Battle of Midtskogen

[Littlenorwegians]

Right, so here's the setup;

During the occupation of Norway, the Germans failed to capture our king and many politicians. The Royal Guard, in fact, escorted King Haakon VII to a farm called Midtskogen.

The Germans then dropped down 100 paratropper units armed with mostly MP40s, trying to attack the farm and take the king.

The Norwegians, with 90 men and 2 machine guns fortified themselves at the Midstkogen farm and ultimately won.

Map. Norwegians at the farm in the north-east part.
Germans right across the river. (They are the red arrows)

Balance and technical stuff:
Now, the Norwegians have one kind of unit here. Rifleman. Armed with Nagant Revolvers (Lucky, don't have to model a new gun) and Krag-J

 

[Maraak]

I like the map-idea, especially the Norwegian use of terrain and the large diffrence between German Paratroopers with SMGs and Norwegians with Krag-rifles

Me and a friend of mine have been dreaming of an Operation Weser

 

[Littlenorwegians]

I like the map-idea, especially the Norwegian use of terrain and the large diffrence between German Paratroopers with SMGs and Norwegians with Krag-rifles

Me and a friend of mine have been dreaming of an Operation Weser

 

[Maraak]

I live(d) a short drive from Gloppedalsura, but currently reside in Kristiansand. I usually use books and a friend at a museum as a source of information, but for general Wikipedia-surfing:

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norge_under_andre_verdenskrig
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angrepet_på_Norge_i_1940#Norges_handlinger_vinteren_1940
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossum_bru
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Høytorp_fort
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampen_i_Gråbeinhølet
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampen_om_Bagnsbergatn_gård
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampene_på_Hovinheia_i_Telemark
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinjesvingen
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegra_festning
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narvik#Slaget_om_Narvik_1940
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krag-Jørgensen
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_mitraljøse_m/29
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madsen_maskingevær

As for the Norwegian-english voiceactor: Just hire Petter Solberg as an English voiceactor, and it will fix itself xD

 

[Joseph-Porta]

Once upon a time.. there was a mod I was a part of. Made some maps..
Norwegian Resistance beta trailer - YouTube

We had midskogen IIRC as a map :3

 

[Britney Federline]

Are there high-res terrain elevations for that area? If you're going to get into RO mapping, you should go the whole way and get it as accurate as you possibly can--there's some way of importing the terrain from either a scanned map or a certain data file. And if you can make a field trip to the location to take reference photos, that would be really cool--that way us players can hide behind the same rock or little grassy hole as the real guys. Have fun!

 

[2feathers]

There are tutorials for getting grey scale height maps from Google earth. like this one

 

[Littlenorwegians]

Once upon a time.. there was a mod I was a part of. Made some maps..
Norwegian Resistance beta trailer - YouTube

We had midskogen IIRC as a map :3

Wow. Nice!

Are there high-res terrain elevations for that area? If you're going to get into RO mapping, you should go the whole way and get it as accurate as you possibly can--there's some way of importing the terrain from either a scanned map or a certain data file. And if you can make a field trip to the location to take reference photos, that would be really cool--that way us players can hide behind the same rock or little grassy hole as the real guys. Have fun!

It would be nice, but as far as I can see, the farm's structure has changed.

There are tutorials for getting grey scale height maps from Google earth. like this one

Thanks, little brony.

 

[Littlenorwegians]

I have made a bunch of static meshes (Objects) for the map, but there's still a lot of work to be done. Just a very small bunch of the ones I've made.

Just to show that I am actually doing something.

 

[Orrie]

I would love to see a Norwegian Theater Mod in this game!

Tho, how would you solve the the biggest problem by far; Voice acting?
(Would be kinda weird hearing Russian accent voices when playing Norwegian?)

 

[Littlenorwegians]

I would love to see a Norwegian Theater Mod in this game!

Tho, how would you solve the the biggest problem by far; Voice acting?
(Would be kinda weird hearing Russian accent voices when playing Norwegian?)

Would have to be Norwegian voice actors speaking English with a native accent.

And that's not the biggest problem. Designing, coding, texturing, modeling and so on would be the biggest challenge. XD

 

[Littlenorwegians]

More things. Just stuff that will be laying around.
Pig pen. Kaffekr

 

[Joseph-Porta]

Wow. Nice!

It was a little ahead of its time in some areas, spawning in junkers 52s(?)
Para dropping out over the maps(loved that), planes spawning mid air at edge of map and in flight No need to take off. Molotovs (before FH copied it!)
A shame it kinda died as BF2 came.

 

[El_Swine]

Would have to be Norwegian voice actors speaking English with a native accent.

And that's not the biggest problem. Designing, coding, texturing, modeling and so on would be the biggest challenge. XD

I might be able to help with the sound editing, have done some stuff for simracing in the past.
Including a Norwegian Co-driver pacenote mod for Richard Burns Rally.
"Vi kan koke p

 

[Littlenorwegians]

I might be able to help with the sound editing, have done some stuff for simracing in the past.
Including a Norwegian Co-driver pacenote mod for Richard Burns Rally.
"Vi kan koke p

 

[El_Swine]

That'd be nice. You judge if my work is worthy of your time, based on the stuff I post here.

Though, the SDK is not out yet so... well, all I can show you are the meshes.

Just contact me when you get it rolling and tell me what sounds you would like.

Oh. One of the guys is a singer, songwriter, player.
He'll be happy to make some music for the mod I'm sure.

Good luck.

 

[Strausser-NO]

Awesome! I just had to register to tell you that I made a Midtskogen level for a Half-Life 2 mod I was part of called Norway Under Siege: Resistance.
Here are some old profiles of the mod:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Norway_Under_Siege:_Resistance
http://www.moddb.com/mods/resistance-1940-1945/images

(the mod died back in 2005. lol)

I even have a real Krag-J

 

[Littlenorwegians]

I probably have tons of reference photos laying around on my disk if you need some!

Oh yes, please.

 

[Strausser-NO]

Here https://rapidshare.com/files/2164447651/Midtskogen.rar
Looking forward to see your work!

Personally I'm gonna start recreating a Omaha Beach Easy Red sector map I made for DoD Source. Just need to wait for the SDK

 

[Littlenorwegians]

Here [url]https://rapidshare.com/files/2164447651/Midtskogen.rar[/URL]
Looking forward to see your work!

Personally I'm gonna start recreating a Omaha Beach Easy Red sector map I made for DoD Source. Just need to wait for the SDK

Wow, thanks a boatload.

I'm really getting into this. Making models. Bought a DVD on unrealscript.
Bought 16gigs of RAM. I might actually travel to Midtskogen if little has changed.

Those pics do help to sort of get a 3d picture of the place.


HELP NEEDED:
I am having a sort of problem finding the exact uniform of these fine gents. From what I can find, this is the garde uniform
http://www.sffarkiv.no/webdb/fileSt...s\MRdf-112257\kvalitet2\MRdf-112257.81293.jpg
Though, I do not know if they had any sort of winterwear.

Also, impressive stuff you made. Funny, it's strange to see that I'm the 3rd guy making Midtskogen.