experimental gameplay object

experimental gameplay object, compare to testitems and asteroids

Description:these are solid to projectiles and will either absorb or bounce them away. These objects cannot be touched by ships. These objects have movement and velocity and pos just like asteroids and testitems. the only difference is that your ship can't touch them.

called experimental because their prescense would alter the gameplay of maps. they add a completely new dimension to the gameplay

the main purpose of this object is to be a gameplay experiment. Bitfighter has ZERO objects that do not interact with ships, but still absorb weapons.

I didn't make any, I've played a (different!) game with these on Mac Os 9. Old games are seemingly all I play

What would stop your ship from touching these objects?

What do you think these objects would look like?

[Skybax]

He's talking about an anti-weapon zone. This could probably be done with a levelgen. Basically it's a place where a ship can exist and weapon-fire can't.

evidently my point was missed ;D


1. moving object that cannot physically touch ships
maybe we should start with this

[Skybax]

Zones can move...

basicly one way walls?

OK

If you could drive over testitems, that is SHARING THE SAME SPACE
but inside the testitem all your shots would blow up

so i guess SORT of like a zone.

You didn't answer my questions...

- How would you physically prevent players from contacting with the object? Would it be smart enough to actively dodge ships or something?

Or do you mean that the object can touch players, but its movement is not affected by a player? Like a really heavy testitem.

- What would it look like? A little drawing could be really helpful here.

[Skybax]

Sky_lark, he's talking about an object (like a testitem) that your ship can fly through, but your shots can not.

Sky_lark, he's talking about an object (like a testitem) that your ship can fly through, but your shots can not.

Bingo!

[Skybax]

I already know zones can be made that have these properties by using a levelgen, but I'm unsure of how fluid it would be if you tried to get them to move around freely. I'm guessing you'd want them to react to being shot, as in, move like a testitem?

The very thought of doing it in levelgen sounds like a nightmare. Better to edit the source code..

Skybax > not necessarily. You might want it to be a special property that can be placed on objects (at first), the whole not touching ships but still taking damage thing.

If this property (what we're really talking ) was on asteroids, for example, you would still shoot asteroids, but they couldn't touch you if you fly in them. HOWEVER, trying to shoot other players through an asteroid field would become hard fast. It's THE way I'm envisioning will solve the "open areas boring", as it were.



the reason I'm switching from experimental object to experimental property is that as a property, you could easily mass test it on all kinds of existing objects. (in the end I would expect this property to become a new type of object )

I already know zones can be made that have these properties by using a levelgen, but I'm unsure of how fluid it would be if you tried to get them to move around freely. I'm guessing you'd want them to react to being shot, as in, move like a testitem?

It would be fairly easy (if bullet:getLoc() is on zone, then removeFromGame(bullet))

Ahh so kind of like a roving shield. Get inside and you're safe, so long as you can keep up.

There might be an interesting King of the Hill game mode mechanic to be explored there.

ghost items good idea i have thought about this a time or two myself.

Ahh so kind of like a roving shield. Get inside and you're safe, so long as you can keep up.

There might be an interesting King of the Hill game mode mechanic to be explored there.

actually, Yeah!

uh isnt there already rabbit and can it be for all items like turrets walls cores ect ?