A way to make destroyables work.

[SniperGoth]

So, i was thinking here on how destroyables could be implemented, and came up with this:

The turret, if you decide to set it as melee only, scale 200, it becomes an sort of wall/remote bomb, if you think about it.
My idea is: Someone makes an wall like model, quin gets the turret's code, brings it for the "wall/bomb/destroyable" actor, sets it for melee only, and changes it to face one direction only.
Then, in-game, you will see a sort of wall thing. If you shoot it, it gets destroyed, or it gets scaled down to 0, like it happens with the normal turret, debris fall, so the player can pass through the obstacle.

It could be spawned in non-onslaught matches.

Opinnions?

[SylvieLorxu]

Reusing the actor code for health would probably be the easiest way to make destroyables work. I would assume quin to have already thought about this, but just being able to set a "health" option on models sounds like the simples solution for users, even though it may still feel out of place (as it won't look like "normal" walls, etc.)

[stroEkris]

Using health for static meshes to emulate destruction. Hmmm, maybe it is possible to create breakable glass? Probably, but the glass would have to be a static mesh, not material.
The problem with this is that static meshes have this different "shade" to them. They do not receive shadows from map geometry, mapmodels/static meshes and themselves. They look out of place because of this.
Most of those game engines which use lightmapping can store the lightmaps into the static meshes as well. Cube 2 engine can't do it unfortunately.
Here, let me show you what I am talking about:

[Ac1dBuRn]

Looking at the picture I thought: but what if "destroyed" object could generate on the impact point a "particle" which make a "faux" shadow overlay?
Or could be the lightmap of the map with the "already broken item" be generated "under" the object? Pardon my blasphemy, I've discovered RE only recently.

[unixfreak]

[restcoser]

...which was unfortunately abandoned in favor of hardware compability and development time efficiency.
Well, I will still dream it will arrive someday maybe a 2.0 option *-*

[stroEkris]

[restcoser]

[qreeves]

I am not a "programmer", I know barely enough to enable the work I do, which is mostly just gameplay logic and tweaks. All other reasons aside, I would never be able to port to Tesseract without having to start from scratch, as the codebases are incompatible.

[Ulukai]

Destroyables would be great, but I think it will be very difficult if not impossible to have them work with the calculated lightmap. Either we need destroyables without any form of shadow, or can it be done in the same way as the player shadow is cast?

[SniperGoth]

No need to make things complex. Just use the normal player's shadow style for the "wall".
It's like i said, wall actor's health gets to zero, gets scaled down to 0, then debris fall. Simple as that.

[Greaserpirate2]

[qreeves]

[acerspyro]

Why not just make Cube 2 evolve to make it become tesseract-like (Hence making Cube 3)

[qreeves]

Cube Engine 2 will eventually see upgrades to newer OpenGL contexts, etc. So, it isn't quite dead yet (and RE), and it seems to suit our purposes anyway.