Remembering Beginnings

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I'm curious how all you got introduced to modding C&C.

I started out playing TS and YR for some years, and liked the C&C series. After a long while I found out about Tumsun. I lurked around there, learning modding, and messing around with TSTW, and later started messing with the other C&C games, especially YR. I saw as Tumsun relaunched to Tibweb, and I then came here to PPM, saw all this for Ra2/YR too, and now am aspiring for a mod eventually.

Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

Once a upon a time....

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MT · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject:

heh. Your the only one in that thread whos still active

the first thing I did was give cyborgs the artillary weapon Very Happy

Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

oh my!. :p

<_<' 2002. yikes.

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0warfighter0 · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject:

I made a "super soldier" costing 0 and having a fast shooting obilisk of light laser #Tongue

Talking of overpowering Laughing

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

I Used to just make maps for every C&C Game, when I stumbled upon TumSun that's when I got into actually playing with the .ini files.

OmegaBolt · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject:

Hmm cant actually remember but my C&C life started out as Ra1 on the PS1. When I got Ra2 on the PC and later YR I somehow stumbled across Revora and started a mod; Apocalypse.

Heres the first lame topic I made about it: http://forums.revora.net/index.php?showtopic=16904&st=0&start=0

I never ever did weird stuff with weapons or anything though. :/ The ideas were pretty retarded however. One thing stuck with me forever though: I never see ideas through. Laughing

gufu · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject:

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Haw to chet in TS:
1)Open Teh Rlues.INI (I Tink).
2)Gvi soldr lazer weapan.

Pretty much, that was one of my first topics on TimSun. I got banned (I had 3 warnings), but people liked me.

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MT · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

LOL I see why

Apex · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject:

I was a true noob to modding(asking where rules at!? check some of my oldest posts #Tongue

) when I first started. Asking things like "where rules at!?" check some of my oldest posts #Tongue

. My first modifications were done without guidance(other than asking about the rules.) They were basically uberfying units to cheat on the campaign.

EDIT: I looked at my older posts and my eyes just melted...

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MT · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject:

ROFL my favourite:

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Low power --> damages structures?

I've found out recently that when you are at low power in any c&c's that your structures got slightly damaged?!? Is there any way to prevent this from happening (special tag)?!?

- Sev

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i was wondering how my buildings got damaged mysteriously

Anyways, I remember when it was good times, back when there was Tumsun (and TSTW Very Happy

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CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

God, your talking like, back in the early RA1 modding days, i used to make maps and visit websites using the school computers on how to mod them. Thats gotta be about 1998, because i remember hearing about Tiberian Sun in development.

After RA1 i moved onto TS once it come out and just followed along in the background downloading mods, etc. Was not until about 2003 that i got the internet at home and started visiting more and more modding websites. I lurked about TumSun for a while before i joined in early 2004, made a few posts concerning upgrades and nodes, and a few other logic related questions, kinda got a name for myself as "mr ask everything before trying". I then join here in about April 2005 and made my first post to do with non INI related modding, http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6940. Ya'know, i sit a laugh at that now, but well, to all them people who used to moan at me, who's the guy reading all your except.txt's now! #Tongue

So yea, thats where it all started...

MT · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:48 pm Post subject:

Hyper wrote:

who's the guy reading all your except.txt's now! #Tongue

DCoder

DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

I was making survival maps for Yuri's Revenge, when I started to get interested in adding my own stuff. I went to raden, and got the inis. So in the beginning all of my mods were just rules changes. I had this predejuce against XCC because for some reason I thought that it was like coding (back then I though coding was using binary code Laughing

). But eventually I tired it out, and then my modding exploded. I was working on the typical "first mod", the end all beat all "add every side from every game mod". I got pretty far too. I worked on it for like three months too before I went here and announced it. Of course, I was shit on. But after that I kinda just...never finished anything I started.

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Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

it use to be fun. making giant ants a playable faction and such. looking forward to the next C&C title, and new modding ops. haha.

I recall the transition from RA1 modding to TS.

