[RA2/YR] Prerelease Eiffel Tower

BrianPrime · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 26 Jul 2007

I have restored it, with a custom destruction animation as well. Overall this has taken me several days.

Westwood scrapped this version due to France disallowing them usage rights because they wanted to put it in the game as a destroyable structure, and a tesla coil. After releasing the game, France found out they still called it the Eiffel Tower still in it's ugly, butchered state, and after 9/11 they disallowed name usage rights as well.

Hence the ugly, unrealistic, uninspired PARIS TOWER in the released game. Rolling Eyes

UPDATE: Forgot the destroyed image, in the isourb palette. It is now added.

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KillerClam · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject:

Awesome

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Gaffel · AA Infantry **Joined**: 27 Mar 2006

Good work

DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

It still looks a bit blurry and the destroy anim. looks a bit goofy, but it gives a nice feeling of retroness... This and other your work are great, keep it up!

Bako'Ikaporamee · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject:

looks cool none the less Smile

. I wonder how they wouldn't let the tower be in the game, despite all the other monuments that were blown up in the tiberium universe eh?

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BrianPrime · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 26 Jul 2007

xenology_311 wrote:

looks cool none the less Smile

. I wonder how they wouldn't let the tower be in the game, despite all the other monuments that were blown up in the tiberium universe eh?

The city of Paris simply wouldn't give the necessary legal permissions.

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Dupl3xxx · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:12 am Post subject:

truely a great building! cann't wait to see more #Tongue

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Tony · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:01 am Post subject:

What crap..it looks like something King Kong pooped out after eating several Hotdog stands...Nice work prime.

(for those of you who cannot tell seriousness from sarcasm, I am being sarcastic...You did a good job)

BrianPrime · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 26 Jul 2007

•Tony• wrote:

What crap..it looks like something King Kong pooped out after eating several Hotdog stands...Nice work prime.

(for those of you who cannot tell seriousness from sarcasm, I am being sarcastic...You did a good job)

<3 ya too, tony. Razz

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Bako'Ikaporamee · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject:

BrianPrime wrote:

xenology_311 wrote:

looks cool none the less Smile

. I wonder how they wouldn't let the tower be in the game, despite all the other monuments that were blown up in the tiberium universe eh?

The city of Paris simply wouldn't give the necessary legal permissions.

Funny frenchies. None, the less good job on restoring this thing. Smile

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Tyler Adams · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:04 am Post subject:

That explosion is just...

Unnatural. No shaking of the entire building, just.. :S Otherwise.. not bad. top is blurry as crap, but w.e

And how can you deny a game company "legal permissions" to use a building? Confused

Would they have declared war on EA if they used it? Confused

I mean.. seriously. Wtf?

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BrianPrime · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 26 Jul 2007

Tyler Adams wrote:

That explosion is just...

Unnatural. No shaking of the entire building, just.. :S Otherwise.. not bad. top is blurry as crap, but w.e

And how can you deny a game company "legal permissions" to use a building? Confused

Would they have declared war on EA if they used it? Confused

I mean.. seriously. Wtf?

The city of Paris holds all legal permissions for usage of the Eiffel Tower in ANY media production, or advertisement, etc. They could easily win in any case they took against EA.

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Clarkson · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:18 pm Post subject:

Los Angeles County holds the same rights over the Hollywood sign, interestingly enough.

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Bako'Ikaporamee · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject:

And I've seen the holly woo sign blown ups so many times in movies as well Rolling Eyes

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Nyerguds · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject:

I know this topic is old, but, I got really excited when I found this, only to find that this SHP is drawn completely wrong ingame.

Turned out it wasn't centered correctly. I attached the edited SHPs that are centered as they should.

Still, it's missing shadow Crying or Very sad

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all stuff together as mini-mod to fix the tower

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Eiffel tower destroy anim

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"uncensored" RA2 strings file with the "Eiffel Tower" string restored in the unit name and briefings sections

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Ixonoclast · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject:

Bako'Ikaporamee wrote:

And I've seen the holly woo sign blown ups so many times in movies as well Rolling Eyes

Americans and French aren't really the same.

