Random Ideas Thread

[bumlove]

I have about 4-5 ideas about changing H2 a day most are crap but every now and again I come up with one that could be good, now I'll admit I'm crap at modding but I think sharing ideas is a good thing, there are people who like to keep their ideas theirs, I think that holds back progress but what do I know?
If this thread is successful it will bring progress forward a lot faster please do not post if you need help with your idea immediately post ideas as I have below for reading ease


(Idea) Infection/computer virus gun/effect

(description) A weapon/effect that takes down health very slowly but continually meaning once hit by this you are a dead man walking

If you know how to help someone with their idea quote their idea and then give an explanation of how it could be done

If you would like to add to someone's idea please only do so once someone has helped with an explanation then quote the idea and the explanation and then add your two peneth (2 cents worth)

If someones idea doesn't make sense PM them ask them to clarify then they should rephrase their description
If someones explanation doesn't make sense PM them ask them to clarify then YOU should post an explanation yourself

Crediting: if someone helps you with an idea credit them in your release
If you use someone else's idea you don't have to give credit (this is a sharing thread all ideas are public domain)

One idea per post please, no double posts

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[DarkShallFall]

Your infection idea would probably be a projectile with that sticks to all surfaces and emmits a constance ammount of damage, you could do it using the power drain in the 3volved tags. And this post seems useless if you just post an idea not a fallow up as how to go about doing the idea at hand. Because I could tell you a reasonale layout for alot of your idea's.

But i will add an idea I guess>

Transformer Idea:

Going about doing so:

Make the hogs standard permitation the normal wark hog, Then make about 10 different damage permitations with differnt models attached that would evolved the vehicle into a robot. The permitations would be triggered by a projectile that would damage the vehicle o ossible a script that would activate the perms in order.

[bumlove]

Transformer

Fantastic Idea! it could be triggered by adding a damage effect to the horn very similar to the virus effect, and would involve some hefty modeling and jmad business serious stuff that you are capable of

I can see this would both look cool and be fun with MC sat on the top of it you could have a scorpion turret type of control of a arm with a weapon on it or perhaps 2 seats each controlling one "arm"

a 8v8 battle of the bots a stroke of crazed genius for a first reply

[ogrish]

Ok i sorta got this idea from h3, and the ideas floating around.

Its an power up.

when picked up you can throw once like a grenade, except the model is the oracle thing, like forge. When you throw it, it flys you camera goes with it it is weak like one shot kill, but has a weapon that deals heavy damage, mb seeking projectiles.

This idea is not all mine, but it is a good one.

And could someone make an app for editing sky model easily so we all can have custon sky's without just swaping bitm,shad,or whole skies.

[bumlove]

ogrish forge power up

not sure that one is possible as its remote control vehicle its been done as a regular control vehicle (see downloads forge) but I'm thinking it would involve some heavy jmad swapping and some camera track work I'd investigate any thread involving remote control

[bumlove]

Hope I'm forgiven for the double post but this is an idea thread and I have a idea

Gravity hammer as a throwable weapon

The FP modeling and the like I'm not sure on but a weapon that looks like the gravity hammer held in the left hand with 1 ammo (that is dropped and destroyed once shot I think thats possible) the ammo is a grenade, model swapped with the gravity hammer that has a impact damage (fatal) and a impact effect that chainspawns another gravity hammer itcm

[CaptainPoopface]

It's easy enough to rig a gravity hammer for tossing. The problem is, I don't think there's a way to make the hammer rotate around the proper axis as it flies. If oriented along its velocity, it would maintain a constant orientation, like a javelin. If not oriented along its velocity, it would wobble around strangely (change one of the grenade [equip]s to a rocket in the [matg], then throw it, and you'll see).

The only way I could think to make it flip would be to spawn it as a bloc and use a kicker projectile to both launch it and rotate it. That takes a lot of trial and error, and the aim is much less accurate than that of a real projectile.

If you want to get a quick idea of what I mean, set the oddball [weap] to be dual wieldable. Set the melee strike force to 6. Pick up the oddball with your left hand, and have a plasma rifle in your right hand. Then melee. At certain aiming angles (you might have to jump also), you'll smack the skull across the screen. It happens because the melee causes you to drop the left hand weapon, and while it's dropping, it gets smacked with the actual melee. You need a gun with a fast melee animation for it to work.

You could use that idea for a Rugby mod or something. I recall that it didn't work with flags or bombs, unfortunately.

[latinomodder]

Make a sniper that once you pick it up goes into wideframe, and then make bullets go through walls, so you have like X ray sniper

[-DeToX-]

Make a sniper that once you pick it up goes into wideframe, and then make bullets go through walls, so you have like X ray sniper

Wire frame you mean? ;x

Also that would be annoying. you'd be looking across coag which would be filled with green lines, for a masterchief that is made of lines >_<.

[bumlove]

latinomodders xray sniper

not a bad idea at all I've never heard of this wire frame view but if it could be used only when zoomed in, yeah it would be hard to interpret and the bullets would have to stop at a metal surface to prevent it being too easy coag wouldn't be the right map for it but headlong or turf would be good entry

[XBC-Requiem]

X-ray sniper sounds like a great idea.
Like the rail gun from Red Faction 2.

Shoot through walls... definately. Only a 1-round mag, though, for balance.

[CaptainPoopface]

I have thought many times about a rail gun. You can make bullets go through walls, but can you make a gun's magnetism work through walls, without resorting to killing the sbsp collision for all projectiles? That way, if you move your reticle over the player, you'll see his name. It would be like looking through walls. With a narrow magnetism angle and relatively slow projectile speed, I think it would be balanced.

[bumlove]

Slow motion shrapnel bomb

Using my backpack bomb or any grenade (will be in my up coming release) add a largeish stun effect (large radius)and a meduim damage and chain spawn 20 or so projectiles (snipe bullets with damage toned down) with a very slow velocity and quite a short distance/life span equal to the stun effect radius (maybe a little bit more) I think it would look good for the victim "aww crap I can't move and there's bullets heading slowly towards me" and as a viewer it could be quite entertaining too