Anglo-Zulu War 1879 (MP) *WIP*

[gokiller]

Small History
The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.
Following the imperialist scheme by which Lord Carnarvon had successfully brought about federation in Canada, it was thought that a similar plan might succeed with the various African kingdoms, tribal areas and Boer republics in South Africa. In 1874, Sir Henry Bartle Frere was sent to South Africa as High Commissioner for the British Empire to bring the scheme into being. Some of the obstacles to this plan were the presence of the independent states of the South African Republic and the Kingdom of Zululand and its army.[6] Frere, on his own initiative, without the approval of the British government[7][8] and with the intent of instigating a war with the Zulu, had presented an ultimatum on 11 December 1878, to the Zulu king Cetshwayo with which the Zulu king could not comply.[9] Cetshwayo did not comply and Bartle Frere sent Lord Chelmsford to invade Zululand.[10] The war is notable for several particularly bloody battles, including a stunning opening victory by the Zulu at Isandlwana, as well as for being a landmark in the timeline of imperialism in the region. The war eventually resulted in a British victory and the end of the Zulu nation's independence.

Features
- Multiplayer (Later considering Singleplayer)
- Factions: Zulu's, British Empire, Boeren (optional)
- New made guns, and weapons
- New skins for the Zulu's
- New Scenes
- New Scene props
- New Cannons
- And more!

Team
- Gokiller: Coding, Scenery, Research, Organiser
- KArantukki: Modeling/texturing/layout
- Crusader: Scene Maker
- Rigadoon: Part-time modeling/texturing
- Gesufal: Modeling ~Gone till further note~
- Greenjacket (Gwyrdh): Texturing ~Broken pc~

#NOTE# Were still looking for some people that are willing to help us out at:

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- Scene Props
- Texturer
- Mappers
- Modelers

Please contact me with a PM if you can help us out with any of these jobs!

Credits!
Austro: For his Zulu weapons (OSP)
Shredzorz: AoFI Open Source
Azrooh:  For overall support, helped me out when I had any problems.
Wolfy: For overall support, helped me out when I had any problems.
5arge: Research
Yukimura: (Zulu) Skinning


Signatures
- Support our mod!

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Thanks to Gabby! 

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Important Notes
- No Release date yet. So don't ask for it.
- It's for now MP we see later if we can handle SP
- Looking for more texturing people+scene prop makers
- Help is appreciated in any kind of form (Research etc credits will be given)

Polls

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Shall we add Arabs in later on?
21 (21%)No.
22 (22%)Yes.
57 (57%)Concentrate on the Zulu's add them later

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We hope that we informed you well with this. We will keep you up-to-date about any progress!

~Dev Team~

[gokiller]

Daily Updates


Daily Update ~11-02-2012~

Here we go as promised, this is the progress the modelers+texturing guys made today.


2 of Yuki's Zulu skin Textures (wip)

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1 British cannon model (Ges)

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1 British Helmet + British 2 Hats (Kara)

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British Lance

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1st (wip) Textured Axe (Green)

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#Daily Notes#

- Welcome Crusader to the team as Scene maker, and some research. Best of luck!
- Good work everyone (to all dev's that read the thread :p)!



Daily Update  ~12-02-2012~

Textured Spear

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Open wagon model (used as Scene prop)

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Closed wagon model (Same)

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First Revolver model (Not 100% done)

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All new signatures (Thanks to Gabby aswel!!!)
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,216502.0.html (frontpage)


#Daily Notes#

- Thanks to 5arge for his first research work for the mod!
- Thanks to Gabby for his support with the signatures!
- Some small progress got done with the implenting of the items
- Still looking for some texturing+scene prop modeling guys!



Daily Update ~13-02-2012~

Don't expect to much from it, factories need their rest aswell

British Boots (Kara)

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Re-done Axe (not 100% done yet) (Ges)

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Re-Done Skin Texture (Yuki)

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New Menu (Kara)

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Loading screen 1 (Kara) Not eddited yet

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Loading screen 2 (Kara) Not eddited yet

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#Daily Notes#
- Putted in Austro's OSP (Credits will be given once everything is fixed as in the model scale is way to huge O.o)
- Already a thanks to Angel (if i'm right ) for his models



Daily Update ~14-02-2012~

British gun with Bayonet

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Sandbag wall

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Menu screen (other one in-game)

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Axe model finished

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#Daily Notes#
- Still busy with the rescaling of the OSP models didn't had much time today.
- Some early pic's of a new scene will be added to this update, or tomorrow.


