I love this thing. It's a blast to use (literally), and I think the sprites look fine. In fact, I rather enjoy the aesthetic feel of the "static-y mess". Very nice job!

Could you make a small map/mission with a wide, open area and a few bunker targets to practice with?
EDIT: Also, EMP rounds.

I went and looked at the older versions of this to see if they would work any better than this one. I don't know how much this will help, but prototypes I, II, and III all work great once I remove the space at the end of this line in the ACRockit, so whatever you did in prototype IV broke it.

Prototype III was awesome though. It seemed kind of odd that the incendiary grenade launched straight up, especially since anyone who gets too close will be shredded by the engines anyway. It was a lot of fun trying to see what weapons would work well against it. I think the only ones I found were the Rotary Laser from Shadow Aspect and the Dummy Annihilator, although if you hit the tank just right with the Rocket Propelled Chainsaw(which ignores the shield) it kind of gets stuck in the tank for a few seconds and leaves an enormous number of dents, which was pretty funny to watch.

I've also been able to fix the problem of the main gun basically being melee range by changing this line in shell.lua
to
or



I was also able to record another lua error.

When I first buy a tank it throws the first error at least once every tick. I think when I started hitting number keys it stopped throwing the first error and started throwing the second one instead.

So what make it crash(not mac compatible) is importing data from ini files using lua?
download/file.php?id=37253
please try this and tell if those hotkeys work fine or not.

Based on your comments I tried to make it more mac compatible, please test this and tell me if it works.
download/file.php?id=37260

To customize the keys open Tank.lua and modify these lines:


You have a list of key numbers in keys.ini.

Mehman: Awesome, that seems to have fixed everything. I had to change the keys myself, but that's just because my Macbook doesn't have a numpad, not something you need to fix. The only possible problems I can find now are that the main gun has infinite ammo, while prototype III did not. I don't know if this is a bug or something you deliberately changed. Other than that, I would turn off the deepcheck on the tank, it's a little strange having it be able to dig through the ground or someone's bunker like that. Also, because you use the gold value to identify the tank I can order a drop ship, pick up the tank, and return it to the tradestar for lots of money. I'll let you decide if this is a good thing or not.

Xery: Almost everything seems to work. I don't know what SuspendedMode and ReflectShield are supposed to do, but I didn't notice anything change when I hit the buttons for them. The Deadly Pulse and Instagib Pulse do send out a pulse of particles, but they don't have any effect on enemy actors. Also, you have an error in GShotX.lua, line 13. It looks like it should be a pretty easy fix though. If you want additional advice on the mod you should probably start a new topic.

I'll release it soon, but not about to sell my mod here at all. Sorry for that though, if you do consider my behavior as it.
As your reply, Mehman can use another way to import data from ini files, which I'd learned from Darkstorm mod and should work on mac. That's the point.

edit:Oh, forgot to say thank about the advices.

I love this tank, but it seems to make my FPS drop a lot. No, not when firing or anything, just it in general, floating around.

I dunno about the rest, but Kettenkrad, I honestly love that sprite, but yes, that cylinder in the middle would look nice if it had a rotating animation.

I love this tank, but when are going to make a muli purpose Heavy Tank?

I just had an incredibly drawn out battle using only one tank against an endless swarm of my RETARDS. It goes without saying that for the most part it is ♥♥♥♥ incredible, but that doesn't stop me from having a few niggles about it aswell. Based soley on personal preference, I'd suggest that you;

1. Tone down the damage done by each round. They're crazily overpowered!

2. A Better distinction between HE and AP. AP should have a directed charge, not just obliterate a small (but still too large) circle. HE's explosion can be both larger and less powerful.

3. Add an ammo count for each ammo type. For example, a tank could start with 20AP, 20HE, 5 of some special type, 1 of an incredibly powerful type.

4. A reload time (and sound!) for the main gun.

5. But, above all, work on destructibility.

Personally I'd remove the healing ability. It's what makes the tank practically indestructible, as any work the AI manages to do while the sheild is down is removed within a few seconds. Even without healing it's ridiculously strong anyway.
Panels, engines, guns, vulnerable looking components, that box on the back of the turret? could be individually damagable, with consequences for them getting destroyed. Most of all when the tank is finally brought down it should have a far better death than it does currently. Needs to leave a flaming corpse, throw some gibs, etc. I'm thinking it should gib into a flaming corpse which drops to the ground and explodes after a few seconds. - I could do that part if you want me to <3

I had the same thing happen the first time I used the flame thrower. Even after all of the fires had burned out, the game was running very slowly, although it claimed to be getting 70+ FPS when 50-60 FPS is usually the best I can get even on an empty scene. For some reason after I reset the mission the flame thrower didn't do this again.

It is an easy fix, but I noticed that a lot of your mods use numpad hotkeys. Seeing as almost all computers these days have either both a numpad and and number line, or just the latter, that it would be easier for everyone if the default keys were set for a numline. Just a thought.

I have a whole week of exams starting in 4 days, so I won't be working on my mods for a while, but I will come back to it later.

Dang man!! This took out a Zombot in a single shot!!(HE)

Meanwhile I used this in ArmorAssault and it sliced through concrete like a snowplow. Great job really!!

Though the only thing that insta-gibbed this is a Rod-from-God Strike.