After the scheduled maintenance this weekend, we're now all up and running.
if you don't have build rights (and are supposed to) Please contact a moderator to get you rights!!!!!
Cheers
Hi Guys!
We have officially opened the BHP Minecraft server!
feel free to join us on the server bluehellproductions.com or on the IRC channel at irc.bluehellproductions.com #bhpmc
we'll see you there!
for futher information here's a link to our rules and server info
here
Want to try playing APB on a Mac instead? Darklord42's wrapped up a full RA:APB 2.1.1 client for OS X 10.5+ so you can join the game from your Macbook or whatever else you've got. Check the
forum thread for more details. It's entirely compatible with all the servers, obviously!
Hey all
just as a quick update for all that we've made some more changes!!
We've removed some stupid categorys, re-organised in general some forum categorys, and created some new ones:
specifically:
- Other Category Created
- C&C moved into here
- Off-Topic moved into here
- Technical Help & IRC moved into here
- Mafia moved into here
- Minecraft Sub-forum created
- Testing Category removed completley
- Moved testing forums into top secret forum
Server Changes:
Might have noticed the website being down for about an hour and a half earlier, this was a planned "15 minute" outage but due to sperging on both myself and the host it took a bit longer.
I've upgraded the box from 8GB of ram to 32GB of ram to host our new Minecraft server..... more coming on that soon
Heyo
i'm going to be taking down the site and all the cool stuff for 15 mins in a few hours, for a ram upgrade.
thanks
Hey everybody, a while ago the emoticons on our forum reverted to their filenames for in-line substitution, and those filenames were not always obvious; a GDI symbol was some obscure string of numbers for example, although now it's back to :GDI: for ease of use. Everything's fixed up now, although a few of the older ones have been outright removed. Also, the mafia games subforum no longer allows guest posting.
Additionally there have been some forum code updates recently; we'll be working those in later, it should increase performance regardless of what skin you're using.
So now that APB 2.1.1 is out, do you want to make a map, or perhaps some custom unit rules? How about a custom language translation? Are you just curious about how things were put together, or want to view the tanks or explosions up close? Then, this is for you. Included is everything you need to get started on your own fan projects, aside from commercial 3D/2D editing programs-- although you will find plugins for 3DS Max. Useful tools for modifying the W3D data format, and view or edit content that once required LevelEdit to manipulate, will make things easier than ever.
Your RA:APB Gamma 2.1.1 installation has already pre-configured LevelEdit path information for you, and several sample maps are included, so you can immediately start investigating how our maps were put together, or create a new project folder for 2.1.1 right away.
A comprehensive list of what's included is also available in the detailed description on our ModDB/IndieDB download page.
Mirrors - About 42MB
IndieDB Listing & Details
BluehellProductions FTP
Well, it's about darn time. Red Alert: A Path Beyond version 2.1.1 is ready to rock, the servers are being updated, and mirrors are being prepared! There are a lot of changes in this one, far more than originally planned, including support for Eyefinity and ultra-widescreen, the new Heavy and Light tanks, revised tech levels and balancing, and updates to maps. Oh, and tons of performance boosts across every facet of the game, a blessing for those with less powerful computers (those of you who have better systems can now enjoy native 16x anisotropic filtering and high-quality FXAA to rid yourselves of jaggies).
Full client now available; patch pending. Server package and fan project SDK need to be tested and uploaded still, look for them very soon.
Mirrors as they arrive - About 697MB
BluehellProductions FTP
WhoGetsAllTheLadies
ModDB
Narod.yandex.ru (Russia)
Atomic Gamer
RA:APB v2.1.1 is now available for download. It contains important performance fixes, balancing, and enhancements. Download links and more information at
bluehellproductions.com; servers are being updated accordingly.
So 2.1.1 has been quite a ride to work on. Intended originally as a small and quick balance patch, it quickly blossomed into something a bit larger as these things tend to do. We wanted to wait for two new units to be finished off, had some long thoughts about balance and the role of the Phase Tank as the Allies' top tier ground vehicle, messed around with helicopter balancing, and found tons of areas for performance gain. Since a major problem with 2.0 and 2.1 were related to a combination of old issues finally manifesting themselves alongside new (and sometimes poorly-tested) functionality, a lot of code has been reviewed and rewritten, less total functions are called and scripts attached to game world objects, and even creating sounds now will perform more efficiently. Notorious issues like the Gap Generator slowdown have been fixed (it was a combination of things; how the general renderer worked, how the fog worked, how the cloaking worked, how the gap logic itself worked), or how the Spy worked. Anti-aliasing is back with a vengeance and looks better than ever with a reduced performance impact, too, and that was really worth waiting for.
