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FPSC Classic Feature Creep / New FPI-FPE changing commands

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Gears of War
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Posted: 29th Sep 2009 16:29
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How many of you have wanted to to create a scene that works by changing a static entity to a dynamic entity? Why not have a scripting command that does just that? The potential for awesome set pieces is endless. For example, say the player is walking across a long wooden bridge over a huge canyon. As the player gets to the middle, the plank he is stepping on falls out beneath him and he plummets down to the ground below while the rest of the bridge is destroyed.

Just think about it

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Alt Schule
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Posted: 29th Sep 2009 18:02
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Interesting suggestion, to be sure.

Due to static entities being calculated into the building of the level, prior to gameplay, I'm not sure if the engine would be able to handle swapping static for dynamic on the fly.


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Coach Shogun 20
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Posted: 30th Sep 2009 00:25
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Quote: "Due to static entities being calculated into the building of the level, prior to gameplay, I'm not sure if the engine would be able to handle swapping static for dynamic on the fly."


That's what I thought, but you could swap it from immobile to mobile, and keep it dynamic all the time.

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That would be impossible. Static objects become part of the level during compiling, and they wouldn't be able to change to dynamic without being dynamic.

And you can easily do your bridge idea with a little scripting. The non-interactive parts of the bridge can be set to static, and the planks that you want to break as the player steps on them would be dynamic


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AdrianoJones Wannabe
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Quote: "And you can easily do your bridge idea with a little scripting. The non-interactive parts of the bridge can be set to static, and the planks that you want to break as the player steps on them would be dynamic "


Yeah, I doubt it could change to dynamic on the fly, but you could possibly make it so that you build a bridge with a number of planks, some being dynamic and some not, and script it so that when the player steps on the planks in the middle it falls beneath it.
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Quote: "That would be impossible. Static objects become part of the level during compiling, and they wouldn't be able to change to dynamic without being dynamic. "

Hee Hee

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Make it dynamic and use that delete in zone script.


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Bigsnake
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Quote: "able to change to dynamic without being dynamic"


Thats confusing :s


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