Just A Ready Room... Err Platform
BlackPanther
Join Date: 2002-02-11 Member: 197Members
Join Date: 2002-02-11 Member: 197Members
<div class="IPBDescription">maybe the start of something..</div> This is what happens when old ideas come back to haunt you.
You open up Hammer, and start putting down brushes like a madman.
This is what came out.
A platform, high up in the air serves as a dropship landing port.
I still have to model the dropship mind you.
2 elevators for each team and a small extension to the platform (see middle, bottom of first picture) with a big **** antenna that it too needs to be modeled. I'll get to the dropship later but im thinking of something along the lines of the animated series "Starship Trooper: Roughnecks" kinda dropship.
Anyhow, when you approach an elevator, the door opens, and the elevator comes up . Few seconds later, it drops down really fast, fading into pitch black and you respawn to the team you choose.
Simple, fast and effective. Not to mention cool. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
You open up Hammer, and start putting down brushes like a madman.
This is what came out.
A platform, high up in the air serves as a dropship landing port.
I still have to model the dropship mind you.
2 elevators for each team and a small extension to the platform (see middle, bottom of first picture) with a big **** antenna that it too needs to be modeled. I'll get to the dropship later but im thinking of something along the lines of the animated series "Starship Trooper: Roughnecks" kinda dropship.
Anyhow, when you approach an elevator, the door opens, and the elevator comes up . Few seconds later, it drops down really fast, fading into pitch black and you respawn to the team you choose.
Simple, fast and effective. Not to mention cool. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Comments
Dont the entrances look too much the same (apart from the green sign) ?
the alien's elevator shaft is infested.
Don't need more difference to tell them apart! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
And where's Join Random? Can I just not see it?
By the way, if you happen to fall down, you're automaticaly sent into observer mode.
F4 spawns you back in.
F4 spawns you back in.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you ever enter observer mode, you have to reconnect to the server to join a team, to prevent checking the other team's base in observer and then joining a team. A teleport back up to the top would work much better.
And where's Join Random? Can I just not see it?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
yeah it's based of hera, but i though of it months before. Even made a topic about it in the old forums.
The elevator goes up slowly, but goes down pretty fast. Fast enough to fade to black.. that effect i still gotta perfect. Func_illusionnaries when set to additive, i kinda forgot that it turns the BLACK into transparent! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> no wonder it didn't work! hehe guess ill have to do it with texture.
No join random at the moment. Might make falling down the platform do it instead of observer mode.
Here's a shot of the infested alien shaft.
I never had to reconnect before when going observer!
I always go observer before i go into a game, then check out which team is winning, and join them! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Do they get lifted back up?
wouldnt this look ugly waiting in a pitch black elevator shaft?
A very good point indeed!
But i am not a small grasshopper anymore! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
The trigger to join a team is in the middle of the shaft!
At the bottom, there is a teleport to send you back up onto the platform!
No more waiting in the pit like Ns_hera's ready room! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Hey just a quick question. How were you able to get the "Join Brushes" so opaque?
I made my a function wall and made it transparent but you can still see the black background of the texture.
How did you do it?
I'll get some shots - maybe you can use some of it and/or vice versa.
Or else they will block you and look stupid! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Make them func_illusionnaries instead.
change their mode to ADDITIVE and the set the FX amount to 255
eventually disort or, if the texture name has the prefix for it, hologram.
Beleive me, it's big enough. Even when i finish the dropship model, it's gonna be big enough.
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As for the map.. well.. hmmm.. still in planning! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'm thinking of a mining colony overrun by the aliens.
Full of ressource nodes for both teams.
Work in progress shot of the dropship model:
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=19&t=19289' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...ST&f=19&t=19289</a>
As i said, it was a kind of a "spur of the moment" type thing.
But you never know!
also, I don't think you should have a long elevator ride down for the marines or aliens to join.. that may be nice the first or 2nd tiem you see it, but it gets boring REALLY fast...
And again, the evelator ride is FAST. Only takes about 2 seconds before it hits the trigger that makes you respawn.
If you don't respawn, you go down to the bottom of the elevator shaft then you are teleported back up onto the platform. So you can feel free to jump into the shaft until you spawn in the team you want. Same for random team.
Keep cool guys. I though of everything! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
But i did rotate them on 2 axis to make them point towards the middle which causes the brushes to split... nasty stuff. I may redo them.
Gives the RR a good feel.
I also finished the elevator shaft so it fades into black.
Also, when you reach the bottom and there is someone on the platform, you go back up.
Changed the light towers (Less good looking then the old ones, but these didn't give me any problems! hehe )
I'm trying to figure out the dam ned particle system to create steam out of those pipes. So far, nothing appears! lol Oh well..
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