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Bittah Commander
post Aug 5 2009, 12:50 AM
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Here's just a few requests/suggestions...
  • A superweapons allowed multiplayer option (checkbox).
  • A superweapon launch anim.
  • Air strikes (possibly you could adapt the Hunter Seeker's logic for this).
  • EMPulseSparkles= moved from [AudioVisual] to the (EMP) weapon or warhead (this way the visual effect an EMP weapon has on a vehicle can differ per weapon).
  • Sticky anims (warhead animations that stick to units, just like the EMP sparkles). It might be useful to know that when you add Next= to EMP_FX01 (the default EMP sparkle anim), the animation specified after Next= will stick to the unit when it moves.
  • the Shockwave from Ion Cannon to be made optional (so it can either be disabled for the Ion Cannon or be assigned to other weapons).
  • Dogfights
  • The possiblity for units to pick multiple (possibly have a definable limit) firepower or armor power-ups, just like in Sole Survivor (it's already possible with speed upgrades I believe). Currently when a unit that already picked up a firepower upgrade or armor upgrade picks up another crate which is supposed to contain a firepower or armor upgrade, it'll be a money crate instead (even if money crates are turned off).
  • ROF power-ups (also like in Sole Survivor).
  • The option for stealth crates to be temporary (so units that pick up a stealth crate will uncloak again after a certain amount of time). If reversing the effects of a stealth crate is not possible, maybe have a stealth crate attach an invisible sticky anim to the unit which after a certain amount of time (set via a number of invisible frames and framerate) jumps to another invisible sticky anim with 1 frame (via Next=) which deals 1 damage point, then jumps to another invisible sticky anim with 1 frame which heals 1 damage point and constantly keeps looping these 2 single frame anims.
    I believe animations can't heal units however, which brings me to my next point...
  • Animations that can heal units (like weapons or particle systems can).
  • The ability to select a target for a hunter seeker (like you would do with any other super weapon). This would for example allow modders to modify the hunter seeker into a missile which can be shot down for (or just a plain hunter seeker which attacks the target you want it to attack). I'd suggest the possibility for normal missiles to be shot down... But I doubt there's even a point in bothering tongue.gif


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post Aug 24 2009, 11:07 PM
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Move SmallVisceroid= from [General] to InfantryClass so the unit the infantry will turn into when it dies on tiberium can be definable per infantry.


I can move the Visceroid controls over to InfantryTypes, no problem.


QUOTE ( @ Aug 13 2009, 02:37 AM) *
Actually I would love the tag "DiesInto=", as I wanted to have something like that for Nod's Cyborg Commando. Which is, currently, a vehicle in RoO, and would spawn a second stage in the form of an infantry (and a third when badly damaged).
IMO it's a great tag, if you want to do RPG like boss battles. Though it would be better, if you could make a tag "Crew=", accept any type of unit, infantry, vehicles, aircraft, buildings (you could replicate reckoners that way), and also work for every type of unit. And a crew escape percentage tag, which would accomplishes basically the same.


So you want it to spawn another *Type on its death? Hmm...


QUOTE (Lin Kuei Ominae @ Aug 14 2009, 09:08 PM) *
How about the keys

UnitType.YellowSpeedPenalty=[Float]
UnitType.RedSpeedPenalty=[Float]
Used to reduce the speed of a unit by this factor when in yellow/red health state (0.x means decrease; 1.x means increase)

UnitType.YellowROTPenalty=[Float]
UnitType.RedROTPenalty=[Float]
Used to reduce the rate of turn of a unit by this factor when in yellow/red health state

UnitType.YellowROFPenalty=[Float]
UnitType.RedROFPenalty=[Float]
Used to reduce the rate of fire of a unit by this factor when in yellow/red health state

UnitType.YellowAccuracyPenalty=[Float]
UnitType.RedAccuracyPenalty=[Float]
Used to raise the inaccuracy of a unit by this factor when in yellow/red health state (measured in cells like BallisticScatter)
Accurate units become inaccurate this way too.

UnitType.OperationalLevel=0-100%
Used to disable aircraft to take off at a certain health percentage or disable units to deploy or to fire their weapons
An aircraft which is shot into this level during flight will search for the next free cell and land there. (maybe even add a lurching effect to its movement)
Instead you could also try to use the aircraft crashing feature, so that an aircraft which is shot into this level will start the crashing anim, but right before it impacts it tests if the impact-cell is free. If it's free it stops the crashing and lands there instead.


These are some really good ideas, would take a lot of code, but ill look into them.


