Anvil - Longbow Digital Arts Discussion

Author	Topic: Anvil
Moriarty Member	posted December 16, 2001 12:19 AM a new weapon ready for testing... http://www.treadmarks.de/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=mod&action=display&num=1008477796&start=0 please test and reply either there or here ------------------ I doubt, therefore I might be. IP:
Kevlar Member	posted December 16, 2001 11:27 AM LMAO that's a good one, where did that idea come from? Where you watching the Roadrunner the day you made that. I wish it had a little tracking, those pesky ai's won't ever hold still. Good one though! IP:
Moriarty Member	posted December 16, 2001 05:18 PM I don't really know where that idea came from. One day it just appeared in my head, the other I discussed it in the BWL forum (it turned out that several people had already thought about it, too), and then I started playing around to get it to work right. there's one thing I'm still thinking about: should the anvil really stay there forever? I had a little chat with JV, and he explained to me several ways to make it disappear... They are all kinda weird though. oh, and as for AIs not getting hit: Just try to increase the "weight" and then play for a while. you will notice that most of the spawn points turn into little anvil patches which can be VERY annoying ------------------ I doubt, therefore I might be. IP:
Mysterial Member	posted December 16, 2001 07:46 PM You might wish to make them eventually disappear because they might slow down lower-end machines if there's too many (I don't know for sure though, just guessing ) IP:
JVortex Member	posted December 18, 2001 01:17 AM ALL my ideas are wierd ill have you know. thats just the hazzards of asking me about ent files . hehehhehehe ------------------ Let the rocks roll and the battle commence. www.bzrpg.com . Check out the site! Loads of Tread Marks support and AddOns. Home of the S.T.O.R.M Pack. The Storm is coming... :) IP:
Moriarty Member	posted January 08, 2002 06:29 AM I've found a way! YESSS! ok, I'll soon release a second version with disappearing anvils that won't crowd up the battlefield. I'll just have to re-align the meshes so it looks good... Hey, JV, can you guess how to do it? It is really simple... And yes, it is still a mesh type entity, but it disappears after a time. No jumping away or anything. Now I think about it, this way you could even create "castles" with doors that open/close (ok, disappear/appear) at regular intervals... hmmm... ------------------ I doubt, therefore I might be. IP:
Vlad Member	posted January 08, 2002 08:58 AM Hmm.. did you use Timetolive or something? IP:
Moriarty Member	posted January 08, 2002 10:17 AM nope. that doesn't work with mesh type entities. another guess? ------------------ I doubt, therefore I might be. IP:
=DNX= Matrix Member	posted January 08, 2002 10:45 AM u trying to tell me u figured out how to plane an animated mesh on the map ? if so i have a great walker mech IP:
Moriarty Member	posted January 08, 2002 02:37 PM I guess... well... no, actually. true animation is beyond anything I can do. and my way of making meshes disappear doesn't really help either. sorry. ------------------ I doubt, therefore I might be. IP:
Moriarty Member	posted January 09, 2002 09:59 AM ok, now JVortex has asked me (via ICQ) and thereby admitted that he actually didn't know and I finally found something out first :P here's how I found out what to do and how to do it... after thinking about it some days ago, I tried something weird (which works, fascinatingly) the thing is, you cannot create a mesh that has a limited lifespan but a limited lifespan is just normal for projectiles unfortunately you cannot have secEnts or anything for projectiles but projectiles DO have a FLARE !!!!!!!!! and for some reason or other, the flare entity can be a mesh type entity. I was surprised. Now I found out that this way you can even create "animated" projectiles... like a tiny helicopter with a rotating rotor... a whole new world, so to speak... ------------------ I doubt, therefore I might be. IP:
KiLlEr Member	posted January 09, 2002 11:02 AM You can put anything into a flare. I use a spewer as a flare for the wavemotioncannon and greatwall mods. As a matter of fact, you could use a spewer to cycle thru a bunch of projectiles of very short life spans, this would allow you to switch to different meshes in a sequence. You just have to mess with the life spans and spewer rate (a lot). [This message has been edited by KiLlEr (edited January 09, 2002).] [This message has been edited by KiLlEr (edited January 09, 2002).] IP:
Moriarty Member	posted January 09, 2002 12:15 PM ...and you would probably cause a lot of lag, wouldn't you? but you're right, that way almost any kind of animation is possible ------------------ I doubt, therefore I might be. IP: