Red Alert 2 Modification

[Ska-Ara]

My actuall Progress

Buildings:

Allied Powerplant - Without Interior

Soviet Tesla Reactor - Without Interior

Allied Ore Ref - Without Interior

Soviet Ore Ref - Without Interior

Allied Barracks - Without Interior

Allied Warfactory - Without Interior

Soviet Warfactory - Without Interior

Allied Airfield - Without Interior

Allied Pillbox - Placeholder M240

Allied Patriot

Allied Prismtower

Soviet Tesla Coil

Vehicles:

Grizzly Tank

IFV - Repair, Missiles, Psychotic, Gunner

Mirage Tank

Prism Tank

Alpha Footage:

Im happy about EVERY Comment here

Credits:

All Allied Buildings, All Soviet Buildings except the Tesla Coil from Kevin Mier - Ska-Ara

Soviet Tesla Coil by hm Shark, Metamind09

Texture of the Grizzlytank by Renegade X / Havoc89

Sandbags by 3D-Regenerator

Some Graphics and SoundsWestwood Studios/EA

M240 Machinegun (Pillbox) by Nutpaul

Edited March 27, 2016 by Guest

[Nielsen]

"Alarmstufe Rot 2"

^ That is hilarious, reminds me of being in Germany a long time ago and reading "Stirb an einem anderen tag" or similar which filled the entire "Die another day" film poster... barely any space left for the actors

On the surface the models look good, clean and well rendered versions of the RA 2 buildings, well done!

[Ska-Ara]

"Alarmstufe Rot 2"

^ That is hilarious, reminds me of being in Germany a long time ago and reading "Stirb an einem anderen tag" or similar which filled the entire "Die another day" film poster... barely any space left for the actors

On the surface the models look good, clean and well rendered versions of the RA 2 buildings, well done!

Yea haha its often such hilarius translation

But i have to say.. "Alarmstufe Rot 2" sounds for the most Germans more dangerous then Red Alert 2.

What you mean with Die another Day i know very well

look here.. Die Hard .. in germany Stirb Langsam

Die Hard with a Vengeance : Stirb langsam jetzt erst Recht!

A Good Day to Die Hard - Stirb langsam – Ein guter Tag zum Sterben

eieieie but i think German is a good hard language for the RA universe.. shame that we are there just some sidekicks

To the Models: THx alot for this Comment its the first time i start a "mod" in another Country

I do my best to make the Models look such accurate i can. i look at the pictures of the buildings in photoshop to make a big zoom and brighter them up to see some hidden details

to hear that the models look good so far is a big boost for me thx alot for this!

in this case i have a question for you i know that rx just uses Air,Vehicle,Soldier fields, raffenery and some others.. my question is know.. is it possible to make some more buildings with varius functions?

f.e repair field for repiaring, or battle lab for enabling some extra units?

and is there a possibility to "build" new structures after X mins or let them building by "spending" some credits ?

[Nielsen]

I think that's all possible but you'd have to ask the programmers to be sure.

[RypeL]

With the SDK you can do everything we did and more. Since we were able to make our own buildings you will obviously be able to make your own buildings aswell.

[XD_ERROR_XD]

Good luck dude! I would love to see some RA2 Nostalgia inside Renegade X! *drools*

[Ruud033]

Looking really awesome!!Keep up the good work, looking forward to this!

[Handepsilon]

Looks awesome, but I have to admit that the smoothness of the model worries me. How much verts used to make a single building there?

Just asking since you never said anything about this being Hi-Poly or Low-Poly

[Ska-Ara]

Looks awesome, but I have to admit that the smoothness of the model worries me. How much verts used to make a single building there?

Just asking since you never said anything about this being Hi-Poly or Low-Poly

Its hard to say if im hi or low poly.. i try to make them accurate like RA2 not really "realistic"

but in this case.. every building has about 5.000 -15.000 polygons.

[Handepsilon]

Oh, that's just about right. Not sure though. The current Barracks looks like the exterior could be created with about 2000

But naturally you would need to make both Hi-Poly and Low-Poly. High Poly for Normal map projection and Low Poly for in-game model

[Ska-Ara]

probably yea.

But how i said im aa hobby artist.. so not all what i make is "pro" like like renegade x

so dont expect that my work will have the same " level" as these from the original RX

well see how i looks at the end and if is good enough to play with

[Handepsilon]

Yeah, just stating game 3D model essential here. Modelling for game is more complicated than rendering for images or videos.

[Ska-Ara]

i can just say that i do my best to make good stuff in i good time. Im Sure at the end some ppl say "hmm thats not soo good.. and this could be better" but thats normal.

