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Yes. John Guthrie (CC'd) made a watermelon catapult for playing skeet with.



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From: aaron sabo [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:18 PM
To: Gabe Newell
Subject: hl2 capabilities


hello and thanks in advance to anybody who can answer this for me.

I was wondering if hl2's engine would be capable of simulating a working siege engine built from small parts.
for example it, would roll on wheels, the arm would pull back and release according to the applied tension (using wound ropes), and the object fire would fly according to the tension of the arm and mass of the object.

thankyou again for any help on this subject.
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i'm going to have much fun with this :cool:
 
Don't make watermelon cannons finish the fing game please.
 
http://www.student.smsu.edu/s/san23...ngkidstairs.jpg
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ROFL... ah yes the posibilities.

I plan to incorperate a siege engine into my mod that i hope to be making (and am working very hard at):borg:
 
i think you should make a map where a bunch of chickens walk around randomly, and certain parts of the ground fling them straight up, and you have to shoot them before they splat...

or make a giant mech you can drive and blow stuff up with explosions and fire and anime
 
My mod is going to rock (assuming it ever gets done). it's a fantasy setting (orcs, elves, and some of my own creations).

Imagine a freakin huge troll pushing some massive catapult then picking up boulders or anything else he can pick up then loading the catapult. At this point some smaller unit would proceed to wind and then trigger the machine :) and boom u take out a nice chunk of tower(if u made a calculated shot).
 
LOL dude that pic owns! Do u know that guy or did u find it on a site?
Coooooool Cannons tooo
 
Originally posted by jat
LOL dude that pic owns! Do u know that guy or did u find it on a site?
Coooooool Cannons tooo
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I got it off a site.
 
Wow immagine, real archers with working arrows, real working arrows... wow...
 
medievil mods all over the place
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i got some pretty crazy and unique ideas for my mod that will make it more than just some medieval mod... of course i can't go around openly with everything so ppl can steal all my ideas ;) but maybe soon ill put a site up
 
Originally posted by Cheetarah654
you should make a helms deep map
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Or, if you're bold enough, a Minis Tirith map...that would be impressive. Of course you'd have to implement an animated background...and script a lot of incoming fire.
 
I'm plannin for all the maps in my mod to be very large. I think that there would be at least one map with a city as big or close to as big as minas tirith + i'd include and around it. But I think mostly the maps will be outdoor based.

btw im trying as hard as possible not to copy lotr or wc3 so i will have 2 other "races" that arent elves or goblin, and im not going to try and copy any of the cities or fortressess from lotr but there will be similar maps i imagine.
 
I'm only critical about LOTR, because I'm an avid fan...so, don't take any of this personal. But there are many more races, than elves and goblins. Such as: Men, Wizads, Hobbits, Orcs, Dwarves... And for your more dangerous enemies, you could have the many variations of Trolls, Wargs, the Spiders of Mirkwood...even Balrogs, if you want to get that ''into it.'' And for NPCS; You could include the Eagles, from the Hobbit.

But, you are trying to stay away from all of that. Though, you could still use that series, for a model of some sort.
 
yes, i agree there are many many more races than goblins(orcs and other similar creatures) and elves, but those are 2 of the more common "races". All im saying is that im trying to create a new world, instead of a world within an existing world (middle earth). Of course lotr defines how most ppl imagine creatures such as goblins or elves so there's a lot of influence from lotr, but i hope to have something that i can call unique in the end, and with the source engine theres a lot of ways to be unique.

edit: btw i was thinking about the eagles... it's funny u mentioned that, but i dont think im going to use them
 
I can't wait either ;)

I don't think that any normal human being that's as interested in HL2 as us could wait.
 
Originally posted by Fiddle
Don't you mean.. Balrogs? :cool:
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That's what I said...:cool:

Ok, you got me on that one. I think it's been too long, since I've read the books...
I guess reading them, again, wouldn't hurt.
 
Hurt? No...

It'd damn-near kill me probably. I can never sit down and read long books like that. The longest book I've ever read I think was Black Hawk Down (and that took me all 4 quarters of the school-year. o_O)

BTW - ^^^ Black Hawk Down... good book. I suggest it to anybody that likes to read. :D
 
Yes, it is. I suggest Anne Rice's ''Violin.'' Now, having said that; Let's get this thread, back on topic.



*Slaps self for helping get thread off topic*
 
Just a comment about the simulated bow and arrow thing.....personally i think that would suck.....nobody would take it because the arrows would be flying everywhere, it'd be next to impossible to tell where your shots were gonna go....or maybe i'm just having Tresspasser flashback again.
 
Originally posted by Bleeder
Just a comment about the simulated bow and arrow thing.....personally i think that would suck.....nobody would take it because the arrows would be flying everywhere, it'd be next to impossible to tell where your shots were gonna go....or maybe i'm just having Tresspasser flashback again.
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I think that would be cool.. Large team firing arrows at each other, you'd really have to think ahead to avoid the bad guys and the good guys arrows. And if some are on fire it would be pretty cool watching them arc into the sky and fall back down setting huts n stuff alight
 
A giant siege bow. One of those big ones with the iron arrows that can go through walls.

Or a lemon gun.
 
It'd be REALLY cool if there were a bunch of bots dedicated as archers.......like 20 default archer bots....get a constant hail of flamy arrows like from that one scene in Gladiator at the beggining where they're fighting the germanic tribes.

Oooooooh----> http://www.xenophongroup.com/montjoie/treb_etc.htm

Or....does anybody remember that movie "No Escape" with Ray Liotta, and the bad guy with the three bridge piercings? It'd be cool to do a mod like that on a prison island, using guerilla tactics in a jungle....rigging up working booby traps, like tripwires, or log traps like from the first predator movie. Tiger pits, punji stakes....ah....the possibilties....

http://www.enter.net/~wea1/Trapconstruction_frame.html
 
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