WIP survivors! (warning large images)

iambecomelife · 03-10-07, 01:13 AM

Excellent. If you are willing/able to add this thing as a unit like DivingDuck's debris I would really be interested in seeing different uniforms for the human figure - say, a stoker, ship's officer, soldier, civilian passenger...

Survivors as a unit would have major possibilities. On the date of the sinking of the "Laconia" or "Bismarck" or whatever we could script in large numbers of them at the appropriate latitude and longitude - not thousands, obviously; a couple dozen would suffice.

As for other objects, how about having liferafts and life rings? Wooden planks, unused life vests, and oil drums would not be out of place either. You could also have a crewman model that is not clinging to a box, since the life vest alone would keep him afloat. There could be life jacketed figures arranged in a ring - survivors would sometimes clip their vests together to try and make themselves easier to spot.

Alex · 03-10-07, 05:43 AM

Great ideas, mate !

thefretmaster · 03-10-07, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Excellent. If you are willing/able to add this thing as a unit like DivingDuck's debris I would really be interested in seeing different uniforms for the human figure - say, a stoker, ship's officer, soldier, civilian passenger...

Survivors as a unit would have major possibilities. On the date of the sinking of the "Laconia" or "Bismarck" or whatever we could script in large numbers of them at the appropriate latitude and longitude - not thousands, obviously; a couple dozen would suffice.

As for other objects, how about having liferafts and life rings? Wooden planks, unused life vests, and oil drums would not be out of place either. You could also have a crewman model that is not clinging to a box, since the life vest alone would keep him afloat. There could be life jacketed figures arranged in a ring - survivors would sometimes clip their vests together to try and make themselves easier to spot.

thanks for the ideas. i actually have quite a few of these already, albeit not finished but they are there.

the man you see in the pictures is dd's barrel with a different model so it can be scripted as a unit in the mission editor just as his barrel can be. the .dat file for dd's barrel already has 4 different textures that are chosen randomly so i can add atleast 4 (if someone could instuct me on how to increase the amount of textures i could add more)

a man with no box would be easy to do, i would just get an existing man from the game and change his arms. so he is not holding an invisible weapon. as for a link of men in a circle, would you prefer this as one model? this could be done, however it might have an impact on the game.

i have a liferaft (you may have seen it on dd's debris thred) it is based on a one man luftwaffe raft so i could put a man in it with a pilots uniform or just have it empty (or both ofcourse)

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Would be nice to know the trigger and be able to mix debris and survivors.
Ref asked once about a trigger awhile back but I never saw anymore
about it.

i dont know about this, do you mean that you could randomly have different units floating to the surface?? the dat file for the in game debris has space for i think 5 small boxes and 3 large boxes, i think this suffices for a good mix. again if more objects could be added this would be good.

thanks for looking and keep the ideas coming!

Kpt. Kozloff · 03-10-07, 07:26 AM

Seriously good stuff thefretmaster.
I'm looking forward to a developement of this mod.

thefretmaster · 03-10-07, 07:29 AM

cheers
i have some other work to do first =, but i will continue work on this asap, i hope to add the dinghy this evening

03-10-07, 08:36 AM

I just finished implanting extra textures so, along with DD, Cobalt, Ref, and others I'm sure teaching you to add textures won't be much of a problem.
Nice to see we have moved beyond the "should we-shouldn't we".

thefretmaster · 03-10-07, 08:41 AM

yeh nice one mate

03-10-07, 10:55 AM

Maybe we could grab one of the dock people
that wave and add them into this.

Give them a more real feel!!

03-10-07, 01:13 AM	#1
iambecomelife Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 4,710 Downloads: 300 Uploads: 0	Excellent. If you are willing/able to add this thing as a unit like DivingDuck's debris I would really be interested in seeing different uniforms for the human figure - say, a stoker, ship's officer, soldier, civilian passenger... Survivors as a unit would have major possibilities. On the date of the sinking of the "Laconia" or "Bismarck" or whatever we could script in large numbers of them at the appropriate latitude and longitude - not thousands, obviously; a couple dozen would suffice. As for other objects, how about having liferafts and life rings? Wooden planks, unused life vests, and oil drums would not be out of place either. You could also have a crewman model that is not clinging to a box, since the life vest alone would keep him afloat. There could be life jacketed figures arranged in a ring - survivors would sometimes clip their vests together to try and make themselves easier to spot. __________________ https://www.facebook.com/WolvesoftheKaiser/

03-10-07, 05:43 AM	#2
Alex Dominant Wolf Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,143 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Great ideas, mate ! __________________

03-10-07, 07:26 AM	#4
Kpt. Kozloff Frogman Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Jersey - Channel Islands, UK Posts: 305 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Seriously good stuff thefretmaster. I'm looking forward to a developement of this mod. __________________ GWX1.03/Cmdr2.7/plus all sorts of tweaks

03-10-07, 07:29 AM	#5
thefretmaster Officer Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: filton england Posts: 246 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	cheers i have some other work to do first =, but i will continue work on this asap, i hope to add the dinghy this evening __________________ Check out my band www.myspace.com/retrostate

03-10-07, 08:41 AM	#7
thefretmaster Officer Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: filton england Posts: 246 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	yeh nice one mate __________________ Check out my band www.myspace.com/retrostate

03-10-07, 08:36 AM	#6
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I just finished implanting extra textures so, along with DD, Cobalt, Ref, and others I'm sure teaching you to add textures won't be much of a problem. Nice to see we have moved beyond the "should we-shouldn't we".

03-10-07, 10:55 AM	#8
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Maybe we could grab one of the dock people that wave and add them into this. Give them a more real feel!!