Anyhow, the latest blog discusses some changes we were looking at very late in 2.1.1's development. We've also posted a couple shots of what it looks like when you're inside a gap shroud, and several new photos of the revised heavy tank are avaialble on our ModDB page. Have a look. What should be the final internal build is scheduled to go out to testers tomorrow, so if everything goes smoothly it'll be out to the public at the end of this week if no critical issues come up.
Hey everybody, over the past three weeks, around 400 installations of A Path Beyond 2.1 occurred via the Desura service (the ModDB/IndieDB download platform). Unfortunately, Bluehell Productions were not the ones who prepared that installation, and unless you were using a particular configuration of Windows XP it is likely that the game would not even run if you were try to launch it afterwards.
This Desura installation does not appear to properly configure dependency packages for DirectX 9 or the Microsoft VC redistributables, or registry information; our typical standalone .exe installers do this all for you automatically, so most people don't really take note of it happening. Checking the statistics, there were around 100 people who immediately removed it when it failed to run properly.
To download a working copy of Red Alert: A Path Beyond 2.1 please use this installation instead. It will give you everything you need to play the current public version.
Sorry for the inconvenience if you are one of the many who tried to play using Desura. We're figuring out what happened right now, I just got a message from the party responsible. We have recently been made aware that over the past several weeks, many players were able to download a faulty installation of RA:APB off the Desura service. The installation will fail to provide all the dependencies necessary to play, causing an error about an invalid DirectX version. Please check our main site at
http://www.bluehellproductions.com for more information.
CNCNZ has just posted the results from a discussion we had regarding the fact that Tiberian Sun: Reborn is now being developed right here at Bluehell Productions. It might be interesting if you were wondering about the process or if it seemed sudden, and we lay out what our mindset is for this project. Give it a look, and don't forget to follow CNCNZ.com for the latest in Command & Conquer news and information. It's my personal go-to site for the latest community updates.This Sunday, join us for the
Loudscast broadcast of RA:APB. A
TGN streamer will be showing off the public version of A Path Beyond and you are welcome to participate, or just tune in or link a friend. Information in
this thread.
Broadcast time:
11AM PST / Los Angeles
2PM EST / New York
7PM GMT / UK
So it's been a few days,
i'd just like to get everybody's opinion on how things are running?
are things running faster?
is anything running slower?
is anybody having problems with any skins?
Welcome to the new webserver,
any issues PM me!
A new apocalypse rising update has been posted
here!
Find out more about the new announced features of the new internal beta, as well as information about new units, special effects and other Apocalypse Rising related awesome stuff right
here.
It seems that everybody is pretty happy with the current theme updates,
so i'm going to go a step further.
now... i know you cherish the idea of "If it aint broke don't fix it"
but you see, i like things to be better, faster, and more resource efficent.
Soooooooooooooooo, i'm going (over the next 4-8 hours) be making changes to the website that include, but are not limited to;
New Server.
....... i know right, a bit overwhelming.
i'll be making sure everything works before cutting over the DNS, please expect some small, minor, downtime, as when i cutover the DNS, everything will turn off on this server. you will get a message that says " HEY I DONT WORK REFRESH STUFF"
This will mark the final steps of migration to the new, fast, incredible, US Server box, for all Bluehell Associated Applicationarys.
Anyway, if you have slowtime over the next few hours, deal with it.
Thanks to everybody who volunteered to become a tester. We've made our selections and at time of writing, the new crew is hard at work testing 2.1.1 already.
To celebrate Venompawz's Birthday..
Not really.
I've installed some new skins... these have been built for 3.2 IPB and *should* perform alot better.
Please leave your feedback in this thread,
cheers.
Check out our latest blog (Jan 11) for information on the upcoming release, a preview of the new Light Tank coming in 2.1.1 and also information on how you can become a tester. It's posted in the usual place, so catch up on anything you've missed.
