[haunter]

Originally Posted by VulcanP2P

EDIT: Could you make some sprites for when it will be active (purple) and it the air? I was thinking I can have the player click the top of it then throw it. Once it lands on the ground it would flash red for a second and then make a big explosion.

Yeah, just for clarification for everyone. The grenade flies through the air closed... Rolls/Bounces a short distance on the ground to upright itself, and then it opens and flashes red before exploding.

Vulcan also suggested to me on AIM that the colours of the grenade be darker, saying it would better fit Zone. I don't play Zone so I don't know... Maybe he's right. But I figured since the weapon is more futuristic (Using energy waves, and not gun powder, or TNT like we can today) it would be better if it were a bit brighter, and shinier... Kind of like how on Halo all of the human weapons resemble weapons we have today, and are all black... Where as the Alien weapons are more technologically advanced and have bright colours on them. I thought it would be a worth subject to discuss here... Thoughts?

Originally Posted by Stefan

It looks nice. We need to work on the explosion though, any ideas for the graphics? We could eventually use light effects to simulate a wave starting from the middle?

The particle thing Vulcan mentioned might work good... I wouldn't know I haven't used v4... And I'm under the impression that it's still in the testing phase. Perhaps until v4 is mainstream the use of a light effect would be a good idea. I tried making one, hosted here. It might not have the right perspective, I tried to make it seem like it was parallel to the ground on Zone... If it's not right, someone else could try. Either way you can use a ring light effect along with a Zoomeffect to make it spread out, and get dimmer as it gets wider.

Originally Posted by haro41

sorry i dont play zone much or visit the zone board but yeah that looks pretty good. at least better imo. yeah zone is dark, but not on Icera.

either way i like your grenade shape.

Hahaha, I don't play Zone either... I haven't been on Graal in a couple months. I'm guessing Icera is the snow world? I forgot about that. The black outlined version definatly looks different, thanks for the tip... maybe it will help it out on Zone. I guess some Zone staffer can decide whether or not they use the one with an outline, or the one without.

Thanks for the compliment.

Originally Posted by csod123

i like the different core idea, definetly have a confetti one

Yeah, for the more basic cores I was thinking this:

Basic Core:

Wave Radius: Average
Core Warmup Time (How long it flashes before it explodes): Average
Disorientation factor (How long you're knocked down for, and how long your keys are scrambled for): Average
Chance of HP Damage from Blast: Average

Sweeping Core:

Wave Radius: High
Core Warmup Time: High
Disorientation factor: Low
Chance of HP Damage from Blast: Average

Concentrated Core:

Wave Radius: Low
Core Warmup Time: Average
Disorientation factor: Average
Chance of HP Damage from Blast: High

Refined Core:

Wave Radius: Average
Core Warmup Time: High
Disorientation factor: High
Chance of HP Damage from Blast: None

Flash Core:

Wave Radius: Low
Core Warmup Time: Low
Disorientation factor: Average
Chance of HP Damage from Blast: Average


Note: This is just a rough draft to explain the idea... Each core would have to be balanced properly later on... It might not even be a good idea to use some of these types of cores... But you should understand what I'm thinking of now.

But yes... I agree. A confetti core for sure. I don't really know why people would use them though XD. Perhaps for taunting. They'd just be funny.