The Progress Thread/List

[Wundai]

Fixed the Main Menu Issue today using Alpha Layers.

-Added to the Progress List

(Not the only thing we're doing btw ;) )

Here is a list of thing the RNJ Team is working on right now:

These are both For the Beta and After the Beta:

-Me and Obiwan Asterix are trying to get the Building Descriptions Started

-Juggernaut has rejoined and is finishing all the "Japanese Clan History" chapters, you see in the beginning of every campaign. He has priority to make a description about the 2 Historical Battles in the beta though

-Wlesmana is making Fort models for both the Strat Map And Battlemap

-We are busy discussing the possibility of a Sourceforge Project, we tend to give the coders( Stuie and Max_minimod) the liberty of deciding themselves though, since it is in their best interest.

-TomteofDoom has pledged to help the team with his amazing 2-D Art, and will join in when he has the time.

-Taneda Santôka, when he gets online again will help with getting some old parts of the mod together, making a very nice RNJ Splash Screen (and I hope help with the Battlemap Hud which we lost )

-I myself am trying to get the Historical Battles working for the Beta( jummy CTD Paradise) with help of our coders/scripters.

-Juntao is coding the Voices into the mod

-I'm also working on the Building Cards (for after the Beta)

-Shogun144 is helping with distributing the RNJ version we have now to all mod-members that are in need of it.

End of progress update ;)

[Raz]

Thanks so much for the update Wundai.
To the RNJ team: Really hope you guys keep it up.

[Cyril Bianco]

Hi all:)

I have to confess I was very disapointed to read that the beta would not include the possibility to play a campaign. Because I remember spending full nights with the shogun total war campaigns, and was very excited by the idea to play it again with better graphics.

But from the last post of wundai (whatever you sort out at the end thanks a lot mate to keep up informed), it seems to me that some "fresh blood" have revived the project and that things are planed for the stage after the first beta.

I really have the hope that the modding team will end up by sorting a playable campaign (although I imagine this means a huge amount of time and work).

Unfortunatly, I cannot help given that I have neither computer skills nor graphic one.

The only thing I could do would be to translate from english to french.......which is completly useless.
Sorry for that guys, and courage!

Best regards,

cyril.

[Wundai]

No probs,

Cyril, Raz thanks for the support.

I also hope for a fully workin campaign, but campaign coding is totally not my field.

Stuie and Max_Minimod are the ones (scripter/coder) who will hopefully sort the campaign out for us, but as you say this will take a lot of time/effort getting all the bugs out.

(Which actually is the main reason I did NOT want to include the campaign in the beta, mate, this would delay the release ANOTHER substantial amount of time and neither me nor you, would be happy about to hear about more delays)

[Raz]

Careful.
I'd absolutely hate it if (after the beta release) you guys simply decided to "take a break" and we'd never see a full release. Which seemed to be very common amongst mods with massive delays before an initial release.

[Cyril Bianco]

Hi all:)

From what you said wundai, I think you are right not to implement a campaign mode in the first beta release if it's not completed.

Because I remember how disapointed I was when I tried the mod three kingdoms. They had made a good job, especially in terms of design and historical background, and issued a beta release including a campaign mode which was completly......unplayable.

Whatever the faction you choosed, you ended after e few dozen of turn by a complete campaign crash, as you stayed definitively stuck by a major bug like a return to desk top.

I think the modders where themselves so disapointed that they abandonned the project.

It would be a shame the same process would occure with ran no jidai.

I would play the skirmish mode or a historical battlefield with great pleasure anyway

Freindly yours, (and have a good chrismas!)

Cyril

[Wundai]

Thanks mate my intentions exactly,

I have good news also, we have completed implementing all the Voices for the units in Ran No Jidai (used the SHOGUN TOTAL WAR sounds for this) all your Japanese units give orders and speak in Japanese now, no General's speech though, we'll see what we can do about that (maybe after beta)

Voices = Beta Ready!