i work with tags alot and i came to the thought of "if ai does not sync no matter what you do in multiplayer but the scenery does and as you know some scenery takes an animation; would it be possible to create scenery bipeds (basic animated shapes [killer rock creatures]that get up when the game starts) and simply give them an ai animations?" i came up with this idea while fixing destructable scenery tags that were posted as a please fix item.

List of thing that do not sync to my knowledge without intense scripting or not at all

-AI
-Regional Damage
-Biped damage
-Animated scenery (Sorry to burst your bubble.... Again....)
-Vehicle destruction is a maybe... I'm not entirely sure on the matter...
-Destructable Scenery-depends on scale....

There may be more things that I'm not thinking of at the moment....
Edited by Caboose117 on Jul 22, 2007 at 11:44 PM

For the vehicles
-If the vehicle was destroyed on your PC on someone elses PC its still drivable and looks fine and they still can drive it.

That means it doesn't sync...

It always bothers me though. I remember reading somewhere that the covenant energy shields (the scenery ones) do not sync because destructable scenery doesn't sync, and yet, it does sync because projectiles sync... So why do other destructable things not sync if projectiles do?

the vehicle thing was not a problem in one of the h2 maps(the one remade to adjust the blood gulch map with ai) i destroyed a warthog and according to the other players it was a confirmed destruction.

as for the animated scenery this was pulled off in any map with a working door larger than a normal sized spartan... i just needed to know if someone could make a scenery object to look like some kind of lifeform...now has somone or can someone do this?

For the vehicles i said I dont know, becuase I was pretty sure CMT had done it. And they have. Animated scenery will not work, unless every player joined at the exact same time and had the same exact ping. That way, the animation starts at the same time. Doors are devices, and will not sync without scripts/activation radius....


Before you tell me what works and doesn't, look how long I've been here as compared to you. I usually know what I'm talking about, with a few exceptions.
Edited by Caboose117 on Jul 23, 2007 at 06:03 AM

The only way a vehicle can sync when it is blown up is when the peices become different vehicles when blown up or they become scenery.

Hence, the coldsnap LS has a destruction effect that spawns 4 burnt pieces... Or is it 5.... Cockpit, Wings (There are 2), Hull, and mb the tail.....

ok i finally got the killer scenery part done now what?

bwah attack of the killer scenery lol

it is not for a vehicle it is scenery... besides a grenade is considered destructable scenery(seen by everyone going off) i have it set up to explode not just fall apart (something like grenade animations)

And the grenades themselves have no animations really.... Just an explosion effect...