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[thudo]

Every building will need some sort of animation for the following phase of its life:

Pre_Construction
Being_Constructed
Idle
Build_Unit
Build_Research
Build_Addon
Attack (if applicable)
Use_Ability (if applicable)
1/3rd Damage (if applicable)
2/3rd Damage (if applicable)
Destruction (if applicable)

Any ideas people have please send them up!

The Key is we have this, the Dropship:


But I haven't figured out should it be used during the construction of buildings OR bringing supplies down to already constructed buildings when things like units are being constructed.

[TheGuardman]

in our original proposals, the dropship is used to bring the structures down to the ground. However, it should have some visible cargo space, because it can't hover... Basically the ship come at high speed from a descending angle, activate the retro-truster and drop the pakage. The pakaged base fly down using support rockets, while the ship continue, slower, to angle upper and upper until it's near vertical... At that point the main reactor activate and the ship go out of sight, like a space missile.

[thudo]

Err.. that almost exactly sounds like the Ork Building drop animation except the "base package" comes down slowly on rockets while the Dropship ascends slowly out of view.

[TheGuardman]

yeah, something along the ork line. Whit lot of fire, smoke and rokets!

The same dropship was also proposed in the last version (the one whit officers spawning units) to drop tanks (the Valkire instead was intended for infantries).

[thudo]

That seems like a lot of anims and an OE nightmare -- something this team doesn't remotely have the energy to pull off if they couldn't even get the basic buildings sorted for 3+ years.

[thudo]

Actually I think you mean this:



This is from the actual HRM plan Fneep showed me.. I also have other stuff now to make HRM move along in the conceptual side.

[TheGuardman]

Actually I think you mean this:



This is from the actual HRM plan Fneep showed me.. I also have other stuff now to make HRM move along in the conceptual side.

actually that was a very old project, maybe the first one. Lemme do a sketch of one of our other idea...

[thudo]

Yes plez! Thanks Dr. G.