Our Teamspeak 3 server's been changed around a bit (as you can see on the front page), with redundant channels removed. Users can now set a channel icon to denote whatever game they're up to, rather than fixed TF2/BF3/Minecraft channels. Join us at ts.bluehellproductions.com whenever you're looking to chat. We're looking for players who would be interested in joining our internal testing team. Responsibilities include participating in balance testing games, hunting down bugs, and trying out new features and gameplay mechanics for all three core Bluehell projects (RA:APB, RA2:AR, TS:R). New testers as well as former testers in good standing are all welcome to apply. Check out the forum for more details.
Hey Guys,
Please be aware that i am doing network maintaince and there might be a small amount of downtime if i break something.
i am also going to move the website to a new more speedy box.
It's that time of the year again.
ModDb is hosting the
Indie Of The Year 2011 competition. Projects in the Released and Unreleased Top 100 will be eligible; luckily, three projects we manage have made it into the running! In this phase of IOTY 2011, you can vote for as many projects as you want. Go ahead, get voting!
We'd like to ask you to consider our projects:
Red Alert: A Path Beyond
Red Alert 2: Apocalypse Rising
TIberian Sun: Reborn
Don't forget you can visit our ModDB/IndieDB pages all year round for news and media. Also, don't forget there are plenty of other great C&C related projects worth your consideration! Be sure to also check out
MOTY 2011 for all your favorite classic Command & Conquer mods that have made it into their Top 100 charts, and other worthy projects.
Hey everybody, I did a little digging into what could be causing slowdown on the forum. Chrome seems to be the biggest offender, so I focused on that. Turns out there are several known issues at this time, which specifically relate to things our forum display uses. It sounds like Google is working on fixing the issues; most are issues reported from January-November of this year.
If you are curious, check out related Google Chrome trouble tickets 102696, 104733, 105030, 103996, 95164, 575, 103386, 72553, 80507. The conclusion is the current rendering system just has a lot of problems, and there is not much we can do on our end other than stop doing several things that Chrome did once support. By using custom CSS overrides you can simply disable functionality that Chrome does not currently implement properly on your end. A lot of the screw ups, especially for Windows 7 running Chrome, seem fairly recent. You may also be be interested in issue 44390, although that was specifically for Mac versions. A few people reported browser slowdowns or long load times due to transparent images used in the site theme. Today, I spent a couple hours making some adjustments today to fix a few visual quirks, sizing down graphics, removing extraneous overlapping elements, converting a few blank PNGs to GIFs in case that'd make a difference, stripping opacity calls from javascript/css, and making a few color adjustments here and there. The default theme now has the vast majority of transparent images, overlays, highlights, and shadowing removed; you'll notice there are still some outlines to headers and a drop shadow to the main content, but that's about it. Additionally, the background image has been shaved down to less than 28kb, so it should be suitable for dial-up users.
You will need to push Ctrl-F5 while viewing the forum or otherwise refresh your browser's cache, or else old HTML/CSS/images will be retained and you will either see no changes or a confused-looking page.
Any problems with renering transparent images or PNG alpha rendering should be alleviated because there are basically none left. These changes have been applied to "Board Default." If you have problems or want to compare to the initial look, change theme to "Board Default Orig."
Also I've slightly adjusted the colors on the front page news display, and if there are no problems with the forum changes, I will apply them to the front page style. Let me know if things are better or worse.
APB 2.1 shipped with some last minute particle rendering enhancements. Unfortunately, not all video cards supported this. Certain cards will simply no longer render any particles; explosions, fire, and such. Please check
this link to see how to fix that. An upcoming patch will fix this issue for all users. The thread also provides details on how to optimize the game for slower systems.
With 2.1 freshly released, there will no doubt be problems discovered that either could not be fixed or could not be found in time. Please use our
Bugzilla tracker to report problems you encounter. Be as specific as you can and give steps to invoke the bug if applicable, so we can see it firsthand. Thank you, and please
report any bugs you find!
The APB 2.1 client is now available to mirrors and testers, and servers will be updating as well. If you have difficulty joining a particular server, it is possible that server simply has not yet updated.
The launcher will now pull news from the new forum, and will mark any posts in the past 48 hours as "new" to help alert you to recent information and updates. Note that this change is only reflected if you are using the APB 2.1 launcher, as the 2.0 launcher is out of date.
Alright, Catalyst's actually now patched the forum up to 3.2.3 which should improve responsiveness and performance overall. We've removed the old skin options and have a newer one which is like 90% where we want it; you should see it right now.
