darkcosmos on 28/2/2005 at 17:35
Well, you can definitely give a rope mesh the property of a ladder, and GArrett will climb it. It does look pretty hokey, especially when he steps up off the top of it, but it's not too bad in first-person view.
Aside from the static meshes, there is one piece of rope listed in the Actor Browser, under "Set Dressings" I think...
Mortal Monkey on 28/2/2005 at 17:46
See if you can make anything of Condition > Objects > When my object contacts the ground and Action > Objects > Spawn object type at end of [LinkFlavor] at my location plus X=[Float] Y=[Float] Z=[Float], inheriting all my links.
LordK2002 on 28/2/2005 at 18:53
Quote Posted by rujuro
There's a rope arrow sound too (it's listed anyway), I wonder if there might be a way to create a hack that would work. For example a script that spawns an actor with the static mesh for a rope at the position of the arrow upon impact. It wouldn't have any cool swing, and Garret's animations would look pretty hokey, but it might work?
Perhaps there is a way to make the Garrett mesh invisible, so that animations are no longer a problem (back to the "floating head" of T1/2).
This would of course make 3rd person a bit daft, but who cares?
New Horizon on 28/2/2005 at 19:04
Quote Posted by LordK2002
This would of course make 3rd person a bit daft, but who cares?
Hey, if it can add a bit more functionality into the game I say go for it. The only thing I would be concerned with is the lightgem. From what I understand, it gets the light readings from the Garrett model. Perhaps I misunderstood that.
At any rate, if we were able to just get a set of hands in there with the appropriate animations, you could probably save a bit on performance as well. You would also have better character control. Hell, if it's possible you could get old school leaning back in too.
Mortal Monkey on 28/2/2005 at 19:06
You could get them back in, yes... but without UScript, you'd have to put the scripts into every level you want them to work in. Not a lot of work, but a lot of MB for others to download.
