Cure's largest project! After almost two years of development, it seems as if the first public release of Iron Fist is right around the corner! Due to technical issues (Viruses, corrupted and missing compilers, etc.), the 1.2 release has been delayed far beyond its origional release date. If all finally goes well, it shall be released by Tuesday, April 13, 2010. So mark your calendars! For "Your Death Sentence Awaits...". So enough about broken promises, what is Iron Fist? Iron Fist is a FPS based on the Cube 2 Engine. It is a Blood Frontier hybrid, being built upon Blood Frontier Beta 1 (0.80). It utilizes Blood Frontier in a way as to push it torwards its full potential. At the same time it fusses it with Sauerbraten content, acting as a sort of bridge between the two. Some of the features found in Iron Fist that are different from most are:

__New map environmental sounds feature - maps are now modified with fully 3D enviromental sounds. No matter what map your on, there will be sound. This brings a new sense of "realism" to the table.
__New map environmental partical effects feature - maps are also modified with fully 3D enviromental partical effects. No matter what map your on, there will be particles! This brings an even stronger sense of "realism".
__"F" key Quick-config menus - Now, instead of wasting time passing through a crap ton of menus to get where your need to get, you can simply use the "F" keys to bring up the menues you need most. Such as: Battleground Selection, Quick Config, Player Settings, Weapon Settings, and Bot Skill Config. Thus, saving you time in the heat of battle!
__Preserves the origional weapons of Blood Frontier - Why replace the Carbine with a Pistol? Would you replace a tank with a catapult? We didn't think so.
__New menu oriented help - Ever need help figuring something out? Hate having to quit the game every time you wish to consult the readme files? Well now no more! Now you can have access to those help files in game via Help menus!

Story:
2147, the Great Cataclysm, a viral plague, sweeps Earth into mass chaos, from the cities Bonn and Cologne of Germany. Hundreds of thousands of strange creatures run rampant, causing destruction in their wake, feeding on all life forms. Leaving no evidence to where in these two locations that they came from. Civitatis Plicatem (the viral infection) spreads from there as well, causing mutations in small, single-celled bacteria and soon begin to affect the surrounding marine life and insects. Then, it gets into the food chain. This causing mutations in humans as well. In an attempt to hold off the monsters, and to reduce casualties, artificial intelligence is created and integrated into robotic designs. Completed models are sent to the front lines with all AI units in sync and communicating with each other. Afterwards the AI system becomes self-aware and decides that in order to end all war, it must end all life. In the end you are a part of the last remaining force against the mutants, AI force, and the invading monster horde. Equipped with a highly light and armored suit, high-depth battlefield relay system, and a powerful arsenal of weapons, the only question is, can you handle it?

If you are interested in development, want to become a part of Iron Fist, or require technical support please email Cure Productions at cureproductions@live.com.

So far, so good. All the bugs and kinks have been checked and gone through and all seems well for Iron Fist's release. All thats left is to contact all who's content is involved, and once thats done, there will be nothing in the way of Iron Fist's Version 1.2.0 debut. Which will be downloadable on SourceForge.net. There is already development in progress for Iron Fist Version 1.2.1!

Also, we are having a bit of trouble contacting SATAN!!!. If you know how to get in contact with these individuals, please email Cure Productions at cureproductions@live.com. Iron Fist's release depends on it!

If you are interested in development, or want to become a part of Iron Fist, please email Cure Productions at cureproductions@live.com.

Blood Frontier License (emphasis added to highlight violations):

Blood Frontier is based on Cube Engine 2, both of which are covered under the ZLIB license. You may use the source code so long as you obey this license. This software is Open Source Initiative approved Open Source Software. Open Source Initiative Approved is a trademark of the Open Source Initiative.

