*update on page 3 of this thread*

Hi mates,

short message about my current project dod_tobruk [inspired/supported by my fellow Baldrun], a "brits vs. german Afrikakorps" scenario.

First impression -

Here ! (http://www.bleibringer.de/in_progress.html)

Thanks 4 african models/reskins to:
flomatic
Joe Anderson
divisionazul
HS The Whap
Cheeto
Angry Beaver
Baldrun
h&k [special thx 4 permission of model-reskinning]
Models-Forum-Topic (http://www.dayofdefeat.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11607)

sound:
J69L (dod_cologne_altstadt, dod_hameau)

object-icons:
Baldrun

Greetz Bleibringer :)

wow i can say this looks very cool !!!
i cant wait for the release !

:eek:

w0w blei!!!!

these pixx look great! :)
unique themes 4 dod are always cool...

:D

Very very nice and orginal. Looks great!

Very nice!

Now for the question that every1 is waiting: How are the speeds?

Good job Blei. Very nice indeed.

Thats what awesome map u got there, can u show us a pic of r speed, and overview map.

Also did u use any custom desert textures any new ones. Can you also tell us bout any objectives in the map any unque features your going implement or have.

jo blei contact me i have something for you

looks very nice! :D

one thing to let you kno is that its gonna have a crap load more models. All the desert ones etc.

Looks greta can't wait if the r_speeds are good.

Wow, talk about something totally new to play. Looks amazing, i like the 1st sprite icon :)

omg that looks very sexy dude, i cant wait :D

ahaha i can't wait we all want more info and pics of ur map. plzzzz.

We have both Ambush_combat and Feldfeuer on our server, I'm sure when this is done, it will find a home w/ us as well.

Looks great so far.

Let me know if you need a server to playtest on.

W00t!! very original...and very nice looking...pimp this asap..:-)

looking good....I'll email you and baldrun my assorted 88s soon for inclusion.

Anderson

wOw

exellent... great idea! cant wait for the release.


:cool:

Hi all,

thx 4 (nice) comments so far.

r_speeds are at the moment about 600-900 w_polys and 8000 e_polys on the main battlefield-area; still trying to reduce when integrating final models and approaching beta-status; pics will follow then.

Map will be divided in three parts/objectives:

- a main allied defense-line
- an allied depot
- a small village
- axies have time-limit

Tanks will shoot with machine-gun-fire and grenades, when destroyed they stop shooting.

Furthemore there are moving spawns.

More infos will follow....

@Joe Anderson: thx - can´t wait to get your 88s :)
@ floMatic: i´ll contact you in ICQ :)

Greetz Bleibringer :)

I want to know how long that map took you to make?

Out of curiosity, what's the third objective?

Would you PLEASE tell Baldrun to PM me?

Hey, I have a server that I can run it on. If you want, I can password protect it and then you can have a small playtest. That is, if you want to.;)

sorry mate. but i cant play this map if you have either brits or americans fighting. the dev team is going to have to add an australian allied team, just for this map. when the brits finally relieved us and took over defense of tobruk, the germans captured the town really quickly. :p

looks great, cant wait. sky is beaut.

gimme some more of that sweet eye candah :D

Yea but aussi was still considered part of british commonwealth so no need for aussi team yet m8.

Yeah, same with the Canadians. They faught at caen.

Great map, Blei, wie immer ;)

No need for Canadian or Australian forces because their equipment was almost identical to the British one. Except some minor Australian weapons like that smg.

r_speeds are at the moment about 600-900 w_polys and 8000 e_polys on the main battlefield-area; still trying to reduce when integrating final models and approaching beta-status; pics will follow then.

Ehm 600-900 , with or without VIS? :cool:

check the model thread bladrun and bleibringer.

Originally posted by Darkwing
sorry mate. but i cant play this map if you have either brits or americans fighting. the dev team is going to have to add an australian allied team, just for this map. when the brits finally relieved us and took over defense of tobruk, the germans captured the town really quickly.

Ha, at least they went back and took it again. Nothing like a lose to toughen you up.