QUOTE (CommanderSpartan @ Aug 16 2009, 03:38 AM) *
I have a question, will you fix the pilots?


Whats wrong with Pilots?


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- Bittah Commander   A few suggestions   Aug 5 2009, 12:50 AM
- - CCHyper   QUOTE (Bittah Commander @ Aug 5 2009, 01...   Aug 5 2009, 01:04 AM
|- - Bittah Commander   QUOTE (CCHyper @ Aug 5 2009, 03:04 AM) So...   Aug 5 2009, 01:08 AM
- - Darkstorm   Planning a Sole Survivor mode for DTA I see, or at...   Aug 5 2009, 03:37 AM
- - Orac   Actually, if there's room for me too add a sug...   Aug 5 2009, 04:54 AM
- - CCHyper   QUOTE (Orac @ Aug 5 2009, 05:54 AM) Hyper...   Aug 5 2009, 02:03 PM
- - Bittah Commander   A different palette for every building... Would be...   Aug 7 2009, 02:19 AM
- - CCHyper   QUOTE (Bittah Commander @ Aug 7 2009, 03...   Aug 7 2009, 10:05 AM
- - Bittah Commander   With the houses I found Firestorm actually DOES re...   Aug 8 2009, 09:00 AM
|- - CCHyper   QUOTE (Bittah Commander @ Aug 8 2009, 10...   Aug 10 2009, 12:47 PM
- - Deathrider1991   The possibility for buildings to stop fuctioning w...   Aug 10 2009, 04:08 PM
- - CCHyper   QUOTE (Deathrider1991 @ Aug 10 2009, 05:0...   Aug 10 2009, 05:40 PM
- - Deathrider1991   Oh, I thought I saw a post on PPmsite about that, ...   Aug 10 2009, 05:56 PM
|- - ^Rampastein   I don't think this small (re-)suggestion needs...   Aug 11 2009, 08:01 AM
- - CCHyper   QUOTE (^Rampastein @ Aug 11 2009, 09:01 A...   Aug 11 2009, 11:37 AM
|- - ^Rampastein   QUOTE (CCHyper @ Aug 11 2009, 02:37 PM) S...   Aug 11 2009, 02:48 PM
|- - Bittah Commander   QUOTE (CCHyper @ Aug 11 2009, 01:37 PM) I...   Aug 11 2009, 08:36 PM
|- - ^Rampastein   QUOTE (Bittah Commander @ Aug 11 2009, 11...   Aug 12 2009, 12:57 PM
- - CCHyper   Indeedy... Question though, do lasers crash YR?   Aug 12 2009, 01:38 PM
|- - Lin Kuei Ominae   no. They have fixed them afaik too. So if you can ...   Aug 12 2009, 02:40 PM
|- - ^Rampastein   QUOTE (Lin Kuei Ominae @ Aug 12 2009, 05...   Aug 12 2009, 02:56 PM
|- - Lin Kuei Ominae   Haven't you seen Hypers post on ppm?   Aug 12 2009, 03:20 PM
|- - ^Rampastein   Meh, I don't visit PPM that often, about once ...   Aug 12 2009, 03:48 PM
- - Bittah Commander   Well, here's another suggestion... Move Small...   Aug 12 2009, 10:31 PM
|- - Machine   Actually I would love the tag "DiesInto=...   Aug 13 2009, 01:37 AM
|- - Lin Kuei Ominae   How about the keys UnitType.YellowSpeedPenalty=[F...   Aug 14 2009, 08:08 PM
- - CommanderSpartan   I have a question, will you fix the pilots?   Aug 16 2009, 02:38 AM
|- - Lin Kuei Ominae   QUOTE (CCHyper @ Aug 25 2009, 12:07 AM) W...   Aug 25 2009, 11:01 AM
- - CCHyper   Strange. Ok, ill look into this too.   Aug 25 2009, 05:11 PM
- - Bittah Commander   QUOTE (myeself)Have health bars (without the selec...   Sep 17 2009, 11:06 PM
- - Poskov   These are all good ideas, but it would be nice if ...   Jan 7 2010, 12:56 AM
- - CCHyper   I will not be altering the INIs themselfs, you mod...   Jan 7 2010, 03:32 AM
- - Darkstorm   Yeah, it would be very irritating to transfer a mo...   Jan 7 2010, 06:34 PM
- - CCHyper   HyperPatch is 2.03, with my additions and/or fixes...   Jan 9 2010, 04:54 PM
- - Devastator   I'm thinking it's okay to post in THIS top...   Apr 30 2010, 11:58 PM


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