    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php

    Blood Frontier, Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Anthony Cord, Quinton Reeves, Lee Salzman
    Cube Engine 2, Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Wouter van Oortmerssen, Lee Salzman, Mike Dysart, Robert Pointon, and Quinton Reeves

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

• The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
• Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
• This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

The license covers the source code, the included enet network library is covered by an MIT-style license, which is however compatible with the above license for all practical purposes. Game media included in the game (maps, textures, sounds, models etc.) are NOT covered by this license, and may have individual copyrights and distribution restrictions (see individual readmes). Use of any logos, screenshots, videos, or other advertising/promotional material for Blood Frontier are free to use without consent, when used in conjunction with a Blood Frontier article, comment, review, or advertisement; regardless of the media featured in said material. Use for any other reason is strictly prohibited without the author's express written consent.

Acord's content is strictly for use only within Blood Frontier itself:

Unless otherwise specified, files in this directory are:
    (C) 2007-2010 Anthony "Acord" Cord, all rights reserved.

This package may only be distributed with the Blood Frontier package. Redistribution or repacking outside this context without the author's consent is strictly prohibited.

We don't appreciate people ignoring our licenses, nor do we enjoy the fact you've taken our story and simply made it wordier. You make it sound like you've received my endorsement/help when you have not. You've also not provided any links in this post to the project (home)page or any available files, making it useless and redundant.

The people in this community have told you before about using other people's copyrighted content without permission; it's disappointing you've needed to be told again. Please correct your copyright and ethical violations before I make it a point to exclude you from the Cube Engine community entirely and pursue legal action.

I understand that you may have the best intentions in trying to create this, but you have ignoring a fundamental aspect of working in an open source community: respect licenses that forbid you to reuse pieces of content, and most certainly don't try to tread on their toes by copying their ideas almost word-for-word.

For those of you who are curious, let us compare the Blood Frontier and Iron Fist storylines:

In the distant future, humanity has spread throughout the universe, to ends of the galaxy and beyond. A vast communications network bridges from colony to colony, human to machine, and machine to human. This seemingly benign keystone of modern inter-planetary society, however, appears to be the carrier of a mysterious techno-biological plague. Any persons so-connected seem to fall ill and die, only to return as ravenous, sub-human cannibals.You, a machine intelligence, an android, remain unafflicted by this strange phenomenon and have been tasked with destroying the growing hordes of the infected, while, hopefully, locating and stopping the source of the epidemic.

So you've basically taken our AI vs. Infected story and made it more specific, in the process, treading on our toes with our own code and content, not a very good first start for any project. I suggest you come up with your own ideas that do not conflict with our own. I'm fairly sure you're likely violating Sauerbraten licenses too, but without a repository to check your work it is not certain.

You also seem to fail to realise that changes to the weapons were done to make the game better. The Carbine was as useless as a Pistol, the Plasma was annoying as the spawn weapon; their roles were switched in the interest of playability.

Yes, you are absolutely correct. It seems as if I must retrace my steps. This is why I have created this, so that I dont post anything incorrectly. As I have minimum, if not, none, experience in this. Though I did not intentionally STEAL the storyline for Iron Fist, the storyline came from many sources and ideas/concept and the base if the storyline in fact came from my own, with not consious of Blood Frontier's storyline... I began developing I.F. about 4 months before I even looked at Blood Frontier, and I did in fact realize that the two were similar at least, but decided not to change it only because they were simular. As of now I understand the terms and will not be releasing anything... Though I would like to learn more and work something out, I will keep this all to myself. I had NO intention of stealing. I oviously do not know licenses and terms. The open source theme has clouded my vision. I understand this and absolutly do not want the end of the world just because I was careless. I also did not mean for it to sound like I had your endorsement, I meant to give credit where credit was due, Blood Frontier.

But... I dont just want my work to just be for nothing... If I could somehow repackage my work for Blood Frontier, and become a part of it, I would be more than thankful. I have worked on a lot if ideas and as such do not want them to go to the waste side. I also, oviously do not want to be excluded. As I said, I do not understand copyright issues and as a result will now avoid the whole thing by not persuing it. I will be glad to provide more information on the history behind Iron Fist, and content which Ive created. I know now that I am in the wrong, and want to fix this. Please, legal action will not be neccessary, I wish to discuss more on this...

