WIP: SWBF BUILD v1 [LOCKED - New Topic]

[MileHighGuy]

WIP SWBF BUILD v1

this is a mod where you can dispense objects like in gmod

the map is just a big flat map just like gm_fltagrass

so far there is only one unit-if i can get some ideas for some more i can release a beta

UNITS

Crate Builder

Crate Dispenser
-Dispense A plain old crate

Large Crate Dispenser
-dispense a plain old large crate

Follow-Me Crate Dispenser
-Dispense a crate that follows you wherever you go!

Remover/Destroyer
-Remove/Destroy dispensed objects

Screenshots:
http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/milehighguy/ss_file-543aa745e75cb0560cb4c22588b5cd3a1e21246d.jpg
http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/milehighguy/ss_file-68760007a40654cf9c0f425dfb44e25993e7875d.jpg

Videos
http://www.xfire.com/video/d4f34/ < follow-me crate dispenser
http://www.xfire.com/video/d4b58/ <crate dispenser

Please post ideas about the map,units, and weapons!

[aeria.]

Haha, that's pretty cool to have it follow you. (gives me hostage idea, goes into Windows to figure that out)

[Breakdown]

Lol, the boxes moving around thing happened to me once with recon droids while modding, looks cool!

[Jedikiller]

Looks nice, looking forward to it!

[Radical_Pi]

lol awesome boxes

[attekiller]

haha this should turn out pretty interesting. Good luck with it!

[MileHighGuy]

thanks for the positive feedback!

but i need your helP! 

tell  me some of your ideas for the map and sides! i want this to be community involved!

[Radical_Pi]

I'd love to see something where a person starts crawling around the map under a crate

[Unit 33]

Hey, it would be useful for the zombie mod, the boxes kinda work as barricades.

[Napseeker]

Wait - MHG, before you get too far into this project....  I don't know if you are aware of this already but I did a dispensible object experiment quite some time ago (as part of the JvC release) and while fun, any map that relies on this feature will simply crash in multiplayer AFAIK.   Also in my SP maps I don't believe I've ever seen any AI bot use the dispense feature for itself so basically it relegates any maps to SP only and human gamer usage only.

If that's what you want, then that's fine but if you didn't know about this already, I wanted to warn you before you invest too much time in the idea.  I'd at least suggest running your map in MP for yourself before progressing any further.

[Radical_Pi]

Possible fix for nap's issue: make the memory pool huge for the dispenser

[MileHighGuy]

thanks, nap, i will test it online. and to the_pi i already have the droid memorypool to 999

[Satellite]

Possibility for it crashing in multiplayer: It probably crashes in multiplayer because props are loaded with the level, so when a new prop is created there is no way to "refresh" the list of present props, causing the all the copies of the game which are running that session to go out of sync and crash.

[Radical_Pi]

What if you created the boxes as a never-die ordinance? That might stop it

[MileHighGuy]

they arent even props so that is unlikely satellite, they are modified remote droids

Edit: ok i have tested this online and the follow-me crate dispensers crash it but all the other non-moving objects i was able to dispense and not crash so ill probobly be making a multiplayer version and i single player version if what i say proves to be correct in further testing