(Idea) boats+havock Options

[Screaming_Dude_In_Vegas]

(originaly posted on official ES forums by me)
[quote]Well Chances are they will have some sort of way, probably (or maby) through scripting, to put force in a direction (because of havock), as it would have numerouse applications in the game.

So Boats Float, right?

If you've played HL2, you see that certain things float, and move if force is aplied to one side, but in a more fluid, sliding motion than if they were on the ground (just like in real life).

So the whole idea is to simply script somthing so that it aplies force to part of a boat, and let havock do the rest. This would probably only work for small boats, nothing larger than a longboat.

Still, it's anough to give wannabe pirates like myself a hell of a time.[/quote]

OK, I might actualy do this one, I just gotta learn how to apply force in a game enviroment. I have one question:

Is it most likely to be s cript comand or somthing else? I probably will do it ifit's a script comand, and might get creative if it's somthing else (sheep powered water wheel anyone?) But I think I might just to this, as long as I use stock ship modles.

What do you guys think?

[Screaming_Dude_In_Vegas]

[quote=9of9]Well, once you figure out how to make it so that the player can make a self propelled, steerable ship that can swim in the water and - most importantly - how to get forces to act on it at will (propulsion, steering etc.) its only a matter of tweaking to get one to stay up in the air. Ideally, some sort of negative weight value would give us something floaty, but otherwise something could be figured out to make it fly (like maybe a script that changes the upthrust values in accordance with altitude... by placing some sort of upward force towards the top of the balloon and a self adjusting altitude script you could probably make the ballon bob up and down around the desired height).

The good thing about these ships would be that, unlike the Fishing Academy mod, you could also place items on them (and maybe people, if the whole frictionless thing is somehow resolved) without them sliding off when the object moves due to Havok (as well as having them be thrown overboard when a particularly large wave hits the ship!)

I want sea... with waves :shocked:[/quote]

Well I have kindof a messy answer to the friction bit:

doors and rooms

Sure, everything might get jumbled, but imagine having a magical scrib that re- organizes everything with a simple comand! (just have scrib with the right dialoug options and a script that re-positions the object)

The player could stay in an invisible case.

Also we might have "Sticky" comand...Somthing like Gary's mod for HL2 (just downloaded it, load of fun, can you say combign chorusline?? what about floating chain of The G Man?)

Other thing (probably easier) is to just have a door linking to an interior cell, with random slight wave movement. This wouldn't feal anywhere as good, but it would do the trick neater.