Sneak Peak - New Mod for Wolf ET (open beta planned 2014)


(acQu) #1

This is a new mod i have been working on the past months.

//youtu.be/fAM7WurZRa0

It is still very buggy, as one can see. Also the quality is not so good. But not so bad either.

Mod is based on sdk-plus, also developed by me and can be found at https://github.com/acqu/wet-sdk-plus

Comments, disaster recovery (aka “you just killed ET”), all welcome. I tested this just with a couple of friends so far, and the communication seems to work great.

Hoping to ship this some time around spring, 2014.


(Nail) #2

great concept so far, gl


#3

Wwaaahhhooooo:D

The mod is great, but ithink its in use on F/A hardcore. or?


#4

Wwaaahhhooooo:D

The mod is great, but ithink its in use on F/A hardcore. or? am I wrong as usuall…

Later written: yes I’m I played there and the game started to load a pk3 with peak in the name but it failed to load and I played there later and there was no new mod just the latest silEnT…

Mistake of me, sorry


(Mateos) #5

[QUOTE=oveove;483315]Wwaaahhhooooo:D

The mod is great, but ithink its in use on F/A hardcore. or? am I wrong as usuall…[/QUOTE]

If it is in dev, it can’t ve used atm ^^’

@acQu: Nice work! You can use services like EndlessVideo to loop a YT music, nice one btw :slight_smile:

Thanks for keeping new stuff landing for ET /o/


(acQu) #6

[QUOTE=oveove;483315]Wwaaahhhooooo:D

The mod is great, but ithink its in use on F/A hardcore. or? am I wrong as usuall…[/QUOTE]

I don’t play there, but if they have also something like it, then great :slight_smile:

Thanks Nail. Concept is pretty much done, what i didn’t show so far is the backend, i would say it is even better. I am just worried a bit about memory. Hoping i do not hit that famous hunkmegs. So far i allow i maximum of 120 different skins loaded, spread on 4 different skintypes: rankicon, helmet, face, body. This makes up more than CoD Ghost combinations, as far as i saw in one of their presentation videos about their system. (not that i play in the same league, but its a funny fact ^^).

[QUOTE=Mateos;483316]If it is in dev, it can’t ve used atm ^^’

@acQu: Nice work! You can use services like EndlessVideo to loop a YT music, nice one btw :slight_smile:

Thanks for keeping new stuff landing for ET /o/[/QUOTE]

Haha, yeah. I just recorded this with music in background :slight_smile: Was way too lazy for that ^^


(acQu) #7

[QUOTE=acQu;483317]I don’t play there, but if they have also something like it, then great :slight_smile:

Thanks Nail. Concept is pretty much done, what i didn’t show so far is the backend, i would say it is even better. I am just worried a bit about memory. Hoping i do not hit that famous hunkmegs. So far i allow i maximum of 120 different skins loaded, spread on 4 different skintypes: rankicon, helmet, face, body. This makes up more than CoD Ghost combinations, as far as i saw in one of their presentation videos about their system. (not that i play in the same league, but its a funny fact ^^).[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Mateos;483316]If it is in dev, it can’t ve used atm ^^’

@acQu: Nice work! You can use services like EndlessVideo to loop a YT music, nice one btw :slight_smile:

Thanks for keeping new stuff landing for ET /o/[/QUOTE]

Haha, yeah. I just recorded this with music in background :slight_smile: Was way too lazy for that ^^


(system) #8

what’s with the coins? other than that i think the skin changer is good! maybe a skin change for the weapons :smiley:


(WuTangH) #9

Looks nice now… cool idea these Barracks…

My tip would be:
Dont make too much skins, so we will know who is axis and allies… or just stay in span - Axis-black and Allies-brown. :slight_smile:

Skins at some mods are really mess o.O


(acQu) #10

[QUOTE=WuTangH;483349]My tip would be:
Dont make too much skins, so we will know who is axis and allies… or just stay in span - Axis-black and Allies-brown. :slight_smile:

