Return to Castle Wolfenstein: The Dark Army

ronboy · 2014-01-08 16:25:55 UTC

Yes, it can be difficult to come up with ideas for details in a map, which can cause the map to look empty. I have had this problem before, despite having a variety of models and textures to use. :o

TITEUF-85 · 2014-01-11 23:41:05 UTC

Hello guys. First I want to say, what do you think about this “Happy New Year” trailer… I want to say something about it : it was an old content of my game, recorded last December. One month of HARD work passed and then… the project’s really different now.

I added more details in each of my three maps (Village, Sewers, Crypt) and I’m currently working on a new level (Track ‘Prison’ - unexperienced mission before). And finally… I’M CHANGING ALL THE WEAPONS MODELS OF MY GAME, and adding a new weapon : the shotgun.

So here’s a new picture of this work I’ve done : MY NEW MP40 MODEL with (in background) the village different ameliorations. Thanks for your never ending support : here’s the picture.

Final note : it’s now (maybe) confirmed, following all i’ve done to this point and what I still have to do, the final product will be a Standalone Mod (you’ll need just need to copy/paste some files of the original directory of your RtCW game to play-it) releasing before Winter 2015 : aiming for a period between November 2014 and April 2015. Thank to every RtCW players (and others) supporting my project.

TITEUF-85 · 2014-01-12 09:47:53 UTC

Here is a new picture (of a new model again) for the Walther P38 (Luger)!

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ronboy · 2014-01-12 14:03:30 UTC

Your luger and MP40 models look nice. I like your idea of retexturing all the weapons, and adding the shotgun. ET has a shotgun, a M96, and Rtcw Tides of War also had a shotgun. I’m glad to see it finally arrive for Rtcw on the PC.

Dragonji · 2014-01-12 14:22:46 UTC

Luger looks awesome, however, MP40 is a bit “quadratic”, I’d suggest to improve it

TITEUF-85 · 2014-01-12 14:23:12 UTC

Thanks @Ronboy. If you’re interested by the weapons I’m working on, here’s a new model I made (a week ago) for the Thompson now textured and being tested by me at the moment !

TITEUF-85 · 2014-01-12 14:25:08 UTC

Yeah, but this screenshot’s from two days ago : the MP40 is finalised.

TITEUF-85 · 2014-01-12 14:34:28 UTC

Actual Status of the Weapon Models :

[ul]
[li]Knife : 0%
[/li][li]Colt : 100%
[/li][li]Dual Colts : 50% (I’ll maybe retrieve it from the mod…)
[/li][li]Walther P38 (Luger) : 100%
[/li][li]MP40 : 100%
[/li][li]Thompson : 100%
[/li][li]Sten : 100%
[/li][li]Mauser Rifle : 0%
[/li][li]Mauser Scope : 0%
[/li][li]MP44 : 0%
[/li][li]PPSH : 0%
[/li][li]Carabin : 0%
[/li][li]M1S Rifle : 0%
[/li][li]FG42 : 0%
[/li][li]Shotgun : 0%
[/li][li]Grenades : 0%
[/li][li]Pineapples : 0%
[/li][li]Dynamite : 0%
[/li][li]Panzerfaust : 0%
[/li][li]Flamethrower : 0%
[/li][li]Venom : 0%
[/li][li]Tesla Gun : 0%
[/li][li]Foot : 50%
[/li][li]
[/li][/ul]

ronboy · 2014-01-12 15:02:57 UTC

You’re doing a great job, Titeuf. Keep up the hard work!

TITEUF-85 · 2014-01-12 15:11:22 UTC

Thank-you. Don’t worry, I won’t give up !

TITEUF-85 · 2014-01-12 16:23:23 UTC

Actual Status of the Weapon Models : 34% COMPLETED

[ul]
[li]Knife : 0%[/li][li]Colt : 100%[/li][li]Walther P38 (Luger) : 100%[/li][li]MP40 : 100%[/li][li]Thompson : 100%[/li][li]Sten : 100%[/li][li]Mauser Rifle : 100%[/li][li]Mauser Scope : 100%[/li][li]MP44 : 0%[/li][li]PPSH : 0%[/li][li]Carabin : 0%[/li][li]M1S Rifle : 0%[/li][li]FG42 : 0%[/li][li]Shotgun : 0%[/li][li]Grenades : 0%[/li][li]Pineapples : 0%[/li][li]Dynamite : 0%[/li][li]Panzerfaust : 0%[/li][li]Flamethrower : 0%[/li][li]Venom : 0%[/li][li]Tesla Gun : 0%[/li][li]Foot : 50%[/li][/ul]

The Dual Colts won’t appear in The Dark Army, for some modelling reasons.

