Red Baron 3D Newbie info

Salute! Saludo! Gruß! Salut! Saluto! saudação! from RB3D Recruiting
Officers

Come fly the skies of WW1, in Red Baron 3D!
When men were made of steel and planes were made of wood!
Hear your opponent grunt if wounded or scream if you shoot him in the head.
Have your wings pop of if you over stress them, black out if too many G's
are pulled, deal with gun jams, all the while looking at your opponent from
mere feet away. Learn to take advantage of each planes strengths or
weaknesses and how to exploit your enemies. Whether you live or die an
honorable Salute is given.

Brief history
Red Baron a WW1 flight simulation that has been around since 1992 RB, 1995
RBII, 1998 RB3D.

Today
There are approximately 700 players who play RB3D in over 50 squads? On
average you will find 30 to 50 players online at any time of the day or
night from all nations and back grounds, as well as 30-40 servers of all
descriptions and FM's. You can either join a squad or fly as an independent.

Getting Started
http://www.wings-of-valor.org/
RB3D Newbie page
SWWisa

RB3D for sale
http://www.interactcd.com/ *Under war
games
http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/redbar3dpr.htm
http://www.sold-out.co.uk/soldout/products...s/redbaron.html
Gametz used

There is a no CD work around. Click 6 six times on the top right maltease
cross insert cd icon.

Visit the newbie section on WOV.

You will need the 1078 patch to see servers online. Available here
Wings of
Valor
Also if you have RBII get super patch here
Wings of
Valor

Hardware
Minimum
Pentium 133
32 MBs RAM
140 MB Hard Drive Space**
Mouse
SVGA 256 colors
2X CD-ROM

Recommended
Pentium 233MHz
48 MB Ram
300 MB Hard Drive Space**
Mouse
SVGA 256 colors
8X CD-ROM
Windows Compatible Sound Card
Joystick
28.8 modem for MMP


For best graphics it is best to have a voodoo card. Either direct or by
using a voodoo 2 with SLI patch through cable. But it works fine in OpenGL
or Direct draw, just the graphics are a bit poor until you install the
terrain patches.
There are some glide wrappers out there which are being improved each day.
This one is about 99% perfected.
Glidos.net


Operating System
WinXP Win2K
Does present some problems, *its nothing that hasn't been addressed *in this
document.
XP work arounds
Also you may run into some other problems which need to be addressed on an
individual basis due to hardware. These are best addressed at the WOV forum
everyone will be glad to help you.

Enhancements combined
Most patches and enhancements can be reached by going to the files section at http://www.wings-of-valor.org/
Western Front Patch SP
Promised Land comb
graphics
Rens combined terrain, sounds, planes
patches
Flanders in Flames
modified AFM FM/DM additional planes
On The Edge graphics by CD 8.50-10$US
Midnite Mike modified
FM
Revenge of the Jasta's
Berry's campaign
manager etc
KFM weird and wacky Flight Model. I don't know of a link?

Paints
Since its release over 2900 paints either for squads of freelancers have
been created and are available for use at either
http://www.flybert.net/ or
http://www.rbwarpaints.com/
With 22 planes and 190 paint schemes available to be created and used either
for personal or squads making a whopping 4180 total paints available.


Sound enhancements
Blue Max theme music at WOV
Promised Land enhanced sounds

Part two

Terrain/SP campaign enhancements
Sir Alesi's Island
mountains
Devils Island
Italian front
Russian Civil War
Middle East Patch
On The Edge graphics on CD for
8.50-10$US

Links
Red Baron web
ring


Organized Events
There are a number of organized events available for squad members either in
Normal Flight Mode NFM or Advanced flight Mode AFM plus an additional
selection of modified FM's DM's FIF, KFM and GW to name a few. If you
like co-op RB3D is the place to be

RBGL Red Baron Gaming League 3rd
annual
RBWL Red Baron World League 4th annual
Flanders in Flames
modified AFM
Speed Cup race
GW Great War in its 5th annual
War Forces
Strategic Air War
Saturday Night
Fights
Rhinebeck meeting place of 4th annual real
world meeting
One Life to Live
Hunters of the Sky
Combat Air Patrol
Air War
There are too many others to mention them all, not to mention all of the
individual squadron challenges.

Servers Its free!
You can either run your own or join in with others.
The possibilities for server setups are limitless.
You have a choice of two Flight model's Advanced FM or Normal FM (not to
mention all of the newly created FM's KFM, FIF, WFP etc).

