Well when you make the elephant u could make it so that when you press q then the car attaches like the pelican.

i really don't like that idea, because i found it was too glitchy.

what i am thinking, however, is that if you CAN attach mobile scenery to the operating sections of an elephant, than not only can players and vehicles walk/drive/sit on it, but it is so slow that it shouldn't be a problem. then you just need to attach the spawnpoints to the scenery, and you can have default vehicles always respan on the elephant, no matter where it goes.

lol u cant attach spawn points to something

my thoughts exactly. I just have to script it so it attaches when your driving and detaches when you get out

trust me, ud be better off not having elephants carry a vehicle by use of script

is it or is it not possible to make a span point follow something?

not possible

Ok forget the script

then the script that holds things together, like with vehicles and pelicans. can that be enacted on a piece of scenery and a spawn point?

otherwise this idea is prettymuch dead

yea but if we use scripts there is a very bit issue regarding netcode sync

hmmmm why do i remember seeing this? oh yes, the firefly inside the Draco? i don't remember what the map is called but mongoose in elephant is possible

i was thinking more of a warthog. like i said, multiple versions are possible.

speaking of which, can some one point me in the direction of a mongoose that is functional and opertaes like the halo 3 version?

that would be helpful.

can u wait a few months-years to get one?

i don't know. its not that big of an idea. i won't be making maps for a while, and i was planning on having a "scout" warthog in the meanwhile.

can we get back on topic please?

there already is an elephant made

you mean the elephant model? if so, we know.

otherwise, could you give a link?

Hunter released his elephant model, also several other individuals have modeld the elephant like Rooster. Check the halomaps model section for Hunters elephant

dude. read the first page. we already HAD an elephant model. thats what started the idea.

(script continuous elephantspawnin
(if (or (= (unit_get_health (unit (list_get (players) number))) 0) (= (unit_get_health (unit (list_get (players) number))) -1))
(begin
(sleep 5)
(if (> (unit_get_health (unit (list_get (players) number))) 0)
(begin
(set stillsearchering 1)
(if (= (vehicle_test_seat_list ELEPHANT1 "seatname" (players)) 0)
(begin
(vehicle_load_magic ELEPHANT1 "seatname" (unit (list_get (players) number)))
(set stillsearchering 0)))
(if (= stillsearchering 1) (begin (if (= (vehicle_test_seat_list ELEPHANT1 "seatname" (players)) 0)
(begin
(vehicle_load_magic ELEPHANT "seatname" (unit (list_get (players) number)))
(set stillsearchering 0)))

(set number (+ number 1))
(if (= (> number 15) 1) (set number 0))
))))) [who knows how many there should be by now.. you should have alot more off the above for all seats aswell]


so, ya.. that script is very incomplete since im half a sleep, and not counting ()s, but thats the basic idea.. im also to lazy to explain it right now..

ok so you have "spawn points" which are actally invisible vehicles attached to the elephant, so when people spawn, they are automatically put into the vehicle, then ejected? wow..... brilliance.
edit: you cant tell who is on what team though, can you?
Edited by Donut on Aug 27, 2008 at 02:10 AM

There is one problem with that script though. You can't check for a player's death. The reason is because when a player dies the indexes in the (players) list shift depending on what that player's index was. As in, when player "2" dies, player "3" immediately becomes player "2" until he respawns, so that means that testing for player "2"'s health will never return "0" or "-1".

As an example, this is why the backpack weapons script always had the weapon remain on the dead body, because there was no way to test for a death. For that same reason, there was also no way to change the properties of a dead player.

thaaaaats why... every time i play snowgrove and die (which is alot >:|) im always thinking to myself "why doesnt the perm just switch back to the not backpack weapon one?"