It's all about the way you place it really. Because on some other designs, a lot of the times it doesn't give me a 'delay' when I walk in, I have to crouch and walk around for a bit until I pick it up. I've been trying to make a ship, but I'm too lazy to make a giant structure floating underneath skubbuble. WAAAAY too much save/quit floating for me.
wow this is great it came at the right time too! i was just thinking about making a map with this in it but didn't know how! thanks!
SICK! I played on your ods3 map before the drop pod was okay but this is such an improuvement. It works really well. Nice job on the tut as well, it's very indepth. Why is there a mongoose on the outside of the map though?
Your tutorial is great. Thanks so much! I've made alot since i saw your tutorial. I made one up outside of sky bubble and the barrier slows you down and sometimes kills you. any way... great tutorial
Nice drop pod, this has given me a great idea for my own drop pod, I'll post a link here if i ever get around to finishing it.
a simple, good design. i made a firefight map (not posting...) and i did something like this with two upside down barracades, a pallet ontop, and two upright barracades ontop of that. -but i do think urs is simpler, and more practical! i think ill build a ship on sandbox (like the one in the gameplay vid) where you drop down out of that room... overall, im impressed! nice job
Nice tut man, ive seen a lot of pretty crappy attempts at drop pods and this is by far the best drop pod ive seen. I may even use it for a map. One question, someone mentioned goind outside the map (by the towers and building it) I was wondering if that is what you were on about when the barrier slows you, or whether you were on about the slice of barrier between sky bubble and main floors sky? Sticky this thread and move too forging 101, I think its more suitable there...
That was me that first mentioned the barrier. I didn't mean the sky bubble barrier. I'll explain with this picture. That I did in paint. As you can see, there's a layer in between the normal sandbox's sky and the skybubble. You normally can NOT get into that layer, without glitching yourself. But if you do, entrance from layer '?' and normal sandbox will result in you slowing down(right where the brown wiggly lines on the picture are), but not the drop pod thus wrecking it. You also cannot jump in that layer, nor can you control the direction you want to move. You can't make it in the skybubble either obviously. 1)Barricades don't go through. 2)You will die as you cross the skybubble lines.
I started trying to make my own map with 4 drop pods. However, I can't even get 1 to work. No matter what I do, no matter how close I put the barricades togethor, they just fall apart. I've gone back and made sure I'm following the tutorial exactly. Any tips?
Well, maybe the problem is that the drop pods are TOO close together? That's a probable reason to why your drop pod does not work, or maybe even the powerup isn't placed in a good position. If you want though, I can join your game and help you get it working.
Wow, this is fab! Just to make sure, you can't fall through the Sky Bubble in this contraption can you? Also, how fast does the drop pod move?
Thank you! Thank you so much for this! I'm currently working on an ODST city drop map. This idea is so epic. I have to hand it to ya. 5/5 i mean, yeah, the launch bay doesn't look that great, but hey, it's up in the sky and doesn't need to be looked at. So once again, thank you, you are awesome.
Updates: The guide has been updated with some more info and rewording. The map has hit 3000 downloads, and is still going up at a steady pace. Thanks a lot, guys!
Genius! absoloutley brilliant iv got a map with a moving building involved I could make the advanced drop pod part of the flooring and you could jump out whenever you liked back onto land. Thank You so much!
Hmm... not to steal any ideas from you or anything, but in what way is it moving, and how did you get it to move.