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Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:27 am
by Eggman
I whipped this up yesterday for a custom side and figured it could be useful for other people. It's essentially a modified remote droid - deploy the "crosshairs," move them to wherever you want in the map, and call in the orbital strike. The download includes the model/texture for the crosshairs and all the necessary .odfs. Feel free to modify any of the files in whatever way you wish.
Download link(s):
http://www.filefront.com/17570268/Orbit ... eacon.zip/
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... con;117632
Video:
http://www.xfire.com/video/3bb296/
It's really not too different from any other orbital strike weapons, but I think it's a fun little modification.
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:31 am
by DarthD.U.C.K.
wow, thats a great idea!
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:52 am
by Fiodis
Indeed, very nice idea.
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:56 am
by acryptozoo
cool, people could always use this great job
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:59 am
by [Padawan]Helkaan
Cute. Nice. Good. Great. AWESOME!
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:04 pm
by skelltor
Vary nice i like it
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 5:05 pm
by Ginev
This is the same like in COD4 Airstrike
cool!
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 5:17 pm
by Anakin
looks great
would be awesome if YOU can fire the canon. so you fly automatically and can only fire.
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 5:34 pm
by Eggman
Ginev wrote:This is the same like in COD4 Airstrike
cool!
That was actually a large part of my inspiration. A perfect replica of the COD air strike wouldn't be possible in Battlefront, so I just replaced the model for the remote droid, changed the camera angle to be top-down, and beefed up the remote's health so it wouldn't be destroyed by enemy AI, but would be destroyed properly by the orbital strike. It took me a while to work out the right values for the camera angles, but in the end it was a very simple weapon to set up.
A note on the camera angle, while I'm thinking about it: if you want to adjust the vertical height of the camera (so you're closer to or farther from the ground when moving the aimer around), adjust
only the z value for TrackOffset and DestructTrackOffset (the third value in each line, set to 75.0 by default). Messing with the other values may give you wonky results.
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 5:43 pm
by Firefang
Nice idea and execution
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 5:55 pm
by THEWULFMAN
I may use this for my TCW mod, thanks.
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 6:56 pm
by yukisuna
WOW, thats Amazing!! Killstreaks, anyone? i guess thats what comes up next
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:20 pm
by Cerfon Rournes
Very nice!!
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:18 am
by SAMofBIA
one word: EPIC!
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:58 am
by Delta-1035
Very nice, good job!
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:05 am
by commander501stappo
WOW...it...is...amazing...
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Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 11:40 am
by Maveritchell
Thumbs up - very clever use of camera angles.
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:14 pm
by Null_1138
Its beautiful Eggman, excellent work!
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:42 pm
by Darth_Spiderpig
Wow, that is something nice. :O
Are we allowed to change the reticule msh or skin?
Re: Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon
Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 6:44 pm
by Eggman
Darth_Spiderpig wrote:Wow, that is something nice. :O
Are we allowed to change the reticule msh or skin?
Yep, you can change anything you want. I don't expect anyone to use the weapon exactly as-is; I expect people to use it more as a reference to follow if they want to set up something similar. The reticule took no more than five minutes to create - I just made a triangle, duplicated it three times, slapped a flat red texture on it, and exported the model.