Prototype's temporary and somewhat dissapointing development log

Iv121 wrote:: I wonder proto if it is possible to combine two leg meshes and thus making four legs using 2 slots only, they have to be synced anyway. Im just wondering didn't say you have to build a bot like that, could be hovering for all I know ...

Nope.

Hovering yes.

Yea right you have only one joint point per leg so the other one will sort of end up moving mid air, no way to link it to the body itself nor it will move as a leg in any way ...

Question. What is the maximum size of a mech?

Because if we could have 20 meter tall mechs, I want you to make them, okay?

An NSCD Emporor class Titan equivalent would be epic Very Happy

MrTargareyan wrote:: An NSCD Emporor class Titan equivalent would be epic

And I'l laugh when you can't see anything from the cockpit while I punch your legs with my fists of steel. (Cutting trees down with your fists gives you those)

When you don't look directly at a plane in Flan's, does it vanish? I know that was a problem for some large entities I've tested.

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I'd say max height for a mech should be around 30m. Anything less than, say, five would be more heavy armor than mech. The NSCD platform I drew should be between three and four meters, the other one 10-15.

Que Pacific Rim theme music?

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ACH0225 wrote:: Que Pacific Rim theme music?

No that movie was awful.

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YOU TAKE THAT BACK!! YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW!!

MercurySteam wrote:

ACH0225 wrote:: Que Pacific Rim theme music?

No that movie was awful.

Oi!

BF Robots vs. BF Monsters. Maybe the plot was meh, but BFR v. BFM!

Fleet Admiral Error wrote:: BF Robots vs. BF Monsters. Maybe the plot was meh, but BFR v. BFM!

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Okay there were like fifteen minutes that were good. Then it was just repetitive inefficient punching things and the question of why didn't they use that huge sword thing earlier. And nukes. And poor writing. The movie embodied why I differentiate between 'mech' and 'mecha'.

You don't watch it for the storyline, you watch it to see giant mechs fighting giant monsters in HD. It also had a pretty good music score, IMO, or the theme at least.

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ACH0225 wrote:: You don't watch it for the storyline, you watch it to see giant mechs fighting giant monsters in HD. It also had a pretty good music score, IMO, or the theme at least.

2.5/5 for good CG and mediocre or less-than-mediocre everything else. It was obviously action first, then concept, then other stuff, then writing, and the concept wasn't that well thought-out (robots hitting big things because the big things were killing small things). The writing and plot was cliche within cliche. Its fine that action came first, but there should have been a decent explanation behind it. Its fine that the writing was an afterthought, but it should have at least been a little unpredictable.

It's one of those movies where you've seen the entire thing within the first ten minutes and probably would have been a huge amount of better if they took the time to expand on the ideas behind it, developed the characters, and put some more reason behind the action.

Spoiler:

Regardless...

I'm crap at drawing, but I might have a few designs for the Strigiforme and other guys' mechs if you want them, Proto.

Put it this way, I've made things from crap drawings before, namely the AF-15 and Omega

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CAN I DESIGN WEAPONS TOO?

MercurySteam wrote:: CAN I DESIGN WEAPONS TOO?

Go ahead, already have Omegas covered, but I'll nee a few for other mechs.

No progress, I found this too amusing.

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Robot Centipede when the top one takes a dump.

If you look sideways at a flansmod mech, does it vanish? That's a problem with some other big entities.

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It's a problem with the way frustum culling is handled. It is based off the entity's axis-aligned hitbox, but I think it only checks one of the 8 points. It might be addressable by tweaking the camera frustum settings during the culling step.

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Bunp.

MercurySteam wrote:: Bunp.

The hell is a bunp.

Apologies for lack of progress, been sorting out UCAS application and haven't had much time, after Wednesday it's out of my hands so I can do stuff then.

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