There were too many past threads about turning APCs into ducks, and doing boats instead of aircraft and such that I thought it would make more sense to start a new thread listing them than to bump any specific one. http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=6846 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=8697 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=10789 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=4242 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=6984 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=5884 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=11538 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=9259 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=2305 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=2589 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=5302 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=2379 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=9299 http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=7819 Those are in fact not the only threads wanting boats, but they are the most prominent ones. The second one in that list has a poll associated with it, if you haven't voted yet. Many people believe aircraft was near a good idea to begin with, and now that no one actually believes it will get into the game, a much simpler and balanced idea like boats might have a chance to move up the todo list... P.S. anyone who thinks, hasn't played that one game... What's it called?.. HalfLife 2.
would you have to make maps with areas that are half flat and half water for boat vf's to be placed? )D ) = water D = flat and yes, boats would be hella cool, and who knows, maybe easier than air vehicles? as long as there's a clone of the hover boat thingy from half life 2 as the 'light speedboat' version then i would be happy
So you had boats in HL2? Well, I only found hover crafts, but k ... if you're able to prove me wrong go ahead ... if not ... HL2+boats=fail ... becasue: either the water would have to be low or the models would be half filled with water ... ofc you could do models which have a unaccesable huge lower half or something but i don't know if that wouldnt bug and it would be ... well huge ... /me stares at nf heavy ... ummm ...
i haven't seen a single hover craft in the entire hl2 all i saw was a propeller operated raft, also ships in source is very doable, ive had mods do it quite well and if you take the flat bottom approach you can make them be usable on most maps with over 20% surface is water then again we shouldn't hope on fancy things like this since its not the mods direction
no, it works like a raft the floaters keep it upright and floating, the propeller propels it the fact that its a propeller for a small aircraft of some sort (or one of those swamp rafts) does not change the fact that its a raft just as one of those swamp rafts stay rafts even because they have about the same propellers to them i wanted to explain how a hovercraft works but this picture does more then a thousand words from me
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/images/thumb/c/cb/400px-Prop_vehicle_airboat.jpg picture of the half life 2 airboat, its technically an airboat as it does not hover, it is partially in the water, but could function on land.
It does not depend on how it actual works, but where it works, if you make boats which can drive on land ... well ... then they are amphibious right? the HL2 raft is like a hover craft amphibious, a boat is normally not amphibious ... (Rafts in RL are not that amphibious either)
Krenzo had a concept somewhere that he showed on an interview...but for the life of me... *scratches head*