Map looks great, awaiting more pics and release.

wow, holy ****; that looks really great. can't wait to play this one. :D

I am very pleased to see that Blei's and my project gets so many nice comments. Thx a lot guys. ;)

Hopefully this map will help adding the African scenario to DoD. Just support us as best as possible and this map may even convince the DoD team to consider Africa part of this great mod.

Hi all !

@2ltben: I´ve not decided yet what the 3rd objective will exactly look like. :cool:

@Cheeto: yep - I will tell Baldrun

@Baldrun: Did You PM Cheeto ??? :)

@Angry Beaver: THX mate - very nice job !


Greetz Bleibringer

Hi all!

Not much, but here are two more pics of my current project dod_tobruk.

Pics are from the "I-call-it-village-area" :D

http://www.bleibringer.de/comingprogress/7.jpg

http://www.bleibringer.de/comingprogress/8.jpg

First pics still can be seen here (http://www.bleibringer.de/in_progress.html)


Greetz Bleibringer

What wads did you use for this?

looking even better, good work.

Looks really good, but I think those shadows are to hard, try adding some bounces....

Originally posted by [GTNW]Baldrun
I am very pleased to see that Blei's and my project gets so many nice comments. Thx a lot guys. ;)

Hopefully this map will help adding the African scenario to DoD. Just support us as best as possible and this map may even convince the DoD team to consider Africa part of this great mod.
You bet I think this will be one of the best custom maps with firring tanks and the Africa campaign .
one question will the Axis tanks be firring into the brit compound until Bazooka-ed ?

This map looks promising. keep up the good work guys!
Btw hi Zuzu ;)

I dont mean to get off topic, but zuzu im curious and i think it would benifit the thread *cough* if you told us all what anime that clip was from with the ww1 guys and trenches and stuff

impressive.

weeeeeeeeeeeeee

It's from the "Do The Evolution" music video
God I love DSL

:D

Originally posted by Mythic_Kruger
This map looks promising. keep up the good work guys!
Btw hi Zuzu ;)

Hi Mythic_Kruger
Been gone but im back:D

Hi.

Originally posted by ZUZU

one question will the Axis tanks be firring into the brit compound until Bazooka-ed ?

Axis Tanks will attack brit´s defense/trench area and secondary (MG-fire) used as spawn-protection.

Firing Brit Tanks (primary: tankgrenades, secondary: MG-fire) are Axis Objectives - must be "Panzerfaust-ed" :)

Originally posted by
Kehldon

Looks really good, but I think those shadows are to hard, try adding some bounces....

Pics are taken after "fast-compile" without bounces, no final lighting yet.

Originally posted by
2ltben

What wads did you use for this?

Textures are from earlier CS maps (an unreleased middle-east project and de_resolution) I made.


Greetz Bleibringer

Lo all,

I'm back from vacation. Nice to see you all are still with us on this attempt of seriously introducing the African scenario to DoD.

@ Blei:
*grmml* You and your Panzerfaust....oller Fanatiker :P
I prefer to have them blown up with a "geballte Ladung".

@ all:
Check out the model request thread for Africa in my sig if you want to help us out.

So it will be brits class vs. ger. class?

... will the map have any custom flags etc?

Nice me wants

Any New pic's
Maybe some play testing shots?

Hi all,

here are some r_speeds pics, still working on reducing....

http://www.bleibringer.de/pix/tob_speeds1.jpg
http://www.bleibringer.de/pix/tob_speeds2.jpg
http://www.bleibringer.de/pix/tob_speeds3.jpg
http://www.bleibringer.de/pix/tob_speeds4.jpg


CU Bleibringer

thats looks really great! me wanna play!:D

Bleibringer did you run with vis or without? ;)

with vis! that´s for sure! ;)

Jep!

Full Vis ;)

We need your help ppl. We lack a few british models. Anyone interested in helping us out check this thread (http://dayofdefeat.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=212256).

****ign amazing, this reallt reminded me at mohaa (graphics wise)

Why ruin this awsome looking map with british? Reconcider putting the allies against the axis, I don't care about history, I care about awsome gameplay =( Either way though, this map looks VERY promising and I look forward to it's release.

