Mortars in Ace of Spades [v1.18 released]

[Buffet_of_Lies]

I love hompy's explanatory diagrams.

[Influx]

Well, it's been a few weeks without update, but it doesn't mean things haven't been getting done. I've uploaded a video detailing what's been added to the script.

The newest version isn't released yet, but some of hompy's excellent ideas have been implemented, and comments taken on board. I also based my code for the spectating mode on an early release of his mortar script he shared with me - without it I'd have been lost for where to start.

If you feel like helping out, feel free to stop by my server.

[Vucgy]

Can you make that the player follows the shell or so ?

[Handles]

How do you mean?

[TB_]

Wow, that is so cool. Must be one of the most complex scripts so far!
BTW, what was the point of "shovelling" the mortar so many times before it started firing?

Seemed to me like you shovelled far more times than grenade shit the ground.

[Influx]

Can you make that the player follows the shell or so ?

Even if I wanted to, I couldn't. Everything up until the round exploding is abstracted (nothing really exists but a bunch of random numbers), so there's no shell for the player to even follow, really.

Wow, that is so cool. Must be one of the most complex scripts so far!
BTW, what was the point of "shovelling" the mortar so many times before it started firing?

Seemed to me like you shovelled far more times than grenade shit the ground.

The excess amount of 'shovelling' comes from the cooldown time I've got on the mortar. It can only fire every 2 seconds (and you can change that number for your own server and make it shorter/longer), but I took the lazy way out and kept on shovelling it instead of shovelling it and waiting.

It roughly equates to 1 shot fired for every 2 spade hits in the video. Plus, the explosions only start 16 seconds after the first round is fired.

[TB_]

Ok, thanks for explaining that. And this script is amazing.
Anyway, the sad part is that it's a lot easier to just pop up from a wall and shoot the enemies in the head. And you'd have to be very lucky for this to work.

[CraftDinur]

looks much more simpler than the first time i used them. hopefully we get some server owners to add these onto their servers. such a shame something like this never got implemented into the actual game.

[10se1ucgo]

Wow, great! I'll be sure to host the v1.18 version when it comes out!

[Influx]

Ok, thanks for explaining that. And this script is amazing.
Anyway, the sad part is that it's a lot easier to just pop up from a wall and shoot the enemies in the head. And you'd have to be very lucky for this to work.

Well this script was never intended to be used solely to kill people (and that's why you need to kill people to earn 'rounds'). Say the enemy has a well-defended fort that your team can't get near. You can bombard them safely from a distance and destroy the structure, and maybe take a few out as well.

looks much more simpler than the first time i used them. hopefully we get some server owners to add these onto their servers. such a shame something like this never got implemented into the actual game.

Well Hompy has done them nicely on Sham's server and they've had a positive response. His are, and probably always will be, easier to use than mine, but I always inteded the mortars to be a specialist role anyway. I'd love to see mine hosted on a full server and give them a try.

Wow, great! I'll be sure to host the v1.18 version when it comes out!

Well it's out now, you can download it from the main thread in the Server subforum.

[10se1ucgo]

Wow, great! I'll be sure to host the v1.18 version when it comes out!

Well it's out now, you can download it from the main thread in the Server subforum.

Great! Installing now.

[filtratedbread]

I have a ideas...

...that might let you be able to swich from a voxel based morter, to a kv6 based one...


What if you temporarily replaced the .kv6 of a object (like the shovel or weapon in hand) with a sever-sided (or auto client download) verson of something similer to this...
http://buildandshoot.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=777

... over to a morter, shells, and other morter content, on morter equip?

possibly you might be able to swich the .wav's on weapon sounds and replace them with morter sounds even...

(further thought, if we could temporaly re-wright the keybinding codes
(guessing by using a sever trigered .bat, or just a .dll; not sure which is best for the task yet)
on equiping the morter we could keep the player from walking by removing WASD bindings

then again, I saw you used the spade as a imput source so maby not...)

next idea,
what about placeing a certain block color on top of the "tube" for both ammo type and loading/firing, and eraseing it on firing?
Then you get 50 shells, and a need for supplyment...
and maby to avoid the enviroment being canabilised for ammo
you disabled block removel.

combinement of ideas:
reuse the shotgun class (no one uses its under-power-ness awayway),
replace the .kv6 of the shovel with a morter one,
maby remove the shovel (and maby WASD) keybindings when it(now a morter) is equiped and have the mouse keybinds
as a script imput for whatever the morter does (im guessing as an automatic: enter->"command")
just swap the sounds for the shotgun if a similer script in the link can't be made.

Awsome Nice script, by the way!

oh, and sorry I don't have an amazing graphic as well ...
haha

[rakiru]

That would require a client mod, and if you were going to mod the client, you'd be better off just adding mortars properly.

[TB_]

If only Ben added support for auto-downloadable kv6 files from whatever server you join before he left...

[rakiru]

If only Ben added support for auto-downloadable kv6 files from whatever server you join before he left...

If he had, it would've been in 1.0, so really you should be wishing Jagex didn't fuck up the game.