Darn it... Cannot get it working for the life of me... it is not even showing... (except the customisation modulator for the berserk... but even that I cannot change the options to...
Everything is in the right places...

I'll report back once I figure this out...

Malanok

P.S >.<

Do you have BWBP1, 2, 3, and 4 installed? Those are all required. If you do have those installed, try deleting your BWCache file and try again.

In other news;

Bjossi and Cpt. Xavious Present:
BALLISTIC ARMOR!

Bjossi and I have been working on a little side project over the past couple months with the goal of making a much more dynamic and interesting armor system, where its protective qualities vary on what type of damage is being done to you, and its level of protection degrades as it gets damaged. We also went further than that and made the armor affect your mobility and also take up different slots , allowing you to wear a helmet with a vest at the same time.

We plan to make armor only offer their protection to the specific area of the body covered and to make the various parts of the armor show up on your third person model.

We also want a mutator system not too unlike Ballistic Weapons that will allow users to choose what armor they start with in a Loadout style menu, and to have a more interesting swap mutator in place. At the moment, that goal is fairly far away though.

We would also like to get a much wider selection of armor available for use, and this can be fixed by you guys coming up with armor types for us. Its a very simple process and only requires you to type in some numbers next to various damage types. At the moment, the Readme has an outdated tutorial on how to do this, but it should get you started.

Please note that the readme IS outdated, but it helps quite a bit. The current classes for armor are as follows:

BA_IP_ArmoredAsbestosSuit
BA_IP_ArmoredAsbestosSuitHeadGear
BA_IP_AsbestosSuit
BA_IP_FlakVest
BA_IP_HeavyEnergyArmor
BA_IP_LightEnergyArmor
BA_IP_MediumEnergyArmor
BA_IP_SpeedSuit
BA_IP_SuperArmor

You can use the Summon code to get these, or the provided mutator Ballistic Armor will spawn some in to replace the various stock armors, I think. Can't remember if it was fully working or not...

Also, there are two mutators listed as Damage Tweak and Weight Penalty. Those do not work at the moment.

If you have any odd things happen, please post it.

Grab it!

Not a very big file size ?

Yeah, its pretty small, so far its only code. No textures or models yet.

I will try and get an update to this next week or the week after.

Come on people, how hard is it to install the files to the \System folder and give this awesome armor mutator a try? It is awesome after all, you will never look back to the default armors ever again.

well the armor mutator is cool and i did download it, but besides that i'd impressed with the new weapons and looking forward when there's a full release.

I like the concept and the old armor did need to be re-done to fit in, but i dont think i like it.
Maybe if Third Person actually worked and was implemented properly like with an over the shoulder aiming thing, then yeah.
But maybe it is just too early to judge, because as i noticed, there are no models yet.

If you are talking about the mechanics, what don't you like about it? Just voicing a dislike is useless information for a developer.

I am not criticizing this directly, but criticizing the games actual lack of a proper third person, in which i think would make this much better. If there had to be something i would ask the developer to improve on, it would be the option to disable to weight effects of the armor. In my opinion, if the armor would slow you down, IN MY OPINION it would slow the game down.

Maybe some people like this realistic style of play, and so do I, and i do also understand that this is still in progress. So a option for the armor to not affect movement speed is what i would like. If you dont want to that, thats fine, ill still play with it because its interesting.

An idea for the models thata are yet to come, (the armor, that it) is to maybe make it like something like the Gears of War armor. Its big, its bulky, and it also kinda fits in with the time frame of the weaponry in the game.

Hopefully this doesn't come across as mean. And if it does.
I totally didn't mean it.
Lol

In my opinion, if there is anything the game needs, it is to slow down. Vanilla speed feels like fast forward, I play at 85% speed which to me is more sensible.

QUAKE STYLE FTW!

Long live randomly spamming rockets and jumping everywhere!

An option to toggle armor movement penalties sounds doable. I'll put that on my to-do list. Bulky GoW style armor sounds like the best option for model style as well, since it will not clip through player models quite as much if its big and bulky. Good ideas.

Or we could make a New model, so that we could Make the armour fit around that?

And we could implement a Prone position and stuff.

That would be more work than I really want to do.

Lolzers. Toy story 3 is out.
Put in a Buzz Light-Year for lafs.

Could get other people to help?

Well, I don't really feel like recruiting others, but if you want, go ahead.

Anyone still care about this pack anymore?

Was wondering if anyone would like this in the pack. Otherwise, its going in Fallout 3.

I love chainsaws.
Put it in Please.

Yay! A post in this thread! There's still people interested!

That chainsaw is based of my own chainsaw, a McCulloch brand ProMac 10-10. Unfortunately the clutch needs replaced...


Model is currently being UV mapped, almost done with that though.

Code is already pretty much done (chainsaw sword), just needs some refinement.

How do you think the chainsaw should work? Ideally, I'd like it to do very little damage/stall out if the chain spins to slow and you are more likely for it to kick up in your face if it spins too fast, but I don't know what conditions should be met before it kicks up. Any suggestions?

Two posts that says chainsaws are awesome and say:
Yay we would like this superb chainsaw !

Well, that's good enough for me.

*crawls out of hole, dusts shirt off*

I'm still interested in this mod, just real life is kicking my ass right now.

I'm still interested too.

Same, but i say to the chainsaw, that it should just be constant, but if it hits a wall, it should lose health, or kick up. Somethink kewl
Model is superb. Top job

Check out the chainsaw mod for UT2k4.

Lemme see if I can find it.......

Edit: I think this is the right file...
http://www.mediafire.com/?52zzztjuym2

Sounds doable. Just make a percentage based check whenever sawing a wall or a person, and if it hits the percentage, it kicks into your face. Base chance of a backlash will be higher with wall, and the risk greatly increases as the chain spins faster.

Thanks!



Oh, cool! Will check it out, get some ideas going.

Alternate fire will be a classic Doom style plunge/stab, while primary fire will hold the saw in a ready position and will swing (slowly, to look more convincing) when it comes into range of a fleshy thing or a wall, dealing damage the entire time its in swing.

Primary fire will be able to deal damage to multiple people at once, but will stop sawing at the end of the swing, while alt fire will do more damage to a single person, but at a higher risk for a kick up; will also be able to keep it firing indefinitely.

I have started animating the model and have recorded a large amount of sounds for it this morning.

I am still very interested.

That's good to hear.

I got a question. Does anyone other than me think the break open shotgun and sawn-off variant should automatically reload after emptying both barrels as opposed to you currently having to push a button afterward to make it reload?

I think it would be a great idea.