:

You pull the plug-thingy out of the briefcase, stick it into the building, open the briefcase and start manually repairing it.

And here are a few WIP renders of it!

Now while you are hooked upto the building repairing it you won't be able to move or your movement will be very limiting (undecided) otherwise the connection will be lost and you will stop repairing the structure.

Harkonnen Light Infantry

Now we showed off the Harkonnen Light Infantry ingame in the last blog but he was untextured. Thanks to Kiory who modelled him in the first place, he's gone back over the model, cleaned up the mesh and textured this badass! So here is the Harkonnen Light Infantry and I think that Kiory has done an amazing job as always on his guy!

A picture speaks a thousand words, so what does a video do?

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
Harkonnen Light Infantry

With this guy now textured, we finally have all of our first release infantry finished which is a major milestone for us at Battle for Dune!

Normal Maps

Now LR01 has prepared something for this blog about normal map textures, so here he is!

LR01: At some point, we already used normal mapping but we focused more on other stuff so left it out, now we took a look at them and decided to use it. With the "newest updates" on the engine it is possible to use it, of course it just a option.

Now, how this it looks then?

On the left the normal map is applied. Besides normal mapping we also going to use some other effects, like bloom. Just a bit of it though :

Of course, we are working on this so don't worry if it doesn't looks good.

Team Notices

My left wrist is a lot better but still not 100% there yet, also I return to work from a 2 week holiday tomorrow!

LR01 has been busy rigging up the finished Harkonnen Infantry.

cnc95fan is back and able to work.

Fz007 is working on the Atreides Pistol.

Eeevil is busy with the Atreides repair case!

Safety Dance anyone?

An awesome song with an epic video, who doesn't like this?

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
SAFETY DANCE!

Blog 5

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:51:41 +0000

Original post at:
http://tiberiumredux.netau.net/Forum3/view...?f=23&t=127

Blog 3 & 4

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:51:01 +0000

Original post at:
http://tiberiumredux.netau.net/Forum3/view...?f=23&t=118

Blog 2

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:50:28 +0000

Original post at:
http://tiberiumredux.netau.net/Forum3/view...p?f=23&t=99

Blog 1

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:50:05 +0000

Original post at:
http://tiberiumredux.netau.net/Forum3/view...p?f=23&t=57

Blog #108

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:55:45 +0000

Welcome to blog 108, sorr it's a week late but I had some video editing problems. As you may of also guessed we are now doing blogs every two weeks due to everyone having lesss time atm to work.

JackHammer Shotgun

Fz007 has finished the first person model and it looks awesome.

Right side

Left side

Now off to Eeevil for texturing!

Harkonnen Infantry

Seeing as we have been using the Renegade Nod soldier as a placeholder for the Harkonnen infantry, LR01 rigged up the model we have and put it ingame. Looks better than a renegade nod soldier there imo!

Minotauraus Animation

Due to LR01 remaking the Mino, he has recently also remade the walking animation for it as well. With a combo of how it walked in the E:BFD cut scenes and how it would fit ingame, here is the fuinshed result!

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
Mino Walk Animation

Map Blockers

Map blockers are something we've been thinking about a lot at BFD and we have come up with a new of doing them. Instead of having the old invisible walls for map boarders we now have signs telling you where the map boarder is, then two damage zones.

The first damage zone is a weak one for more of a warning then the second is a much stronger one that will kill you very quickly, here is a video showing how it works.

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
Map Damage Zones

Team Notices

I had to have some minor surgery on my left wrist on Thursday due to built up fluid, we I won't be able to use that hand for a few days.

cnc95fan should be back in action this Monday!

LR01 is busy working on the remaining building interiors.

Fz007 is working on the Atreides Pistol.

Eeevil is working on something secert for the next blog!

Is this real life?

Don't you just love odd drugged up kids?

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
David After Dentist

Pre Blog #108

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:17:56 +0000

So yeah as you can most likely tell, we have shifted our blogs to every two weeks now due to everyone's lives being so busy at the moment and we just can't keep up with a weekly blog. And even though we have the content, it's not 100% ready atm so come back tomorrow afternoon and this will be all updated and the blog will be real good!

Sorry for the delay!

Blog #107

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:51:10 +0000

Hey there, sorry for this majorly late blog. We've been very busy with real life stuff and haven't had much time to work on the mod, but we've finally freed up some time and so here you go!

