General GideonX

A lot of view but no replays thoughts anyone?

It been a long time since I've been on the boards; however Crimson Dawn is alive and well. I have a full teaser for you guys (31 mb, 1:08min) which is all CGI future trailers will also include screen shots this however does not. Also I have some sneek peeks at some of the new models hope you enjoy. PS: The New Webpage is on its way I will give the url when I'm finished coding it. Also The models below are 800poly to 1.2k poly if anyone wants to know. Also these are modled and skinned by me alone. Trailer: UDI(Univeral Defence) = GDI of the Future. UDI Raptor Laser Cannon NOD Monolith and one more for fun UDI Fusion Reactor (aka power plant)

Thank you everyone and more is coming (not just more media but more features) such as the hall of fame (which will honor those who help me or win Crimson Dawn compitions)

well anyone been there and looked around?

webpage: CRIMSON DAWN Everything is up and running, ingames of the new mars terrain, movies, all sorts of media and the beginning of the story. There are also forums for more info just read the new section of the page. Hope most of you have fast connection I only have the flash site done which is ment for high speed the frame should be along at some point. Enjoy!

No need I could not stand the idea of ads so I bought my own domain and it should go live on servers in oh 2 days or so once the name servers get updated.

There are alot of those around but I'm not sure if there are any that are free because the one I'm using is not, its called sound forge. But go to downloads.com and see if there are any there its worth a try.

Sorry I been gone for a bit life has gotten busy but the site is all but done I just have to workout something with my host because I don't want a add banner on every page of my sight so I have a way of getting ride of it and i just need to get permission from my host or i my end up just moving it and releasing it right away. Anys for you questions: 1. To query multiple build command only works for a line build in which the same building is produced over and over again seperated by a curtain level of space. Not useful because after it builds the first you have to manuly tell it to start on the rest. So you can't que buildings that way, that can only be don in unit production. 2. Voice are easy just save you voice as a *.wav file then put it in the data/audio/speech folder then reference it in the speech.ini then make sure you assign that speech set to you unit. 3. PhotoShop, 3DS Max, and Vue de Spirit. Are what I used for those that is just some of my software suite.

Don't rush perfection I've had to do alot of debugging and trying get the page to run smooth on as many different computers and browers I can. What I see may not be what others see so I have been spending alot of time to get it just right it will be much better then having it rushed and the way I'm doing it will allow me to add to it later with ease and I need my host to approve it, but is they do not get back with me soon I will post it anyways.

I always have listend very closly to the public and tried make the games and mods as best I can to give people what they want. Over a year ago I made a mod the was completly designed out of the publics requests and I had the skills to do it.

Yes the webpage is almost done it has integrated flash and alot of very nice features it is not your avg webpage. The verion I working in is more on the high end I'm going to also make a low end page but that will not happen for awhile but I think most people have flash players and the lates web browers.

What I'm doing is similar in mannor (not the same) to other mod except it will be a complet replacing of all code there will not be *.big files to add or other folder with graphics and code to add it will look very much like normal generals except all the code and graphics will have been changed with no extra files added. Also there will be addtions in the code to allow burrowing units, jumpjets, Zero Space, Forcefields and more later to be reviled to the engine which was not possible before. There will also be addtional software with it to make it run without CnC installed but that will be part of the intaller. The only reason you will need to have the CD is to ensure you have Generals I don't need to get sued for given an instance of the sage engine away to someone that is unauthorized. Also as you will see all my code and graphics will be copyrighted meaning knowone can taken them or use them without my permission, that will also include the pictures seen on the webpage which should be up by todays end or tomorrow IF all goes well.

The old code is no useable it would be nice but the code structor is much different from the past CnC games one because its was the first 3D CnC and two it is all OO this time.

Well I'm 23 but you could do this stuff maybe at 20 or so I've been coding since I was 13 so for 10 years now. I have programmed alot of time for my young age. But if you want to get good games learn OO thats what they all are any more.

I can hack all the other CnC games but the code is not compatible. And yes a demo will be relased around that time. I'm getting close on the webpage I wanted ingame shots of the new mars map (all new map textures and objects.) and there are two issues with the buildings system 1 the radious from the CY and 2. you can not make other buildings add you your build radious as it was in the prior games.

it would be nice to make such a thing but you all are awhere that there are serious coding issues resulting from making it this way. 1. You limit yourself to 12 buildings max (forever!) 2. the best you could hope for is to increase the distance you can build from the construction yard, note you can not build any farther the code does not support building off of othere buildings like the old systems did. So if you want to make very small bases unless there is some way to trick the code that your conyard extends the whole map but then you could build a building right in there back yard...

Half that quote was my writing somehow it just got catch in the quote from above. I fixed it.

Thats good let me know when you got some screens up or where they can be seen. Our first is on our thread http://forums.cncnz.com/viewtopic.php?t=1261 Looking good keep it up.

Its still going to be AOE type building although it would be possilbe to make it the oldway with the exception that you could only have a maximum of 12 buildings on the conyard. It would just take reprogramming the the Conyard to carry the attributes of the dozer so that it could build other buildings in a curtain distance from itself. The only big issue would be that the build distance would be contant (aka if you build a power plant at the edge of the building distance it would not increace since buidings are based from the conyard. Oh well :?

Thats good let me know when you got some screens up or where they can be seen.

The long awaited webpage should be out this week I've been working 18-24 hour days all last week so that is why I have not be that active on the boards. I have alot of in-game screens to show you guys I just did a presentation of the game last week on thursday night, everone there really liked it. I'll be more active after tuesday when I finish the last bit of my major work and the webpage should be done sometime later this week. Here is a small small sneek peak at some ingame this was the frist trial of the laser wall This of course is the lest impressive of anything I could show you but hey its something before the webpage right PS: they only have to be in that size if you are making curtain types of digial files aka avatars or UI some of my ingame skinns are 1600*1600 or larger

gmax can import more dxf and RenX can import 3DS files and dfx files just keep the coordance mapping from 3Dmax so that when you import you dont have to redue skinning work. To go from gmax to 3Dmax you need to export the model as W3D then use the max script to pull in the model. you can go either way! -> <-

Nice well best of luck to you guys I hope you get the team that you need to make a great mod.

Once you setup the bones you export the skeleton and you can animate different thing such as recol, this is a better solution then making a whole new model with the recoil as this can be used for any model with the same skeleton structor. Aka in the code when "Firing" you apply this skeleton to the base model and it will recoil when firing, and as said above it can be used for any models with the same skeleton. This concept is also used for trooper walking and other such animation, although if you find this to difficult just export the same model as the base but animate it firing then in the code insted of using a skeleton just change what model is there.

Just remember if you are going to use the WB you have to be very careful what you coders do if there is the smallest syntax error (even a tab in the wrong place) the WB will crash you need a very persice coder to get a WB compatiable mod. Best way to test it try and open the WB after every unit or change to the ini code and make sure it still works.