Thanks.
How are the animated scenery going to work? I don't think they sync.

I believe 2. But I am be going a little overboard with the numbers... ;)

Just 2 of us. We work pretty well together, but I could use more.
Edited by Jay2645 on Jul 12, 2008 at 01:02 AM

I wish I could do something, but I am useless. ;_;
Oh, and did I mention that I am so useless that I can't even beta...
Edited by RougeSpartan414 on Jul 12, 2008 at 01:09 AM

Animated scenery doesn't sync, yet it has the appearance it does. It's weird, basically, technically, it's not SUPPOSED to sync, but it does anyway.

Are you tryign to say it moves at different speeds on different computers?

are you saying that when peopel get in the game, the animation starts from the beggining while the other players show the animations in the middle :D?

It's like AI on multiplayer scenery.

Animated scenery is... weird. It syncs because whenever the animation starts from the beginning again on the server side, it deletes the animation and remakes it in its new starting position. When it does this, the starting position is marked and sent to the server, telling it to delete the piece of scenery and remake it in that particular starting position, but the animation itself plays independently on each client. Since they're all using the same .map file, the animation should be the same length on all clients, meaning that the scenery will "remake" itself on the server at the same time as it does on the clients.
However, when a new client is added, the scenery starts its animation until the server tells it to remake itself in the new location, meaning that the scenery will disappear to the new client and restart its animation. Most of the time, this goes unnoticed, as the "Server Rules" screen is in the way. However, sometimes, that does happen, and it IS a little... Odd, to say the least.
However, aside from that one little bug, animated scenery has no syncing problems.

For the animated scenery problem, you could have the player spawn inside a building, so it isn't noticed.

That was what I was going to do.

or u could make them spawn over cliff >:)

I don't think here are any cliffs in a city-wide metropolis. The closest you could get is the pawn shop, on floor 3902...

I'm going to focus on gameplay, I'm NOT going to make a novelty map.

oh well uh, I'm stuck on the part where you fight calo nord on tattoine. icannot beat him, even with me, juhani and bastilla, ive tried 3 party configurations and different attacks and yet....

That part is very annoying. I just tried multiple times and luckily beat him. You could have your team do the fighting while you run.

Your name is scorch, and your motto says "wookie life debts for everyone". Do you play Republic Commando also?

Please don't go off-topic, I don't want to see this locked.

uh yeah i play, but i don't play republic commando i play the RC2ANE TC game. which adds a new campaign in addition to the original, but you play a night ops, your demolitions is a recon named tucker-45, your ranger is now some guy called john-35 (i'd take the creator is a fan of halo) and your sniper is some guy called spark-05. i got past the part with calo nord, and it was off to maanan, i found the star map on maanan too, and now i'll do kashyyk.


but maybe we should stay on-topic.

Why are we talking about KotOR? Sure they're good games (I have both) but they aren'tr related to halo at all.

well yeah, but this is a halo topic thats related to star wars, I if i made a big deal about it I'm sorry, but i thought currently people were talking about republic commmando.

*PICTURE OUTDATED, SEE BELOW*
The interior will be fully detailed, and you don't move from level to level within the buildings, you have to wind your way up or down to the other base on the outside paths. It's straightforward; it's impossible to get lost if you follow the main path. The branches all just lead to weapons, and the rocket and shotgun branches are the only ones that lie out in the open, to discourage any camping within the buildings.
More to come soon, guys.
Edited by Jay2645 on Jul 22, 2008 at 05:12 PM

what is that mess over on the left?

Those were supposed to be floating pillars similar to the ones here:

However, Max got screwy in the rendering, it was late, and I was too tired to fix it. Ignore it for now; another (fixed) render will be coming your way shortly.

3DS max was screwy, I fixed it, however:

Yeah... Probably smart to start again.
I was going more off of a combination of references on that one, this one depicting more of the undercity:

Edited by Jay2645 on Jul 22, 2008 at 05:32 PM

Undercity. Reminds me of Taris.

this is awesome, I cant wait to see the finished project and Good Luck

sure was, and AWESOME!

Looks like a bunch of extrudes, but that's what the actual buildings look like, so good job on the accuracy.

lol, since im not part of the team I cant give models, but how about suggestions?

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Han-solo-blaster-replica.jpg

http://swg.allakhazam.com/images/ships/YWing.jpg

just suggestions, hy, im exited as much as you guys are fore this mod

Haha, it's OK, the buildings sucked anyway, so I started over. =P

Anyway, been working on a biped. More than just the head is done, I'm just too mean to show it to yas.

Personally, I find it a little fat, but I'll see what you guys think.

It's off in so many ways.



Edited by rentafence on Jul 26, 2008 at 05:31 PM

why is that so crooked?
is it just the angle of the pic?

Because of the shape.

thats not what i mean.
but it doesnt matter.