New Vehicle: Tesla Tank (Red Alert 2)

[Ska-Ara]

Hey Guys, 

im working right now on a New Vehicle for Ren X. This Vehicle  will be the Red Alert 2 Tesla Tank.
This Vehicle will be published as Single Vehicle like the other Experimental Vehicles in the RenX Stuff (e.g Tesla Tank from Red Alert 1).
Some of you might know me from my Red Alert 2 Mod.  Right now i dont want to reactivate this Mod. Cuz that i will be a single Work. But i want to make a big difference to my Old work. In the Past i tried to fit my models as close as possible to the Voxel Models. With this Tesla Tank i want to break up with this. It will be more concept like and will have much more details. 

Heres my Progress so far:

[Sn4ke]

looks beautiful. though I didn't know Einsteins Chronosphere sent Teslas to Kane.

Or did Yuri send them?

 

Edited April 19, 2018 by DarkSn4ke

[limsup]

Your Prism Tank and Mirage Tank looked awesome too! 

I am sure many of us would be delighted to see more of your work 

[NodSaibot]

Looks great! Hadn't heard from you in a while. Good to see you again.

[roweboat]

This looks awesome!! =D

[Ska-Ara]

Update on some small Details

[Ska-Ara]

nothing much left

[Ska-Ara]

Today i made all the UW work, first time i did this completly by myself. After that i made this test render.. hope you like it hehe
i think tommorow i wil l start to make the textures for Ren

[roweboat]

Shaping up very nicely!!

[Ska-Ara]

with some help of Havoc im very proud to show the result
im now trying to get this ingame as look as good like this preview, hope it will look good too

[limsup]

Awesome 

[Sn4ke]

still beautiful. well done

 

Renegade X OST needs some RA additions

Edited April 24, 2018 by DarkSn4ke

[[B]Veyron]

don't forget the treads! 

[NodSaibot]

Rigging is the 'most fun' part!

[TK0104]

38 minutes ago, Sarah! said:

Rigging is the 'most fun' part!

I believe it!😭

[Madkill40]

Awesome!

[roweboat]

15 hours ago, Ska-Ara said:

with some help of Havoc im very proud to show the result
im now trying to get this ingame as look as good like this preview, hope it will look good too

Any video showing this off... I think it requires "Hell March" as the audio =D

[Havoc89]

Looking very cool! I cant wait to see it ingame.

[Sn4ke]

so... can we expect to see a map with a Tesla "theme" done by one of the community mappers soon?

[Like - telling the background story "how did the Sovjets send Tesla tanks to a different timeline" - is there a capturable tech centre which allows mysterious instant travelling {which we already have seen on @TheDeadlyWolfs Hourglass}, a.k.a. teleporting. sounds like a Veyron-project to me, as he's looking for ingame uses of his tech centres. (I would poke him, if I knew how to do so with these nuclear symbols...]

@Veyron

[Ska-Ara]

Right now i think that the tank is testable on this Weekend, is there a public testserver where we can test it?

And i hope that this will be so good at the end that RenX is take it to the SDK like the some other "experimentals"

[Fffreak9999]

I’ll host a server for you, to try it. Just send me any necessary files for it.

[Ska-Ara]

thx dude, i will asap 

[NodSaibot]

Nice! If you want some feedback, I can also test it on servers I have access to and let you know what I/we think. Great work! I was also inspired to play RA2 earlier thanks to you

[Ska-Ara]

hey Guys,

Sarah startet a Testserver for the Tesla Tank. Its not perfect, but already a funny Thing.

Just download this stuff http://goo.gl/KYEYNb and follow the Readme.
On the Server you can open the Console. Just type in 

sandboxspawn teslatank.ra2_vh_teslatank

and you will get one

Have fun. I will improve this tank in the next days to fix some bugs and ugly things 

[iTweek.]

the tank are nice

 

god job

 

 

Edited May 1, 2018 by iTweek.

[Havoc89]

This looks great! Although I couldn't spawn the vehicle in the server. Apparently I was "Denied" 

[NodSaibot]

1 hour ago, Havoc89 said:

This looks great! Although I couldn't spawn the vehicle in the server. Apparently I was "Denied" 

You have to enable the server gametools for everyone. Vote menu 9. It was enabled earlier, but I guess the map restarted or something

Edited May 1, 2018 by Sarah!

[NodSaibot]

Fast downloader is also now enabled ingame, so no need to download it from Google Drive, as it will go at normal download speeds when you connect to the server.

[Ska-Ara]

Changelog till this moment

• Speed nearly doubled
• Turretrotation Speed halfed
• Shooting Particles aka Lightnings improved
• Hugh Damage Boost
• Slowed down the Firerate
• Tracks fixed
• Suspension improved
• Icons fixed

[Sn4ke]

2 hours ago, Ska-Ara said:

Hugh Damage Boost

whats the dmg stats for the new Tesla? (in comparison with the old [current] one?) seens the old tesla on AGN a lot lately.... and it's OP as fuck (close range ofc..) melts away Inf like nothing, and is strong against any vehicles as well. it's just weak due to it's LCG speed

[Ska-Ara]

Damage from the sourcefiles was
25 before 400 now but it also fire much slower
could be a bit massive but we will see.

