I believe the Hunters anti-vehicle defense abilities should be improved through various animations and such.

One animation move would be if a Warthog was barreling towards a Hunter at a considerable to fast speed the Hunter would thrust it's shield right into the Hog to either stop it on it's tracks or perhaps flip it. That, or it could just shoot it's fuel rod cannon right under the wheels to flip it.

Another animation move would be the unreleased Brute animation in which a Brute would grab the side of a non-moving Warthog and would then flip it. Too bad that was cut in the final build of Halo 3 (or at least I think it was).

Just wondering here. Will there be new weapons in this single player? I mean it a new world therefore. Will there be more weapons beside the H1 weapons?

The hog thing is definitely a good idea. Perhaps for all vehicles. One could do this with scripts, secondary triggers, or just melee damage.

The point of the project is mainly to use Halo 1 tags and content, so no new weapons.

No new weapons but you can count on seeing a few new enemies and vehicles.

So no new weapons ok. But new enemies and few new vehicles that great news. I'm not going to ask about the new things. Because I don't spoil anything else that havesn't revealed.

Animations wont allow such things, its just animations, nothing physical involved.

I'm sorry, but why wouldn't the animations I suggested work in the game?

Wouldn't it already have the physical properties to perform such a move?

There's no condition detecting whether a vehicle was heading towards the AI.

Uh, what? They do barrel rolls when a vehicle is getting ready to run them over, so there is some sort of connection there.

The connection is in actor tag, I believe, for dodging immediate threats, with immediate threats being grenades or barreling vehicles.

Also, what about Banshees and Fuel Rods? I'm positive by default they don't shoot fuel rods at infantry, but only at vehicles.

For vehicles, secondary weapons are nearly always used against other vehicles. I don't know if it's the same when they're not in a vehicle, i'd presume so.

AI inside vehicles use the actor variant specified inside the .weapon. They also aren't limited to shooting only at vehicles. I believe I have a video of a banshee firing a fuel rod at a marine, if you don't believe me.

This happens a lot on SP if your on foot like on b40.

But from the ai on my map, i have only ever seen them use secondary against vehicles, so it must be that it does use against infantry but rarely.

Just went through the actor variant tag referenced in the weapon tag. There is no parameter for firing at a vehicle, but the most influential conditions are:
-Enemy visible
-Enemy out of sight
-Strafing
That, coupled with the special case firing parameter could fire so rarely that it usually only hits vehicles, which would make you think that it only fires against vehicles. There is no parameter to make it fire exclusively against vehicles.

The thing is, it's not rare. I fly me LAAT, gunner sees a vehicle, uses secondary trigger at it. Never against infantry though. I have it set to enemy visible.
Edited by Koo294 on Jul 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM

AI see vehicles much more readily than infantry. The point is, you guys can believe whatever false assumptions you want, BUT THERE IS NO SECONDARY CONDITION AGAINST VEHICLES ONLY.

Never said there was, just pointing out it was used more against vehicles.

Oh yeah. I knew that.
What about making a hunter panic mode? Unopposable-panic can be triggered by vehicles. Use a panic animation.
Or just script so hat when vehicles are near the hunter, he does an animation/animation-mode-via-command-list.

Panic tends to represent "panic", like grunts running AWAY from you.

As for a custom animation that flips the hog, it could be done by portable trigger volumes and an effect to cause the hog to flip, but it's not worth the while.

Panicking isn't used by the hunters, and it doesn't need to look like panic. Just set the panic time really low. And make panic bezerk them.
The 'effect' could probably work. The only 'work' is really the making of a portable trigger, and adding a hog marker. *Worth it
EDIT: oh. And the animation. Whatever.
Edited by SlappyThePirate on Jul 27, 2010 at 12:13 PM

When can we expect to see another vidoc release?

After were done with TMC_A.

Which please mind, is getting closer and closer everyday.

so is death

LMAO,

So is there a TMC_B-Z?

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