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MT · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

Wow you people must have modded far far ago...

Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

When I was 10 I got RA2 from a friend. When I was 12 I got RA1. I had visited PPM as a guest many years ago, maybe 11 or something. Soon after, I had somehow lost interest in C&C since I had none of the discs (lost or broken or such).

But you know, you just can't quit C&C. Somehow, there was a trace of "PPM" in my mind, after so many years. When I was 13, I joined. Then you saw the..."naive" part of me #Tongue

I used to mod RA2 and TS with TibEd, but I learnt to mod using the .inis from PPM, fortunately. I remember my BEs almost invincible Very Happy

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Nyerguds · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:43 am Post subject:

My first modding was probably using CCEdit to give humvees Lasers in C&C1 or something like that #Tongue

Though I don't consider any of that data editing junk real "modding". Not before I made graphics.

As for my first modded graphics, that was undoubtably when I made a buildup animation for Andrew Griffin's flame pod in his C&C1 mod-campaign "The Flame Dancers":

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:01 am Post subject:

Started with mapping for RA1, moved on to mapping for TS/RA2, got CnC Holland mod for Generals, wanted to mod it, failed, ended up here for some TS modding help, and voilà #Tongue

Ixonoclast · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:05 am Post subject:

Downloading mods for TS after I finished singleplayer... it was a website called TiberiumSun or something.

MT · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject:

Phobonaut wrote:

Downloading mods for TS after I finished singleplayer... it was a website called TiberiumSun or something.

same here. It was TiberiumSun (TumSun). yay for TSTW Very Happy

and all old mods...

Ixonoclast · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject:

I remember one clusterfuck-of-units-mod from the early days with a black hole cannon or something... #Tongue

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

When I open a mix file on Red Alert 1 Smile

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gufu · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject:

On the mention of nooby mods - I loved High Tech, pretty much one of the most insane clusterfuck of units - yet, so enjoyable. Too bad, AI could not build the units.

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Godofgamers · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject:

I started off when I discovered TumSun, I don't remember how I came across it. I at first just toyed with INIs, then I tried mapping, but then, I found my calling: terrain editing.

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raminator · Commander **Joined**: 04 Oct 2005 **Location**: Bierkasten

http://forums.revora.net/index.php?showtopic=28443&hl=

raminator 2 years ago wrote:

ok...my introduction :p

My realname is Ramón. I´m a 23 year old guy from Germany.
Some more info: I´m studying some sort of engineering (cars, etc), have a gf, i´m motorsports crazy....there was a time when friends called me "the Formula 1 Enzyclopaedia" Very Happy

ok...now to my moding story:

I got in contact with CnC in early ´95 (TD demo). i played it lots of times...to be honest thousant of times.
i borrowed the full game from a friend and played without cd using a simple dos commando....i played arround with some uniteditors to mix the troops a bit.
1996 was the year of RA and Grand Prix 2 for me. i had a RAediting tool that allowed me to do some balancing and mix the units again...but nothing serious. RA is till now the only CnC that iplayed all campaigns more than 3 times...
in late 1997 i found a nice CD with editors for GP2. I started to make new carskins, imported new trakcs and car models and changed some of the textures...
i was nearly 2 years only doing things for GP2...
but then... in 1999...on T-Day i went back to my CnC Very Happy

(had a intermezzo with Dune 2 and 2000).
I played TS as much as possible in this time ( i even bought a new computer for it!)
in early 2000 i got some mods from a pc magazine... ( i had no inet in this time)
as far as i remember one of those was Tiberian Sun Gold...
i modified it for me in private...
in May 2000 i finally got internet...
in this time i went back to GP2 editing...as editing possibilities did advance a lot since i got my editors for it...
but i found a nice tool called Will´s Voxel Editor Very Happy

i made one or 2 voxels for public and then i started modding ts
i made a TS>RA conversion with all builduings converted and all voxels replaced...
but than i got an HD-crash just at the day i wanted to backup it...
ztype....
in late 2000 i met Phil (founder of Blitzkrieg). he was searching for Voxelartist for his WW2 mod "Final Charge" (later merged with some other WW2 mods to Blitzkrieg).
this was the time when i was flaming a guy called Silvester_(whatever...i for got it...lets name him Sly) who made the first RA2 WW2 mod that was actually released "Deathmatch European Battlefield" (DMEB)...
some time later i read somewhere that there are 2 other WW2 mods in production : D-Day and Frontline
I always liked D-Day from the begining as the guys behind it seemed to nice Wink

