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Divine Deacon

Posted by: BUG$
22.08.2006 22:00 GMT

Hello and welcome back to another update of Forgotten Hope. We would like to kick off our update without loosing too any words with the AEC Mk I Gun Carrier, known as the Deacon. It was an attempt to make the QF 6 pounder anti-tank gun into a self-propelled artillery piece. It was employed only during the North African Campaign. The main goal was to provide British troops with a mobile anti-tank weapon. Only 175 were built in total. The Deacon was modelled by ctz and Jimbob, who made also the skin and normalmapping. Manufacturer of the tires and provider of the tools was Rad. The belonging 6-pounder was created by AaronAsh and TheJackalx2k.

We would like to finish the update with a couple of statics and impression shots. On the 4 screenshots you can see a harbourhouse made by Toddel, an oiler wreck by Jimbob, Lobo and Mange and a PAK 38 ammobox from Toddel.

   

   

That's all for today, but be sure to come back next week for another Forgotten Hope update. And don't forget to join us on IRC. Feel free to visit our public forums to discuss this update or other news.


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Reconnaissance in Force

Posted by: BUG$ & StrangerthanFiction
15.08.2006 22:00 GMT

Hello and welcome back to another update of Forgotten Hope. Today we have only a few words to say but many images to show. We have 10 screenshots of our current build, made during online tests with on our test server. These show off a lot of relatively new integration of the models, textures and code that we have been showing separately in our earlier news updates. We would like to take a moment and thank both Warumdarum.de and Wolfservers.com for providing us with test servers. Without excellent communities like these supporting us, the Forgotten Hope community would not be nearly as lively and interesting.

The screens were taken on the map "Operation Aberdeen" by Augustus. For those that are new to the mod, here is a quick recap of who made the different items shown: DAK soldiers and equipment by Zero and McGibs, the MP40 by HailofNails and Rad, the Stielhandgrenate by Rad, the SdKfz251/1 by K96, the Panzer IIIN by Rad, Upgraded sandbag texture maps by Rad (model by DICE), the K98 by McGibs, Opel Blitz by Mange and Jimbob, the P38 by HailofNails and McGibs and North African buildings by Malsa to only mention a few things. ctz put it all together and got it to work smoothly.

These are all work-in-progress shots from our alpha build, so there are still many things to be tweaked. A number of people seemed anxious see what FH2 looked like in a less formal presentation than we usually have for our news images, so these pictures are for them.

That's all for today, but be sure to come back next week for another Forgotten Hope update. And don't forget to join us on IRC. Feel free to visit our public forums to discuss this update or other news.


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Addition to the family

Posted by: BUG$ & StrangerthanFiction
07.08.2006 21:00 GMT

Hello and welcome back to another update of Forgotten Hope. We have some especially good news today to start with. After the long period of suffering Toddel has made it into the Forgotten Hope Developer Team. You have seen many static models and skins from him already and will surely agree that he deserved it--few have worked so hard to earn their place on the team. For any that are still in doubt we have more items that were made by Toddel today. Enjoy the images and join us in giving Toddel a warm welcome to the team!

   

Next we have a bunch of smaller items for you. Many of them have already been shown, but in this image we can give you a taste of how they will be used together. First, is the new Flak 38 ammo box also made by our newest member Toddel, with a bit of normal tweaking by Rad. Other objects, which you may have seen earlier, are Rad's jerrycans, Malsa's water jug, Lobo's wooden crate, and jodonnel' Flak 38 and Flak 38 ammo magazine.

Last object of interest is the Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter finally in game. It served in almost all theatres of war in service and operated in every role that of a heavy fighter to doing battle as a torpedo plane. More than 5500 were produced between 1939 and 1945. Furthermore this aircraft was one of the first to be equipped with an airborne radar set. This multipurpose aircraft will come in very handy against the panzers of the Afrika Korps. It was modeled by SirFluffy, skinned by AceS and coded by ctz. Please also give your attention up for some additional stuff around there like the aircraft camo net made by Lobo or the sand ladders made by Toddel.

   

   

That's all for today, but be sure to come back next week for another Forgotten Hope update. And don't forget to join us on IRC. Feel free to visit our public forums to discuss this update or other news.


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