AchromicWhite Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 I've been plugging away and finally finished them all Update: Nyerguds kindly pointed out a graphical glitch from the original frames in which some of the fire was being remap instead of bright yellow. That's now fixed. However I did NOT bother to remake the GIF frames, so if you watch them, you'll see the error in them (the GIFs take longer to make than the shp files, like hours longer for that many frames). Don't worry Kilk, the RPG was one of the few which didn't need to be fixed Also fixed a stray pixel for the e3 Dragon. Below are new infantry for Red Alert mods. Some are in other threads, but are updated. I wanted to re-release them, fully updated; with all their friends, together. Light Machine Gun: Replaces e1 (remember that you can now have e1 copies), has an orange belt. Look for: Firing a fully automatic weapon. Sniper: Replaces e1 (remember that you can now have e1 copies), has a green belt. Look for: Holding his gun at an angle when standing still, reloading his gun after firing, using a pair of binoculars to look around when he's idol for a while. Mortar: Replaces e2, has a yellow belt. Look for: Soldier sits ready when he's in a normal 'standing' position, loading the mortar and then placing his hands over his ears when firing, cleans the mortar with a pole when he's been standing idol for a while. Dragon Missile: Replaces e3, has a blue belt. Look for: Soldier sits ready when he's in a normal 'standing' position. Stinger Missile: Replaces e4, has a red belt. Look for: Not much, TBH... he also has extra red on his weapon Rocket Propelled Grenade: Replaces shok, has an aqua belt. Look for: The grenade leaving the end of the weapon after it's fired. -Liam AdvInfandIcons.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Wow. I absolutely LOVE that mortar infantry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AchromicWhite Posted November 3, 2014 Author Share Posted November 3, 2014 Yes, I'm particularly proud of the Mortar -Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messiah Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Looks like many sleepless nights with a big amount of work. :beer: Did you edit each frame per hand, e.g. from the firing gun of the sniper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad1233 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Love the mortar guy he could actually fit in that one Aftermath mission ''Brothers In Arms'' because one of the Molotov brothers fires a mortar like weapon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AchromicWhite Posted November 4, 2014 Author Share Posted November 4, 2014 Yeah, I moved where the gun was and redrew the arms to be holding the gun in the correct way, then filled in the gap where his arms used to be with darker colors. The standing position for the sniper is taken from the "guard" frames of the rifleman which, to my knowledge, are unused by the game. Easily the most work was the mortar, however, where I had to draw: -Standing frames (the crouch position is actually one of the frames of the grenadier attacking). The mortar itself to totally free drawn, 8 directions, of course. -Prone with the mortar; just the regular prone Grenadier frames with the free drawn mortar added in. -Running with the mortar, where I had to draw the folded up mortar cradled in with one arm. One drawn for each of the 8 directions it was just copied and pasted with it bobbing up and down as he runs. -Firing, both 'standing' and prone. This took ages. Obviously starts with the sitting version and prone version with the free drawn mortar, then having him move his arms to take the ammo, and pop it into the mortar. It was also important that I figured out exactly in which frame the grenadier looses his grenade, and as it turns out, there's more frames when he's standing than when he's prone. So there's some extra frames when he's in standing mode where he's just still, from memory. -Adding the mortar into the death frames (must easier I must say). -Drawing up the animation of the mortar cleaning, which I REALLY wanted to have. I watched a video of some guys firing fast rounds out of a mortar... it involved cleaning it; and I thought that would be an EXCELLENT idol animation for him. The other one of him talking on his comm is just from the grenadier, but it really fits a support troop. I think that's all, but it takes a LONG time... and also deciding on belt colors, so that troops that looked similar wouldn't have similar colors. I don't know that mission Chad... in saying that, I'm not all that into RA (I just like to mod it; not a fan of the way that WW balanced RA). -Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilkakon Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I'm very impressed White. These are pretty amazing It's like a shame I've already done my infantry for my mod. I would have totally used these otherwise! All of them are fun and I am glad we have frames for now, from the Sniper and LMG to the epic Mortar troops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AchromicWhite Posted November 16, 2014 Author Share Posted November 16, 2014 Updated. Fixed stray pixels in the flame death sequence. And 1 pixel that was wrong in the e3 dragon. Don't worry, Kilk, the RPG didn't have any issues. -Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilkakon Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Glad to hear I ended up having to remake the whole shp due to the new animations (I magic wanded your changes onto the bazooka). Although technically I could have left the lag time on the end of the firing sequences. I can always add it back later XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Oh, for editing infantry... if you use separate frames for that, maybe this tool can come in handy. Someone made it for me a long time ago, for renaming/copying batches of frames: http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/tools/rename_copy_tool_1.1.