I downloaded the tags for the Elephant, but it seems to be in need of a few adjustments.

Changes:
•Super Heavy: Should be almost impossible to flip.
•Driver Animations: Can you make it so the pilot just stands in the cab?
•Improved Armor: I'd like it to have the same armor as the Pelican, capable of deflecting rounds as they impact.
•Less susceptible to damage.
•Glass that can be penetrated by sniper rounds and other heavy weapons.
•Camera angle set farther back and lowered, more like Halo 3.
*If you can make a seperate, amphibious variant capable of travelling through water, it would be greatly appreciated.*

Would anyone be willing to lend a hand?
Edited by Echo77 on Mar 6, 2011 at 09:04 PM

1: Impossible, it's either flippable or not.
2: That's probably for the best anyway, unless you plan on making new animations.
3: Shaders
4: Uh...?
5: Set up the shader to be something other than Pelican armor
6: Would only require a bit of editing to make it work.

Shaders have nothing to do with damage intake.

3. didn't refer to shaders

Shaders can determine whether projectiles pass through it or not.

@ally
I'm fairly certain shader tags are what determines what kind of surface an object has; for instance one specifies to reflect projectiles, which was what I was referencing.
Edited by General Shepherd on Mar 6, 2011 at 08:14 PM

i'm not great with shaders,but i had a vague idea what you were talking about,
i just had a look and i see exactly what you ment.

For the glass thing, you would probably need to use regional damage permutations. However I am not sure if that syncs on multiplayer. I know you can do it in singleplayer.

I got it. Set the window to have no collision.

If I had to choose no collision or regional damage, I'd choose the regional damage. Breakable glass has nave synced in multiplayer anyway.

Unpossible. i plan to:
1 - make a new big back turret liek in halo wars

2 - fix the 3rd person cam

3 - try to make new physics

4 - Fix the passenger and driver nodes

Collision type isn't set in the shader, there's an option for it IDK why, but for you to get the effect you need to change it in the model_collision_geometry.

Nope, only for BSP's. For objects like vehicles and weapons, it's in the collision tag.

id like to see a second turret on the elephant, otherwise it's just a giant, slow-arse hog.

im guessing its not possible to put a flag position on the elephant, ive never seen a ce map that has a mobile flag position, but if it is, that would be great, it would add another dimension to which ever map it was on as long as the GT was flag.

i also think the elephant should be designed so that the occupants can only be killed with direct fire, not from enemies shooting the actual vehicle, so, impenetrable armour. this would work because of the open design of the elephant, unlike the scarab where the driver is hidden inside and almost friggin impossible to kill.

i love the elephant, i think it works and runs great, its a credit to the designers, i just think it should have some unique functional characteristics otherwise i cant see it getting used in-game that often because it doesnt really have any advantages, only disadvantages.

That's possible, I'm pretty sure.