Okay that was the information from their side. Next they disappear out of the scene, then comes PMC comeback. PMC is now in process of getting all the data/work from Robviper. So I would like to conclude here some points from his promises.Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Theater
Date: 04/12/2005
Robvipers homepage.
***OIF theater update*** Frugals topic.
Persons involved:
Jody "Marvin" Levesque (campaign, terrain)
Ed "Twister" Gordillo (terrain)
Rob "Viper" Senftle (skins & additional art)
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Operation Iraqi Freedom Theater pre-release features Date: 03/31/2005 15:28
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- Completely new skins for many aircraft, vehicles and buildings
- New UI, music and videos
- New OIF campaign simulating the war on Iraq in 2003/04
- Historical ODS '91 campaign (based on ODS512)
- several included TEs
- Improved 512x512 tiles (based on ODS512)
- new a/c models & airbases
- comes with an .exe installer
Robvipers interview on F4HQ.com
I will evaluate the textures I'll receive and if they are good, they will be added.Robviper wrote:- Completely new skins for many aircraft, vehicles and buildings
New UI, yes. Music and Videos no. Why? I dont care about adding something so irrelevant only to build up the already large theater download.Robviper wrote:- New UI, music and videos
I will tweak the campaign yes.Robviper wrote:- New OIF campaign simulating the war on Iraq in 2003/04
I have no idea whats this based means. ODS v0.512 historical campaign was build by help from many peoples research, if there is anything to tweak I'm happy to do so.Robviper wrote:- Historical ODS '91 campaign (based on ODS512)
I have no plans to do them myself (I have never been fan of TEs), if someone wants to send me TE's and they are good enough, I will happily add them in.Robviper wrote:- several included TEs
Yes we already have such tiles. I havent seen any improved ground textures by him in any of his screenshots.Robviper wrote:- Improved 512x512 tiles (based on ODS512)
No. Anyone up to speed on falcon/theater development knows there is no new airbase models made by anyone which are fully working ingame yet, so he was dreaming here making big promises. I wont promise something like this, but of course I acknowledge that one day we will see new airbases added to F4 database and I'm looking forward that day to start using them in our theaters.Robviper wrote:- new a/c models & airbases
As for new aircrafts, sure I'm interested of adding them but I have no examples in mind, neither do I have anykind of list which aircrafts are missing on the various falcon versions. I believe RV already has pretty decent list of new aircrafts included which suit OIF theater.
Uh yes, already does and installs to three different falcon versions.Robviper wrote:- comes with an .exe installer
So there you go, some of my answers are pretty "blunt" or gloomy-realistic, ie the new airbases and such, but hey I will not go promising a moon for you guys if I cannot deliver.
So one more time: PMC will receive Robvipers OIF work soon and will continue the work he started to build better ODS/OIF theater!
If anyone has some questions beyond this status update of what happend for Robvipers OIF, feel free to post so I can answer them here as I dont want to run around clearing rumours in various forums out there every other day