Throwback Thursday for 2nd April

[Sonic 296]

 

Its Throwback Thursday time once again. For this week I thought we should go back and look at one of the April Fools jokes that EALA posted. The Mammoth Tank pops up in every Command & Conquer game in one form or another. But this time it really is a "Mammoth" Tank. The cool thing about this joke is the fact that they released the source files for modders to download so they could add it to the game as a real unit. That's how April Fools jokes should be done.

 

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[Plok 327]

Hehe, 'twas a good one. Love how they recycled BFME2 assets with that one I remember actually expecting that to happen in a patch or something without checking the date

 

 

 

Cheers for using my mirror of the file, BTW

Edited April 2, 2015 by Plokite_Wolf

[Banshee 28]

The .SHP version of this beast (for Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2) was posted a couple of days ago at PPM:

http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39671

[Lauren 78]

Actually it would rather be a Oliphant/Mumakil Tank

Also EA sadly only released the Art source, so back in the day I took the time to create the xml close to the BFME xml and added the sounds:

http://thundermods.net/intern/Lilith/Mumakil/Mumakil.rar

http://thundermods.net/intern/Lilith/Mumakil/sounds.rar

 

(@Sonic can you mirror these if you want? Someone told me the thundermods server will probably be offline soon).

Edited April 3, 2015 by Lauren

[Plok 327]

On the C&C File Archive:

Mumakil XML: http://www.mediafire.com/download/0dv0ibi0w944sry/Mumakil.rar

Sounds: http://www.mediafire.com/download/rz81zrmf6nk70ev/sounds.rar

[Lauren 78]

Ah btw in the MordorMumakil.xml there is an error at line 411 column 17 where I left over an " from copying stuff. (Doesn't really affect it as it's saved as string anyway but I just wanted to mention it)

Checking the files I also saw that I made an error with the experience level templates, might reupload it at some point.

Edited April 3, 2015 by Lauren

[Plok 327]

You mean

                <Key>Monster"</Key>

 

The " should go or I should add one to the beginning?

[Lauren 78]

There shouldn't be any.

And for the experience levels:

there is a Prerequisite attribute which should be the rank above, not sovietantivehiclevehicle or something.

[Plok 327]

Mumakil with fixed Monster key: http://www.mediafire.com/download/2xtar2go5xxcexc/Mumakil_-_fixed.rar

[Lauren 78]

I wanted to write you this as pm as it's mostly unrelated but you cannot receive any...

 

While we are at adding stuff to your file archive, I do have the xml and xsd files for RA3 Uprising.

[Plok 327]

We can exchange PMs on ModDB.

 

I'm afraid I cannot commit to major projects and updates of the Archive at the moment. If you have some files that are already compiled and ready to go, I can upload them, but not much else.

[jvm 1]

I wanted to write you this as pm as it's mostly unrelated but you cannot receive any...

 

While we are at adding stuff to your file archive, I do have the xml and xsd files for RA3 Uprising.

 

It woul be nice if I you could sent me a copy of those files.

 

How do you get that info?

[Sonic 296]

(@Sonic can you mirror these if you want? Someone told me the thundermods server will probably be offline soon).

 

We don't have the large downloads archive on CNCNZ.com any more. But I see @Plokite_Wolf has taken care of it already, so problem solved I guess

[Lauren 78]

It woul be nice if I you could sent me a copy of those files.

 

How do you get that info?

Apoc made them free to download at one point, shortly before he left. I do have a lot more files but they were given exclusively to some projects I've worked on so I don't really know if I would be allowed to share them.

(Like all original xml files of TW and KW campaign maps and stuff which were given to TSR).

[Plok 327]

Not sure anyone at EA would care. Not like you can re-code the entire game with XML files of buildings, units and maps. EALA is long gone, and BreakAway Games hasn't been active in the non-military scene lately.

[jvm 1]

Apoc made them free to download at one point, shortly before he left.

 

I was hoping that you found a new source of information , in order to get cnc4 xml's and/or xsd's.

 

I do have a lot more files but they were given exclusively to some projects I've worked on so I don't really know if I would be allowed to share them.

 

Nobody is asking to do anything that you are not allowed.

 

(Like all original xml files of TW and KW campaign maps and stuff which were given to TSR).

 

Yeah you told me once of those files (most of them can be read by WED now, I am modding the TW campaign maps using WED to add ObjectiveList to map.xml)