Branding Iron

HellaWack · Post by **HellaWack** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:05 pm

I was looking through the files of 01a_spacestation.map and I found the Branding Iron Tartarus used on The Arbiter, and I had a great idea. I want to make the Branding Iron a fully usable weapon in multiplayer. I figure you could use the Sentinel Beam animations to hold it and punch.
I watched the beginning movie and saw the torture beams and I thought that would be an excellent projectile for it if it were a gun.

How could I do all this and which way would be more fun to use it?

1.) A Gun
or
2.) A Melee Weapon (e.g. Energy Sword)

I was also thinking it could have charge time, like the hunter cannon.

Here are some pictures if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Sorry that you have to wait for it to load.

Might be a good charging effect
Could be a cool projectile
Tartarus wielding the Branding Iron
Tartarus and The Arbiter
Ouch, could be a good firing effect
Tartarus using the Branding Iron

modded4life · Post by **modded4life** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:21 pm

u could make it a flamethrower that would be cool or shoot out tha fuel rod shot and give it a fiery affect

HellaWack · Post by **HellaWack** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:40 pm

The flamethrower is interesting.
I was going for more of a Sentinel Beam but I think it might be possible to make a flamethrower.
And they have a Fuel Rod Cannon for the fuel rod shots.

But good idea.

Zone 117 · Post by **Zone 117** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:44 pm

If you could get the right animations for it, it would be great as a close rang/melee weapon.
Nice idea, I don't think anyone has thought of that.
What tag type is it in the map? Is it already a weapon?

HellaWack · Post by **HellaWack** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:47 pm

Unfortunetly, it's not a weapon. But I'm sure it would be easy to rig it to be like the Sentinel Beam.
It's an hlmt and a mode tag.
Those are the ones I found. If you find anymore linked with the Branding Iron, let me know.

HellaWack · Post by **HellaWack** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:45 pm

Bump!

DJ_Gnomey · Post by **DJ_Gnomey** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:51 pm

HellaWack wrote:Unfortunetly, it's not a weapon. But I'm sure it would be easy to rig it to be like the Sentinel Beam.
It's an hlmt and a mode tag.
Those are the ones I found. If you find anymore linked with the Branding Iron, let me know.

There's no collision or phmo to it? Maybe, it is a type of scen? Also, if you noticed, the effect when both beams were holding and shocking him, were tdlt linked projectiles (now you know why you can do that with the sentinel beam's tdlt)

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:01 pm

Have you done anything to try and perfect it yet? Have you moved the hlmt and the mode tags into the MP map and tried switching the sentinel beam's for the branding iron's? If you haven't tried anything, then don't bump the topic.

HellaWack · Post by **HellaWack** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:08 pm

Yes I have tried perfecting it.
I got the Sentinel Beam projectile to shoot the torture beams but that's all that works good.
I have no idea how to get the Branding Iron to match the Sentinel Beam's jmad animations though.

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:28 pm

HellaWack wrote:Yes I have tried perfecting it.
I got the Sentinel Beam projectile to shoot the torture beams but that's all that works good.
I have no idea how to get the Branding Iron to match the Sentinel Beam's jmad animations though.

Well my first thought would be to swap the sentinel beam's hlmt and mode with the branding iron's. That way it would atleast look like it. If you wanted to get even more in depth on the matter, you could start researching the hand positions for the sentinel beam and tool around with that until they are positioned properly.

HellaWack · Post by **HellaWack** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:55 am

I have no idea how to edit hand positions.

blackdiamond · Post by **blackdiamond** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:21 am

this used to be my idea at a time

Alex201 · Post by **Alex201** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:18 am

Why don't you use the energy sword jmad? That would make it look a little more better. Also, wasn't this in long live SP v2?

HellaWack · Post by **HellaWack** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:53 am

I doubt the Energy Sword jamds would look good with this.
It must be heavy, since Tartarus is using 2 hands to hold it.
The Energy Sword animations would make your character swing the Branding Iron with one hand,
which is totally unrealistic.
Also, I don't remember it in LongLiveSP v2.

blackdiamond · Post by **blackdiamond** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:13 am

well, it looks like all it's make out of is wood and embers

Alex201 · Post by **Alex201** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:15 am

Really? I'm sorry. I thought it was in Long Live SPv2. I saw a whole bunch of different melee weapons.

HellaWack · Post by **HellaWack** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:30 am

blackdiamond wrote:well, it looks like all it's make out of is wood and embers

If it were wood and embers, it wouldn't be called a Branding Iron.

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