Modified Rhino Tank

AnimalMan · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:45 am Post subject: Modified Rhino Tank

I am looking through old posts on the forum and didn’t want to necro this post. But despite all of the obvious stuff like explosion animations and all of the early and unfinished artwork

Here we can see the Rhino tank and it’s original modifications it underwent for the lunar surface ; as referenced by Sofia during the mission.

We know that the rhino tank we ended up with was the same as the rhino tank seen on earth in ra2 and yr. but the rhino tank here is different. It seems that it was not allowed to rotate its turret. And I don’t know about you guys but it looks like the turret itself is positioned differently.

Just wanted to point that out.

Oh btw the animations would have been cut because development pc is different to consumers pc, and the amount of load may have been an issue. I remember it use to take a few mins to get into ra2 yr for me when it was first released. Also that disc warhead animation looks like a recoloured transparent flak animation. Compare the two seen here.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:35 am Post subject:

It's known that all of the preview images for RA2 & YR were staged & heavily modified/photoshoped, things like the explosion anims & lighting effects were added to the images & are some times impossible to recreate within the RA2 engine. The disk weapon anim is a good example of this as laser weapons can't use anims & the anim pal file doesn't have any pink colours in it too.

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MasterHaosis · General **Joined**: 01 Nov 2010 **Location**: Serbia

Also, look at that Magnetron and MasterMind. They are different as well. Maybe different voxels. But yes, pink anims are possible recently, via Ares. Maybe Westwood had Ares 20 years ago! Very Happy

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AnimalMan · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:12 pm Post subject:

I might be wrong about that rhino tank and i might have selected the wrong explosion to recolour aswell

i think i'll try another explosion Smile

AnimalMan · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:28 pm Post subject:

If the Disk explosion was once real, one reason why it would be removed is a big explosion might imply the weapon has some cell spread to it vs infantry, When in fact the disk laser is more of a precision weapon.