This.


Well, negative mass will not alter the pull of gravity in CC.
Like, a -100 mass actor tries to jetpack (Tried w/ antimasses, no weapons, blue clone.), it will fly DOWNWARDS. That looked really retarded.

But, for matrix walls, you could


And according to the devlog, Data announced that portals are possible with Lua.
Not as a post, but as a comment.


I still don't get how the "Portal Gun Hoax" got to the point where portals are completly real.

I made a point towards the end of the hoax to talk to Data about how it may have worked, and for him to implement it somehow.

A portal is just moving the pos of an actor. That's all.

Here's a full chat log. ctrl+mousewheeldown a lot to read it.


I say we start documenting functions and variables he's given us so far.

Functions:
GibThis(Direction(Really not sure), Time to wait, unknown) -- Gibs an object
GetMOIDCount() -- Total movable object count in scene
GetMOFromID(ID Number of object) -- Returns the movable object attached to the ID
Vector(x?, y?) -- I'm guessing it's the angle on the X and Y axis. Or possibly vector(angle, velocity) in which angle would be a spot in a 360 circle around an object, velocity the speed..but that doesn't make sense. Perhaps the distance on that angle. I don't know, I got a D in geometry.
IsOfGroup(groupname) -- Returns 1 or 0, checks if an actor is in a group.

Variables:

I don't mod. I don't know what variables we already know. Variables that might be new are instancename and classname. I bet you can't guess what they are.

Pos - Position on the scene of an object.
Vel - Speed of object.

I really don't feel like speculating on that matter much more. I can't wait for the release, though.



NO SPEEDING ALLOWED. A function to display text on-screen(Anywhere? Above actors, etc) would be nice. In CC's font or whatever. No idea how positions on screen would be determined in that.


Oh well. Hoping for a release soon

I want to see the "blast waves" that Prom told me once. It will push thing and etc. I hope so.

Technically, CC has "Blast waves" in it right now, they're just not very noticable. You could up their effect, but they might just end up breaking things until it's really implemented. Currently the blast waves are made by gibbing a bunch of "Air Burst" particles.

A visual animated shockwave effect is possible to achieve by using multiple glows with timed lifetimes and strenghts.

Oh, so we can still make mods as we are now? Thank god for that, I'd be lost with Lua!

Of course, most epic mods will use Lua in the future.
People are learning Lua right now.

True, but wouldn't that lag like even worse?

I just thought... do limbs have their own LUA instances? As in, if the actor is halfway through a teleport line, will the hands, weapons and maybe some attachables appear on the other side before the rest of the body, if you understand what I mean.
if so, we could actually create actors for the sole purpose of defending portals, with shields that go through the portal with the actor staying back on the other side.

Uh.....Ya. I'm just gonna wait until people start releasing mods and then learn from there.
That's what I did with the current scripting.

We have no way of knowing CC specific syntaxy stuff until he actually releases B21, or tells us.

Well, it was more like a speculation than an actual question :/

Yeah, but Lua scripting will have like, 1000 variables or something higher, maybe.

The amazing fantastic thing about Lua, is that there aren't just variables. At least not the kind you know and love with CC code. CC code isn't really code. It's entirely variables. With Lua, you get if statements, while loops, and you're not just creating a bunch of objects like you currently are. Right now all you can do in the game is make new objects. With Lua, you'll be able to have objects talk to each other behind the scenes.