Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce;

You can do deformable sprites in CC.

Get your wound emitter, and add a flash to it. The flash sprite is a 3x3 null - as in, a 3x3 block of neon pink. For some reason CC not only doesn't render the flash, BUT DOES NOT RENDER ANYTHING UNDERNEATH IT.

As long as the emitter sprite is smaller than the flash, and as long as the emitter emits, (and it can emit unlimited amounts of invisible lifetime = 0 MOPixels for all I care), that part of the sprite IE the part that was shot is effectively gone.

The reason I suggest 3x3 is that anything smaller tends not to show up so well.

This will be included in my next mod, which also has an attached self-aiming turret.

Would that not result in invisible actors?

Also, nice find.

You could use it FOR invisible actors by using a gun with a large invisible flash. But no, actors with this type of deforming wound would not become invisible, because the actor is still there. When a bullet hits part of the actor which is apparently gone, you would expect it to go further into the actor. But in fact it will hit the outside like the one before it, because the sprite is not actually deformed, it just appears so. And by the time an actor has been shot that many times it's probably dead anyway.

Hey that's pretty awesome.
Great find.

Oh so THAT's why that happens! I learned about while fiddling around in earlier versions and figured the game was glitching or something. Nice find. It's a shame that the deformability is only visual, cause that really kind of limits the usefulness of this.

So... cloaking device? Something like that would be amazingly awesome. Also, screeny would be nice.

Cloaking device probably the easiest and most obvious thing to make with this, and here is a screeny from the mod I was talking about.

It's been shot a bit, hence the holes.

cool, and the sprite that is shooting is cool too. what is that? looks like the darklone color scheme but I dont remember seeing it in there... Is it yours? very cool

It's one of the laser guns from DarkloneTech.

that is pretty cool. And if someone didn't know about it, by the time the bullets stopped appearing to make an impact the actor would die.

Great stuff, I'll probably make my own BF2142 camouflage tool now.
Unreleased forever.

Pretty old topic, but still good nonetheless.

I'm very sorry for the bump again, but will this work with muzzleflashes aswell?

Hey, this is cool! Neato bump.
Also, why don't you try it, but I can't see the point

this could be very cool.
also i think he means for an active camo device, so while you hold it it vanishes you.
active camo wont work against the AI though.

Despite my long absence I have returned, and have a comment. 1 comment.


create an attatchable with a glow effect on it, in neonpink, of the exact same size/shape of the part it attatches to

So for the head, create a null-attatchable, and on the attatchable, make a head-shaped neon pink glow, with black (the glow null) where it ISN'T invisible (This way, its not a walking cloud of making everything near it invisible)

do that to every body part and you have an automatically invisible unit.

Furthermore, you could have stealth field generators, by having an object emit very LARGE null glows.

in addition to that, glows aren't indexed, because its like a colored alpha chanel, meaning you could have solid neon pink for 100% invisibility, and say, 75% pink, 25% of black to get a 75% invisible thing.
(In theory)

and if that doesn't work 100% of the way, now that we have lua, we can tweek it the last little bit.