[WB][M] Ballista

[HomerJay]

Hello, I'm developer of the Mercenaries mod (www.mbmerc.com). Now I'm trying to implement a small deployable ballista/great crossbow. The code is almost ready but I'm not an artist and I can't create a good mesh and texture. That's why I'm asking you to make the resources. Mercenaries is an open-source project so everything will be available for the community. If you're interested, please look the details.

Video: http://youtu.be/A62J4Ls3Mgs

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A ballista consists of 5 scene props:
ballista_base - static
ballista_middle_part - rotates around Z (vertical axis)
ballista_upper_part and ballista_upper_part_ready - controlled by a camera
ballista_winch - rotates around X


It should be a medieval ballista, not a roman scorpion. It could be something like this (source):


Triangle limit: 2000
Texture size: 1024+

[Comrade Temuzu]

Sweet Jesus.

[Al_Mansur]

It is great, and the model looks quite decent. Thanks.

[Beobart]

I can do a model for this project if i may, not sure if i can do that today but i would do that this week.

[Patta]

Are you going to make the script open source by any chance? I was planning something like this too

[Beobart]

Holy crap read the first post.

[Patta]

Well, sry, I stopped reading after "mercenaries is...", because I though he would give a mod description there and I know the mod already. I never knew that it was completely open source, though. Has been some time since I played.

[xenoargh]

You just need this skinned, correct? 

If yeah... I could see trading time doing that nicely for having the code nicely packed up for OSP;  I think a lot of people could use this. 

Big question: can bots use it?

[Sayd Ûthman]

I think he needs brand new models. and i highly doubt that bots can used as it's made for a multiplayer mod

[Sahran]

Holy balls, I hope someone helps the man along because that's damn snazzy. Not just the code to achieve it but also that you have it go into a 'first person' mode that'll make aiming incredibly easier compared to some of the more rough and tumble attempts at artillery type pieces in the past.

I think it may be possible to have the bots use it, just somehow code it so an AI stationed on the gun behaves like he's an archer.

[HomerJay]

You just need this skinned, correct? 

If yeah... I could see trading time doing that nicely for having the code nicely packed up for OSP;  I think a lot of people could use this.

I just need a mesh and a texture. It's better to make a new great crossbow but also you can make a low-poly variant of the existing mesh.

Big question: can bots use it?

No, bots can't use it because I'm making it for the multiplayer mode. But I think it shouldn't be very hard to "teach" them how to use it.

[Apsod]

Wow, very nice Homer

[SvenssonHD]

Ballistas? Sieges? Awesome! Looks really great, good luck!

[Refleax]

Ballistas? Sieges? Awesome! Looks really great, good luck!

Indeed!

[JabdiMelborn]

...Nice work...!

ciauz^^,
Jab