MissionCritical means it can't be destroyed at all, except by falling outside of map borders.


That's not very practical, because you can't get wound's RootID - it has no ID and doesn't get hit by mo's, so finding parent object would involve more complex checks like distance and PresetName check.
Good news is, wounds seem to run attached lua scripts without problems.

Hey, I am making a new actor for the faction: The Meat Jockey



He is going to have a small psycho mastermind riding his back. The actor is going to be the brain for the faction

Any feedback on the muscle guy?

How the hell are you getting the arms done?

I mean, I've never seen arms like that before on an actor, so I'm not sure if it's gonna work as intended.

Anyway, the legs look kinda wierd, but I guess it's because this is the complete drawing and not the individual sprites.

His arms won't actually be arms in terms of ini. Instead a single fg arm should be placed on the actor who will ride the beast without any bg arm, so he can shoot guns one handed and the bg arm would instead be used to hold a rope or something so he don't fall of.

Then I'll animate the arms in a more traditional fasion, where I make a couple of different attacks, like "ground pound", "power punch" and the "pick up and throw stuff" animation

Dammit akblabla you are very smart.

How is gonna be the actor on the back?

Virtual offsets are easy, or he can have an attachable of the same sprite that can gib into the actor itself.

I am just playing around with ideas right now, presenting, the raider

Edit: Experimenting a bit more



Also, need 'dem feedback

That is... quite possibly one of the weirdest actor ideas/concepts I've seen put into sprites so far.

My thoughts are;
1) Would it be worth the investment? It looks large and fragile.
2) Would it be conflicting with the Manta's role?

I kind of like the giant insect idea, oddly, it reminds me of the alien flying creatures from AVATAR, maybe if you made it look a little less grasshopper and a little more Alien species, it would look nicer, and perhaps even give it its own attack ability, like a corrosive acid spit.


As for the big guy, with the extremely large arms, Personally he seems a little to cartoon oriented to me, If I were you I would tone down on the guys overall mass a little, and maybe give him some junk-like steel plating, like a gladiator suit made of salvaged metal? and make the plating really tough, but only on the front so his back is exposed , and perhaps make it a little more "clone mishap and zombie like" as opposed to "Ronin on super space steroids". AND you could make one of its arms a cyborg mechanical CHAINSAW >:D. (thinking out loud) For serious tho I like the idea, it seems a tad impractical, but if you can make it work, I'm sure it will be quite useful as a forward man sopping up bullets while the other little Ronin follow it Guns'a'Blazin.


Edit: Also, would it be possible to create a deploy-able shield, I've always wanted to see just a wall an actor could throw down, deploy-able cover system basically.

This, badly. A shield with a short animation of it arming on the field which can avoid your shots and blocks the enemies. That would be awesome.

In fact, I might do it myself, though a crappy, self-use version...
...Whenever I have time.

YES, YES, AND MORE YES.

It does seem very "Trappery" because that seems like a rag-tag type of thing,(EDIT: this is all in my opinion, i should have said i think.) instead of sandbag emplacements, a shield they can carry around, and set up, OR the engineer could just make sandbags, BUT THE SHIELD, I WANT IT.


Oh, and the Manta's delivery system is fantastic.