Plus the fact that there are various glitches and potential CTDs when you work with controllable animated units.

After playing a little Valve (funny story, instead of Half-Life this Christmas, I got the Orange Box) I'm thinking of a few ideas.

1. Security Console: For indoor maps (say...Polis Massa) a console let's you open and close doors/bridges/torpedo shoots/vehicle hangers. Borrow some Space Turret code, to get the whole, the turret's in a different place feel. Then you can SHOOT the turret at various control panels linked to things throughout the building. There is another console which let's you repair it.

It looks difficult, but could probably work a little.

2. Call bomb. A detonator which attracts the AI to it, overpowered though, so maybe hero material.

3. Sapper, it takes away your stamina.

4. Performance Boost: Every hit you get does more damage

5: I have no name for this next one, but it's based off Excalibur from Fire Emblem: You send a shot off. If it misses, nada, if it hits explosions cripple the area. A real Hit-or-Miss weapon.

1 is a lot easier to do with just a door and a panel, and LUA code so that on the panel's destruction the door closes (or opens), and vice versa on the panel's repair. It's been done before.

2 is possible, I think, using AI goals. See the other 20 or so AI-goal-related suggestions here.

3 is probably impossible. Stamina's very tricky to work with. The only "trick" I can think of, really, would be a weapon that instantly regenerates stamina (by dispensing/shooting something and using CreateEntity to create a custom stamina canister, that is then picked up).

4 is the stock rage buff.

5 is probably halfway possible. You can have a weapon that does 1 damage, and check via LUA to see if it hits anything. Not sure how to trigger the explosion, though, except maybe through a messy CreateEntity that creates a suicidal autoturret at the matrix of the target.

I should have worded 4 better I mean each successive hit does extra damage so hit 1 does 1 damage, hit 2 does 2 damage etc.

Perhaps a confusion ray, or force confuse.

basically when hit with the confuse ray your buttons are remapped for about 20 seconds, and perhaps it even changes every 5 seconds to a different layout for which button does which, like your jump turns into walk forward, then your walk forward becomes primary fire button, and so forth.

I'm not sure if it can be done. but it certainly would annoy the heck out of anyone playing the game =P

The confuse thing can't be done. You can't remap keys dynamically like that. You could have something that just makes the person's screen shake for a longer period of time, but that's not really so unconventional: just an explosion with long shake time and small shake radius.

I assume you got the force confuse idea from TFU:USE (Jedi Temple and fight with old Ben)?

no, lol

i got the idea while sitting in a bed far away from my home( and with no access to my computer/any internet) just waiting for sleep, i don't remember how i got to thinking of it though...

off topic were is that deployable cp that someone said skyhammer made

on topic how about a mine that when enamys get by it it shoots like 15 granades out from the center

this one isent really unconventional but how about an becon that callls in a suplie drop like 15 health and ammo containers

how about an infer red vision thing like binoctulerss but when u zoom all enamies turn bright red

I can't think of a way to make enemies highlighted while using a special instrument, unless maybe that instrument was a vehicle that you entered and there was a custom enemy unit icon to replace that cirlce-within-a-square. But this wouldn't work well with binoculars.

I don't think sky released his spawnable CP. It is pretty simple to make, though, just a static command flyer.

Oh yeah, that extremely long word
Oh and those supply drops you talk about shouldn't be too hard to make, there is a topic in which sky explains how to make deployable stuff deploy stuff. (it's in the FAQ)

It's just dispensing a turret with a dispenser weapon.

i dont see the topic there whats it called??

Look at the top of the "SWBF2 Modding" Forum. There should be one called "The FAQ/Everything You Need to Know Thread."
You know what, nvm... LINK: http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... 27&t=13806
You could've also used the search function at the top of the page, but I won't get into that.

Back on topic: The Flying Boot.
Requires new "kicking" animations, but essentially throws a "grenade" underhanded (like in BFX) in the shape of a boot as if your unit kicked it off. No blast radius, but does damage upon contact.

i think throwing knives would be pretty cool, not too hard either, just saber throw really.

Twilight_Warrior wrote:Look at the top of the "SWBF2 Modding" Forum. There should be one called "The FAQ/Everything You Need to Know Thread."
You know what, nvm... LINK: http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... 27&t=13806
You could've also used the search function at the top of the page, but I won't get into that.

i know were that was i dont know what topic is it in or were in the faq it wound be i looked under odf but dident notice any names that sounded right

edit woops i found it

Deployable CP odf... Fiodis is right, it really is simple.
Requires the "CommandFlyer" memory pool in your map lua.
Oh and for heaven's sake if you use one give it a different model, this just uses the autoturret model as a placeholder because I'm not releasing my MCP model + effects yet.

is there any way to use it in a side mod with out editing all the maps??

skelltor wrote:is there any way to use it in a side mod with out editing all the maps??

Why wouldn't it?

he said it would Requires the "CommandFlyer" memory pool in your map lua.