Modular units and weapons

[A_vehicle]

This is in response to the following thread:
http://www.faforever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=7289
I didn't want to necro it.

There was an old mod that gave certain large units from vanilla supcom modular weapons. It's in the old archived vault and is called "Modular Damage".

Link to gpg forum page: http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=16876

Download link for the mod from archived vault: http://gpgnet.obliteratingwave.co.uk/Vault/Individual-Mods/Modular%20Damage.rar

I have tested it and it works with FAF. It just needs some ironing out and some TLC for the Seraphim units (which came out after the mod stopped being developed). I haven't been able to add more modules to other units myself yet, but until I do I invite others to mess with it as well (or just drool over it).

The reason I brought this up is because I want to hear what other people think about making units in supcom FAF modular so that certain parts of them can be disabled.

[Gerfand]

I already saw that(the old GPG mod) in a game called Star Wars Empire At War...
the system kind sucked because you wanted to destroy the unit, and every one fired on a weapon system, but the weapon get destroyed and you lose a lot of shoots...

but if this don't happens her, and the weapons be very easy to repair, fine... for a mod!

[A_vehicle]

You are right, modular damage is really hard to implement. Really, the best way to implement it into a game that would seem realistic is if the game engine used soft body physics, which is impossible in Supcom FAF because we don't have the source code for the engine. Also, it would probably be kind of complicated and time intensive to do.

[zeroAPM]

Could the turret be approximated to a separate unit though? With it's own hp and get disabled when it reaches 0.

Blackops already do this to an extent with a uef exp having drones

[Resin_Smoker]

The big problem with modular damage is that not all unit models would work well in such a system. Reason being, some unit models are just one huge continuous mesh and thus removing / hiding parts would be difficult without individual bones defined for each major section of the unit.