Hot air balloons!, 4 versions: gdi, nod, and 2 civilian Options

[Team Black]

OK our voxel forum is looking pitiful, time to put some new stuff in here

First off I have Ixith to thank for giving me the ridiculous idea to make these hot air balloons in the first place

This is my 15th voxel (if you don't count the multiple versions that I made)
And yea, these took a LOT of work to make, as round voxels are a big pain in the rear. Spotlight would be greatly appreciated

EVA report:
Hot air balloons can be incredibly strategical units.
since they don't use any sort of mechanical engines, they are practically un-touchable by surace-to-air equipment, save for the Firestorm Defense system.
Unfortunately, they have no on board, so they can't reveal shroud, and they only have room enough for a few infantry.
Despite these disadvantages, you might find hot air balloons to be fairly useful
(the code for this is contained in the README file )

The concept:


The 3D views:

(I changed the remap to colors for this pic - you can see where the remap is, though, based on the ingame shots as well)

and the ingamers:


The ZIP:

Attached File(s)

 HAB_civ1_civ2_gdi_nod.zip ( 393.98K ) Number of downloads: 708

 

[ChielScape]

ROFLOL, thats so awesome

[Lightstorm]

OH NOES! the balloons will destroy us all!!
those look really good though.

[Ixith]

kekeke your finally releasing these huh

they look great. I thought you were only gonna make 3 versions but oh well a 4th colorful version is just as well XD
great job

[Crash]

Nice TB, very nice, I like it a lot.

This voxel deserves a spotlight, I like the Nod and GDI icon too.

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

agree, spotlight
now make a zeppelin
(too bad TS doesn't has the amount of Normals as RA2)
Just an Idea: because Balloons don't turn you could make them as SHPs like the limpetmine. Then the shading could be done much smoother.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Jun 25 2007, 10:30 PM

[Corsair]

Very interesting, nice idea Ixith and TB

[Crimsonum]

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry @_@

[azri_apoc]

looks cool but i dont' sure it can be used in battlefield, maybe can works as carryall or drop some paratroopers. but i thinks it looks Ok, nice job TB.

This post has been edited by azri_apoc: Jun 26 2007, 11:21 AM

[Roani52]

Super cool.
Pretty strange. Hot air balloons with a logo.
Only the remap might look odd ingame. Maybe.
Team Black, good job.
Love the colors.
I've no idea where it can be used for. The idea is fine, but... It is too weak for a carry all. (mkII? ) Weapon on a balloon? Scout? uhhm. Dropping inf. Maybe
Good, realy good.
Hell, yea. It's good.
Time to... eat?

[Machine]

As I said before; when you showed me GDI and Nod ballons; they're quite cool, it's nice to see you releasing them, also the two civilian versions are really cool

Just an Idea: because Balloons don't turn you could make them as SHPs like the limpetmine. Then the shading could be done much smoother.

My guess is that they would be better as infantry Shps, since then, they could use jumpjet logic, however you would need to give the ballons "hovering" walking frames
BTW I don't think that the limpet mines could be used, AFAIK, aircraft can't be shp.

[vOi!king ship]

I'd love to see a bigger version for RA2, just for the fu...useage of it

Seriously, I'd love to use them. They'd be great in an amusement park.

[Team Black]

the way I coded it, it's actually a vehicle, that flies - which is the other functional alternative to the carryall=yes air transport.
This technique also allows hva animation, shp support, and turret support (why aircraft would use turrets though, is beyond me... )

The only problems though is that it becomes invincible during flight (except against firestorm defense), and it can't reveal shroud -

Thanks for all the comments so far, It took some trouble to get these to look right

[vOi!king ship]

Yes, thank you for totally ignoring my post totally >_>

[ChielScape]

Super cool.
Pretty strange. Hot air balloons with a logo.
Only the remap might look odd ingame. Maybe.
Team Black, good job.
Love the colors.
I've no idea where it can be used for. The idea is fine, but... It is too weak for a carry all. (mkII? ) Weapon on a balloon? Scout? uhhm. Dropping inf. Maybe
Good, realy good.
Hell, yea. It's good.
Time to... eat?

ROFL QFT

[Team Black]

Yar, didn't see your post Gosho

yea, someone should make a theme park mod - tiberiumcoaster tycoon. XD

[The Raven]

I totally agree with LKO, a Zeppelin would be awesome.

[jadems]

LOL, I was thinking, can you make a voxel debris for that? Like a deflated air balloon and give the air balloon 1 debris max and that'd be wicked.

[Team Black]

Nah, that would be wayyyy to difficult to make a deflated balloon voxel

So, do we have a Spotlight? ?

[vOi!king ship]

MAKE BIGGAR AND YUO WIL GET ME SPOTLIGHT VOTE!!!1!

[jadems]

I'd say spotlight; look at the texturing...

[Corsair]

MAKE BIGGAR AND YUO WIL GET ME SPOTLIGHT VOTE!!!1!

Yea, if you went and simply doubled its size it would probably be spot on

But, I think its fine as it is Mr. Z

Spotlight!

[Team Black]

MAKE BIGGAR AND YUO WIL GET ME SPOTLIGHT VOTE!!!1!

Since you asked.. .

don't forget to put IsCoreDefender=yes for the appropriate selection box

Attached File(s)

 uberhab.zip ( 47.47K ) Number of downloads: 377

 

[vOi!king ship]

Thanks.

Now, as promised - this deserves Spotlight.

[Team Black]

hehe thanks XD

now, is going to spotlight it for me?

[Machine]

Well I think that the balloons deserve the spotlight, as they're really impressive, such an amount of work, by only that reason I would spotlight it, however, I would be ignoring other reasons, like originality.

[vOi!king ship]

BumB.

Spotlight?

[Team Black]

Bump!

Who's in charge of spotlighting stuff anyways??

[Ixith]

Who's in charge of spotlighting stuff anyways??

rofl now you see how its been in the mapping section at PPM XD and kinda here.
ya know....maybe it would be a good idea for 1 or 2 people of each specialty to be made moderator of the forum section of their specialty?

[Tartan Bunny]

lol cant believe i haven't seen this already. you should make some nod zepplins now.
rofl.