[Colonol Dekker]

I had a totally random thought. Is it possible to implement this as a SEXP or a weapon flag to simulate a black hole or a <doc evil> "gravity bomb" </doc evil> for either i would hope you could set the "pull" and increment over time so whoever enters the area of effect has at least a chance to "turn and burn" to escape. The damage could be handled in a seperate sexp and flags but i thought this would be an interesting line of thought.

[Colonol Dekker]

Anyone3 know what i'm trying to convey?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Point singularity weapons?

[lostllama]

You mean like a gravity well that can snare a ship? And the force is stronger the closer the ship is to the source of gravity and weaker the further it is away from it?

Hmm... tractor beams!! 

[Colonol Dekker]

You mean like a gravity well that can snare a ship? And the force is stronger the closer the ship is to the source of gravity and weaker the further it is away from it?

Yeah, either by SEXP or for a weapon flag.. <doc evil> "gravity bomb" <doc evil>

It'd be nie to have damage start say after six/sevenths towards the centre of the well.  killing the victim upon reaching dead centre.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Used with the time compression sexp you could also give the effect of time slowing down as you approach the center. 

[Colonol Dekker]

Whoop!! 

FUBAR Aproves Time dialation = an aspect i hadn't thought of.

Hopefully this is all doable in chunks for 3.6.11

[WMCoolmon]

I'm not sure but I thought someone had already done stuff with gravity in the code. I know for sure that there's been a script done for artificial gravity, but I'm not sure that it's acceptable for public release or not.

[Goober5000]

Gravity points are on my to-do list.  Some of the flags are already in place, but most of the code hooks are not.

[JGZinv]

Bax has been working on different tractor beams as well. Might want to touch base with him.

Maybe I'm not on the same track, but I believe this could have implications for beam weaponry as well.