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

It's just a game....the French and German officials are taking video games often a tad too seriously (I'm looking at you, BPjM).

Imagine it...this was classified as harmful to minors (removed from the index in 2002) by the BPjM.

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Deformat · Defense Minister **Joined**: 17 Sep 2007

You know this thing is preparatory for the little terrorist.

You wouldn't want to see YOUR kids destroying buildings using helicopters,don't you?

Ixonoclast · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:23 pm Post subject:

Modern kids are pussies.

When I was young, I ripped the spine out of horrible aliens from Hell!

What do kids do these days? Run around with PONIEZ!~!!

Nyerguds · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:12 pm Post subject:

The result Smile

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OmegaBolt · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject:

Just looks like its been cut out of the prerelease images and sharpened. Oh wait...

Nyerguds · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject:

well, anyway, it looks pretty good ingame Smile

The strings file change doesn't seem to cause MP incompatibility, so I'm keeping it installed ^_^

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Dark Templar X · Commander **Joined**: 26 Feb 2009

OmegaBolt wrote:

Just looks like its been cut out of the prerelease images and sharpened. Oh wait...

No shit, Dick Tracy. :p

Nyerguds · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject:

It's been thoroughly cleaned up too though. I just took some time to compare the original prerelease screenshot, and it's been enhanced a lot. The original was far too bright, which caused a lot of details on the ground under the tower to disappear in a haze of white. Not to mention the explosions, and the lightning mess around the top.

BrianPrime really did an amazing job on this one.

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

I did always like this, I never had anything against Prime either, he always did make me laugh (despite his over-the-top case of Emo).

Orac · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:30 am Post subject:

The destroy is.. eugh. I dislike it.

Nyerguds · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:19 am Post subject:

Do you actually see the destroy anim anywhere? I tried my hardest to get that thing destroyed in Soviet mission 5, but it's almost invulnerable, and the mission ends pretty much the moment you come close to it.

Or is it used in some other mission too?

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Does it has no shadow? Confused

The rusty brown on the beta pic looks imo also better.

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Nyerguds wrote:

Do you actually see the destroy anim anywhere? I tried my hardest to get that thing destroyed in Soviet mission 5, but it's almost invulnerable, and the mission ends pretty much the moment you come close to it.

Or is it used in some other mission too?

I've only seen it in Soviet Mission 5 and the Skirmish map Paris Revisited.

Nyerguds · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject:

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

Does it has no shadow? Confused

Yeah, I already mentioned that... it has no shadow, because the original map was nighttime, with the lightning at the top of the tower being the biggest light source. There's only shadow below the tower.

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

The rusty brown on the beta pic looks imo also better.

Not really. It's too bright. The edited version fits into the game more naturally.

Also, this might be a palette restriction anyway.

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Anderwin · General **Joined**: 16 May 2005

Nyerguds:

I think he mean the GIF picture ^^

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Nyerguds · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:54 pm Post subject:

Doesn't matter; it really doesn't have shadow ingame either. I was just saying that it was because the original prerelease pic had odd lighting.

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Symphonic · Tiberian Fiend **Joined**: 06 Jan 2009

I'm probably going to make a new destroy animation. Any suggestions for how it should fall?

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

If you can, just get it as close as the "Paris Tower" explosion anim as possible. IIRC the main column broke in half, fell, and blew the rest up (although I'd rather just see it collapse instead of going BOOM).

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001010011100101110 · Commander **Joined**: 18 Aug 2009

But... the prerelease was... it was... GOLDEN!!

Symphonic · Tiberian Fiend **Joined**: 06 Jan 2009

I wasn't happy with my old work.

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Eldrei · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:58 am Post subject:

No shadow too.

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Orac · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 7:33 am Post subject:

I prefer the original - it was less glowy.

Dasfonia · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:32 pm Post subject:

The reason it was less "glowy" is because RA2's Pallets changed the color once put in SHP format. Well I just put the Eiffel tower into SHP Builder and the color suprisingly didn't change much Smile

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