Haha, no problem! I thought so. :p

So it'd be about time to remove those vanilla dropships from UniTec, so I thought about making a dropship based on the Raptor.
What do you people think? Should I stop this and leave the current ones in? xD


And some people have seriously called me a good spriter. xD

Edit: PS, this sprite is not finished. It's waay too bland.

Coloring and shading skills: B+

Idea of egg shaped weird saucer: Oh god why?

You could make S.H.I.E.L.D rockets and drop ships, also MWE (I think that is the name) rockets and drop ships.

The bunker for mechs I see more as a machine shop. You know the dummy factory? Well maybe it could spawn that way. When you "order" the mech/tank or "start" the machine shop, it could "build" the mech.

Here is a vague idea on how I think it might look using generic bunker pieces. And it could also be a repair station too.

Also, I have no idea how to do the battle dmg. Better go ask coops.

And the grapple hook. I haven't seen it...maybe make your own custom one?
I think it would be really really useful, especially with the SHIELD: Under Siege scenes.



This one I think could be good. Like I said, its a basic design.



Another rough design.

Also, I love the update. The parachutes are a LOT better. And nice touch on the jetpacks.

Still haven't managed to check out the new version but here's a parachute script that'll only attach to one actor if people don't like those messy gibs. Note that ordering more than one actor will result in them falling to their deaths.


Alternatively, use this if you want to keep the same mechanics but have the chutes disappear instead. It's a spot change and untested so I can't guarantee it'll be fine but it's a simple thing so I'm sure it'll work fine.


Assuming my idea works I'll fix it so it can have as many actors as you want without spamming chutes but that'll take a day or two.

As for battle damage, the best way to do it would be to add a bunch of attachables then use lua to check if the actor has those and if it doesn't, make various changes in aiming and movement speed and whatever else. I figured out how to effectively do that a few days ago (for another unrelated project) so the lua part shouldn't be too hard if you (Gotcha!) deal with the ini and sprite part.

I'm not really a fan of the dropship, it's as naxx said, the shape just doesn't look great and the design in general is kind of iffy I think. It works well for the raptor but not so much for this. Keep at it though, it'd be cool to have very different dropships for unitec

The third one mostly works, but gives this error:
ERROR: UniTec.rte/Devices/Lua/Parachute 1.lua:28: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

Weird stuff still happens when ordering too many actors. 2 seems to be the 'always works' limit. After that people'll sometimes drop without parachutes. Still, I think I want to stick with that lua file.


Edit: Hopefully people won't kill me, but in the next update the Mammoth, Drop Pod and Rocket will be gone, unless entire populations protest against it.
The only useful one in there would be the drop pod, but due to the inability to drop it anywhere on the map its use has been reduced to nothing.


Edit2: I think people will learn to love the new dropship. <3 It's looking better the longer I stare at it/add details to it.
Nevertheless, I would gladly accept help from a decent spriter to have the raptor and dropship look even better/more shaded.


Edit3: @LeonXross: There's a Grapple Gun available.
I'll also create a bunker piece like that, although I don't see the use for it. But not everything in this mod should be about what I like. ^_^

Ditto with bad boy on the raptor. It doesn't really...feel like its part of the UniTec Family. And maybe you could have it become a bomber or make a bomber where when you open the cargo, it drops at a faster rate; carpet bombing.

Also, that auto-mortar thing is kind of annoying because you have to order the raptor where ever your brain is, which incedcidentaly is also where my units are.

And as for the bunker, the idea I have for it is kind of complicated. The use is just like...uh in Starcraft where you spawn Siege Tanks from the machine shop; it has to build it first. Thinking there could be some kind of animation of the bunker building the mech and when its done, it spawns it. The idea is going to take some time to become something solid. I would work on it myself but I only just started modding myself so the most I can is like make an actor or a gun.

@LeonXross: Bad Boy was talking about the new dropship. Do you mean the new dropship as well, or do you really mean the Raptor?

Anyway, I can guarantee that the new dropship will fit better into UniTec, because all old dropships and rockets will be kicked out. xD (Raptor excluded ofcourse.)

I'll try to find a way to make the mortars drop upon opening the cargo door in the next release.
Edit: I'll need to ask someone. Checked out the Zeppelin, but it's just stuffed with TDExplosives that run out pretty fast.

What was affected by this change? The Stinger?

If you just want to do what the zeppelin does but have an unlimited amount add this to the update and updateai functions. I'm typing without testing so I can't be sure it'll work, let's hope I don't make any silly mistakes here:

Or, if the current bombs are being spawned by lua and not an emitter or whatever you could add a pie button to toggle it on or off or have it toggled with mouse pressing.

As I said before I'll see if I can make the parachute more reliable. If I can't, I can probably make it only able to support two people and just not add parachutes for the rest. Not sure what triggered the error there, I think it was just too many parachutes spawning and deleting or something, did it keep printing and fill up the console or just print a couple of times?

@Malamo999: All homing missiles. They all use the same script.

@Bad Boy: It prints one time every time you order a parachute.
Thanks, I'll go fiddle with that piece of lua.

Oh, cool, thanks! I'm really loving the change. Which weapons/vehicles etc. use homing missiles? I'm having such fun.

Nice shot. Ehm, from the top of my head, UniTec WASP, Stinger and SAM. That's all.

Cheers, thanks!

EDIT: Oh, and whenever I order a parachute with <1 actor, my funds are set to 3000. Is this another bug?