We will see later if the Stuff is good what i made or not

But at this moment i think its not bad what i make so lets move forward

Btw: Finished Ore Raffinery

[Handepsilon]

Looks good and detailed. Still wondering about PP's door though

[Ska-Ara]

Looks good and detailed. Still wondering about PP's door though

i think i set the pp interior in one of this "walls" not be really sure now

today i made this Allied Warfactory.. its finish.. but i dont know why.. im not really happy with this.. maybe i rework this later.. probably i know then what i dont like on it

[Handepsilon]

I know we don't have much problems with RA2 because it's mostly 2D...

But maybe you need to consider raising up the ceiling. Prism Tanks are quite a tall thing

[Handepsilon]

I know we don't have much problems with RA2 because it's mostly 2D...

But maybe you need to consider raising up the ceiling. Prism Tanks are quite a tall thing

Also, that roof is supposed to be able to open when the Nighthawk transport comes out. Make it a different object altogether. Same goes with Barracks' door actually

[Ska-Ara]

yea your right^^

but i thought that the "aircrafts" could be make in the Airforce Command Headquarters, so its seperated from the War Factory.

because the height .. i think you said an import thing.. the Prism tank is realy much high.. now its the question.. raise up the Building.. or let the tank start with an " lower tower" which raises up after he left the Building..(think thats the more realistic way)

but that i just can see if i made the tanks and resize all the building

[Handepsilon]

Or you can just use the in-game tanks as reference. Won't be too far off. Besides, if the polys are just about 5000, the game engine would handle it fine

Also, you might want to avoid doing that. By lore, Soviet does not have 'Helipad' buildings unlike GDI and Nod in Tiberian Sun and TS:Reborn

[Ska-Ara]

Or you can just use the in-game tanks as reference. Won't be too far off. Besides, if the polys are just about 5000, the game engine would handle it fine

Also, you might want to avoid doing that. By lore, Soviet does not have 'Helipad' buildings unlike GDI and Nod in Tiberian Sun and TS:Reborn

true true.. hmm...mhh..mhm..hmh lets see when where at the end.. of the "creation line" then i can rework some ideas and so on..

at this moment i just need the aircraftfield for the allieds.. then i start to make the Pillbox/Patriot/Prismtower i think its enough for the allied building line

after that.. i have to look hehe ^^ i got much time so i dont need so push ^^

but if anyone wants to help i would be happy.. i could need someone who is handy with udk or handy with making textures

[Ska-Ara]

two new Buildings

Allied Airfield - Without Interior

Allied Pillbox - Placeholder M240

[ZeroDictator]

They look awesome! Keep up the good work

[Handepsilon]

Allied Pillbox - Placeholder M240

Mind sending me this as an FBX or OBJ? I need to practice my Normal Mapping skills and this seems like a good start. Don't worry about the MG btw

[Ska-Ara]

Allied Pillbox - Placeholder M240

Mind sending me this as an FBX or OBJ? I need to practice my Normal Mapping skills and this seems like a good start. Don't worry about the MG btw

yea no problem..

put dont lough about my modelling skills

btw: on the first Post i add a Credit Section. There u can see that these sandbags are not from me. Probably i later make some own.. but i like these here very much. In this case they already have some maps.. but you can play with them how u want

Allied_Pillbox.7z

[Handepsilon]

So, I kinda try to remesh the sandbag as low-poly as possible and got this

[Ska-Ara]

yea its a good idea Thx for helping dude

and heres the New Building. Allied Patriot

So.. just Prism Tower Left.. then All usefull Building Are made.. Probably Start then creating the Interior Rooms .. and afther That texturing. We´ll see

[Ruud033]

You guys are doing an amazing job! Stuff is really looking nice here. Out of curiosity: how much polygons do you models have on average?.

For texturing, you might wanna ask Action Hank on this forum.

[Handepsilon]

Ska-Ara's Pillbox had about 17000 or more without the minigun. I decreased the sandbag's poly down to 150+ though...

[Ska-Ara]

Handes you sound very annoyd ^^

be cooler dude

Here the Absolute Polys

Allied Powerplant 6.500 Polygons

Allied Barracks 24.000 Polygons (without these Sandbags 3.000 Polygons)

Allied Ore Raffinery 10.000 Polygons

Allied War Factory 11.200 Polygons

Allied Airfield 5.700 Polygons

Allied Pillbox 28.000 (without the Placeholder Gun and Sandbags 1.000 Polygons)

Allied Patriot 2.7000 Polygons

To say is that the sandbags are very poly counting.. i think i will make later a newer version .. not such detailied but not just only 150 Polygons ^^

how everyone see.. all there numbers are just the actuell state.. there is no special details or interior in this polycounts..

