DeeZire Online - View Single Post - Trying to figure out how to create a mech that can transform

Waraddict · 05-17-2006, 11:21 AM

If you're going to do it the OCL way, here's the best possible way to do it

http://www.cncseries.com/content/?523

You can at least transfer energy and veterency, and you can do it such a way that you can introduce a transition animation.

A more suitable way may be to use the combat bike + Overlord upgrade OCL approach, the Overlord upgrades work by using OCL which OCL the turret inside the tank, you can use this to OCL a dummy rider inside a unit with combat bike behaviour so as to change its weapons, commandset and locomotor while retaining everything else, the dummy rider should have a deletion module set to 0 milliseconds and have some sort of a locomotor (locomotor is necessary for allowing the rider to exit the vehicle properly, if it doesn't have a locomotor you get weird situations where its exited but still inside some how), the deletion doesn't activate until it has exited.

Also, OCLing another object inside a unit that has one inside already forces the one inside to exit.

05-17-2006, 11:21 AM	#3 (permalink)
Waraddict Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Rep. of Ireland Posts: 373	If you're going to do it the OCL way, here's the best possible way to do it http://www.cncseries.com/content/?523 You can at least transfer energy and veterency, and you can do it such a way that you can introduce a transition animation. A more suitable way may be to use the combat bike + Overlord upgrade OCL approach, the Overlord upgrades work by using OCL which OCL the turret inside the tank, you can use this to OCL a dummy rider inside a unit with combat bike behaviour so as to change its weapons, commandset and locomotor while retaining everything else, the dummy rider should have a deletion module set to 0 milliseconds and have some sort of a locomotor (locomotor is necessary for allowing the rider to exit the vehicle properly, if it doesn't have a locomotor you get weird situations where its exited but still inside some how), the deletion doesn't activate until it has exited. Also, OCLing another object inside a unit that has one inside already forces the one inside to exit.