Suggestion for hardpoints
#1 Guest_Guest_*
Posted 17 March 2008 - 02:15 AM
If, as Phoenix suggested, you could make hardpoints destroyable but not targetable, then how about making specific types of hardpoints targetable? For example, you could tell a particular unit to fire on a ship's laser cannons without making each individual cannon targetable. This way you could take out specific weapons, depending on which ones would best be destroyed given your situation, but the ships would still retain their canonical armaments and you wouldn't simply see a whole bunch of green when you select a unit.
#3 Guest_Guest_*
Posted 17 March 2008 - 10:48 PM
Maybe have a set of Hardpoint icons on the ship, each one representing a specific type of weapon, but not any hardpoint in particular, this way when you tell a ship to fire on, say, the laser cannons, a ship's laser cannons will be the weapons that take damage, but you won't be able to target any one bank, allowing you to focus your fire on what would benefit you at the moment, but not giving units like bombers an unfair advantage.I don't think engine allows this. Unless, of course, you have an idea how to overcome this...
#5 Guest_StormReavan_*
Posted 19 March 2008 - 02:05 PM
#6
Posted 19 March 2008 - 09:40 PM
It's impossible. In files when you design hardpoint, you attach it to particular bone, give it health and offensive capabilities. If it's targettable, it's destruction can only cause this one particular hardpoint to be destroyed.Maybe have a set of Hardpoint icons on the ship, each one representing a specific type of weapon, but not any hardpoint in particular, this way when you tell a ship to fire on, say, the laser cannons, a ship's laser cannons will be the weapons that take damage, but you won't be able to target any one bank, allowing you to focus your fire on what would benefit you at the moment, but not giving units like bombers an unfair advantage.
Second proposed option (to make Hardpoints not targettable but destroyable) already exist in other thread about hardpoints
#7 Guest_Guest_*
Posted 20 March 2008 - 02:16 AM
Is there a way to make it so that the percentage health of the hardpoint represents the total health of every cannon, and then set the bone to be the entire ship? I remember reading in one of the topics about a glitch that caused ships to aim despite the lack of hardpoints. If that could be manipulated so that even though the hardpoint icon was selected, the ship might still aim at the actual hardpoints rather than the icon, it might be possible to create a believable effect and not have every gun explode even though a ship is firing on a single icon. Also, the fact that the icon would represent the total health would mean that it would be far more difficult to eliminate the selected weapon type than it was in the original EAW, making for a more balanced game.It's impossible. In files when you design hardpoint, you attach it to particular bone, give it health and offensive capabilities. If it's targettable, it's destruction can only cause this one particular hardpoint to be destroyed.Maybe have a set of Hardpoint icons on the ship, each one representing a specific type of weapon, but not any hardpoint in particular, this way when you tell a ship to fire on, say, the laser cannons, a ship's laser cannons will be the weapons that take damage, but you won't be able to target any one bank, allowing you to focus your fire on what would benefit you at the moment, but not giving units like bombers an unfair advantage.
Second proposed option (to make Hardpoints not targettable but destroyable) already exist in other thread about hardpoints
#8
Posted 03 April 2008 - 05:14 AM
#12
Posted 03 April 2008 - 07:27 PM
There is only so much we can do with the engine. And also, there is little evidence of canon ships shooting at hardpoints.
Dude. two words: DEATH STAR. If the rebels had attacked that thing outright, with scattered fire all over it, they'd have never won.
That is the one exception. However, it was the only case I can really find.
#15
Posted 03 April 2008 - 08:37 PM
That doesn't count. The Rebels did not destroyed any hardpoint on the ship, they destroyed the shield generator on the Endor moon and then destroyed the reactor. That's not attacking a hardpoint.
Except for the core?
There is only so much we can do with the engine. And also, there is little evidence of canon ships shooting at hardpoints.
Sure there is! A-wing shooting the shield generator of the SSD in episode 6, cannon fire destroying a turbolaser in episode 3, and let's not forget the most important part: that it's common tactical sense to target what happens to be destroying your ship at the time!
Edited by Clubby, 03 April 2008 - 08:42 PM.
#16
Posted 03 April 2008 - 08:53 PM
That doesn't count. The Rebels did not destroyed any hardpoint on the ship, they destroyed the shield generator on the Endor moon and then destroyed the reactor. That's not attacking a hardpoint.
Except for the core?There is only so much we can do with the engine. And also, there is little evidence of canon ships shooting at hardpoints.
Sure there is! A-wing shooting the shield generator of the SSD in episode 6, cannon fire destroying a turbolaser in episode 3, and let's not forget the most important part: that it's common tactical sense to target what happens to be destroying your ship at the time!
The core was almost a separate ship. It wasn't like picking off turbolaser batteries. Are you sure about the ROTJ example. Also, those aren't shield generators, they have the ship's sensors.
#18
Posted 04 April 2008 - 02:04 AM
okay, for all of you jackasses, I was talking about a new hope, and those ARE the shield generators. another good example would be that a-wing Kamakizing the Bridge of that SSD.That doesn't count. The Rebels did not destroyed any hardpoint on the ship, they destroyed the shield generator on the Endor moon and then destroyed the reactor. That's not attacking a hardpoint.
Except for the core?There is only so much we can do with the engine. And also, there is little evidence of canon ships shooting at hardpoints.
Sure there is! A-wing shooting the shield generator of the SSD in episode 6, cannon fire destroying a turbolaser in episode 3, and let's not forget the most important part: that it's common tactical sense to target what happens to be destroying your ship at the time!
The core was almost a separate ship. It wasn't like picking off turbolaser batteries. Are you sure about the ROTJ example. Also, those aren't shield generators, they have the ship's sensors.
#19
Posted 04 April 2008 - 04:35 AM
The core was almost a separate ship. It wasn't like picking off turbolaser batteries. Are you sure about the ROTJ example. Also, those aren't shield generators, they have the ship's sensors.
If your're talking about the ROTJ core, they STILL targeted hardpoints on the core! And even if they were sensors it's a moot point since those are still a hardpoint.
(pulls out shotgun and kills rabbit before trail continues)
Listen, obviously I'm not advocating having 5000 hardpoints on a SSD, that's ridiculous, but could it be possible for a battery of guns to be disabled when:
a. they take enough damage from the same direction. (or in the same general areas of the ship)
b. each hardpoint is disabled at the same time as a certain amount of health is eaten away by incoming fire. (turbolaser at 5% health, engines at 25%, etc)
I'm obviously not a programmer, so I suggest these ideas and see if somebody with a little better know how than me thinks it's possible.
#20
Posted 04 April 2008 - 01:13 PM
The core was almost a separate ship. It wasn't like picking off turbolaser batteries. Are you sure about the ROTJ example. Also, those aren't shield generators, they have the ship's sensors.
If your're talking about the ROTJ core, they STILL targeted hardpoints on the core! And even if they were sensors it's a moot point since those are still a hardpoint.
(pulls out shotgun and kills rabbit before trail continues)
Listen, obviously I'm not advocating having 5000 hardpoints on a SSD, that's ridiculous, but could it be possible for a battery of guns to be disabled when:
a. they take enough damage from the same direction. (or in the same general areas of the ship)
b. each hardpoint is disabled at the same time as a certain amount of health is eaten away by incoming fire. (turbolaser at 5% health, engines at 25%, etc)
I'm obviously not a programmer, so I suggest these ideas and see if somebody with a little better know how than me thinks it's possible.
I'm pretty sure that's impossible. This has been discussed before, and Phoenix is looking into it, but I think that it will be destroyable but not targetable.
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