Atreides Windtrap

LR01 has been busy working on the Atreides Windtrap interiors, we're trying something new with the Windtraps due to how each House turns the wind/air into energy their own way.

Here are a few WIP shots of the basement.

Jackhammer

Fz007 has been really busy with RL stuff but has managed to get some work done on the Jackhammer. He has designed a flip out grip for reloading!

Wallpaper

Fz007 has also been making some wallpapers, here is one of the Minotaraus.

Here it is!

Team Notices

I've been busy with work and working on some Scud Storm stuff.

cnc95fan is busy with rowing and school work.

LR01 is busy with uni work but still finds time to work on the mod!

Fz007 is also busy with life.

Alex has finished his uni work and is free for awhile so that means more textures!

SCUD Storm release!

SCUD Storm has finally released their new BETA and patch 1!

Go grab it over at this topic!

Scud Storm Release 1!

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:09:25 +0000

That's right, Scud Storm BETA 1 is here and ready for download. Yes the moment we have been waiting for has finally come, with some major gameplay changes, features and much more!

The full game can be found at these links:

Beta 1

Us at Battle for Dune

Moddb at Moddb.com

Patch 1.1

Us at Battle for Dune

Moddb at Moddb.com

Tutorials

cnc95fan has written up a nice toturial on how to use the new Commander system we have setup ingame, take at look at the link:

Commander system explained at Moddb.com

For all bugs please post here, for all suggestions, question and anything else go here

We hope you enjoythe beta and give us feedback on it, but please remember that this being a beta does mean that it is not finished and doesn't resemble the end product!!

Blog #106

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:36:12 +0000

Hey, blog 106 is here sorry for the delay, but it's only a day so lets crack on!

Atreides War Factory

LR01 has been hard at work yet again modelling the top floor of the Atreides War Factory, here are some WIP shots!

Those mino legs even need programming!

Aprit Chard

I've been working on the Atreides side of the map boarders, take a look!

Jackhammer

Fz007 has been working on the first person version of the Harkonnen Engineer's Jackhammer, I think it's coming along nicely!

Team Notices

I've been doing double shifts at work to make up for missing staff, fun!

cnc95fan is busy with Scud Storm.

LR01 has been busy with a number of things on Battle for Dune.

Fz007 is busy with the Jackhammer!

CnCFPS needs you!

CnCFPS are still recruiting so make sure you go over to their site and see if you got what it takes! Link!!!

Blog #105

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:52:01 +0000

Hey there, sorry for the late blog once again, things are going slow on my end! But don't worry, the rest of the work is hard at work and here is what they have done!

Jackhammer

I'd like to welcome a new modeller onto the team, Fz007. He will be helping us out by modelling our weapons, here is his first model for us!

This 3rd person version of the Jackhammer will be used for our Harkonnen Engineer, but more on that another time!

As you can see it is a edited version, something more fitting with the Harkonnen!

Atreides War Factory

LR01 has been hard at work still on the Atreides War Factory basement, here is a small video showing off a WIP of the construction that will play whenever you buy an Atreides vehicle (the vehicle being contructed will change depending on what you buy).

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
Atreides War Factory Basement Construction

And here is a WIP shot of the 1st floor, nothing much but a taster of what's to come.

Aprit Chard

I have been working on natural boarder designs and finally happy with what I have so I have started to map them out, I hope you feel the same!

Sorry for not texturing the mesh, should have some better renders next blog.

CnC FPS is Recruiting!

This should explain it all.

http://zack.genesisblog.net/Gallery/privat...ecruitment5.png

Made by Genesis2001/Zack.

Team Notices

I've been put onto double shifts at work again, damn people on holiday!

cnc95fan has had lots of rowing again and has little free time.

LR01 has been busy with buildings.

Fz007 is checking out the internal build and working on the Jackhammer's 1st person model!

New Gundam, Unicorn!!!

A link sent to me by Gork, it's in 3 parts and 50 mins in total, but it's looking very good so far so check it out!

http://vodpod.com/watch/3098909-gundam-unicorn-episode-1

Blog #104

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:58:38 +0000

Hey, sorry this is a week late, I did indeed for this to be a mini midweed blog but well, now it's a mini pre blog 105! So please excuse the lack of content!

Civilian Buildings

I've been working on the civ buildings for map props some more and here is the latest WIP of my current model.

As you can see, I have a small interior planned!

