Thanks, I'm full of ideas for this game :P

Anyway I have no idea what the script would look like...and what I meant at the end was that if the attacking team hasn't destroyed all the generators then the defending team would win...just like in the real game...

I'll explain better if someone still doesn't get it but I'm in a hurry right now...(woot...freshmen year....agian....)

(In this example, assume blue is defending generators)
Have the flags where nobody can get them. Because they have navpoints on them, I suggest you put them under generators.
Script for team navpoints: red team has navs on the two generators the don't have the flag under them. Same for blue, but with the red flag.
That's the script for navpoints.

Then, you need a team-finding script. I suggest you use mine, where you have red team spawn points have trigger volumes over them.

Once a generator is destroyed, teleport a spawned red player to the blue flag, and then to the red flag, and back to the blue flag (because it might be on assault gametype), and then back to a spawn point.

Once the game timer is over, teleport a spawned blue player to the red flag, and then to the blue flag, and back to the red flag (because it might be on assault gametype), and then back to a spawn point.

that sounds really complicated yet really simple. and a little retarded. lol.

I'll bet you do feel a little retarded.
oooooooh!

i said a little retarded because i pictured someone teleporting back and forth. but then i realized that it would happen instantly. gosh you don't have to be so defensive. i wasn't attacking your idea. i was more like poking fun at it. it's a great idea actually.

yea that would be nice.

ok then how about a vehicle that turns invincible when entered then it kicks out the driver at 30 sec.

A system of who's looking at who with what weapon and what triggers. Grenades didn't work and there could be plenty of glitches.

yea that who's looking at who is what marines use to trigger the "can you point that somewhere else?" speech.

No it isn't. Dialog uses a separate system.

then how do they know ur looking at them? and maybe you could... nvr mind it was stupid.

It's coded into the engine. Though he was checking who was looking at it, he did so by scripts rather than the engine's dialog base.

:P when its destroyed u could have a scripted effect that plays the sound Generator has been destroyed

very nice yes very nice

fail image?

what about a trigger around the generator and then have a script that gets the players name when the generator is destroyed? would that work?

uh... wha?

Just have a vehicle that takes damage and is destructible. When it dies, certain team gets a point, and then the characters switch sides. I remember chrisk something was telling me this was all possible; He got the entire script set up for me at one point but we never went and tested it.

Thats what i was thinking but destructable vehicles dont sync. there health dosnt any way. like you could join shoot a rocket at the Generator then 5 mins later a new guy comes in and shoots a rocket too but on his screen the Generator still has full health but on your has half and blows up.

i got the vehic sync script from hugeass\coldsnap\zteam h2 sancturay so i think it will work

Yes, do this. And use biped squish. It's the only real way.
As for being able to tell who destroyed the generator, I don't think there's any real way. I never tried my script with rockets.

wat about the trigger idea? no one told me if that would work.

o.O its grunts

anyways grunts is right they can snipe it across the map alot

I would like a map with that deing the players biped o.o

lol that's a good idea but yea i wouldn't wanna be a generator lol.

What if you have only one or two players in the server, as is custom these days?

Players being the generator...
Vehicle positions sync right? Then why not just make the generator teleport under the map...
A script would check if it was destroyed and then keep it under the map...so if a new player joins it simply wouldn't be there to shoot at...

Ps. I'm working on the generator model.

Bleh...just did a LAN test on a bloodgulch mutation...
Vehicle health seems to sync, but the status of the health is only displayed for the host...destroyed permutation of the vehicle is there if new player joins...
I don't know if this is just on LAN but this means the generator can be set to single spawn...
The script mentioned above should still be used as backup.

Edited by Torih315 on Sep 5, 2010 at 03:31 AM
Edited by Torih315 on Sep 5, 2010 at 04:13 AM

Just brainstorming :p
...There is a bunch of ways to do it, I'm simply stating the ones that would work most efficiently and are easier to get in game.

this.

The easiest way to sync it, and the easiest way to do it is to use a biped crush script.

biped crush? what's that?

If biped is dead, then something works. It's a script that detects biped health I think.

well that wouldn't help the "who destroyed the generator?" dilemma. unless you can get the players name from a projectile.

No. It's a way to sync booleans over the internet. Normal variables aren't transferred to joining players. Biped health doesn't sync either, unless all the players were in the game initially. In order to sync this, if the host teleports a vehicle over a biped, the biped would die. On client computeres, the biped would also be dead, because vehicle positions sync.

yea that's perfect. but wat about the "who destroyed what" thing?