Each FM has three different settings Novice, Veteran. or Ace.

There are four different server types.
Melee, Team melee, Team target melee, or get the baron where you can choose
the number of barons at will. Also Rens has created a new Real Front server
RFS for balloon busting.
Rens Real Front Balloon busting
You will also find a new security enhancement at Rens site it is required
for some servers.

You can add or subtract targets to create a map of your choosing or select
from the different target densities settings of sparse, medium, dense or
full. You also have a choice of 4 map sizes small, medium, large and full.
With 4 maps too choose from Island, Alsace, Flanders, and Marne.

You can set up progressive wars by date or if you like have all planes
available.
No longer need to bomb in turn. New server logging program records all
destroyed trgts.
New server log distiller easily allows you to correlate scores

There is a great server setup utility here at Wings]http://www.wings-of-valor.org/servermanage...index.htm]Wings of Valor[/URL]
with graphical interface

Bump

[PeterL]

What an absolutely top post! Thanks a lot for taking the time to do this for us. I've downloaded and installed the glide patch and the effect on the graphics, already improved manyfold by the PL patch, is dramatic. It has crashed to desktop a couple of times but the download site has tweaking instructions designed to sort that out, assuming that it isn't caused by my running WinMX at the same time which may well be the case.

Thanks a zillion.

Blast from the past seeing a lot of those old plane skins. My favourite I did was the Van Gogh Sunflowers Albatros with the Blue fuselage and Golden Sunflower wings. I was the envy of Jasta Boelcke when I flew that thing ;)

The old Art Attack site is long gone destroyed by the Xoom/NBCi days of the web. I still have the site and all its files though backed up locally. IIRC I was one of the first few to put the really wild skins on those aircraft and the skins got wilder from there on in. I recall there was a Finnish bloke making some pretty wild aircraft skins as well.

I have RB3D on my old machine with the Voodoo card but havent played it in ages. It is a dual boot (Linux) with Win98 kept on it purely for RB3D. I think I might fire it up.


cam

duckman,

>you have the old Xoom stuff backed up? By Grabthar's
>Spandau, what do I have to do to get copies? I got
>into this RB high art rather late in the day, and Xoom
>was dead on arrival.

I will stick it up on the web somewhere for you, they were hot stuff in 1998, now they are antique curio's. I doubt you will find anything new in them...


cam

[Ross_Moorhouse]

duckman,

>you have the old Xoom stuff backed up? By Grabthar's
>Spandau, what do I have to do to get copies? I got
>into this RB high art rather late in the day, and Xoom
>was dead on arrival.

I will stick it up on the web somewhere for you, they were hot stuff in 1998, now they are antique curio's. I doubt you will find anything new in them...


cam

Dont forget Cam that your mod for RD3 is on my Game site...

http://www.militarygameronline.com/CloseCo...e/downloads.htm

duckman,

>what do I have to do to get copies?

Point your browser at;

http://www.australianflyingcorps.org...ack/index.html


cam

[RLWP]

Thank you, thank you thank you!!

Having read this thread I decided to have a go at installing RB onto Win2k. It didn't work. I then downloaded the 3D upgrades and a patch and it worked perfectly. I then downloaded the glide patch and the Promised Land stuff and, well, TREES!

My graphics cards have never supported Glide and I have never seen trees before!

Having said that I don't find the glide wrapper stable and have had the machine lock up on several occasions, but it will do that with other games too (e.g CFS3). It also makes quite a hit on the frame rate (particularly near airfields). However even running with DirectDraw(?) the Promised land stuff is just amazing! I now have all of the attractions of the RB campaign play and damage representation together with some great looking planes. Make that superb, marvellous, wire braced, curvy, rotating engined, realistic looking planes.

Promised Land. Go get it!

Richard

Thank you, thank you, thank you....

Glad it was of some use. As for the Glidos (Open Glide) Wrapper there are quite a few tweaks that you can do to help FPS Alt F.

Turn off sun Glare SP
Limit chat buffer and increase chat scroll. Right Click screen.
Also there is a realism thing over at Promised Land which removes all Text prompts

Bunch of others you'll have to do searchs over at WOV or SWWisa

I've actually been looking for a new vid card because some of the pics I've seen with Glidos actually look better than my V5500.

As for FPS anything over 50 really makes no difference and with some planes can actually be worse.

FUB