I'm thinking of having a bridge, which would be a major shortcut for players in my map. when a C4 detonation goes off on the bridge, a script will detect it and switch the BSP for all players for the BSP with a destroyed bridge.

For players joining the game after the "explosion": There will be very simple vehicle, as basic as possible which I will use as a global. That vehicle will be created and spawned into a portal when the bridge is "destroyed" The script will check for them (at the beginning of the game) whether or not the invisible vehicle exists in the specific portal. If so, it will switch BSP for them.

Comments, suggestions, criticisms about the idea, the script, etc.?

Sounds clever but i dont do anything involving scripts. In my head, it seems to work but idk.

Have a scripted falling apart of a mountain like in Crysis! That was one of the cool things in that game was watching that mountain just break up

I think it would lag alot , no?

u can make a material in the bsp to be breakable then in kornman u can modifie how much damage it can take until it blows up

Eh, Probably, but if it was done as some kind of cutscene and once you got into gameplay most of it was done (like what they did in Crysis), it may not be all completely horrible. But it doesn't matter anyway, no one in their right mind would probably try to do this with halo. WAAAAAAY too much work with no guarantee of success.

It can be done. HaloGuru did it in a map he showed me like 2 years ago Lmao.

Why would it lag a lot?
A simple BSP switch wouldn't lag, if it only occurred once.

Edit: I thought about this and I concluded that the BSP switch would work better than a destructible scenery element.

Here's how it would work:

Every player's map would have that vehicle global that it searches for at the beginning of their session (as I explained before). Since vehicles existence is one of the few things sent from the server to the clients.

Now, for the rest:
when a c4 is dropped, it spawns a c4 projectile. I would make the c4 projectile a global object definition. a script would look for that object definition inside a trigger volume for the bridge area. It would check regularly as little as possible...about every 9 or 10 seconds. As soon as it detects the projectile, it will check every half second for an item spawned after the c4 explosion. This will help sync the BSP switch with the c4 explosion as close as possible. I'm not sure which item I'll use, but I might just use another vehicle global, or something similar.
Edited by ShadowFox0809 on Jun 14, 2010 at 12:25 PM

Just make it a device.

Though, there is no way this would ever sync by just swithcing the bsp or using a device, becuase the when a new client joins, the script wouldn't be running the same for him, and he'd have a regular bridge.

I think he already noticed....

This idea should work if you can implement it properly. Thing is, what happens to players standing on bridge when destroyed. Will you have large explosion effects all over the bridge. Otherwise the player will look dumb by just falling because the ground dissapeared.

Why not just have it a destructible vehicle that doesn't respawn.

This.

I don't think different BSPs sync in multiplayer.

Because we don't want people flipping bridges...

Meh, I'll think about it later.

Isn't there a checkbox to prevent flipping?

yeah. its called "dead" lol

Bsps DO sync in multiplayer. Try doing the MP a10 and going to a bsp the host isn't at (you can't, or if you do, you fall) the client should be fine as long as the scripts distinguish between server and player.
Edited by Dwood on Jun 15, 2010 at 12:11 AM

it should be liek this here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvyEly10bEY