[NodSaibot]

To clarify, it does 400, but it only has 1 ammo in it's clip. 4 second reload time.

[Sn4ke]

1 hour ago, Ska-Ara said:

could be a bit massive but we will see.

sounds like an OP VP snack unit. you can literally use the "long" reload duration to just snack other players vehicle kills. please keep that in mind.... as the actual unit kill gives the majority of VP (and not the assists....)

[Ska-Ara]

400 Damage is set, but its actual less dmg cuz the dmg type. we test some battles and some players told me to increase the firerate a bit. 

i would prefer that anyone go onto the server and just test a bit. then write down his opinion here. so ppls can better discuss about that.

[Guest Gliven]

2 hours ago, DarkSn4ke said:

sounds like an OP VP snack unit. you can literally use the "long" reload duration to just snack other players vehicle kills. please keep that in mind.... as the actual unit kill gives the majority of VP (and not the assists....)

You mean like what the Mammoth tank can already do? Don't forget that the telsa tank would be a crate unit, dont base gameplay on if you could get this vehicle anytime you wish.

[NodSaibot]

18 minutes ago, Gliven said:

You mean like what the Mammoth tank can already do? Don't forget that the telsa tank would be a crate unit, dont base gameplay on if you could get this vehicle anytime you wish.

^

It shouldn't be game winning, but it should have a small effect on the game at least.

[Eagle XI]

I thought it would be firing like the Mammoth Tank. Left barrel - Right barrel.

[Madkill40]

If we use this video as an example...

We can see that the electricity shoots from the middle, so maybe both sides conduct electricity which then causes the electricity from both coils to meet in the middle and shoot forwards (somehow and for some reason beyond our own understanding of C&C science) 

There should be a 1 - 2 second (or 1.5 second) charge up of the coils before the initial electrical strike, it may also be a good idea to include a lock-on for this particular weapon? So the weapon has to lock-on before it can actually strike an enemy... Because electrical attacks that miss by an inch makes very little sense... With this in mind then a Tesla Tank could be allowed to do up to 25% damage to a Mammoth tank with one hit   ...The Tesla tank itself not being a particularly tough vehicle, but would make it nightmarish if driven by somebody who is at Heroic rank 

[Sn4ke]

6 hours ago, Madkill40 said:

Because electrical attacks that miss by an inch makes very little sense...

given the high voltage it doesn't matter that much if you get hit directly or are standing next to the impact point. if struck, you'll most likely die (unless you're in a Faraday cage) to heart failure. if you're close to the point of impact... well. the elecricity has to go somewhere... and most gound materials are conducting.

the human body has a "physical resistor" of ~1k Ω - let's assume the Tesla Tank emmits an electric arc with 30kV - U = R * I -> I = U / R -> I ~ 30 A - currents of 50mA can already be deadly to the avg. human body... so if Teslas were a thing.... you're dead. even with some kind of Exoskeleton

but we're talking about C&C Science... so let's forget about that

16 hours ago, Gliven said:

You mean like what the Mammoth tank can already do? Don't forget that the telsa tank would be a crate unit, dont base gameplay on if you could get this vehicle anytime you wish.

well, I think you can't really compare Mammoth DPS with Tesla Tank. Teslas are close range weapons with HIT SCAN ability, so whereever you aim - if you're in range... you'll hit.

Mammoth tanks got a main (double) cannon & missile tusks. the missiles are easily dodged by most Nod vehicles, the main cannon shells.... well at close range and without hard cover you'll most likely get a 100% hit, but at long range.... since the 5.31 nerf to projectile travel speed.... mammoth tankers have to pre-aim to hit a moving vehicle (which most Nod units do while facing a GDI Mammoth, unless they have 2-3 techies)

 

[[B]Veyron]

not the Tesla we wanted but the Tesla we needed

[roweboat]

was trying to get the tank on the test server last night around 930pm -6 CST, but i kept getting "Eva: Denied".

 

I downloaded the file from the post, put it in the right directory, enabled sandboxspawn, used

teslatank.ra2_vh_teslatank

 

finally wanted to drive a Tesla, but no ;p

[Ska-Ara]

yea its a common problem if the sandbox isnt enabled. you need to start a vote and select the gamemode. 

but right now the server is deactivated and will be reenabled in the next days with some more improvements

[NodSaibot]

6 hours ago, roweboat said:

was trying to get the tank on the test server last night around 930pm -6 CST, but i kept getting "Eva: Denied".

 

I downloaded the file from the post, put it in the right directory, enabled sandboxspawn, used

teslatank.ra2_vh_teslatank

 

finally wanted to drive a Tesla, but no ;p

If you want, I can show you our download repo and you can get the files off there and summon it in a single player match.

[roweboat]

I appreciate it. It's no problem. I can wait until the next version is released!

[Ska-Ara]

short break here , need help of havoc which is very busy right now.

but i think in 1 or 2 weeks it will be make a huge step nearly finsihing  sry for this delay but good thing need time it will be result in a much better experience than now  meanwhile is start a new vehicle, will show it if is ready to show up

[Ruud033]

On 5/2/2018 at 7:49 PM, said:

not the Tesla we wanted but the Tesla we needed

You sir just won the internet