Daily Update ~15-02-2012~

British Officer sabre (WIP)

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Zulu House 1

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Zulu House 2

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#Daily Notes#
- Some small coding done,
- Crusader started with the Battle of Rorke's Drift map,



Daily update ~16-02-2012~

Some small thing to say: Tomorrow I've my last day school before one week holydays, this will mean that there in coding a lot of progress can and will be done. And I hope to do most things in this week. Here a small list I'll be doing. Afcourse things can be done when the Texturing and modelers are done with it. So just some points (afcourse there will be more)

- Putting all textured items in
- Putting all Scene props in
- Working on the classes

Now the work for today.

Loading screen+menu screen in-game (implented)

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Wooden wall (Large) Scene prop

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Wooden wall (Small) Scene prop

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Wooden wall (Corner) Scene prop

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Updated Officer sword

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#Daily Notes#
- Greenjac Continued texturing,
- Karantukki soon going to start on the banners,
- IMPORTANT more progress will be posted later on today,


Daily update ~17-02-2012~

Not much work today, me was mainly enjoying the first day of my holydays
Karantukki has been doing some stuff tho,

Couple of New banners

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~Daily Notes~
- None for today,


Daily Update ~18/(early 19)-02-2012~

Some things i've been implenting and working at (in my own) and the work from the others in-game

Enhanced Male Faces by Iboltax (OSP) (one face)

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~Note~ : With create character you can now take these improved faces

 Realistic Textures pack  V 1.1 by FantasyWarrior (OSP)

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~Note~ : To make some maps better looking, and for the mappers. Not tested yet so it can be always removed

Hat 1 (My own and first try Textured)

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First banners in-game

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#Daily notes#
- Some cool stuff is coming really soon (model)
- Still busy with rescaling the weapons


Goodnight!

[KArantukki]

Zululululu !

 

Lets make a great mod. 

[Connzcdf]

I know that you may already have the information you need, but if you need anyhelp on info about the zulu war please just pm me, I am pretty much mad about it and have done alot of reaseach. Good luck on it though I will follow it to the end!

[Gwyrdh]

Zuuuuluuuu! Proud to be a dev. I'll get those sigs done later.

[gaham1]

Isnt it going to be kinda boring with only two factions? Thats why I liked the full invasion idea of it. How will you keep it interesting?

[Der Einzige]

3 Factions*

They're adding Boers possibly.

EDIT: Best of luck by the way.

[crodio]

Best of luck!

[gokiller]

Isnt it going to be kinda boring with only two factions? Thats why I liked the full invasion idea of it. How will you keep it interesting?

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3 Factions*

They're adding Boers possibly.

EDIT: Best of luck by the way.

So I would say 1. Read the thread better,
2. This is just in development. After we started two days ago. So things can go on many ways, and we might add some more factions.

[DanAngleland]

I don't think having many different factions adds much unless they actually have significantly different properties to each other. The Zulus will presumably be very different indeed to play as than the British or Boers, since the Zulus with have no guns (unless they are allowed one or two 'looted' rifles on the team). I have longed to see a mod on this war, I hope it turns out well. Can the teams be balanced so that the Zulus always get more men than the British? I think that would be better than searching for another way to balance the teams, like giving Zulu spears massive damage or making guns innaccurate/weak.

[gokiller]

I was thinking of putting (if possible) the class system in. Like in MM.
 
What would balance it out more, if i'm right.

~Next update of work will come tonight.~

[John.]

Well, we may have had our disagreements, but i wish you the very best of luck on this mod and i hope it is completed.

[gokiller]

Daily Update ~11-02-2012

Here we go as promised, this is the progress the modelers+texturing guys made today.


2 of Yuki's Zulu skin Textures (wip)

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1 British cannon model (Ges)

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1 British Helmet + British 2 Hats (Kara)

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British Lance

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1st (wip) Textured Axe (Green)

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#Daily Notes#

- Welcome Crusader to the team as Scene maker, and some research. Best of luck!
- Good work everyone (to all dev's that read the thread :p)!

[Connzcdf]

Daily Update ~11-02-2012

Here we go as promised, this is the progress the modelers+texturing guys made today.


2 of Yuki's Zulu skin Textures (wip)

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1 British cannon model (Ges)

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1 British Helmet + British 2 Hats (Kara)

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British Lance

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1st (wip) Textured Axe (Green)

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#Daily Notes#

- Welcome Crusader to the team as Scene maker, and some research. Best of luck!
- Good work everyone (to all dev's that read the thread :p)!

Really nice! And daily updates? Awesome!

[SirUlric]

wow this mod looks really nice, i will download when it is done, nice work gokiller and everyone else