Atreides War Factory

LR01 has been hard at work on the Atreides War Factory interior and is coming along well! Now most of what you see here is subject to change due to some new ideas and redesign but the main shape is there!

Team Notices

I have been busy with work and recently got myself another copy of StarCraft, comon Terran!

cnc95fan is busy setting up some levels in LE.

LR01 has passed his driving test, wooooo!!!

Peer is busy with those EVA sounds.

Ok, it's time to play some games...

"YEA, PC? Console?" "No PCs or Consoles, sorry guys" "So, RTS, FPS?" "Nope, none of them" "No, MMO, noo..."

Blog #103

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:57:39 +0000

Hey, sorry about no blog last week, we had a lot of real life stuff happen and so we were too busy but here we are with blog 103!

Atreides War Factory

LR01 has started work on the Atreides war factory interior. In this WIP shot you can see the start of a vehicle construction room, putting together a Mongoose!

More to come on this next week!

Civilain Buildings

I've been trying my hand at modelling again, this time it's more civilian ruined buildings. It's fairly basic but serves it's purpose as a map prop and infantry cover.

Team Notices

I've been busy with work and playing a new Source Warhammer 40k mod.

cnc95fan is around here somewhere..

LR01 has finished his exams and is back modding!

Peerawat9 is working on some new EVA sounds for us!

Something that made me laugh..

David, after drugs.

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
David After Drugs

Blog #102

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:34:09 +0000

Hey guys, sorry about the blog being so late but here it is and we've got some new content alright!

Civillian House Ruins

I've been working on Aprit Chard but now I've got to the stage where I need civillian house ruins for the map but I remember that we really don't have any. So I thought I would take this chance to have another go at building modelling. Now these shots are WIP and just need some details added then unwrapped and textured!

Atreides Construction Yard

LR01 has been very busy with the top floor of the construction yard has done an awesome job as usual, the top floor will be a building monitoring room where Atreides troops will make sure everything is going as planned, so there aren't two Barracks facing each other so troops can only go from one to the other!

Team Notices

I've been busy trying to get all my SG members on the new APB oxistats clan system.

cnc95fan has had a long weekend of rowing.

LR01 has been busy with the Harkonnen Refinery and Atreides Construction Yard.

Cloud is back as a mapper and is busy working on a new map!

Pure Pwnage!

On a slightly random note, if you happen to live in Canada you can check out their blogshots here. Due to 4 of their episodes being shown on Showcase!

Blog #101

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:46:42 +0000

Hello and welcome to room 101.. I mean blog 101! We've been busy once again and here is what we got to show for it!

Harkonnen Refinery

Awhile ago we showed you some renders of the Harkonnen Refinery, well LR01 has started texturing & animating it, not only do we have picture we also have a video!

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
Harkonnen Refinery Basement

Don't worry, it's still a WIP, the animation isn't going to be going that crazy fast.

Aprit Chard

I've been porting over my Renx maps into 3ds Max and so that means the latest buildings. I've petty much finished doing the infantry rocks, just got the main details to add now!

As you can see, the buildings are pretty big and the map is large as well, but this will most likely be the biggest Battle for Dune map.

Team Notices

I've had a week off work and so I've been mapping and just chilling out.

cnc95fan has been busy with the objects.

LR01 is working on the Harkonnen Refinery and the Atreides Construction Yard.

Star Wars: Battle for Endor

A great little free game released ages ago that takes place at the battle of Endor from Return of the Jedi. You are an X-Wing and you have to fight your way through waves of TIEs and Star Destroyers!

It's not the best looking thing but it is really great to play, so be sure to go over to their moddb here and check it out!

Blog #100

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:25:19 +0000

Hello, today we reach 100 Battle for Dune blogs! It's only taken us over 2 years but here's to 100 more blogs to come!

Atreides Construction Yard

LR01 has been very busy working on the Atreides construction yard basement, he has started to texture it as well. Not only do we have some images of it, we've even got a nice video to show it off too!

It's coming along great as you can tell.

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
Battle for Dune - Atreides Construction Yard

As you can most likely tell, it's a welding room.

Aprit Chard

I've been going over the remake of Aprit Chard. It's coming along nicely, take a look for yourselves! (Don't mind the textures, they are just there so you aren't looking at a blank mesh)

Team Notices

I've finally got some time off work, time to get some real progress done!

cnc95fan has been working on the level edit.

LR01 is busy with the Atreides CY.

