Playing with Portals
Wed, 2010-05-05 11:58 — Uriah
Quick development video, its nowhere near finished, youll have sound effects, special teleportation effects and lots of other stuff once it's done, but enjoy.
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Inu
lol, awesome work guys!
Gallaecio
Your creativity is just amazing. I can't imagin where you take so many ideas from.
Uriah
It's as if a valve turns in my head, and the steam of ideas gushes into my brain. I'm so Glad I can bring these ideas to your OS. The source of this idea engine is a mystery to me.
Holohedron
Lol
Henek
Very subliminal, if I may say so.
jamei
Good idea. Those portals would also be great as random map objects (maybe with a different colours).
Zippy
Brilliant!
Mastix
A genious weapon that could totally change how the game is played, freakin awesome!
me_
you are very maaaaaaaaaad hahahaha its fantastic ! lol
see ya !
jamei
One question: will the portals disappear after your turn? (pls not)
nemo
At the moment, portals last until end of turn. That may change, but that's the way it is setup right now. Balancing fairness of this is something that still needs working on.
Another thing that could change is how many portals there can be. Right now when creating a link, the most recent other portal is used, that could also change, but also limits to 2 portals ever.
Some of this could be handled in game scheme options, to avoid screwing up Default w/ settings that unbalance the turn based aspect.
Star and Moon
Awesome work Tiyuri and everyone else , Bat a hedgehog in one and have em' fly out to sea! Haha, I love this idea.
TheCycoONE
What happens if you shoot a ninja rope through a portal?... that could be interesting.
nemo
Ninja rope does not work through portals, you can portal through them on rope, which has odd effects. We'll probably disconnect ninja rope if you go through a portal.
nemo
Don't even need to bat them, just place the portal below 'em.
Which is why this weapon will need restrictions and balancing.
Star and Moon
oh yeah..,
TheJT
cool, i spot 4 new weapons on that weapon pop up tab! What are the other 3?
nemo
still being worked on, but piano strike (of course), gas grenade and sine gun.
Star and Moon
What about the Bowling Ball? That would be a very useful weapon.
Ftimis
That will be an amazing addition to Hedgewars! While watching the video I thought of numerous ways to alter the gameplay just by using this weapon, it will be fun!
rbaleksandar
Very nice. ^^ But it's - as nemo said - too powerful. To make it weaker maybe you should make the throwing of the portal activators (or whatever they're called) like a throwing of a grenade that is - affected by gravity and perhaps even wind. Because now it's way to easy to place the portals on the places where you want them to be. And again - very very nice. Great work!
Uriah
its not as easy as it appears in the video, trust me on this
stern
PoRTal's weapon in Hedgewars... just legendary!!!
What about a weapon using powers of "goo". Interesting or...?
BarthVader
I can say only one thing: APPLAUSE FOR MAKERS!
but... how "sine gun" will work? I know "sine" is a name of trigonometric function, but i don't see it as a weapon.
And also, what will happen if only one portal will be made and hedgehog will try to jump into it?
rbaleksandar
Ok. Because it looks like the thing is flying on a straight line from the gun's mouth to the point of impact. Even if so, I think it'll be much more challenging to make it fly like a grenade.
Star and Moon
I think you'll just fly back out like you just came out of another portal, simple.
bananaoomarang
Could we hae some info on the sine gun please. I don't think I have heard of that one. I can gues what gas grenade does though. I also saw you mucking about with that on Cia.vc.
imnotsonic
amazing. can't wait for the next release! wait. i see the gfx for it in the nightly svn. i may have to compile this today...
Uriah
Sine gun does this
Ftimis
Wow awesome!!
Only one question though:
Which purpose does it serve?
nemo
As for purpose, ask sheepluva, I think he's still playing with it though.
imnotsonic
ok. played the dev version.
i love the portal!
the sine gun is awesome. i dont want to blow it for everybody so i wont say what it does, but devs please leave the recoil as is - that was very cool.
the gas grenade we have all talked about before and is going to be a great addition.
the piano isn't that bad because you lose your hog in the process. i will probably make a weapons scheme that doesn't include it at first but allow you to get it from boxes and set the probability higher. that is one of the reasons i love this game bc i can set the controls for any round and any parameter when i am hosting.
Ftimis
Please send me a message telling me what it does, I want to learn
Uriah
try hitting your F keys (f1 f2 f3 etc) when the piano is falling
sheepluva
Hehe thanks, the sine gun was just a random idea I had.
If it makes it into the next release then it might be in another way that it is now. (I already changed the shot to get wider with higher distance, even hogs will fit through then. haven't uploaded it to svn yet though)
I'm currently focusing on the portal gun, but the sine gun will be worked on a lot too, later.
I intend to make it charge-able (less charged=slower but more shots, with less ground impact/damage per shot)
I really intend to leave the recoil in the way it is because I had a lot of fun with it and it gives the sine gun some sort of utility character if used in the right situation - or leads to funny results if used unwisely
Feel free to send me a pm or 2 if you have any nice ideas regarding those weapons.
hawkn
Wow great job guys. Lol the music made it perfect.
Star and Moon
What is the cicled weapon in the pic above?
Edit
what about the other weapon, I want to know that also.
Henek
That is the Gas grenade, for now it doesn't have a picture.
Mili12
Very nice work guys. And test
Mili12
Ups ;D
Star and Moon
Anyway, this cake is great.
I couldn't help noticing the song "Still Alive" fits perfectly with the video, that was a joke, (why do i keep doing that)
well, I really like the song, how did you find it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI&NR=1
codebracker
don't disconect rope if you go trough a portal.
It could be a begining of a new tactic.
P.S.:Is there a way we could download a beta version of portal gun to try it out?
nemo
codebracker, if you're running linux, you can simply build latest HEAD. It is very easy to do in linux, just a few commands. I'd be happy to play you online.
If you're using windows, Smaxx did a build recently (see the "Give me HEAD" thread). It isn't quite up to date, but I guess I could downgrade the engine to play you sometime.
codebracker
i'm using windows, and would want to know how to install or uninstall a build (or find a thread for that matter the forum needs a search program).
Sorry found the search button.
wennie
Now: How can I get new Weapons on my Hedgewars Game (Linux)? Please anwser quickly! (Please)
nemo
wennie, I answered you here:
http://www.hedgewars.org/node/2215#comment-15049