First Strike Forums — Vehicle Spawning

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-07-06T00:06:54Z

I hope its heated. Hoth looks cold...

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-07-05T19:50:51Z

Everything is going to be as close to the movies as developers can make them. If a ship has one hanger, I'd suspect that the in-game counter-part will have one hanger. Ships will be in the hanger. And the only real hanger we've talked about on these forums is "What's Echo Base going to be like?"- huge was the answer, and awsome.

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-07-03T17:17:37Z

On the topic of hangars: How big will they be? Will they be movie accurate (stupid question, but after playing SWBF2 I need to ask)? What will be in them? Finally how many per ship.

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-07-02T01:28:35Z

Well we saw that Lambda shuttle, so even though it's obvious, that may really put value on boarding.

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-07-01T19:38:44Z

I hope to see some major boarding action, but alot thicker than 1 guy sneakin in. Hopefully something akin to the titan boardin we've seen from 2142.

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-07-01T19:28:24Z

It wasn't too hard to board in GC, just the Carracks were hard. But once on board I had fun with my knife

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-07-01T16:45:40Z

Well I would think that ships that have hangers in them in the movies would have hangers in them in the mod. I can't wait to see what it's like to board a ship in this mod. Wonder if it's just as deadly as GC was? Even though this mod isn't GC, it was still painful.

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-06-29T20:54:49Z

hey in each ship u make could there be a hangar?
cuz in GC there was rlly only one ship that could dock fighters.

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-06-29T19:44:01Z

@Model thing:

Also, a heck of lot of lag. Probably best left to lie.

Couldn't you use a uav style vehicle, a drop ship, that could fly down on scripted courses and drop vehicles on spawn positions? Or how about instead of dropships, the equivelant for ground transports towing the vehicles down roads until they reach the drop point.

I'm not that knowledgeable about the BF2 engine, but I doubt the towing idea would work. But the dropship, if you could get the UAV to fly striaght (probably possible) you just make the UAV look like a dropship - then spawn a vehicle drop underneath it. If done right, It should look good enough. PLus, since the UAV can be destroyed, no reason why transports cant either (although with higher health, obviously).

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-06-27T20:25:04Z

i like the construction idea. but problem is it causes ALOT of work.. IF its possible. model direction = about 5 models in each stage. an image.. which would make it flat would take just as long and wont look as good.

the hyperspace idea is something that would be very easy to impliment i think..

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-06-27T18:23:08Z

Now that you mention it that would be cool. Making a ship 'appear' from hyperspace would probally be among the easiest things discussed. Probally. I'd think you could just make it accelerate from teh edge of the map really quick, then come to a sudden stop. Though I'm not sure if anything bigger than a fighter will actually be respawning, in GC they where one use vessels. I think.

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-06-27T16:46:27Z

Yeah tha would be cool

will like the small frigates respawn in space battles? maybe you could have it like come through hyperspace that would be sweet

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-06-26T15:03:16Z

yea i like that idea mk
kind of like in rts games

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-06-26T13:45:34Z

Could the respawn be animated? Say it takes a snowspeeder 10 seconds for it to respawn. In those 10 seconds instead of the respawn area being empty, it shows a snowspeeder slowly being reconstructed. It starts out as a frame, then with armor, then weapons and defenses are added, until the 10 seconds are up and a speeder respawns.

Re: Vehicle Spawning

2006-06-26T04:31:53Z

I really like the garage door idea. Unfortunatly, what I know of Echo Base is that there were more cut outs in the wall than individual garages. Infact, Star Wars is kind of open when it comes to utilizing space for supplies and storage. I think the supply line may be abit more for what the engine can handle, but I don't know. I like it though.