vehicle objectives?

Discussion in 'Halo and Forge Discussion' started by baracuda6977, Nov 7, 2010.

  1. baracuda6977

    baracuda6977 Forerunner

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    can someone explain to me the rules regarding making vehicles objectives? I can make a vehicle a koth, but can't seem to make it a bomb (how fun would car bombing be? :D) instead a bomb appears under it.

    is the rule objects have to be volume based to work and objectives that spawn, like bombs and flags, simply appear at the objects location? and if so does that mean i can set a scorpian to spawn bombs and move the scorpian to move the bomb spawn or does it go back to the scorpian's spawn?
     
  2. junker404

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    you can set a vehicle to spawn bombs and they will spawn where ever the vehicle is, you can also set an ability or weapon to spawn or AS_GOAL,
    if you set an ability and pick it up the bomb spawns where ever the wearer is
     
  3. baracuda6977

    baracuda6977 Forerunner

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    thanks, i did some more expirementing, and there are some rather interesting properties: as_goal makes a vehicle impervious to the bomb, but can still be destroyed, if that happens, the corpse is still the goal, same with as_bomb vehicles, bombs will respawn even on the wrecks

    also, when the bomb spawns, it takes the vehicles location for its location, it doesn't follow it :(, but it will drop from air vehicles if respawned mid flight

    so, now i want to find someone who will help me make and test a map based dropping bombs from indestructable falcons onto enemy tanks where teammates catch them and instantly detonate
     
  4. pyro

    pyro The Joker
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    You mean like having stockpile flags spawn on falcons and drop onto tanks which are set as the capture points?
     
  5. baracuda6977

    baracuda6977 Forerunner

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    possible, i would see that more as banshee warthog personally

    there seem to be alot of possibilities but i haven't seen anything like this
     
  6. Stevo

    Stevo Drunken Bantersaurus Rex
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    I think the stockpile falcon/warthog variant would be pretty awesome. You'd just have to make an arena with one way barriers (pointing upwards) half way up the walls preventing the falcons to come below the barrier. There would also need to be a vehicle teleporter below the barrier to catch any falling vehicles (hopefully vehicles without drivers can still be teleported?)
     
  7. junker404

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    ive been playing about with vehicles as goals/spawners for a while now
    arming banshee to banshee, goose to hog , armor abilitys and so on..

    you will have to watch the shape/hitbox area due to the fact if two goal objects are trying to arm each other with a drive by...and the bomb carrier is within his own goal shape it disables his arming


    you can download some maps, if you want to pull them apart
    stuff using abilities multi team & arming from vehicle to vehicle

    minimum 2 players

    vehicle stuff
    Bungie.net : Reach : Player File Sets

    goals on abilities
    Bungie.net : Reach : Player File Sets


    if there was more control over setting the shape/area, it would work better
    instead of
    top, bottom, uniform sides

    it should have been
    top, bottom, front, back, left, right

    this would allow you to place the shape/hitbox anywhere on a vehicle, getting rid of most of the problems

    but its still a blast
     
    #7 junker404, Nov 8, 2010
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  8. Stevo

    Stevo Drunken Bantersaurus Rex
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    :O
    Awesome idea.. can you have an armour ability as the bomb goal? and then when a player picks up the ability, do they become the bomb goal? That'd be freaking amazing if you could!!!!!
     
  9. junker404

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    #9 junker404, Nov 8, 2010
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  10. eating lunch

    eating lunch Ancient

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    What about the data core in Invasion? Would I be able to spawn it, and have a vehicle like a Banshee or Falcon be the capture point for the core? So that a team could grab the core, run to a Banshee or Falcon, touch it, and capture the core?

    That would be pretty cool, I hope its possible. It would be a good substitute for the Phantom or Pelican in Forge World, since they didn't make either of those appear in Forge World during Invasion.
     
  11. junker404

    junker404 Forerunner

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    yep

    its just an phase 3, objective goal, as long as you set a shape area on it

    i think its something like
    spawn sequence 3
    advanced option INV_OBJECTIVE
    set a shape area on vehicle

    its been a few weeks since i played about with invasion
     
    #11 junker404, Nov 9, 2010
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  12. baracuda6977

    baracuda6977 Forerunner

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    i propose we group together to make this happen

    one problem I've found is that you can only have one stockpile goal
     

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