Alex has been ill lately but still making textures!

Star Wars a rip-off of Dune?

This video shows why you might just think that.

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
Is Star Wars a rip-off from Dune?

Blog #99

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:59:25 +0000

Hello and happy new year to everyone in this year new blog of 2010! Time for some content.

Atreides Construction Yard

LR01 has been very with modelling up the Atreides construction yard interior and it is really shaping up well. Here is the basement which is a welding room where most of the materials for buildings and and vehciles.

Here it is!

As you can see, that room is almost done!

New Year Video

Some testers got together for a nice testing game and filmed it. Now it's on an old map which is going to be redone heavily but it shows off our latest internal build of the game, so enjoy!

Video here!

Domains

As you will of noticed, the site as been down for a few days, it's because of our domain name not working and after a few tries to fix it we just decided to get some new ones!

So here are the new links!

www.battlefordune.eu
www.warofassassins.com
www.warofassassins.co.uk

Hope these work out better!

Team Notices

I've been having a nice and relaxing new years day, playing some games I got from Christmas and working on the mod.

cnc95fan has been off rowing and was kinda dead after.

LR01 has been working on the Atreides CY.

gtp0rong has been learning some modelling and texturing skills by recreating some castles from Nintendo 64 games!

2010 is here!

We hope that everyone had a great year in 2009 and that 2010 will be even greater!

Blog #98

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:13:06 +0000

Merry Christmas everyone and welcome to this festive blog! We've been busy once again so we hope you enjoy!

Harkonnen Infantry

For about a year now we have only had Atriedes and Ordos with infantry, but now we finally have the Harkonnen Infantry model done! Kiory from the Renegade X 40k team has kindly modelled this guy up for us so a major thanks goes out to him for his major help towards to the mod!

Here he is!

Now all we need to do is texture and rig this guy!

Binocular Scopes

gtp0rong has finished editing and fixing up the other two House's scopes. Now the Harkonnen and Ordos have their own specialy themed binocular scopes!

Check them out!

These should really help give the Scout that feeling of scouting!

Harkonnen Refinery

LR01 has been very busy working on the Harkonnen refinery's interior and I think he has done an amazing job on it, all that needs doing now is animating it and texturing!

Team Notices

I have been having a great Christmas with my family, lots of presant opening, dinner eating and games played!

cnc95fan has been having a great Christmas too and is back working on the mod in a more hands on way.

LR01 is working his arse off even on Christmas day while still enjoying his time with his family.

Everyone else is celebrating Christmas and having a great time!

Merry Christmas all!!!

I hope you enjoyed this Christmas day blog!

Blog #97

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:24 +0000

Hello and welcome to yet another War of Assassins blog, looks like I just made it!

Binoculars

Last week we saw the buffed up Atreides Sniper scope, we this week gtp0rong has been busy making the new Binocular scope!

Check out this Scout scope!

Aprit Chard

I've been trying to work on Aprid Chard when I can. It's almost ready to go ingame, all it needs is some infantry cover, dunes and some extra detail!

Quick WIP shot.

Question & Answering

Now, we at Battle for Dune have been going for over 2 years and haven't really given this much thought. So we are now going to compile a Q&A topic but we thought that it would be best to hear what you guys have to ask, the fans.

So ask as many questions as you like and we will try to answer all of them to the best that we can!

Team Notices

I am getting ready to go and buy the last of my Christmas gifts.

cnc95fan is off school and enjoying some free time.

LR01 is also off and is now able to fully work again!

gtp0rong is around somewhere working.

Well... Errr...

Yeah...

Blog #96

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:39:21 +0000

Hello, sorry about no blogs for about 3 weeks, we have been very busy with real life stuff and so on but we some new stuff to show you at last so enjoy!

Harkonnen Refinery

As we draw closer and closer to getting all of our buildings finished up and 100% modelled, LR01 has been busy working on the Harkonnen refinery Interior.

Here are some WIP shots.

Expect to see more on the refinery soon.

Sniper Scope

gtp0rong is back and has begun work once again, he has gone back over his old stuff and started to buff them up. Here is our better looking Atreides Sniper scope!

Sneeky Scouts!

It's been about a year since we last showed off a video so I think now would be great a time to do so! Some of the testers were having some games on the newly remade infantry only map, Sand Trap.

Here is what they got up to while testing!

