No unit wrecks... No collision instead?

[TradeMark]

This new (BA?) mod feature is interesting... I would probably use it when i dont want to get stuck on the corpses.

What about making mod option "No wreck collision" so you can walk through wrecks, but also could reclaim them. (This should be in the list by default, but possible to set off by mod if so wanted).

But would the dragonteeths be without collision too? :/

[Peet]

This already exists. Look at EE.

[Forboding Angel]

you're kidding me right? I suggested that BA make lv1 corpses be non blocking over a year ago, and got flamed to high hell for it, and you think this is a new idea?

I swear, you kids that play only BA live under some sort of rock.

[smoth]

in all fairness they being most ba players are not reading to catch up on the years of shit posted. Hell they are too busy enjoying ba and have not allocated time for other games. Can't expect too much.

OH, wait it is trademark.. bad trademark this goes in mod discussion, just kidding it's alright. I am pretty sure we can set features to non blocking

local featureDefs = {
ZAKU2_dead = {
blocking = false,
category = "arm_corpses",
damage = 1800,
description = "Wreckage",
featureDead = "rubble",
footprintX = 2,
footprintZ = 2,
height = "20",
hitdensity = "50",
metal = 190,
object = "ZAKU2_dead",
reclaimable = true,
seqnamereclamate = "tree1reclamate",
world = "All Worlds",
},

hey, if we didn't have it I would be 100% behind this request.

[TradeMark]

i know there is such tag in the corpses, but im talking about default mod option... is it even possible, since dragonteeths are corpses too :/

[zwzsg]

At worst, you'll have to add two lines of code to skip walls.

[TradeMark]

nice, someone make it? =D

[Peet]

i know there is such tag in the corpses, but im talking about default mod option... is it even possible, since dragonteeths are corpses too :/

Why are you requesting a mod option in the engine feature requests forum?

[TradeMark]

wasnt sure was it possible engine side

[smoth]

You are requesting a mod option for ba in the ENGINE FEATURE REQUEST section that has a sticky saying DO NOT REQUEST MOD SHIT HERE you should know better.

[KDR_11k]

wasnt sure was it possible engine side

Should have a featuredefs_post that can do that.

[zwzsg]

Well, I just tried.

I wanted to read the wreck list from the unit list, taking the wreckName field of each unit, and discarding walls by discarding units that have the isFeature set. However somehow I didn't manage to.

So for now I just made passable all features beside the ones whose name are hard coded into my code (right now teeth and fortifaction). That's not good because map features are probably made passable.

I'll try to make something better later tonight, I need at least to clean that code.

Someone allow sd7 as allowed extension on this board please!

[CarRepairer]

You are requesting a mod option for ba in the ENGINE FEATURE REQUEST section that has a sticky saying DO NOT REQUEST MOD SHIT HERE you should know better.

Go down the list in this forum section and you'll find that all his threads are as so.

[Pxtl]

Basically, TradeMark wants to make his own mod.

However, he doesn't want it to be a mod. He wants it to be a set of optional features built into BA and the engine itself, so that people will actually play on his servers that are running this not-mod, since Spring players will only play on a server that says BA on it.

Take note, he also wanted to be able to execute mod-altering lua in a map. Obviously because players are far more receptive to downloading maps than they are to mods.

See the common thread? He wants a mod that is still, in the lobby, Spring + BA.

[imbaczek]

and there's nothing wrong with that, he may get what he wants or may not. there are much better chances of him getting it if he submits engine patches, though there's never any guarantee anything will get accepted, even if stuff that makes sense usually is.

[CarRepairer]

His ideas are all legitimate but he should take a page from the book of BasiC... If he really thinks that his ideas like full LoS and passable wrecks and echoing "YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER" whenever you combomb and every other suggested feature is SO great, then instead of begging others to do it he can make a mutator and be master of his game, host it, and it will catch on.

[smoth]

You are requesting a mod option for ba in the ENGINE FEATURE REQUEST section that has a sticky saying DO NOT REQUEST MOD SHIT HERE you should know better.

Go down the list in this forum section and you'll find that all his threads are as so.

FEATURE REQUEST section that has a sticky saying DO NOT REQUEST MOD SHIT HERE

you (trademark) should know better.

if he was some random noob like most of the other mod specific requests I would not give him shit but he should know better.

[Pxtl]

His ideas are all legitimate but he should take a page from the book of BasiC... If he really thinks that his ideas like full LoS and passable wrecks and echoing "YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER" whenever you combomb and every other suggested feature is SO great, then instead of begging others to do it he can make a mutator and be master of his game, host it, and it will catch on.

Well, his point is a little different from Yan.

Yan want's to change BA into his idea of what it should be.

TradeMark doesn't want to change it for _everybody_, he just wants to run BA servers that, while they technically are running BA, are actually really playing a very peculiar game that is designed by TradeMark. He doesn't care about intruding on all the BA+DSD players and the hardcores with their 1v1s as long as he can have his crazy not-really-BA games on SpeedBall.

Which would be a great attitude, if it weren't for the fact that he thinks it should all be implemented as options on the Engine Options and Mod Options screens of BA and Spring.

[smoth]

people need to learn how to make damn mutators.

[Pxtl]

people need to learn how to make damn mutators.

lol, did you see his reaction in another thread when I suggested that?

People only play BA. So, he wants to make sure that his game is still BA. Downloading a 20kb sdz file full of Lua is still too much impediment for the user.