True, target locator would be nice. The Kraken bolts used to be way too overpowered, now theyre just moderately overpowered. And when I say army, I mean...


Teh banshees never have headlights when I use them D:
(Yes with that many banshees too, all at once.)

Yes. Before the new scripts I got from Mehman, Kraken bolts used to fire several particles at once in a sort of 'blob'. They had no explosion effect, but ridiculous sharpness, so they tore things apart like nobody's business.

Now they silently fracture into a bunch of invisible particles that aren't nearly as fast, heavy, or sharp... so they're weaker than they used to be, relatively speaking.

Guess who's been busy~~~ not me, lol. CaveCricket has made something awesome!

And guess whats coming soon because of that~~~



Needs some visual adjustments, but its getting there!!

And here is a peak at an 80% finished Jun!



He can stand, but i'll let you see that for yourself when I update the mediafire links in a day or two.

Concerning the shield you might want to use an effect similar to this one, but covering the whole body and of the right color:

The shielding on the spartans is going to be an invisible circle with a radius large enough to surround the head, feet, and weapon (most) and will flash yellow (im working on that) sparks when hit.

Where did you get that btw?

That's the new shield effect for the soldier of my experimental weaponry, this version isn't released yet.

Is it always visible, or does it flash like that when it gets hit?

It only flashes when hit, the effect is centered on the point of impact, its shape depending on the actor's position (it automatically detects the limit between the air and the soldier), and the intensity depends on the strength of the impact.

Looks pretty neat either way. Although a shield that hugs the actor too closely might have issues with detecting and stopping very fast projectiles, no?

I might have to finally sort out some shield/armour systems for the Space Marines at this rate!

It's also good to see this is steadily progressing, as opposed to the earlier attempts. Once you get around to doing Hunters, a modified version of the beam script used by the 40K Meltaguns might work pretty well for a Plasma Beam cannon. Making a good-looking Fuel Rod projectile might be tricky.

It detects the projectiles as a standard shield does, so no problems, then it predicts the trajectory to determine if and where it will hit, and creates the effect accordingly.

@Mehman I would suggest just loosening up the skin tight shielding on yours just a wee bit, just my opinion on visuals (it would be closer to spartan shielding that way too, lol). Looks pretty nice though!

@Arcalane I intend to see this through all the way! Its not fair if 40K has a place in CC but Halo doesn't.

About spriting Projectiles, how exactly does it work? I got lucky with my Spartan Laser, looking back, I actually have no idea how to recreate it from scratch. I could just sprite myself plasma projectiles, nothing too hard, even multiple frames, but im still not sure about attaching it to projectiles or something.

Once I get to the Covenant faction (that'll be coming sooner than I thought actually) first thing im going to make is an Energy Sword, and an Elite (the blue minors), and then its a free-for-all for what I might make. Thanks for the tip on Hunters, i'll look into that.

I could poke fun at the Halo fanbase, but that would probably be uncalled-for.

As for sprited projectiles, you want to use either an AEmitter or MOSRotating for the projectile, like a normal grenade or rocket launcher. With a really low GibImpulseLimit, the projectile will explode on impact. Easy as pie.

I think the real problem with the Fuel Rod would be the particle effects required to make it look good. I guess you could ask Coops for advice or help with those, he does some awesome particle effects.

Only if its funny and not evil



Oh right, i'll just look at rockets (they propel themselves right?) and stuff. I think I can probably make some good particle effects, just need a bunch of different looking gib pieces and a cool explosion.

You'll probably want to start by adding an AEmitter to the fuel rod projectile that spews short-lived yellow-green sparks everywhere, they way it is ingame. IIRC, that is.