Unit catapult

[shooter98]

How would it be possible to make an static unit catapult that acts like an transport but then shoots the unit away, shuld i use LUS callins or write an gadget?

[knorke]

depends.
if you plan to use AddUnitImpulse/SetUnitVelocity to send the unit flying, then a unit script will do.

if you plan to MoveCtrl the unit along its flight path (like zeroK's jumpjet gadget) then a gadget is better: You would not want units to stop inflight because the catapult got destroyed.

Spring's physic do okay-ish with units being tossed around, the actual flying is no problem. Though units sometimes spin in strange ways midflight. Problem is the landing, the direction and speed a unit bounces on impact seems rather glitchy and random to me. Does not matter if you want the unit to explode on impact.

[Jazcash]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgMRwVyR-20

[shooter98]

One thing still left how do i make that it acts like an tranport so it can load units?

[zwzsg]

Again:

-> source code <-

[azaremoth]

It is not exactly what you are looking for but I personally like this one best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs_zbF21 ... re=related

[knorke]

quick, everbody post something vaguely related!

One thing still left how do i make that it acts like an tranport so it can load units?

you mean a normal transport?

[PicassoCT]

Wasnt there a big bertha shooting pewees once?

Thats the spring experience.. all the awesome has existed once, and never got dl-able, so that it may live on as copypasta...

[MidKnight]

Wasnt there a big bertha shooting pewees once?

Thats the spring experience.. all the awesome has existed once, and never got dl-able, so that it may live on as copypasta...

There was, and we'd probably post about it, but people got mad at us for posting in every request thread with "CA haz it."

So we don't do that any more.

[PicassoCT]

Oh, i remember now, the early CA days.. the loosing players, especially comnapped players, were by a enforced widget fps-bound to the peewees fired- therefore the name vomit-canon.. you must be this resistent to motion sickness to enjoy this ride.. [/Myth&MumboJumbo]

[Google_Frog]

Do you want pinball, possible death and map gravity dependence (impulse) or precision, harder implementation and survivability (movectrl)?

[shooter98]

I think i want impulse