hello everyone. this is my second mod for Cortex Command, created out of necessity for my first mod, which was too heavy to be carried into battle by the game's dropships. i'll release that first mod later.

man, it's been a while since i've done sprite work. looks like i've still got it, though.

this is a heavy-load landing craft, designed for planets with high gravity and extreme atmospheric pressure. it's got destroyable armor plating and doesn't have any problem taking a little drop. i put a good deal of work into the gibs, so do me a kindness and blow it up in the gib editor a couple of times. tell me what you think



known bugs:
--not so great at delivering its cargo autonomously. i wish there was a variable to tell the rocket at what height it should open its cargo doors.
--exaust doesn't damage anything, really. another limitation of ACRocket class--i had to trick it into having two downward thrusters. that's my cop-out, at least. i could've made it an ACDropship, but i wanted it to have landing legs.
--for some weird reason, sending it back into orbit refunds the player a lot more money than the lander is bought for. none of the attachables, to my knowledge, have a gold value. am i missing something? anyone have any ideas?
update: the latter two bugs have been fixed.

credits:
--Azukki for his wonderful templates. great learning resource.
--engine blast sprites modified from metal slug.
--i think my roomate mark is a pretty cool guy. eh plays call of duty and doesn't afraid of anything.

all the sprites except pyrotechnics are my own.
my sprites and code, in this mod as well as anything else i release, are free to anyone to use or modify. just give me a mention and make some imaginative mods.

my next release will be that first mod i was talking about. it's a big stationary cannon turret for air defense, among other things.

Nice job, I'll need this for my first mod that I'm woeking on.

Jesus Fudging Christ look at that sprite!
Did you have prior experience to this? As in INVENTED THE SNES kind of experience?

Very nice indeed.

And your refund bug is caused by the amount of health it has. for each point of health remaining when sent back into orbit, it gives you something like 2 gold.

/me foams from the mouth and a seizure.
How the hell did you make those sprites!? Their GODLY. "looks like i've still got it" That's a HUGE understatement.

This mod is epic. Not only are the sprites amazing the coding is really good too.
YGMDL

Please, for the love of God, make more mods. PLEASE?!?

ah, christ. i'm still awake. guess i'll have to settle for a one-hour power nap.

hungryguy--oo. what kind of mod would that be?
funtastic--haha. nah, didn't invent the SNES but i have done sprite work before i've mostly moved on to 3D these days... but i have a great fondness for pixel graphics.
thanatos--ah! so that's it. but it's weird. while i was testing it, it had a price of 50 (default rocket price), and it returned 100 gold on refund. so it doubled the gold. when i put it at 190 gold (no difference in hp) it returned 333. i guess it uses a ratio of its health to original price to determine the gold-per-hit-point turnout.
striker121--i will take screenshots through the progress of my next sprite and make a tutorial on my method
frosted muffins--hah. thanks. still some properties i need to divine the function of here and there, but i love the way cortex command's code is set up. it's great.
tendrop--i will. i'm addicted.

My eyes bleed with the joyous tears and divine blood bestowed upon me by that sprite!

Wow. Yes please continue working on mods. At first I looked at the sprites and thought they were just ripped. Then I played with it in game and cried. This is amazing.

*Rubs eyes*

*Rubs eyes again*

No, i'm seeing this allright. Those sprites are bloody awesome!
Downloading immediatly, and i'll give some feedback as soon as i've tested it

God DAMMIT that's the best sprite I've ever seen!!! CC needs a makeover just to match the quality - I mean,

pretty sweet rocket man. Pretty sweet.

It is awesome ingame, too.

Ho-ly mother of dropships!

Ah-hm, i meant to say, AWESOME JOB!!!!!! This definably is the best dropship that i have yet to download, props to you my friend!