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I havent tried this shield out yet but think it has great potential in putting two largely uneven units against each other in say a ctf situation. Wookies V rifles with rifle guys having a shield.

One question though is the shield a physical object e.g if you ran at someone would your shield push them before you got close?

Yes, the shields could be useful in that way.

The shields is not a physical object like that. You can run into shielded stuff (although it will take the shield down, not the health). If I smack into a TX-130S Saber-class Fighter Tank with a 74-Z Military Speederbike, the tank's shields would appear as they were damaged.

- Majin Revan

Thanks Majin, quick response. Saved me some time.

I wonder if the effects could be edited to achieve a more small scale effect...I think ill get on that.

lol, you just bumped this topic Pvt, lol


and you can change the size of the effects by editing the SX for it in

data_ABC/common/effects

i put :MaxShield = 2000
AddShield = 50

in the odf of my clone commando and it worked ! thx MajinRevan

its barely a bump. a little over a month. my apologies, i got the link here through a pm and didnt notice when the last post was. but clearly this thread is not dead seeing how we've got active replies.

Hope i didnt do something serious..

yeah. it works fine. whats bad is the blue/green affect doesnt look as nice on the cis vehicles. Id prefer a darker color to reinforce the fact that they are more of a bad guy team.

PvtParts wrote:yeah. it works fine. whats bad is the blue/green affect doesnt look as nice on the cis vehicles. Id prefer a darker color to reinforce the fact that they are more of a bad guy team.

I've been trying to figure out where that loads from as well. That green effect is very ugly on Infantry Units.

Yeah. I wonder if you can just make it reference a different effect.

Is there even a sheild odf, or file?

I mean there has to be, but do we have it? Or are the developers protecting it jealously?!

Well, I guess we'll figure it out sooner or later

I've checked all the common odfs, the droideka stuff, they're not there. Might be loaded off from the game. We'd have to try the hit effects.

well take the fambaa for example: here is the shield effect odf it uses:

Shield("fambaa_shield")
{
Type("fambaa");
Texture("fambaa_shield2");
Color(255, 255, 255, 255);
SpecularColor(240, 160, 255);
Radius(60.0);
Height(30.0);
ViewAngleFactor(0.;
TurnOnTime(10.0);
TurnOffTime(2.0);
ScrollRate(0.1);
}

Here is the fambaa shield_blg.odf:
[WeaponClass]

ClassLabel = "shield"

[Properties]

RoundsPerClip = "1"
ShotDelay = "0.1"
ReloadTime = "0.0"

LockOnAngle = 0
LockOnRange = 0

TriggerSingle = 0

MaxShield = 100000
AddShield = 000

ShieldRadius = "60.0 30.0"

FireSound = ""
FireEmptySound = ""
FireLoopSound = ""
ReloadSound = ""
ChargeSound = ""
ChangeModeSound = ""
WeaponChangeSound = ""

ShieldEffect = "fambaa_shield"


I haven't messed with it much but you can call a diff texture doing it this way. It's set up as a weapon, so you could effectily use a setup like this for your trooper. Just have it a weapon they turn on and off.

OFFTOPIC: did you got the faamba shield from the bf1 assets ?

no, the fambaa is in the assets\worlds\nab\odfs /effects... One thing to note though is that the shield effect frm the fambaa doesn't work in MP, I beleive it's because it's too big and the game can't allocate enough assets for it

But if you take a look at the droikea shield, it, also uses a shield effect, a texture, a radius, height and colors, you could use a shield like the droideka. Make it a weapon, give it ammo, Mess with the numbers for height, radius, and maybe add a width, change the texture and make a nice looking personal shield. Only problem I could see is that you might run out of assets with 100 AI running around with a shiled effect on. Making them not all have the effect. But still use the shield.

i tryed to set the droideka shield to a trooper,i had the icon ingame and exported all the things to make it work but i dont worked

Can you add the shield to a unit?

richard wrote:Can you add the shield to a unit?

yes. you really should consider reading the other pages

here is an example of using a droideka shield on a trooper. This is kinda hastely thrown together, but it is functional. I just edited the tga a bit for effect. I diddn't work out the turn off and on thing yet either. But it could be tweaked to get a nice effect for your shields.

?? i like that shields but how did u placed them,when i try it wont turn on...

I think it would be interesting to have a sheild msh that roughly fits the figure of a common infantry unit, (very loose fit so different units can use it) and have a sheild surround that.

Big_rich wrote:





here is an example of using a droideka shield on a trooper. This is kinda hastely thrown together, but it is functional. I just edited the tga a bit for effect. I diddn't work out the turn off and on thing yet either. But it could be tweaked to get a nice effect for your shields.

really cool shields Big_Rich