I'd be more interested in walls that allowed you to walk on them. Matrix anyone?

Hehe. I can picture trying to make one, and having it just smash the actor against the wall while you activate jetpack.

If you could change gravity's affect on specific objects, you could do that.

That wouldn't do it. You'd just end up with an actor pelvic-thrusting against the wall. To get that to really work, you'd have to figure out a way to break the engine's laws about rotation in actors.

Or you could probably set the rotation using lua which I assumed was possible as it seems like a pretty basic function.

You don't even need Lua to set rotation.

Just, the game crashes if you manually assign a rotation of 90 degrees or more to an actor. Sure, Lua can do it; if you don't mind the game crashing.

You do, to do it in game.

About those boost pads, it is easy to make acceleration bunkermodules even now. If a material has a negative friction that is less than the negated friction of a rubber boot, the actors will speed up on the surface. If the material's friction is same as the rubber boot´s negated friction, then it will act as ice.

On with ontopic:
Yeah, gravity wells that change the direction of gravity and the rotation of the body would sure be interesting.
An actor walking in a round room, changing the rotation and gravity by a degree on every step.

I have been thinking about trying to script antigravity elevator as my first Lua mod.
A one that does not rotate the actor, of course. You know, easier movement around bunker. Just step in and let the mild flow take you up.
Also I am interested about experimenting with background objects combined with hittest combined with custom keys.
In other words, "use" key. Like, press E to use the object you are colliding with. Like a button for example.

You're stealing ideas from my brain!

I'm pretty sure that's a fairly basic idea that virtually everyone has had.

A few of my ideas I plan to attempt:

Background elevators to move between two floors of a bunker. So that if you place one directly above another they will automatically connect and allow the player to move up or down between them without interacting with the world in between.

Rising smoke particles for smoking gun barrels, scorched terrain etc.

Sentry guns that deploy when an enemy is near.

Explosions that flow down corridors.

Rolling smoke that sits on the floor of corridors.

Fire that spreads.

Rising smoke, Try -1 mass?
Low smoke, Try high mass with invisible emitters to move it vertically?
Explosions that flow, really low sharpness with high velocity maybe?
Sentry guns that deploy only when there is an actor near, Erm, maybe the base is an actor with a gun that fires a pinned actor out that auto-self destructs in like 50 seconds? So when an enemy comes near, the base fires, tahdah pinned actor, and in 50 seconds the actor dissapears and the base of the turret is ready to fire again a bit after that.

Not Lua ideas I know, but ideas on how to do it now.

"Rising smoke, Try -1 mass?"

-1 mass doesn't make things fall upwards. Also the smoke has to rise at a constant speed.

"Low smoke, Try high mass with invisible emitters to move it vertically?"

This wouldn't look particularly good and there is no way I could remove some of it if there is enough in a single area to cause lag. Mass doesn't affect the speed at which things fall, and I currently haven't found a way to keep an emitter firing in a constant direction without the object tipping over when it collides with something.

"Explosions that flow, really low sharpness with high velocity maybe?"

Could work in theory but it would be very unpredictable and impossible to keep a satisfactory level of control over.

"Sentry guns that deploy only when there is an actor near, Erm, maybe the base is an actor with a gun that fires a pinned actor out that auto-self destructs in like 50 seconds? So when an enemy comes near, the base fires, tahdah pinned actor, and in 50 seconds the actor dissapears and the base of the turret is ready to fire again a bit after that."

Then the sentry gun can't really be destroyed, unless they can destroy the base. What I wanted to make was a sentry gun on a moving panel that slides up out of the ground when an enemy is near, mostly for the visual effect

If I could make any of these ideas to a satisfactory level in this build I would have made them already.

I just had the strangest idea ever....Gonna post back soon, must test this....

Data was on the IRseas last night.



Instantly gibs all the actors in the scene.

Hahaha, lagtastic fun.

What? What the hell are you talking about?