Think of walkpath frames like frames of an animation, the more you make the smoother it goes. When you have only a few, the game does a linear transition between them, so if you say make four in the four cardinal directions, the feet will trace a diamond shaped pattern.

As for traction, you can try making the atoms of the feet a different material, like rubber or something. They're defined in Base.rte/materials.ini iirc.

I think the generic feet are already rubber.

I already know about the smoothness of the animation frames bit. I was just wondering if more frames (meaning more motion of the legs) would equate to a better ability to move. Smoothness of the animation is just a by-product of what I am asking.

Also, yeah I think the original feet are rubber but I made mine into Killbot material and I didn't really notice a difference. Changing what of a material would make give it more traction though? I'll most likely figure this all out myself I just want a good place to start.

Well lets see we've got structural integrity, bounce, and friction...
Hmmm which one of those is similar to traction...

Well said, clearly I have completely forgotten pretty much everything. Should probably just shut myself in my room for a day and stumble through Lua again. Here's the tricky part though: how does one get an actor to stick to a wall selectively. Essentially I want it to Spiderman along surfaces.

Mostly I was just getting at the point that you should have glanced at it to see if it was obvious and self explanatory before asking.

You'll need some Lua scripting for that, and it will be very complex. Use rays to find the surfaces is the only idea I have for you.

Yeah nevermind, I figured out how to do it. Just need to make it look prettier. Also kind of difficult to implement. I'll work out the kinks as I go.

since you say have forgotten alot about modding please remember to keep the HP at 100 as to not mess up pricing.

I was wondering if anyone would find it irritating to have to scroll through an extended weapons menu. I'm sure some people might. I'm creating weapons with optional attachments that change the performance of the weapon. The only problem is that in the Buy Menu it would end up getting a bit cluttered...

If I group them all together that's what would happen, my only solution to this would be to seperate the weapons into individual files so that people could pick and choose what they want to have in their Buy Menu. This of course would result in a longer loading time for the initial startup...

I just wanted to know what would be preferrable. Unless of course there's a way of branching off from a single weapon in the Buy Menu to choose variables like that. But I highly doubt this.

I think the UAV mod has something similar to what you want except you buy the craft and it allows you to select an UAV on the scene. I'm not doing a very good job of explaining it but maybe you could do something similar to that if possible.

UAV mod... I'll look that up. I suppose I should peruse through the B23 mods and see if anyone's already done what I'm looking for. Thanks though.

It is theoretically possible to buy a single weapon that is then switched out with lua for a version with different attachments.

However, this requires two things - some kind of means of selecting the weapon and adding it outside of the buy menu, and a whole lot of dull .ini coding.

Darlos was going to use some sort of menu for the Darkstorm underslung weapons,
but I think he's waiting until B24 to actually implement anything.

Goddamn space pirates...

Hahaha, they're not pirates anymore. That was just how they originally operated. They grew in numbers, enough to become a viable competitor in the intergalactic trade business. Anyway...

I've been working on some special characters, or rather characters that have unique "abilities" that set them apart from the usual actors. But I've kind of run out of ideas. I was wondering if anyone could toss out an idea of something they'd like to see.

Here's what I already have in the works:
- An actor who can call in low orbit laser strikes from a Pirate Ind. capital ship (or missiles, whatever looks cooler).
- An actor who, when killed, summons a small squad of guys close to where he died.
- An actor who can use two heavy weapons simultaneously.
- An actor who emits an area of effect damage over time field.

I'll probably think of some new ones soon but if anyone wanted to throw something out there I'd probably be willing to give it a shot. If it made sense of course.