Forgotten Honor MOD project

[brokenpoly]

Hey man!
This mod looks really great, especially when you think about how dated that engine is now. Im impressed especially with all the detail you`ve managed to put into the environments and the design overall looks very nice!
How long have you been working on this mod & how many people are in your team? I guess working with DICE`s engine must be really nice for you, as you`re living in Sweden yourself? =)


Keep up the good work!


r0ald

[NattyWallo]

Thanks for that :)

This mod has been under development for about 2 years.. All levels have been used in big "battles" where 64 players (32 vs 32, which is hard-coded maximum for this game) play 6-hour long matches, once a week. This has been every week for three years now, each week a new map. The mod is the 25 best maps from these three years of running the tournament. The mod itself started being made around two years ago, and has been optimized and finally released the last three months.

Yes DICE is swedish, which is nice. This game is old, that is a fact, even me have to admit that. What is beautiful with it is that it is extremely "mod-friendly" and the texturing editor I am using is one of the best, even the BF2 Editor has a hard time creating similar textures (a.k.a. "color-maps"). What is sad is that this engine only supports one detail map per level, which really feels late 90's when you think of the more advanced engines today, which supports many detail maps and the other stuff I mentioned like normalmaps etc.

But this Mod is more like a final crown to end a 5-year era of this great game. Lobo, team-leader of the Forgotten Hope2 team called it a "cherry on top", which is nice to hear.

Our team consists of a "core" of about 5 guys, but there are more than 20 guys involved in some way in this mod, some have done "miscellaneous" work like research, community work, web, art, testing, coordinating players etc, and this is just as important as creating a level or a model when it comes to making a MOD.. you must have a player-base and a platform where the mod is used, otherwise you're doing it for nothing. But the foundation of the mod development team would be 5-6 guys, putting in 30-40 hours per week for around two years to make this mod.

Have a look out for Forgotten Hope 2 when it hits release, Ive seen it myself and I can safely say it blows all other competition out of the water when it comes to taking an engine, and creating a totally new game ontop of it.

Browse through the archives at the site, and look at models, levels and other material they publicly announced http://www.fhmod.org

/Cheers!

[Duke of Holland]

Not my most constructive post, but meh :thumbsup:

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