Krapougnak wrote:
Hi,
I was playing with your mod the other day and I built the T2 Sera wall. Wonderfull unit there I love the shield but unfortunately it is not "directional" and only works in "horizontal" lines not "vertical" ones thus severely limiting its usefulness. Could this be changed ?
Love the new Angel model it is really nice.
Otherwise still waiting for the Prophet...
Hi,
I was playing with your mod the other day and I built the T2 Sera wall. Wonderfull unit there I love the shield but unfortunately it is not "directional" and only works in "horizontal" lines not "vertical" ones thus severely limiting its usefulness. Could this be changed ?
Love the new Angel model it is really nice.
Otherwise still waiting for the Prophet...
Hi Krapougnak,
Unfortunately the Prophet unit is unlikely to happen. There appears to be some pretty intense restrictions on what can happen during an "attack" command, and I don't know of any way around it :/
The goal of Prophet was to be a "pseudo artillery" unit; one that would plant itself at some artillery-like distance outside an enemy base and then near-instantly teleport into the base, attack a target for a short period of time, and then teleport back out to its original position where it would idle for a longer period of time. Think Yo-yo from the MCU.
But the restrictions on what can happen in an attack command go even further, I had teased a unit in this thread that I was going to call "Sun Flower" (Aeon unit) that, on attack command, would bloom, "create a bridge to the nearby star", and then blast an area with a "solar flare"... But I didn't want the beam to come from the flower itself, I wanted it to come from the sky (thus making it difficult to tell where the flower actually was). But satellite units don't easily take commands from their parent units, and so I couldn't figure this one out either.
Then I had a seraphim unit that was going to use drones, but again, the drone units don't readily take commands from the parent unit, and the parent unit needs a weapon to have an attack command. I didn't want it to have any weapons, instead it would generate drones and launch them for its attacks.
Playing on that same idea, I had also designed an aeon point defense that would launch a projectile that would deal damage all along its path to its target. A sort of anti-horde weapon (I was thinking lightning ball from TitanFall 2)... But again, couldn't figure it out.
Regarding the shield wall; custom orientations are rather difficult to implement (or at least, difficult for me to figure out how to implement!), which is why I had settled for any horizontal orientation. I could add a button toggle to point the shield vertically vs horizontally, but I don't think more complex orientations like "south-south east at a 45 degree incline" are even possible.
Edit: This is not to say I'll never update the mod again, I still have a few smaller units that are relatively straight forward to implement, but don't go waiting for an update. Its hard for me to dedicate time to this when my favorite ideas don't work out!
Statistics: Posted by Dudekahedron — 29 Apr 2017, 17:46
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