Forgotten Hope: Tribute to Jim Rogers

Nicht immer haben wir gute Neuigkeiten über die wir berichten, und diese Tage erreichte uns eine traurige Meldung von Forgotten Hope 2 (FH2). Der längjährige FH-Dev, Modeller und Skinner Jim Rogers, vielen besser bekannt als Rad, verstarb am Donnerstag den 8. April nach langer Krankheit.

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Rad kam als Mapper zum Forgotten Hope Team, aber schnell wurden seine enormen Fähigkeiten als Modeler und Skinner sichtbar. Über einen langen Zeitraum hat Rad viel zu FH beigetragen, und seine Arbeiten prägen das Erscheinungsbild von FH. Neben den unzähligen Models war vorallem der Panzer III, der die Nordafrika Karten schmückt, eines der markantesten. Der Teddy von Rad, wurde zum Markenzeichen der Modifikation. Seit Jahren berichten wir über die Mod, und auch über die schwere Krankheit des Teammitglieds. Seiner Familie und seinen Freunden in der Modding Community spricht das Team von BF-Games sein Beileid aus. Wie Modleader Lobo schreibt, war Rad für seinen Humor bekannt und möchte sicherlich, das wir mit einem weinenden und einem lachenden Auge auf seine Arbeit zurückblicken. Das Bild von Lobo, zeigt einige lustige Arbeiten von Jim Rogers und auch wir haben in den Archiven gekramt und einige Modelle von ihm gefunden. Im folgenden zitieren wir seine Freunde von FH.

Lightning:

"I thought I'd share this picture. It's my first time playing the FH2 alpha version. I do feel I miss him now. I guess someone like Rad will always stay a part of the team, even though he wasn't able to do any modding lately."

Bizness:

"Very very sad news I remember always looking forward to what he had cooking up next and even when he retired he would randomly pop in here and there with something he worked on. My heart goes out to his family he will be missed!"

malsa:

"Very sad news and a terrible loss. He was a great source of inspiration for all of the team back in the late days of FH1 and early days of FH2. Even though he never seemed to be able to get back to modding after his first long period of illness it is a sad thought to know that we will no longer see him anymore."

Lobo:

"It's fun because Rad joined us as mapper. He made FH1 Adak because, I think, he lived in the Aleutians when he was a kid. The map was impressive and had some nice statics, but we didn't know he was so good a skinner. Then he skinned some vehicle and our jaws dropped. Then everybody begged him for more skins and the old man was ranting all day. "I joined as mapper, dudes", haha.

We all know how talented he was, we started to increase our bar quality when he joined, and his advice helped to all of us to improve our skills. But for me more importantly, was his sense of humor. He made so much fun stuff for this mod, and made them all unique; the tractor, the teddy bears, the cars, the crazy easter eggs he hid in the mod with the help of ArminAce. I bet some are still unknown. FH is not only the mod with hundreds "serious" war machines. It's the mod with those strange vehicles just for fun and special experiences. He made a set of monster cars with huge wheels and loved to do stunts with them. The files are still in FH1 with low res textures.

The painful start of FH2 with almost no documentation by DICE was made possible because Rad and ctz started the editor one million times to find out how the hell to export a tank in this engine. He had also a short fuse, haha. He left the mod two dozens times but it was like a drug for him; I always knew he would come back. It was like a passion for him.

Then the disease, the economic troubles ruined all this, now I know he won't come back."

Bilder