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
Sand Trap - Sneeky Scouts

Team Notices

I have been busy with work and stuff but more free time so I should be able to make some progress on Aprit Chard!

LR01 has been doing what work he can around his school work but has 2 week holiday coming up.

cnc95fan has been around.. Somewhere..

gtp0rong is back and busy working on scopes.

Alex has finished his exams for the moment and working on terrain textures.

"YES, YES I BEAT HI..."

"... And then there was beer!"

Blog #95

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:34 +0000

Hey and welcome to a late War of Assassins blog, sorry for a late but we hope you enjoy it!

Pistols

LR01 has been busy modeling the Atreides pistol, each House has it's own pistol to keep a unique feel.

Mapping

I have been busy working on the remake of Aprit Chard due to remaking all of my old maps and trying to add more to them!

Take a look at these WIPs.

Vehicles

LR01 hasn't been happy with the Minotaurus model for sometime after remaking the Mongoose and we agreed that it was just not making the mark. So he has started remake it with a lot of detail added in!

Check out the new model.

Team Notices

I have been very busy with work due to two people on holiday and the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2!

LR01 has been busy with the new Mino model and some weapons with the build on top of that.

Seadust is working on the Harkonnen Windtrap texture.

cnc95fan is around here somewhere..

Recruitment

Battle for Dune is looking for Texture Artists, Infantry Modelers and Unwrappers! So if you like what you see and want to help out, then please pm me on moddb or on our forums here, register and show us some of your recent work.

Blog #94

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:39:42 +0000

Hey and welcome to blog 94, sorry for no blogs for the past two weeks and this blog won't be much like the others with pictures and stuff.

Due to the fact that we are at the stage were almost all of the models are done and are just awaiting some internals, detail updates or maybe redos due to old versions just not looking as good as they could. We pretty much done have anything to show right now, this doesn't mean that we aren't working though.

LR01 has been busy with getting a new build out and unwrapping models for our new texture artists. He has also been doing work on the Atreides building interiors while also doing some weapon modelling.

Jens has been very busy with RL and hasn't had the time to do any coding but has told me that he should have free time this week and hopefully weeks to come so expect to see some nice script features in the near future!

Seadust has been working on the Harkonnen building textures for the Construction Yard and Windtrap, these are the most complete Harkonnen buildings at the moment (the others need touching up and some parts fixing).

Prototstar is making some nice terrain textures from what I hear and getting ready to texture the Harvester when LR01 has finished unwrapping it.

And as for me? I have been slowing making progress on the map, Aprit Chard. I have been distracted by the new Call of Duty but now back on track and ready to work again.

Sorry about no pictures and other stuff, but as you can see we are all pretty much working and just getting things finished up and adding them ingame the testing to make sure they work. So we're not dying or dead and expect to see a proper blog friday!

Blog #93

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:57 +0000

Hello and welcome to this Friday's blog, we haven't got much to show you more talk and annouce really, but we hope you enjoy it none-the-less!

Aprid Chard

It's been awhile since we featured this map and well, it's time for a remake. Much like Sand Trap, we felt that it could do with a remake due to how outdated and just poorly modelled it looks.

So here is a small WIP of the new version.

Facebook

That's right, Battle for Dune has joined the masses at Facebook. We have started a Battle for Dune group where you can catch all the recent updates and much more!

The link is here, make sure you pop by and become a member!

Internal Builds

There hasn't been much word or shots of our current build because we have pretty much shown you everything but don't worry, a new build is on it's way. This new build should contain new models and the naps maps, so make sure you look out for upcoming pictures and videos!

Team Notices

I have had another week off from work and pretty much spent it catching up with friends and map making.

cnc95fan is back to rowing and I hear kicking other rowing teams butts!

LR01 has been busy unwrapping models for our texture artists.

Jerad is busy with getting the Sandworm to work.

Seadust is going through all the E:BFD textures and seeing what he can use!

Sir, we have no ships in secter 3,7...

... IT'S A TRAP!

Blog #92

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:31:20 +0000

Hey and welcome to a short mini prefriday blog in place of a very late last Friday blog!

Sand Trap

The map is finally finished, after a lot of messing around with textures and other details (the texture I am still not 100% sure on) it has been done. All it needs it a few hedgehogs and we are good to go!

Here are a few shots.

As you can see, it is pretty much there.

Texture Artist

From our recent advertising for texture artists that we have needed for ages and really badly, two have answered our calls. Welcome Protostar and Seadust, two very skilled member who will be helping us getting that release out as fast as possible!

