I'm back in school on the 24th.

so your saying that you made a new encounter for every wave? better if you made a new squad for each wave and only the replacement encounter should be a different one....

PS. Im back. >:D

gwa!

my internet was down for the last 2 weeks. Longest time since last year that iv'e signed in. D:

You can't do that for the way I want it. I want a different number of points awarded for each different wave, and each different wave has different spawn areas, different personalities.

^this. I dont see why squads wouldn't work. Im using squads for my zombie map.
and my point work perfectly. All i got to get is a new bsp and to get my control panels to work. D: [ (=, (, etc. ) just dont want to work with me D:
be glad that your not using control panels. to initiate stuff. and a menu instead. D:

I have some useless ideas for laughs.

- Grunt Allegiance - Grunts turn against covenant and side with you. Somewhat useful. It's a distraction.

- Flood Buddies - Flood come in and attack the covies. They're not allies though, they just focus on enemies. This one might be useful too.

- Midgets Galore - All current enemies get shrunk half their size.

- Spaz Attack - all current enemies go into spaz mode (a.k.a unit_set_seat to "flaming"). It's the same animations they play when they're stuck with a nade. But, picture that going on constantly. Without the nade.

- Flame On - spawn all enemies with flamethrowers

- Suicide Bombers - enemies randomly explode one by one at different intervals.

Because it's easier to exploit encounters.



Thanks for your ideas. The 3 that I singled out are ones that I'm going to pursue.

Never mind, I got how to spawn just squads. However, I'm not going to. Why? With 1747 lines of unoptimized scripts, I don't want to re-write it for such a trivial thing. It's not worth it. Call me stubborn if you wish, but until you yourself create something on this scale, you'll realize why you need separate encounters.
Edited by Gamma927 on Aug 13, 2009 at 05:54 PM

Each wave is designated by an encounter, instead of a squad for every encounter. I could do it by squad instead of by encounter, but for encounter, it's a simple matter of clicking "Duplicate", changing difficulty, AI, and name. It also makes it easier on my scripts. For example, I could just do (ai_actors [AI]) instead of (ai_actors AI]/[SQUAD]).

It allows the freedom to set each wave's settings entirely different than the others. Not that it's needed in this map, but if you wanted to you could make one wave set to the flood team and the other covenant. You could make one wave respawn somewhat while the others don't. Etc.

With each wave being a squad, all of those settings would have to be done through scripting for each wave.

And besides, my unfinished SP map had 987 lines of scripting from scratch so far, and I can't imagine having to rewrite all of that. Same thing goes for him, except he's got 1747....
Edited by Me KS on Aug 13, 2009 at 06:39 PM

1551.

I've optimized the barricades scripts. Cut off 75 or so lines.

I AM on Modacity. I rarely post, so you probably won't find me :P

I'll post when I'm further along / done.

Make a modified version of this, where enemies explode randomly apon death.

Or you could try some of Halo 3's skulls as extras. For example:

Black Eye: Restore your shields with melee attacks

Tough Luck: Enemies always jump away from grenades

Catch: Enemies basically spam you with grenades

Fog: Your motion tracker disappears

Tilt: All enemies' health is doubled

Thunderstorm: All enemies spawn at a rank one level higher than normal

Famine: All guns start with half the usual ammuntion

Blind: Your HUD disappears


Or, some of my ideas:

All enemies are invisible.

All enemies have Grunt voices.

All spawned Marines have half health.

All spawned Marines are now enemies.

This song constantly plays:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPG1QjaWkbk

Why would you spawn marines if they would be enemies?

Alright, so I've done some work over the last few hours, and I don't really remember what I changed. So I'll put it this way. L28, when you get back from vacation, expect a full beta.

I've completed all scripts for your pause menu, EXCEPT the Spartan III, because it exceptions for some reason. Error is:

08.14.09 09:06:27 EAX: 0x0012DB78
08.14.09 09:06:27 EBX: 0x00000001
08.14.09 09:06:27 ECX: 0x0E0C4A68
08.14.09 09:06:27 EDX: 0x00000000
08.14.09 09:06:27 EDI: 0x0012D560
08.14.09 09:06:27 ESI: 0x00000000
08.14.09 09:06:27 EBP: 0x0012D438
08.14.09 09:06:27 ESP: 0x0012D428
08.14.09 09:06:27 EIP: 0x76F56524, C3 8D A4 24 ?????
08.14.09 09:06:28 EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\rasterizer\dx9\rasterizer_dx9_models.c,#2632: shader->base.type==_shader_type_model

Where are shaders for camouflage specified?

And the sniper in the beta I'm sending you is a placeholder until Broke animates aklass' sniper.

What?

Where is my cake?

>:(

Camouflage. That's what sets Spartan IIIs aparts from Spartan IIs.

I'll keep him visible for the beta I'm sending you unless I fix the problem.
Edited by Gamma927 on Aug 14, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Plus the fact that they do not have shields.

So at what point in time may we procure this beta?

Very private betas as of now. I don't know whether I'm giving out public betas just yet.

Keep them private.

They won't see them, UNLESS I script them to. And what tag would I open to find the script name for the SIII? The one you gave me doesn't work :C

I like this idea.

The last compilation of the map (15 seconds ago) says that we have 2.30M free for tags. So if you want it, convert it, send it to me, and if it doesn't burn out the tagspace that I have left and don't have anything to use it for, I'll add it in.

Yeah, I'm stupid like that.

Could I perhaps procure one of those, as you said, very private demos,

I promise I won't tell anyone!

http://www.xfire.com/video/1107b9/

I hope we won't have problems with people complaining that Spartan IIIs aren't worth the money.
Edited by Gamma927 on Aug 14, 2009 at 05:56 PM

Why does it have shields? and where is the camo >:V

Do you not read?

I meant where the tag is referenced :C

Or just make the actors invisible.

That's what I did. At first, I just checked "Active Camouflage", but it exceptioned. Then, I set it to "Super Active Camouflage" as well, but it still doesn't work.