Skins at some mods are really mess o.O[/QUOTE]

Very good point and i have taken great care to not handle this problem my own :smiley: That means, i leave that decision up to server admins, who are in power to config, add, remove, change, not add at all a skinpack from one minute to next. So it is a plugin approach i take here (if all goes well of course, because i am still not sure about some things). EDIT well, stuff goes well, and i have the system already in place, i can exchange packs, load a new one from one minute to next, but overriding of game data is still an open question, i am sure if two admins create different skinpack with same name, the server will reference the right one. If there are unexpected problems, then …

But very good point. I think big advantage of this approach is that i don’t need to make money of skin customization or anything, and can allow people to add what they want (don’t have to worry about the image of ‘my’ game).

Still, i am pretty sure people will blame the mod if admins are actually creating a mess :smiley: … oh well … :slight_smile:


(Micha) #11

Maybe you could add a new gametype. I think it would be cool to have a deathmatch gametype with random spawns on the map. This will fit with your different skins. :slight_smile:


(system) #12

Micha that is type of gametype with random spawns is available in nitmod :stuck_out_tongue: even with added team death match features!


(Mateos) #13

Yeah, turn it into a CoD mod! /sarcasm


(system) #14

tbh i wouldn’t say the skin choice is very good, maybe if you made it like countrys, such as the Russian German Poland British American Cuban and i know some servers have there own country skins so yeh :smiley: oh and Japanese !


(acQu) #15

It’s a testskinpack :slight_smile: Not found country skins so far, simply not had enough time. Created some flags on face skins some time ago … if you have good skins, show them to me, i will do a standard pack when release.

There is more you can do: for example, you could create a clantag skin on the rankicon, then allow it only for people with certain adminlevel. Also, you will be able to password protect skins, and hand out password only to single persons. Or assign them weekly awards, or give someone a cheater skins, or or or … lots of possibilites. I think what i would do is create admin/clan tags on the rankicons, unique faces to persons, awards to helmets, etc etc.

And, hm. I haven’t fiddled with this yet, but you can also make a shader instaed of pic for every skin. As far as i see the game first looks for shaders, then for pics. So this might also be something. Like a firehelmet or something, don’t know … get creative :smiley: My personal wish: a starcraft 2 ghost/phantom kinda thing, with that nice blue or red lines blinking every few secs, on engineer.


(ailmanki) #16

This might be of interest for you :slight_smile:
(ueber old mod)
Custom player faces basically.
http://nekron.free.fr/lonewolf/rtcwet/


(acQu) #17

Nice one. Even clientside mod. My mod is serverside also, hehe.
Some of these are also in: http://forums.warchest.com/showthread.php/35771-kiss-head-skins

I am sure there are a lot more, but just do not have the time to look them up. Especially i think wolffiles site has some flaws there. No pics on the files, you always download cat in the sack :frowning: Am looking especially for rankicons, hehe.


(stealth6) #18

Maybe I missed it, but what’s the goal of this mod? What are you working towards? Is there going to be a gamemode with this skin system or are you just experimenting?


(acQu) #19

Gamemode? Hm … Explain this please :slight_smile: Why there needs to be a game mode. The skinsystem is plugin capable and configurable. If you do mess things up and make teams indistinguishable then it’s not my fault :penguin:

Goal is, to make a skinsystem, add another cool feature to it, and then work a bit on the backend, for example i plan to make lots of changes to the Lua script system, so it gets more powerful. But that’s about it. Nothing more planned for now. Gameplay will stay vanilla ET, so you will not see, for example, the Kirbyfaust or something other crazy. That is planned for a wolfteam mod i plan with thunder.

So please explain why there has to be another gamemmode? :slight_smile:


(stealth6) #20

Well in the video I saw the skins and the coins and I thought maybe there is some story / gamemode behind it. Can you run this mod together with another mod? (like you can with etadmin mod)