End of Miniblog

Well that's pretty much it for this blog, hope you enjoyed it, stay tuned for tomorrow's main blog!

Blog 8

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:42:21 +0000

Hey everyone and welcome to Blog 8.
Over the past few months we've been experimenting with new scripts and ways of getting things working in the SAGE Engine.

Building the Chinese Empire

Gradenko has been hard at work again producing the Chinese Airstrip.
Here you will be able to purchase MiG Aircraft and Helix Helicopters. The survival of this structure is essential for the commander to purchase upgrades based on aircraft.

The Chinese Power Plant is essential for base defenses to stay online. The destruction of this building will have consequences for the team; however what those may be we are uncertain about, so we want to hear suggestions from you. Modeled by Gradenko.

And finally, the Speaker Tower. This is particularity helpful to the Chinese when defending, inspiring units which thus keeps them rehealing over time.

Layin' the foundation

DieHardNL has been busy modeling and texturing the Supply Drop Zone which E! has been rigging.

These zones are in relative damage stages from 0-100%.

The USA Barracks is the key to infantry. If this is destroyed higher class infantry cannot be purchased.

Civilian Buildings

E! developed a way for us to make good use of civilian buildings. Each building is assigned a script which allows Level Edit users to specify how many people they want to allow to enter it.
In the future there will be a function where the original building model will be replaced with a more "military" makeover.

Aircraft Physics

By far, the most important update to SCUD Storm to date. We all know from the previous version of SCUD Storm that the planes were awkward and highly unrealistic, being able to stop in mid-air and even reverse. E! however has fixed this, more work needs to be done to get it perfect but the tests so far are really encouraging.
Watch the video here!

Team Messages

So yeah we won the jnr 18 4x at a local head of the river (a rowing time trial) against some of the best in Ireland, beaming after it

Wolf is out and about mapping for BFD

E! is constantly poking around the engine to see what he can do with it.

Gradenko got his copy of Maya working again and can start modeling after a sudden stopping of it's useage recently.

Do you know who I am?

Hey, check out this video. I thought you might like to watch it.
Lord Vader?

This video brought to you by Zack(MathK1LL) of Neo Games

Blog #91

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:29:54 +0000

Hello and welcome to this week's Battle for Dune blog. This week we have some major stuff to show and tell you!

Sand Trap

Sand Trap's terrain is pretty much finished (apart from the stuff beyond the blockers), the textures aren't 100% final but are more there to give you an idea of the end product!

Take a look.

Atreides Outpost

LR01 has been very busy on the Atreides Outpost interior, it is coming along very nicely and I can't wait to see it fully finished!

The War of Assassins

The name of a mod says a lot about it, what type of game it is, where it is set and what it is about. For sometime now just "Battle for Dune" felt like it had something missing, like it was just E:BFD but without the E:.

So after much time and thought about weather we wanted this or not and how things would go after. No one can see the future and so we have chosen to alter the mod's name.

So our new name will be, Battle for Dune: War of Assassins. We felt that this name is good and still very inkeeping with what we are doing and what we want to get across. For those of you who don't know, the War of Assassins is the war fought for control of Arrakis and Spice flow by the Guild.

Team Notices

I have been work on Sand Trap mostly and just gone back to work after a week off.

cnc95fan has found us a new texture artist, his name is Seadust!

LR01 is busy with school and working on the Atreides Outpost.

gtp0rong is busy working on some 2d stuff for us, but more about that later!

Attention everyone, this is your Captain speaking. We have some good and bad news for you...

... The good news is that we are landing right away, the bad news is that it will be a crash landing.

Blog #90

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:00:42 +0000

Hello and welcome to another Battle for Dune blog, sorry there was no blog last week.. Things have been abit busy lately.

Outpost

In the last blog I said that work had begun on the Atreides Outpost interior, well LR01 has taken it over and has made some nice progess, check it out.

Sand Trap

I have been busy working on BFD_Sand_Trap and trying new things with textures and caves, here take a look.

Team Notices

Well it's my Birthday today (October 10th) and I intend to do lots of gaming and lots of drinking with friends!

cnc95fan is around.. Somewhere.

LR01 is busy with the Atreides Outpost.

gtp0rong is doing some logo work.

Peerwat is going over all our current sounds and fixing them up.

So...

... There's nothing to say...