The IP.Board Mobile has been renamed Mobile Device since people were confused about it. Remember you can change your theme by going to Change Theme in the bottom corner, between the default and mobile view. Let me know if you find any problems. I need to go get the front page done now, which is like 75% done.
And in case you missed the news, you can have animated avatars again.
Hey all,
you will have noticed that some small changes will have happened to the forums over the last few hours, including 404 errors, skin crashes, and improvements!
Below are the changes that have been made, not necessarily viewable to the public;
- Skin changes to Elegant;
- Sidebar removed - possibly being re-added
- Default skins forced to Elegant
- several configuration changes made to the skin
- improvements to the topic structure
- Registration Improvements;
- Password Strength Checker
- Redundant checks removed
- New Captcha keys and difficulty
- Back-end Changes;
- Several Performance and Tuning Tweaks
- Several new back-end processes made
- Changes to Permissions and Groups
- Members Moved around
- Quotes can now be quoted
- up to 20 quotes per post
- New Features;
- Reputation System now online
- Calendar online
- "Like This" now works
- LOTS OF EMOTICONS
- Iphone app for IPB 3.2.2 - Download here
- Upcoming Features
- New Main Page Website!
- Ranks built into the forum skin
- Lots more!
- Features Removed with Forum upgrade
Animated Avatars
- Old theme
- Anything Cool
As always, please be patient with the changes that are being made, we're :trying: to keep everybody happy with what we've got available to us - but won't be able to keep everybody happy.
Please use this post as a "Bug report" as per say, or even use our nifty new bug reporting software to let us know about problems Here!
Cheers,
Catalyst.
We're still updating things, so sit tight and deal with it. There should be no problems, but we're getting things configured. All the smilies are missing, for example, but will be back shortly. Old posts will be fixed once the images are replaced. Some old posts may be missing but will be restored soon.
The skin's temporary, but I kinda like it, but we might see a changed version later.
Join up on the RC 5.1 test, going on NOW not now in the testing server, the connection details of which you can find in the server browser in the launcher.
There will be an RC5.1 test one hour from this post. Be sure you have RC5 and the RC5.1 patch. Be on IRC and Teamspeak.
There is a 24MB patch you need to get that corrects the issue where Hinds cannot be purchased. Get it
here. You must already have RC5 installed.
1.5 hr from this post, there will be a test. Please join IRC and Teamspeak in advance.
If anything's broken let us know. We'll be updating the software in the coming days. Please report any errors you encounter.
A lot of people have asked about this, and getting it added.
It's been there for years, look next to the thread display options in the upper right corner when you view a thread. I've moved some things around; if you are looking for Game Updates, it's kinda deprecated and has been for a while. It's been merged into Dev Blogs.
This does not get brought up that often but I do not think this have been covered yet, so this is why I am making this topic.
What is Big Red Text?
Big Red Text is what appears below your avatar when you make a post on the forums. It is in impact font, it is red, and it is rather large and annoying.
Can I have Big Red Text under my avatar?
99% of the time, BRT is not something that you want. It is generally reserved for people who have said/done something amazingly stupid and only administrators and moderators are allowed to give someone BRT. I know that you may see certain administrators and moderators rocking BRT but it is best if you do not have one.
How can I avoid getting Big Red Text?
It's rather easy really, just be a good forums member and don't do or say anything stupid or something that might get you in trouble. It's nothing out of the ordinary that you should be looking for. Just be good and you should keep the Big Bad Red Text away.
And that's all there is to it! So get back to playing APB and being good forum posters and all will be good.
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If you use YOUTUBE tags, you can go ahead and place a movie into your thread and it will not destroy the forum tables or anything because it'll lock the size to ... I forgot, but about 650 wide. You just place the video ID in between the tags, and you're all set to go. It will default to no-related videos, no-cookies, HD, and no-autoplay.
[youtube]AIFnLRhWGx8[/youtube]
AIFnLRhWGx8
Congratulations to Killboy, Dommo, and CaptainMagenta. They are new moderators with no particular subforum assignment.
Furthermore, Occult13 is now staff with limited permissions and Beerinator is in a new color.
Many testers were purged. Testers have new abilities such as an expanded upload allowance, and a 24 hour edit timer. They can also remove the "edited by" and all that.
There will be more testers added.
Naturally if you think you have found a mistake let me know.
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