Wow… Am I on the right forum? Is this the DoD 1.0 mapping forum?! ;)

Looks great! Me wanna play! :D

Looks V good!

Just remove the MP44, K43, MG-34 (but not MG-42) classes from play. That way it should be more evenly balanced when playing, plus, I don't think those weapons were used in Africa.

Keep the Brits in! They work on open maps- its the small maps like Flash which suck.

I hope in 2.0 we can have commonwealth skins (not as custom skins either).

If your talking about weapons in the Africa campaign the Britt's had Tommy guns I my self would rather have a tommy then a sten gun .

The mob style-tommy gun which we used looked nob.
The sten gun looks cooler!

You might as well ask dod team to make an Afrika Korps class. lol. I don't expect you to limit any classes but just to state my opinion don't limit any allow people to be what they want. Im sure you will oh and next pic u release can we see an overview if u have one yet id like to see the layout of the map.

work continues on the map models so things are looking cheery for this map :)

Anderson

Originally posted by Joe Anderson
work continues on the map models so things are looking cheery for this map :)

Anderson


good news Joe :)

greetz Blei :)

Can't wait to see the first pics of that 6 pounder and the bofors ;)

this is starting to become a much anticipated map. i really cant wait.

looks really good:)

Hi guys!
Here are some new pics and some short information about dod_tobruk.


http://www.bleibringer.de/9.jpg
http://www.bleibringer.de/10.jpg
http://www.bleibringer.de/11.jpg

Solids: 2352
Faces: 14529
P.Entities: 342
S.Entities: 218
Textur usage: 3.89 MB
Base patches: 61746


greetz
Blei :)

nice :)

exellent :)

what a great eye-candy! :cool:

cant wait for the release...

Your whole map looks really well designed! i'm sure this will be a hit :) keep up the good work

Looking at these new pics I have very bad feeling about r_speeds. Are you sure you have managed to get them at reasonable levels ?

Bleibringer wouldnt be Bleibringer if he had not managed to keep r-speeds quite low while bringing excessive amounts of detail to the aged HL engine :D

............................................


(^^ Speechless)

looks way sexy but i fear it will just be another brit/ axis railgun war. But we'll see.

Guy's whats up with the map are you close?

*Stares in awe*

Wow! This map looks great! I honestly cannot wait for that map!

Any news about zis map?

Last time I talked to Bleibringer he had switched to BF42: Desert Combat mapping and he told me as well that he´s not very motivated in finishing this map.

I have some concerns that this project is going to be released, unfortunately.

Originally posted by Rotkopf
Last time I talked to Bleibringer he had switched to BF42: Desert Combat mapping and he told me as well that he´s not very motivated in finishing this map.

I have some concerns that this project is going to be released, unfortunately.

ah crap:(

I wish the Dev Team or some other talented mappers could take over dod_tobruk if Bleibringer let them. The map looked like it had potential.

a map that won the heart of everyone and now he bails? Even if he isnt interested in it anymore, just finish it up for everyone

I told him that, but to me it looked that I did not convince him really. A shame :(

hold on! hold on.... has this map stopped ? just asking ...
Well i do have some other work in real life.
But if Blei or Baldrun, needs help on mapping it, i would love to help out.
I've learned pretty much about open maps, from coldline mostly ...
Anyways hope to see the map get released.... looks awesome !

-Stoffer

This map looks so awesome.

Please make him release it to the public or something before it just gets destroyed in his next hard drive re-format!!!

if its not gonan be finished the least they could do is appeal to the comuntiy to finsih it if they want it.

Yeah man I'd love to help out finishing it up. :)

Originally posted by Rotkopf
I have some concerns that this project is going to be released, unfortunately.

Can anyone else finish the map?

