Author Topic: Armor Quadrants?  (Read 5287 times)

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Offline headdie

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This is another feature that we had to cut due to time pressure. Including it would require a complete overhaul of the damage and shield code which just takes too long.
We however might have the chance to make use of existing but not final code to change the number of shield quadrants. Since over time WC ships had a different number of quadrants here, sometimes 4 sometimes 2 this should be interesting for modders who want to include ships from different wc eras.

The armor layer however will not be included at this point, but rest assured that the damage a ship can take will be handled in a way that the gameplay doesn't suffer and will feel enough like wc3 :)

If any coder is willing to give this a shot though, go ahead. but we cannot guarantee that you'll be able to finish in time for us to use it and we will not delay release for this feature, and including it is far more complicated than you might think.

Any one have anything new to say on this?
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Not that I have anything to do with WCsaga, but Tachyon used a 2 shield quadrant system
instead of 4. So if this was worked on we might have some use for it down the road.

In the last 6 months or so we got all our shield icons converted to 4 quadrant, so it's sort of
so-so on the interest list... but it would be more accurate to the universe.
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