Alright... anybody remember when I was talking about a mod I was thinking up? It's almost done with the outlining, but I'm worried majorly that something might not work.
For those of you knowledgeable in the Metal Gear [Solid] series, I plan on making a Metal Gear RAY as a superweapon, buildable only once. This is extremely complex for words, ESPECIALLY the words of a newbie to RA2 editing. VERY COMPLEX.
Here's the model version, just to give you guys a full view, not easily seen outside of the game.
http://www.spawn.com/toys/product.aspx?product=1948
Because of it's shape and form, I'm thinking, to make the full-sized, or even scaled version, I'd have to do each piece, about 7 separate vxls.
It's back would fire cluster missiles on ground targets (which I recently found was NOT impossible, thank you DCoder), and in deploy, the face would open, using the Hydro Cannon(laser) for buildings. Upon opening of the face, it'd lose armor stats, as the weakpoint of RAY is when it's mouth is open.
To make it move, i'd have to animate the legs, the main reason for even doing them. It'd also be able to swim, under the surface. Arms would only need to exist outside of the rest of it, because RAY has a 50 caliber machine gun in the tip of each arm... err... wing... I guess... probably only good to use on infantry, just like in the game.
And, as the MGS games highlight them, RAY, like all Metal Gears, would be able to fire a nuclear warhead (from torso) anywhere on the map.
Already self repairing, but too large for the war factory, it'd have to come with a pad when built, in which, it could return for more hastily repairs.
Now, I've already forseen several problems, and I'd like to know if anyone, already knowing solutions, or willing to test or create new ones, would be able to help. I'll shoot:
1)Would 7 vxls even be able to connect together properly?
2)Would it be able to loose the armor stats upon deploy, or even for that matter, be able to open it's face? Animation doesn't matter, the completion of the task is what counts.
3)Would the walking work, and especially, the swimming?
4)I've obviously forseen that firing a missile out of it's back would be close to impossible, at least without some kind of tracking trigger or such. Would this be possible to create?
5)Would it still be sellable on the repair pad? That could be some serious trouble and such...
6)Would I get bitchslapped and sued by Konami for using one of their works of art in a Red Alert 2 mod?
Confused and Worn from headaches