TITEUF-85 · 2014-01-13 15:20:28 UTC

The Sten model has been restarted. It took all of my morning, but I did it, the new Sten gun is now fonctional. I will share a screenshot of it…

TITEUF-85 · 2014-01-13 16:13:15 UTC

Here’s the second new Sten gun model :

Here’s a comparison between my Sten from today and the one from yesterday :

The Sten in development :

For a better look (in HD I mean), go on ModDB !

KeMoN · 2014-01-13 16:27:03 UTC

That is some serious eye-candy you have there! I really love your sten gun and the fact that you threw that whole thing together within a single day.
I’m really looking forward to this project!

However one tiny thing. The magazine “bay” looks a bit large compared to the actual clip. Could you maybe make the bay a little smaller or its walls a little thinner?

TITEUF-85 · 2014-01-13 17:00:34 UTC

[QUOTE=KeMoN;487008]That is some serious eye-candy you have there! I really love your sten gun and the fact that you threw that whole thing together within a single day.
I’m really looking forward to this project!

However one tiny thing. The magazine “bay” looks a bit large compared to the actual clip. Could you maybe make the bay a little smaller or its walls a little thinner?[/QUOTE]

I will try. For the moment, i’m correcting some “flash” bugs relative to the Thompson. Thanks for your concern.

ronboy · 2014-01-13 20:17:49 UTC

I like the new sten model. Great job!

TITEUF-85 · 2014-02-02 13:34:12 UTC

As you can see on ModDB, new pictures of The Dark Army mod for Return to Castle Wolfenstein appeared (about 30 pictures in high-definition), giving you a look on the impressive results of my recent work on the maps, in order to update these to their final version.

Next week, I’ll show you new pictures of The Crypt (updated to final version) and “maybe” the rest of the weapon models - some have been improved since the last time.

[li]
[/li]On Facebook, in a group named RtCW Maps & Mods, I created a poll asking to many Return to Castle Wolfenstein players what they will think about my add-on mod if the weapon “flash” effects had to disappear. The Poll was proposing three different answers (to resume : yes ; don’t know ; no). Here are the results :

83 % (5) sayed “Yes (important)”.

17 % (1) sayed “Don’t know”.

00 % (0) sayed “No (not grave)”.

So I have now a correct answer to my question : the weapon “flash” effect is really important for the players. I think I’ll have to correctly fix this problem. :S

First I’ll finish the different design and A.I. updates to The Crypt map (to update it and mark it as a “Final Version” content) and finish the weapon models.

Then I’ll correct this problem, by any mean necessary (I think I have a little idea, I was supposed to do it in case if a problem would have appeared).

The web links for Facebook and Twitter changed, the differences are below :

[facebook.com/darkarmymod] |–[became]–> [facebook.com/tdamod]

[twitter.com/darkarmymod] |–[became]–> [twitter.com/tdamod]

The address of The Dark Army on ModDB did change, but it finally (for some web reasons) returned to it’s basic link form.

[B] The peoples who subscribe to the Premium Access will now appear on a page of this website named Premium Access (click to check).

The [U]Wikia[/U] page was recently updated, giving more informations about the actual situation of the project. Also thanks to the Wikia contributors currently updating this [U]Wikia[/U] page.[/B]

Stay tuned for more information soon. As I sayed on Wikia, there’s still some unrevealed content about my mod".

P.S. : The Dark Army’s secondary official website on Wix has finally been updated to version 1.3a. The website has been totally converted (in terms of ergonomic aspect and of design). Check-it with this direct link to the website : [http://rtcwtda.wix.com/tdamod].

TITEUF-85 · 2014-02-15 11:32:26 UTC

[ul]
[li] 20 more HD images available here : [http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-army/images]![/li][/ul]

ronboy · 2014-02-15 14:01:27 UTC

Nice images, Titeuf.

vicpas · 2014-02-20 14:20:02 UTC

Hello, TITEUF-85.
A suggestion. put your work on this site and here: http://wolfmap.ru/forum/ for review, before posting it to avoid possible errors.
Recommended Link: http://wolfmap.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=136&t=3241