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Offline Xxypher

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Poly functions?
« on: June 16, 2007, 11:30:42 pm »
I think Soldat needs some special Poly's.

1: Explosive Poly.
When touched you explode.

2: Falling/crumbling Poly.
When hit with an explosive it crumbles and breaks/falls.
Can come back a little after destruction of it.

3: Destructable Poly.
When shot, makes a bullet hole, when exploded, makes a big 'ol hole.

4: Sinking Poly
When stood on, player starts sinking and must tap jump to get out, if the player doesn't get out in time, he dies.

5: Sticky Poly
When stood on, player is slow and sticks to the ground, when Laws, nades, and other objects hit, they also stick.

6: Water Poly
When walked on, makes splashes, like puddles on the ground. More for the visual effect and nice for looks.

7: Rubber Poly
When stepped on you bounce, and it shows the ground kind of move while you bounce.

8: Sticky Wall/ceiling Poly
This makes it so you can walk on/up the walls and ceilings, not probably something needed but still would be fun.

9: Fuel Charging Poly
Charges your Jets while stood on.

10: Very Bouncy Poly
When coming in contact with this Poly you get bounced off.

11: Teleporting Poly
When stepped on it teleport you to random places in the map, or a selected area.

12: Being able to choose the sounds the Poly makes.
So when you step on something that is wet it doesn't make a hard floor poly sound and vise versa

13: Attracting Poly
Soldier is attracted to Poly like a magnet, making it hard to move.

14: Retractive Poly
Soldier is repelled from Poly, either speeding them up, or propelling them a little bit from the ground.

all i can say is:

scripting + mapping = pwn

 

So tell me which ones you like and don't like.
« Last Edit: July 02, 2007, 03:16:33 pm by Xxypher »

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2007, 11:45:20 pm »
Explosive:
Yes, that way mappers can add land mines and stuff.

Everything Else:
Not necessary.

While I'm at it I might as well add my idea. It goes that a mapper should be able to select two different categories of polygon types.

Category 1:
Normal
Ony Player Collides
Only Bullet Collides
Doesn't Collide

Category 2:
Normal
Hurts
Lava
Regenerates
etc.

And you could select one from each. So you could have a Doesn't Collide hurting poly. Would require huge coding though so I dunno. I think.

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2007, 11:48:02 pm »
Thats also is a good idea, but I would love to see a map that is nothing but sticky or quicksand.

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2007, 12:00:22 am »
*Post above me got deleted.*
« Last Edit: June 17, 2007, 12:03:48 pm by Xxypher »

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2007, 04:19:03 am »
I like the idea from iDante, but i guess it would requiere a change in the PMS format.
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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2007, 03:05:10 pm »
I still think these Poly's need to be in the game, especially the exploding and crumbling ones.
And water sounds would be nice too. For when stepping on ground.

Date Posted: June 17, 2007, 01:04:51 PM
If anyone else has a Poly idea, I will put it up on the list.

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2007, 07:24:06 am »
Wow this sounds nice, but.
Its kind of a big but.
What was the thing about map format changes?????
Oh , and the game physics will need to be revamped, especially the part of polys crumbling. How do you decide how the poly will crumble??? Its essentially destructible poly(suggested before).

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2007, 08:15:59 am »
I mostly like the destructible poly, the water poly, and explosive poly.


It would be cool to simulate an old fence, where usually you can hide behind, but it can be blown away, forcing you to move to different cover.

The water poly would be cool, for some kind of swamp-type map, or when it's raining, for like, puddles.

And who doens't like land mines? ah? :D

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2007, 08:28:19 am »
I have a idea for the explosive poly.

When you touch it and you explode, later it disables, and 5 mins (OR YOU SELECT THE TIME) reapears the explode
when the explosive dissapears transforms on a normal poly :D

what do you think?

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2007, 08:34:47 am »
No, explosive poly should always explode whenever a soldat touches it. No wierd gizmofunctions to it.

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2007, 11:06:02 am »
Yeah it always explodes... =D

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2007, 11:25:55 am »
It should work with dead bodies too, if someone gets knifed midair then lands on the poly :D go figure.

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2007, 11:28:31 am »
isn't there something in the suggestion sticky about new poly types?

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2007, 11:29:49 am »
No, that says to not suggest mobile polygons.

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2007, 11:44:02 am »
... Or destructable polies, or water polies.

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2007, 11:47:36 am »
Its a good thing I didn't suggest actual liquid, just a Poly that makes splash sounds when walked on and makes little blue effects come up like puddles.

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #16 on: June 18, 2007, 11:51:33 am »
and the crumbling and destructable polys?

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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #17 on: June 18, 2007, 05:14:55 pm »

8: Sticky Wall/ceiling Poly
This makes it so you can walk on/up the walls and ceilings, not probably something needed but still would be fun.


I suggested something like this as a gravity effect a while back, and I would love to see this. Could make some creative no-jet maps with it.




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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #18 on: June 19, 2007, 12:35:57 pm »
Yeah, it would be good for like a Spiderman mod!


Date Posted: June 18, 2007, 06:48:34 PM
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Re: Poly functions?
« Reply #19 on: June 19, 2007, 05:10:24 pm »
I don't think fuel charging would really be needed, as rarely you have so much jet that loading it full takes you more than five seconds. But very bouncy poly is a good idea - there could be even three types, ya know, left, right, up - like in Quake, you step on it and fat-waaah! you fly to the higher map level\some good-hidden bonus.

About the explosive poly... I think that it shouldn't 'simply' make soldat explode, I think it could rather be like an M79 explosion, setting the uncautionous one flying high, and damaging others if they get too cose. Or even so - I think that it should have some blast radius.
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