New Transport tags?

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 09 Nov 2007, 03:59

Ok, I'm (finally) ready to put air-dropped stuff into PURE... what tags are available, and where do I put them? I understand that we now have a Fall() COB callout... is there one for landing, too? And how do I configure the transport to drop stuff? Can I use a tag to control how quickly it drops them? And what about loading / unloading behaviors?

Sorry if it seems like I'm waaaay behind the times here... been a little busy IRL, haven't had time to test this out yet, and my air-transport for PURE is nearly done...

AF · Post by AF » 09 Nov 2007, 12:06

IIRC foreboding started a similar titled thread, the answers you seek will be in there ^_^

clericvash · Post by **clericvash** » 09 Nov 2007, 13:41

http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12111

Another post on it there, dunno if it will help :)

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 09 Nov 2007, 15:24

The new drop stuff is good... but the transport flight code is still just awful...

Watching our LAATs fly around makes me sad; they look very cool as gunships or fighters, but for obvious reasons need to be transports... which effectively replaces the pilot with a plank of wood with a face drawn on.

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 09 Nov 2007, 23:21

Taking out the transport and leaving the gunship stuff wouldn't make a difference, Zsinj. Same movement stuff

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 10 Nov 2007, 04:49

Bah, that's what I meant

The fact of the matter is that the flight code makes me very sad.

tombom · Post by **tombom** » 10 Nov 2007, 11:23

Warlord Zsinj wrote:The fact of the matter is that the flight code makes me very sad.

Feel free to fix it :)

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 11 Nov 2007, 07:09

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 12 Nov 2007, 01:37

I don't know how to fix the flight-code, I can't code.

I can make pretty looking aircraft to use the flight code though.

If someone who can code fixes the flight code, I can continue to fix my content so that people have things that will use that flight code.

That's how this whole thing works, see

It's just a shame when my pretty ships are hooked into the code provided, they bounce around like jackrabbits instead of flying naturally, continually bump into each other, and look terribly silly when actually firing at anything.

Why the transport/gunship flight code makes me sad (wmv, deal with it)

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 12 Nov 2007, 04:52

<rofl>... yeah, they're like flying, bouncing, retarded bumper-cars that basically just act like hovercraft, instead of acting like VTOLs that have to land and pick up troops

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 13 Nov 2007, 15:14

No chance anyone is going to pick this up? Even if just transports flew like normal aircraft while not trying to load things... It's just a sorry state of a affairs to watch anything other then fighters or bombers actually in flight.

tombom · Post by **tombom** » 13 Nov 2007, 17:28

Warlord Zsinj wrote:No chance anyone is going to pick this up? Even if just transports flew like normal aircraft while not trying to load things... It's just a sorry state of a affairs to watch anything other then fighters or bombers actually in flight.

Do you expect somebody to just come and fix some complex piece of code within a few days because you asked for it?

I'm probably reading it in the wrong mood.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 13 Nov 2007, 17:41

Yes. We don't mean to come across as whiny brats here- we've been asking for this to get fixed since at least last January, I started bringing it up then when I was fixing up some stuff for what I was working on then.

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New Transport tags?

New Transport tags?