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AchromicWhite Posted November 19, 2014 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 I just use SHP editor to do it. For making the GIF I just unpile the whole thing into separate png and use Gimp to make a GIF from all the layers. Thing is, Gimp takes ages to open all the files to make the layers. So I can't be bothered doing all that, just to make some GIF files that show the fixed pixels at the end. The infantry is fixed, that's what really matters. -Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Ah right. I keep forgetting the new SHP editor doesn't horribly corrupt TD SHP files anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilkakon Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I just work on one big canvas in PhotoImpact haha I do everything in that program, from sprites to textures to art for DA :O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AchromicWhite Posted November 20, 2014 Author Share Posted November 20, 2014 Hm. That can be hard... I like to be able to rock the frames back and forth so that I know that everything looks smooth when animated. -Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROB Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Sniper: Replaces e1 (remember that you can now have e1 copies) What is meant by this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen262 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Code added by Iran that was incomplate. You can see the thread here. http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.php?topic=2603.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROB Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Is there a way to use newly added units in single player maps in team types or triggers? Team types use the actual vehicle designation like V2RL. So like SSM from your example download, maybe putting SSM in a team type would work? In your RAED experience, think it would be possible to add new unit keys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen262 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 My guess is that new units would have to be added to a mission by hand editing of the mission in text with Note/Wordpad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AchromicWhite Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 Iran patched the game, so that, when you're modding you can not only edit units, but you can create a new units of each type (infantry, Vehicle, Flyer, Ship). Each type is simply a copy of another unit. Infantry = rifle (labeled e1 in the rules.ini), Vehcile = Med Tank (2tnk), Flyer = Apache Longbow (heli), Ship = Destroyer (dd? I forget what it's called in the ini). -Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvation Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 A weird issue: I downloaded this file, change e1snipericon to c3icon and put it into hires.mix -> then once the game starts it will immediately crashes, giving me following error: I've also encountered this issue many times before when i added my own SHP icon's made by myself. Some of them works, some of them not. I have also ra95crash.dmp -file but it's mostly a very strange language that only Iran understands. Could someone help me with this issue? Sorry if i wake topic which is over half-decade old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen262 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Is the crash every time or random? Maybe try putting the new icon into the HIRES1.MIX. Also wonder if you are having problems as spawn1.mix has a c3icon. I'm not sure spawn1.mix is still used by the CnCNet version so this could be vary wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvation Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 (edited) It appears every time if c3icon is changed. I think the problem appears because there are already hires.mix in red alert directory but inside redalert.mix is also another hires.mix where are the original icons stored. I think i should remove another hires.mix inside redalert.mix, because the game gets frustrated because there are two mix files which has different icons? I don't have such mix as spawn1.mix and i'm using Iran's portable RA. EDIT: I deleted hires.mix inside redalert.mix and replaced existing c3icon with the new one in the hires.mix that was redalert folder. -> didn't work, still crashes af. Edited February 15, 2021 by Salvation Added what happened after i tried to delete hires.mix inside redalert.mix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvation Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Well, problem was solved when i found old sniper icon from openra mod that i once created many many years ago. I put that into hires.mix and now it works. However, problem has been solved, but this still confuses me. ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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