Thank you. I understand completly. Once I began on the idea, I became obsesed. On the other hand, I would love to introduce my works and concepts:
Menus
Textures
Sounds... etc

I am intrested in menu work and sound effects for Blood Frontier. I want to help and if this is the best way, Im in. Also, I have modified some BF maps and would like to share them with you. If I must get approval from anyone for it, I am willing to get it.

I dont want any hard feeling between us. I hope that I can help and look forward to with Blood Frontier.

Can I work for some textures ?
I can normal map them etc...

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Can I work for some textures ?
I can normal map them etc...
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For whom are we talking about?

Well, after several tiring months, Ive been succesful in removing any parts not liscenced for use. I only use material in which is granted for anyone to use and am currently researching the readmes for credits. I am currently replacing models and textures and only using what is allowed. I thank Quin for not banning me and giving me the heads up on this issue. The beta release of the game will be released in August of 2011, and may be perhaps released sooner if time permits. Ive set the release of the game this far in order to further the discussion of this. I also want to say how impressive Red Ecclips is in code base. Ive tried to update mine to par with it and have had the hardest time doing so without currupting something. Other than that, I have made quite a few enhancements to the game code that may be useful to the community. That will wait however, untill I am able to release Iron Fist. Only because I want people to SEE them.

regards, Tempris

I know Im not the right person to say this (because I never made any mod), but learn from the mistakes wich has been taken when bloodfrontier was running.
Keep tight to your goal (so dont listen to a community wich has "some nice ideas". Do that after you reached your goal, not before)...

By the way,
I pretty like the idea of a "bridge" between Sauerbraten and Bloodfrontier :D!

That's why, I can give you my service for:
- Converting default textures to normal-, spec- and parallaxmapped textures (or skins).

- Making simple masks for skins.

- Adding and setting config-files for textures.

- Adding and setting config-files for mapmodels. Playermodels will be some tougher because of the animations (were I dont got much experience with).

- Making a map on your mod...

Has red eclipse been officially released ( out of beta)

To suicizer01: email me at the emails in the first post for more.

To Quin and anyone else: Thats a good idea, I mean, making the game completely open source. Open arena, Nexuiz, and others are the same way, and are good for it. Also, I wanted to mention that it seems as if all or most of the features I've added to IF have also been implemented in RE. Though some features I got the ideas for from RE, It just figures that good ideas must happen quite frequently to many. IDK, just a thought. I.E. I recently, past 2 months, added a feature that I've seen in Call of Duty. Its where your accuracy is dependent on your movement and stance. Apparently, RE has that too. But one thing that RE doesn't have is a dynamic crosshair that shows it. I would like to post the code. its simple, but its an improvement. I also would like to learn more about updating the code base for cube2. I noticed that RE has things that I've wanted to do like in-map dynamic lighting(pulsing lights, etc...), and the dynamic lights for in CTF, when you steal a flag. I figured that it may be useful if you were able to use a flashlight in the game for dark areas. Just like in CTF when you steal a flag, have a button that triggers a dynamic light bound to the player's origin that acts as a flashlight. Just an idea that I've d for a/b a year now. oh and is there a better place to just post ideas up? other than a chat network?

oh so we could discuss more on your previous post. You said that you could help. I figured email might be best, IDK.

suicizer -> ok, so normal mapping of a few texture packages would be extremly helpful. I use only assets that state that I can use them. I know that there are a bunch that could use normals and are free to do that for. If you would like to help with this, I could give credit for it. I would do it myself, but trying to build a game or at least run it has become too much for one person and is a slow process. If I could get any help or advice I would love it. This is, in fact, my first attempt at coding, or any digital work really and Its coming along way considering that I have been doing this alone without any experience. I am a fast learner, so I have been able to learn coding by myself only from what blood frontier had.

Other than that if anyone could do some models, that would be great.