I doubt that, but I´m going to point him to this topic and the recent replies when I see him on irc next time. Maybe he changes his mind. I wouldnt be too optimistic though. I kinda have the feeling that he internally already quit dod mapping. :eek:

hold on guys its a little bit my fold bleibringer waiting for some models from me and hes mapping on a desert combat map but this project hasn`t stop ;) trust me I`ve a pre-beta on my hd and i must say wwwoooooooowww:eek:

as bleibringer started this thread, he asked me for some waypoints for testing this map! two weeks ago, i asked bleibringer to the status of this map... he sayed that he will wait for dod 1.1, but sayed nothing about to stop this project! so i think he working on it!

I cant wait looks very good

Is this map ever going to be released? God, give it to FD and see what he can do with it:D

Hi all !

Sorry 4 the delay !

A few words about what´s going on with me and dod_tobruk; it´s true I´ve started mapping for BF1942 and Mods...BUT...

I am still working on tobruk [there´s so much time in it], I waited for DoD1.1 because of the "zalec-bug" [not resetting of the gate; walking through closed gate].

Furthermore I don´t have the "right" african models yet.

I intend to release a beta soon without those african models, just to get gameplay impressions, as soon as I get the right models I will implement them, maybe after the beta the model-creators will be motivated to finish their models.


Greetz "DukeNukem" :D Bleibringer

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wow that preview clip is hawt:cool:

glad to see you're back in business!

BleiBringer is back, clap meh hands....:-)

Well this is a bit of inspiration for me to continue work on my North Africa map. Glad to see you're still on the job.

Glad to hear this is still going to be finished. :)

This map is HOT!!!

I am eagerly awaiting its release, as many others. Nice to see another quality round of Brits vs Jerrys; alright lads, lets get it on then. ;)

Will this map be compatible with DoD ver 1.0, Bleibringer ? I noticed that you waited for the release of the update.

And Godcha, will those Sturmbot waypoints be made public? Its a must have for people like me and my friends to be able to play this map.

Again, VERY nice map. :cool:

Originally posted by MasterChiefRulZ
And Godcha, will those Sturmbot waypoints be made public? Its a must have for people like me and my friends to be able to play this map.

im sure, that bleibringer will include the wpts in the final public release ;)

Hi Mates !

Some news about the progress of 'Tobruk':
In the last weeks I worked quite a lot on finishing dod_tobruk; in the meantime I compiled 6 "different" versions of the map.
After several changes [some problems with 'max_patches' :mad: and 'max_clipnodes' :( ; gameplay issues :rolleyes: ] a first beta-map will be finished/released soon.

Latest screenshots can be found here:

http://dodmaps.ngz-network.de/?site=news/shownews.php&news_id=310

Thanx to "[DM] German Killa" [dodmaps.de] :D

Greetz
Blei

what do you expect us to say? it's just oh so great :)

WOW, cannot wait for this release. :)

http://dodmaps.ngz-network.de/previewpics/tobruk_v1_8.jpg

The texture used on the cart to the left in the picture is looking very wacky/grainy.

Amazing work.

Something about it reminds me of Stuka, not sure what it is.

I for one will have my server immediately host this map for custom map gameplay. No doubt this and dod_spearhead will become a favorite of regulars on our server. :)

A lot of epolies here (8500). But map looks great.

My notes:

Skybox mountains are way too high. And they should be just on one side eventually.
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/tobruk_libya.htm.

I understand that there should be big open places in such battle but seeing so little cover I can hardly imagine fun game for both sides.

Wow, open areas (http://dodmaps.ngz-network.de/previewpics/tobruk_v1_1.jpg) and enclosed city areas (http://dodmaps.ngz-network.de/previewpics/tobruk_v1_7.jpg) in the same map! It looks great graphically, and I bet the gameplay will be great too. Looking forward to the release.

this map it looks friggin fantastic

ANY news???..pics...(BETA??..:-D)

DodMaps.de + DodMaps.com will make a no-public-playtest tomorrow.
new pics and previews will follow. dunno when Bleibringer will release the map after the test. but you will read it ;)

Yes, there will be a short test - just checking if all triggers work, etc....

Thanx 2 GermanKilla for running the server.

@RA7: You can find the latest Pics here: :)
http://dodmaps.ngz-network.de/?site...php&news_id=310

greetz Bleibringer

Thnx for the pics, will post them asap...