amazing the things you come up with when you're bored...

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:21 am

woah thats the strangest thing ive ever seen you should skin the place where the turret goes so it looks better

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:33 am

It's on my to-do list. Somewhere after learning to skin.
[edit] Couple more pics after the longsword squashing. I think it's an improvement.

Honestly, the circle is starting to grow on me a bit, but I need to reskin the sides where the treads were (now that the longsword isn't covering them anymore) so I guess I'll do the circle too.

nifebender · Post by **nifebender** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:51 am

it looks great just like that!!! thats amazing. I havent started the work on the hog yet. i've been working on another map right now.

shade45 · Post by **shade45** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:58 pm

that longsword looks pretty cool, is it just using the scorpian bitmaps?

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:42 pm

It's a banshee with a scorpion hlmt and a sentinel beam with a longsword hlmt. Then I gave the longsword the scorpion's shader 'cuz I figured it would make them match a bit better. Turned out better than I'd hoped (thought I'd have to reskin the sword to make it match). I also tried going the other way: giving the scorpion the longsword's shader, which also looked awesome (and got rid of the circle, even: replaced it with something cool looking, which I'm thinking was probably the cockpit) but ultimately, it just looked like a cool sci-fi ship, not a flying battering ram sci-fi ship. By the way, I'm still trying to work out some of the physics issues (to actually make it a battering ram). If anyone knows some of that stuff, I've got a thread with some questions here: http://www.halomods.com/forums/viewtopi ... 8991ef134d
[edit] Funny sidenote: When the vehicle is destroyed the longsword seperates from the tank. It doesn't look as cool then. Is there any way to make it so a vehicle's weapon doesn't come off when it's destroyed?

nifebender · Post by **nifebender** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:09 pm

how did you join the two? the sentinale beam swapped with the cannon?

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:03 am

Don't wanna' swap cannon, 'cuz it rotates. I changed it to an energy sword so it would be contained inside the tank and not fire.
Started out with a banshee, gave it a tank hlmt. Removed the marker for the turret (which doesn't get rid of it, but it moves to the center of the tank) then swapped it with a sword. I swapped the banshee gun with the sentinel beam, and gave it the longsword hlmt. Then resized the crap outta' the longsword and moved it down a bit.

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:13 am

your becoming quite the expert on bones snaku

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:13 pm

Is that supposed to be a euphemism?

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:43 pm

snaku wrote:Is that supposed to be a euphemism?

how d'you figure that?

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:59 pm

Nm. There really wasn't too much bone work here. Just the two treads. Also removed the markers for the turret and more importantly for the blown turret. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be markers for the wheels being blown off the warthog. Not sure how that works.

superaison · Post by **superaison** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:35 pm

What do you mean the turret rotates? On that "thing" LOL.

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:40 pm

I meant that if I replaced the turret's hlmt with the longsword, then it would rotate. Instead, I gave the turret an energy sword for a hlmt, and attached the longsword to the banshee gun (since it was a banshee to start out with).

dazzajay · Post by **dazzajay** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:06 am

man that is unfuckenbeliveable, i love it.

(i havent been here for a while as modbox shat itself again... HDD NUMBER 3 WHEN WILL IT STOP KILLING THEM!?)

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:41 am

What kind of hdd are you using?

Might have something to do with the power cord to the hdd. Or the power supply.
[edit] Here's s'more pics for you. Remember when you were wanting to add wings to the hog?

I gave the longsword the tank turret's shader for this one (warthog's had too much detail--looked ugly) The only problem is that the top of the ls comes into the jeep's cockpit.

I need a new name for this one. Preferably one that fits the Halo 2 theme: all vehicles are animals... except longsword for some reason. I've changed the tank's name to Stingray. No, I don't want to name the hog Mantaray. Wouldn't fit anyway.
Also, I noticed the gunner is WAY too easy to snipe. By which I mean that my coworkers can actually pull it off (they're not very good snipers). Any thoughts on a way to make it tougher?

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:47 pm

maybe put some kind of sheild around it? as for a name how about Eagle?

nifebender · Post by **nifebender** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:54 pm

that is amazing! you going to be putting them in a mod?

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:24 pm

Probably. So far all I got is the vehicles in Coag. Nothing else. Doesn't really justify a full-fledged release. But if I can get them up and running on "Forgotten Meadows" (without it freezing) then it would be something worth releasing.
However, I do feel I've got the vehi's well balanced. There's also a ghost that's supposed to have an electric arc (sentinel beam with high auto aim) but the beam isn't showing up. Still, all three vehi's are well matched against eachother... though the banshee might be a bit outclassed now.
[edit] Here's what I put in the bounding box for the longsword (under the mode tag) in case anybody wants to make their own winged jeep before I get around to putting together a full-fledged mod:
X min -1.45823324
X max 0.533232
Y min -1.25955558
Y max 1.25955558
Z min -0.154698685
Z max 0.207702.
The U's and V's stay the same.

dazzajay · Post by **dazzajay** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:32 am

man, that fucken rulez, but sadly i cant inject the LS over into any map without it becoming incompadible with sys link, as for names, ....
man, when you complete your overhaul mod pleaze send a patch my way, id love to play on XBC with ya.... also do the wings on the jeep have collision?

Condor,
Phoenix,
Koala,
Longhog,
Squireel,
Hawk,
falcon,
Raptor,
Kestrel,
Owl,....
thats about what i could think of (most are birds)
hope that helps.

:::EDIT:::
as for the tank with wings, call it the Wombat .... its a big ugly heavy tank... just like a wombat, for some reason it reminds me of one.... heres a pic of a wombat.

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:08 am

that looks to warm and fuzzy for a battering ram