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/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.
http://www.wings-of-valor.org/files/documents/xpworkarounds.pdf
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 Modified AFM FM/DM
Promised Land comb graphics
Rens combined terrain, sounds, planes patches
Flanders in Flames modified AFM FM/DM additional planes
[url= ]http://www.rhoag.com/] On The Edge graphics by CD 8.50-10$US[/url]
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 4000 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

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 of Valor with graphical interface

Edited to add more links

[This message has been edited by Red Baron RO's (edited 10-25-2002).]

That is the new PL Graphics package........The one everyone is waiting on.

Where i can download this western patch on there main site it not working

They are currently having server trouble.

You can get this one, though.......

http://benchmarksims.com/ROTJ/rotj.htm

It's not as elaborate, but should keep you occupied until WFP is working again.

Thnx i will try this .

[This message has been edited by Clostermann (edited 09-30-2002).]

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There are about 2900 schemes in my MP Paint collection .. and really those are just a small part of http://www.flybert.net , the largest and most visited website for Red Baron enhancements and tools.

At least *most* of Promised Land should be out this week , I'm working with Kessler on some last little technical details today.

Check out http://www.swwisa.net , the home organisation of most RB modders.

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Can someone pls educate me on the various patches and what they do? I have spent the whole morning browsing the varius web sites and I am none the wiser. In fact, I'm quite confused!
Thanks.

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Zero Niner, out.

Here, go here and download the PL All Seasons Superpatch. it covers everything in the game except Planes/squads.

http://www.wingwalkers.org/jasta1/newplmain.htm

Hi Kess
Thanks for the pointer. I browsed the site, and it seems to me that the PL UOP is mainly a graphics patch, in that it improves the stock terrain & objects?

I was wondering if there was a "realism patch" (Beery's superpatch is one, I think) that corrects flight models, damage models, inaccuracies in the game etc.

Still very confused...

It all depends on what your looking for. The PL patch cover all buildings/objects, taerrains in all seasons, sky/clouds, FX, sound effects, and so on. Future versions will cover planes/squads, flight models, damage effects, AI, and such.

If you run the current PL you could then run something like the western front patch to add in squads and planes and other neat campaign features. James Heltons Revenge of the Jasta's patch isnt truely compatible with the PL superpatch as he has several old PL graphics and the old PL soundpatch he put in his patch.

[This message has been edited by Kess (edited 11-09-2002).]

Updated added more links

Bump

This would be a good site to add or a good blurb to include on how to patch the Valueline non-upgradeable version of RBII up to RB3D. http://www.billybishop.net/RedBaron3D/

You should put a warning beside "Sold Out" as their version of RB3D is hosed. Not even sure they have it available right now. Maybe they're fixing their version.

Thanks Hentzau

I wasn't sure who was selling what.

Here's the excerpt from the Billy Bishop site to upgrade the value line version.

How to UPGRADE the "VALUE LINE" Version of RBII to RB3D.

The next trick is for those of you who may have bought the Red Baron "2" game, and wish to upgrade it with the Super patch to RB3D.
These are the instructions to get your game to work that way.
1) Open the Registry Editor (run 'regedit')
2) Expand 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE'
3) Expand 'Software'
4) Expand 'Sierra On-Line'
5) Expand 'Red Baron 2'
6) Create a new key off of Sierra On-Line called 'Red Baron II'
7) Copy, word for word, every string in 'Red Baron 2' into 'Red Baron II'.
There is 'cddir', 'workdir', 'version' and another key named the same as the entry for 'version'.
8) Close the Registry Editor.
9) Run the Super Patch.
Credit for this one is to B. Massey.

edited spelling mistakes

[This message has been edited by Red Baron RO's (edited 11-11-2002).]

Wanna try a word association game I saw over at IL2, to try and put this post in the todays active topics. For recruiting purposes!

Red Baron 3D > Best Flight Sim

Best Flight Sim > Widows of RB society

Widow > maker

Sorry to butt in here...but next time you try to recruit someone for your sim, dont go and friggin spam EVERY damn board on this website with it.

That's totally bad manners. I get enough ads and trash in my inbox every day, I dont want to see RB3D posts in every sim forum on SimHQ.

On the other hand, it was because of your posting in the Mig Alley forum that I decided to give RB3D a shot. I loved the original, but was put off by the need for 3dfx/glide support, since I have Nvidia cards. Browsing the sites, it looks like this may not be such a problem anymore. So I ordered the game. I hope the wrapper works!