People who says thats to less ect.. My only answer to this.. im a Hobby Artist not such a pro who make this as a job

[Handepsilon]

Handes you sound very annoyd ^^

be cooler dude

That's the portrait of my Levinski (my profile pic) giving you that feeling. I ain't feeling annoyed at all

[Ska-Ara]

Handes you sound very annoyd ^^

be cooler dude

That's the portrait of my Levinski (my profile pic) giving you that feeling. I ain't feeling annoyed at all

then it was a problem with the translation into my german hehe

heres the last building.. the Prism Tower .. i tried to make a hybrid of the Game Tower and this the one shown in the Blueprint

[Ska-Ara]

Here some try of me of making own Textures for these Stuff

I dont know if is good.. or just bad.. pls give some feedback

Its 2 times the same stuff.. the first picture has a bad try to make a lightning that shows some bump and specular details.. th second one is the standart render i used the pictures before

Just click the photos to enlarge

[Ruud033]

Cool! really like the prism tower, allthough I expected it to be taller near the middle frame.

Pillbox textures look O.K.. I still see the tiles so to say. You might wanna create a diffuse map and edit that somehow in photo shop, to give it that weathered look.

[Handepsilon]

Yep. That and no overlapping UVW

[Ska-Ara]

in this case i need help cuz im very bad at uv mapping

[Handepsilon]

in this case i need help cuz im very bad at uv mapping

Well, my ultra low poly model is unwrapped, I just need to detail the model, project from your textured model and then we got it.

[Ska-Ara]

this is just a pillbox

there are many other buidstuff which have to be textured ^^

[Handepsilon]

this is just a pillbox

there are many other buidstuff which have to be textured ^^

It's alright. Lesser poly, lesser effort to assemble the mapping

[XD_ERROR_XD]

You know what... I'm going to re-install Red Alert 2 and put some more research in some of those textures. I like the look of the pillbox, but the transition from pretty much white concrete to very dark camo could use some work. good luck on your project though!

[Ska-Ara]

i think the textures will just shown that there are very "Basic"like , means not some high tech metal.. just simple concrate, steel, and glass ^^

[Havoc89]

Really cool stuff! Buildings can be a little bit tricky to implement but I'll see if we can get some documentation on them for you guys as soon as possible.

[Ska-Ara]

Great news thx dude!

it hink it will never be such "good" like ur rx but its should be get good enough to play some rounds and have fun with them

[Ska-Ara]

hey dudes new question.. i found a way to export the "unit" voxels of ra 2.. so i can make quite better models of the vehicles

now i tried to do the same with the buildings. there are shp files.. my question is now.. is that just a kind of animation? somehin like a diashow or a gif.. or is this a 3d modell ?

last could help me to make better models

[ZeroDictator]

The shp files are "pictures" after another, so they are like a diashow or something like that. Also units in RA2 (and in YR) are shp files

[Ska-Ara]

ok dude thx

i use now some voxel models as "reference"

they are much less detailed then the building hehe but dudes.. look here my start for the Chrono-Miner

[Handepsilon]

I like the right one. less organic and all

[Ska-Ara]

ah i forgot to say.

the left one is the Voxel model exportet from Ra2. right one is that one i make

try to use the original idea but improve it with some usefull ideas.. hope it works so far^^

[Handepsilon]

oh hmmm... I'm not sure that's how the chronosphere looks though. A shape of curved windows would be much closer IMO

[Ruud033]

Dude you're doing amazing work! I'm really really looking forward to start doing the béta testing for this. You also might want to model a drill which drills out gold from the ground since we have no tiberium field in RA2..

[Ska-Ara]

my progress on the allied vehicles take progress.. but very slow.. cuz i have no need for beeing fast

this ist the actual Progress.. the werid looking model is the original model/voxel exported out of ra2

and yea my model has some mor width ..think it looks a bit better?

oh hmmm... I'm not sure that's how the chronosphere looks though. A shape of curved windows would be much closer IMO

can u show me a example how u think it should be?

Dude you're doing amazing work! I'm really really looking forward to start doing the béta testing for this. You also might want to model a drill which drills out gold from the ground since we have no tiberium field in RA2..

i think this drill is a really easy work but has not much priority now

for me its important to make all the models which are usable for the gaming. after that i start making this kind of ambient

But i definitly need help at the texturing.. its really not my fav work.. and im pretty bad at this