Metal Mayhem is coming

**Geoffrey S** · 06-11-2006, 10:01

Glad to see it back on track. It looked great when you posted updates, and it's good to see someone certain about what they can and can't achieve in RTW.

**Bwian** · 06-11-2006, 21:47

To quote one of my favourite maxims...

Theory informs, but only practice convinces.

I make a point of actually doing something before I advertise it on the forum

Progress update:

All essential custom animations are now finalised. I have improved on some of the 'walking' animation attempts I had before, and added the swimming routines for the roller anims. I have opted not to have seperate animations for 'hover' units, since I did not think they fitted well either as units or as models on screen.

I have also brushed up the main combat aniimation routines.

Base : Just brute force slugging. With or without weapons

Claw : Power claw type attack. Claw blades 'snip' when striking

Buzzsaw : Spinning disc cutting blade in place of a right hand.

Driller : Rotating drill. Rotates in the opposite plane to the cutting disc.

All of the above attack animation 'top half' units can be placed on any of the bottom half units... so you can have walking drillers, rolling cutters...and so on. Since they are seperate, I can also scale up or down each section, and have size variations. So...I can make a 'claw' bigger on a stock 'walker' and make a dreadnought. The same with a cutting disc makes a Killa Can type of thing.

Any of the 'ordinary' robot chassis can be upgraded to use these weapons once you build the factory upgrade, and this just entails swapping an animation and adding the physical weapon to the mesh.

Next BIG job will be to convert the map and building stuff over. I might leave the map till later! Lots to do.....and so little time!

**snevets** · 06-11-2006, 22:50

It's good to hear this is going again, I was always interested in it. I heard you gave up on rtw though for awhile due to an accident.

**Bwian** · 06-12-2006, 08:06

I gave up on just about everything that involved use of my right hand until the physio was done and I could hold a mouse at all! Took a few months to sort itself out, but now it's pretty much back to normal.

I don't see any point in waiting for MTW2 to come along, so I might as well get cracking with this mod again! I can't think of any other mod I would rather be working on

**Duke John** · 06-12-2006, 08:26

Very clever! A mod for a game about ancient warfare in which you can upgrade weapon systems of robots and actually see it on the battlefield

I can't think of any other mod I would rather be working on

NTW2, Lord Bwian?

Just kidding, of course do whatever you like best, and this mod sure seems to get your creative juices flowing!

**Bwian** · 06-12-2006, 20:40

DJ ...I hadn't forgotten that

I have a few tasks to complete on that score in my spare modding time!

This mod is more of a creative 'build what you like' mod, rather than trying to make something that has to look exactly like what it is supposed to be!

But...to elaborate slightly on the build trees:

Each faction will be able to build a small selection of common units. These are the 'basics' with very limited combat use.

Each 'basic' can be upgraded. Build an 'Armoured Alloy Plant' and you can then build 'basic' and 'armoured basic' with a model showing base mesh plus armour plate. Then you can build 'servo upgrade' and have the basic unit or the armoured unit plus a power-claw. Power claw equipped troops will have a bonus against walking units. Next, build a powered weapon add-on, and you can add drill or cutting disc equipped unit.

For laughs, build a large chassis factory, and build scaled up basics.

For bigger laughs, build a Titan chassis factory.

I have also considered the possibility of making certain designs only buildable in certain territories, but I don't want to complicate things to the point where the AI just can't use the thing!