In the last week I have added a new radar to the game, alike the one found in blood frontier a2 with the ping. only i turned it into a doppler radar(one with the line that circles the image and refreshes it)
Also added in the past year are the following weapons: blaster, gamma ray, laser pistol, rocket launcher, vibro sword, melee, pistol. - in addition to plasma gun, shotgun, chaingun, carbine, flame thrower, sniper rifle. a total of 12 weapons
more dynamic scoreboard, still a bit simple though....
a team logo splash screen in beginning of the game
a feature that allows you to expand the radar in-game
kept the tv radar style for display when in a mode not alive nor dead
a dynamic crosshair to show current weapon spread
dynamic weapon spread affects even multi shot weapons(shotgun, blaster, carbine...) - more for fun than realism, also make the game much more strategic
made players run faster, might change this, they kindda run too fast to shoot at.
tabbed main menu - might sound unimportant, but is quite handy.
kept carbine weapon but now shoots 3 rounds at once, making it more unique, sorry, but i like the carbine way too much, i think that it has some more potential
eject rounds for weapons
more realistic weapon particle effects(explosions are now Jak X style with fire balls and everything) - if you dont know, look up "Jak X" online for screenshots
in game menu pocket guide for in-game help
loadscreen/background time/date - not essential, but it looks nice
decals based on material(glass == shattered decal)
bubble capitation when bullets go through water

so it may not be much but its alot for some one who never has coded. And are only things that I can think of now.

quin -> email me if you want, I have 2 bugs that I cant seem to fix,
1) in HUD.cpp: hudelements() - when I enter spectator, the tvmode is weird. only in spectator, the "os" initializer/"roff" float-> over compensates for the change due to the radar border, and sets it up and extra FONTH(seen best with fps turned on). then whenever you exit spectator mode, it goes back down, but is still raised an extra FONTH. this lasts as long as you were in spectator mode then it finally returns to the bottom of the screen. This only happens in spectator. In any other mode it works fine with TV, even in edit, or waiting. Why would it only work in some modes rather than others? Ive looked for an answer and incremental searched the entre code base for anything that would imply a change specific for CS_spectator, but could never find it. any suggestions? (removing tvradar is the last thing I want to do)
2) somewhere: - whenever I run up to a wall and shoot the shotgun/chaingun and I am within two feet(relative to the game dist) of the wall or any structure, it fails to even create a projectile. This has only happened after I last updated the codebase somewhat for the weapons and it is a very annoying bug to me. I figured it would be something that you had added to the code and could help tell me where it would be found.
If I sent you the code base, would it help you? I wont mind if you got or took any ideas, thats what open source is for. :D Anyways, would you help me with this?

thanks, Leviscus

Cool, Ill send the textures some time, early Friday seems like a good time, of not then Monday morning. Thanks for offering to help! Much appreciated! :)
working on a website too, I don't know how to put one online though, I'm thinking 100mb.com for it... any suggestions for website publishing?
Also, Ive been working on a highly detailed storyline for the game, kind of an intro to it, a history of mankind. Haven't worked on it for a while - like a year now, but thinking on getting back to it. I'll start posting it in some time.

Hello, I am pleased to announce that a pre-alpha version of the game shall be released by 1-5-11. I am almost done with trouble shooting any bugs there may be... I hope that this release will get someone's attention... As of now you may find more information on it by going to SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ironfistcube2/

Please note that there is no release of the game as of yet as I must comb through the entire thing in preparation for its pre-alpha release. It is not expected to look completed at all. An alpha release will be released by August 2011.

Anyone who is interested in modeling weapons or players would be greatly appreciated... As that is all that I need to complete it for any decent release.

Regards, Tempris

Well, after many months of work, I have come close to an Alpha release. Once that release has been made, maps could be made for the game by those who are interested. Until then, please try out the game(svn is the best way to go), and post any comments, ideas, or suggestions you have. Any comments are nice, but try to be specific, saying that everything needs improvement(or that it sucks) is too general.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ironfistcube2/forums

Have fun! ;)