So I have heard many people thinking of putting in an engineer, normally they talked about it dropping an over shield for the chief or just exploding, but I had a though of how to replicate its shield reviving ability.

After you take a modeled an animated engineer you give it an attack.

this attack would shoot out an invisible projectile that would explode immediately.

The explosion would not have any visible detail or sound.

Rather the damage will deal "negative" damage to shields, thus healing them.

From there it is simply a decision of how large the blast is, how frequent and how strong it is.

From there you would have to make sure of a few things, such as the enemies shields could not go above maximum, or you would have some quite strong enemies even after the Engineer was dead, and the engineer wouldn't be able to have shields or it would constantly heal itself, making it impossible to kill.

Though I suppose you could give the engineer a jackal-esqe shield that encircles it...

the only problem with that is that there is no limit to shields when negative damage is applied. which means, if you keep standing next to it, after a while you will have 9000+ shields, and so be virtually indestructible.
Edited by Koo294 on Nov 22, 2009 at 03:44 PM

I talked about that, so you would probably have to access the tags shields and change them so that you add perimeters for how high they can go.

I was trying to think of a way for it to only affect enemies, or only affect allies, but so far I have no idea, unless there is a way in singleplayer to make some explosions anti-friendly fire.

you can't.

Hmm...

How does the oversheild stop then? Does it simply heal a certain amount told before hand?

yep.

Then how does it equate if you grab it before your health has regenerated?

That could be fixed by the person scripting encounters or what not. Make the Engineer constantly move to reach a certain point. Also, you could have the engineer's neg damage to extremely miniscule, such as -.01 and crap.

But were it just -.01 it wouldn't make a difference, maybe scripting a way for it to deal damage, but no more than to any single enemy...

it heals to a certain amount, like you said. I t doesn't matter how much health/shield you have originally.

Could you then possibly make the "attack" heal to a certain amount equal to the over shield amount?

I don't think so because the amount the overshield regenerates is hard coded into the game engine and can't be changed.

you could script it so it is constantly checking your shield and if it gets to *number* it stops recharging or creates a normal damage effect to stop the recharge

That's good, but wait? can an attacker do that?

Hmm... to get them to heal allies seems to be a stretch alone.