A Project has been updated: The Dark Tide III: Eye of the Empire by Patrick Haslow, Matthew Hallaron, & Barry Brien
Added: Progress information

I plan on adding a few new threads to Level Reviews every day for the rest of the month. I wrapped up the letter "I" a few minutes ago -- did you know we have fourteen missions that start with the word "Imperial"?? -- and should reach Zaarin's Platform (literally) sometime in the spring. After that, maybe we'll shift to the showcase levels and contest entries.

If you have the chance, take some time out, revisit these levels and post a comment or two about them.

Also updated (at last!) is the Contests section, which now includes Matt H's Naboo Reactor Core.

We're short the following items:

• AlexG's Boing (boing.zip)
  
• Barry Brien's Manipulating texture size and resolution with INF (stretch.zip)
  
• Matthew Horrocks' The Darktrooper Center (dtc.zip)

DarthDoctor has just released his first level, The Defection of Bez Kuahn.

Three months after the destruction of the Arc Hammer, Kyle and Jan are contacted by a disillusioned Imperial who wants to defect to the Rebel Alliance. This is no simple operation, though: the officer, Bez Kuahn, wants to be "kidnapped" from the Empire!

The plot twists even further from there... check out the mission briefing for more details.

Barry Brien's just released version 1.5 of his Hall of Fame mission Assassination at Nar Shaddaa. It appears he's finally zapped the bug that kept crashing the level!

Patrick Haslow reports that The Dark Tide III: Eye of the Empire will be released on July 31st. For more information (and for new shots of The Dark Tide IV), check out the forum.

Fish has just uploaded a beta of Chromaforces, his new palette and color map editor.

As this is not the final version, he's asking that users report any bugs they come across and suggest improvements he can make for future releases.

Head over to the Chromaforces thread for more information.

Fish has just released Dark Dimension, a program that shows .LEV files in 3-D. Glasses are required and, obviously, not included with the download.

More information will be added to the Utilities page shortly. In the meanwhile, check out the Dark Dimension thread in the forum.

New to the WAX section is Dark Forces Officer WAXes V. 0.1 by Kir Kanos (a.k.a. Steven Sherber). This collection includes uniforms in black (for lower-ranking officers), green (worn often in Expanded Universe publications) and grey (as seen in the movies).

Patrick Haslow chimes in with some good news about The Dark Tide III on the forum.
(Click here to view his post.)

Patrick Haslow, Matthew Hallaron, & Barry Brien have just released version 1 of their much-anticipated new mission, The Dark Tide III: Eye of the Empire.

This installment picks up right where Nightfall left off, with Kyle held captive by the Imperials, his attempt at rescuing Jan Ors having failed.

Byte-wise, this is the largest Dark Forces mission (15.2 MB) -- and it's only part one! You can expect to see version 2 released on August 28.

Patrick Haslow has uploaded an updated, de-bugged version of Eye of the Empire. The filename's the same, but it's what's inside that counts, so when you have the chance, download version 2 of DT3 version 1.

Apologies for the short outage over the last 24 hours which was due to a DNS issue.

Please note you may notice another short bump while I get the domain name renewed which will happen in the next week or so.

F

Patrick Haslow, Matthew Hallaron, & Barry Brien have released version two (of three) of The Dark Tide III: Eye of the Empire. Give it a download, and let them know what you think in the forum.

OK, the DF-21.net domain has now been renewed until 2009.

Apologies for today's outage!

F

Kyle Vogt (Nikana in the forum) has just uploaded Projectiles and Pickups, a collection of customized, well, projectiles and pickups. You'll find new animations for missiles (for you, the Phase IIs and for Boba Fett!), rifle bolts and plasma blasts, a bunch of pickups to match -- and more!

Version 2 of Kyle Vogt's Projectiles and Pickups collection is out now, with several new files that weren't included in the first release.

Alright, so it's not so much an update as it is a re-uploading of the most recent version...

If you haven't already, you can download the September 10th edition of DT3 -- with the "double tap" door, moving column and tether lift bugs fixed -- right here.

The_Mega_ZZTer has just posted his "article to end all articles" on how to run DF on Windows XP. You can read it here on his personal webspace (I'll give it the DF-21 template and put it in the DF-21 Articles section this week) and comment on it in the forum.

Nikana has uploaded a collection of switch BMs. For you Dark Forces flipping pleasure, you can download Flip It! here. (BMs)

Also new are a few off-site articles: ATMachine has three quality DF articles up on his website -- Dark Forces: Early and Alternate Versions, which now features two slideshows of early DF screenshots (here and here); The Dark Forces Demo; and Screenshots of Dark Forces for Mac. (Links)

As well, Darth Oosha points out that 1up.com did an article on Dark Forces in October. You can check it out here. To everyone arriving here via 1up: welcome to DF-21! We think you'll like it here! (Links)

And last but certainly not least, Patrick Haslow recently announced that he was hired to be a level designer at Threewave Software, the company behind the multiplayer maps for JA, UT2k4 and Doom 3, among others. DF-21 would like to congratulate Patrick -- keep knocking 'em dead!

Due to the fun we've had with spambots I have now upgraded phpBB to the latest stable release.

I have restored all the previous customisations to the template, too, so please let me know if you notice any problems.

F