Frontline was my flamming target...GermanJuggernout and me where the masterflamers against Frontline people
early 2003 blitzkrieg finally got released...allthough it was far from being finished...
when i got Generals i played it a bit and tried to become a skinner for Blitzkrieg 2...but my skills where limited at this time (only did some temporary skins for an internal alpha)
and my way brought me back to RA2....
I think i joined the guild on 17-June 03 :p
now time has come to try myself in doing mods...but somehow i lost interest after a few days...as i was basicly doing each time the same thing :p
in early 2005 i started to make some voxels that made it into several mods (eg my Apoc)...of course most of them ended in RAlike and CarniWar :p
ohhhh i like " :p "
since june 2005 i got my own CnC Ressource site and released 2 versions of RAlike (noobish attempt on recrating RA1) and 2 versions of CarniWar (which was more advanced , eg new AI for new Factions, etc).
After MadHQ left Revora because Prime got hosted i gave him a new home for his work. I´m really proud to host him, because he´s one of the topartist in the community!
in novemeber ,i think, me an Rawlo started talking about creating a new TC: "Discordia", for info see forums here at Revora Wink

oh...yeah...and then there was this funny story when i pretended to be 2 persons and especially to be a girl :p
that was really funny for me...and the other guys who knew...first i thoughed i make an april fools out of it...but then i was such drunken on my bday that i posted that funny pic of me that revealed everything Very Happy

now i´m learning since mid january to use 3dsmax for building shaping...

there was lots of other things i forgot to mention...but i think this read is long enough :p

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Ixith · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: Re: Remembering Beginnings

eMpTy wrote:

I started out playing TS and YR for some years, and liked the C&C series. After a long while I found out about Tumsun. I lurked around there, learning modding, and messing around with TSTW, and later started messing with the other C&C games, especially YR. I saw as Tumsun relaunched to Tibweb, and I then came here to PPM, saw all this for Ra2/YR too, and now am aspiring for a mod eventually.

sounds pretty damn close to mine.

I started playing Tiberian Dawn at some point when my brother got it from my cousins. Saw my cousins playing RA1. Liked TD. Wanted TS. Eventually got TS and then FS, RA2, YR, and Renegade. Heard about modding from one of my brother's friends. Started to google stuff. Came across the Afterglow site and learned the basics. Then came across Tumsun which lead to here. Lurked for a good while and then decided it was time to register. Shortly after registering came a wave of maps for TS/FS. Started talking to people like OrcaCommander, Sirmodsalot and others. Had made some actions of doing mods with some of them but none of those went through so I just focused on my mapping. Now I am relaxing from my map making extravaganza as I have been around like...2 1/2 years now and have 25 maps released I believe. However, I have my TS:CO project going and I have MANY MP maps in WIP stage still. May or may not continue my interest in modding once done with TS:CO and other loose ends.

and yea...that's my story thus far.

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:

Just looked up my first post (and topic) here: clicky. Now I know how I started TS modding: with SunEdit2K #Tongue

Old times are fun Laughing

Apex · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:

My shining moment... Posted a stupid question in the FAQ.

I actually found out about PPM when someone recommended it to me when I asked where to find good mods. Yeah I still remember the exact details of how I joined, I asked this in the TS lobby.

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MT · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject:

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Now I know how I started TS modding: with SunEdit2K

lol Sunedit2k. I have memories of ppl going on Tumsun mentioning it, and ppl like Ackron telling them not to use it (SunEdit2K messes stuff up! learn proper way!).