Creating Different Playable Races with different features.
by Joshua Shoemaker · in Torque 3D Professional · 05/11/2011 (7:56 pm) · 2 replies
Does anyone know of any good resources or references that could help start off with the following?
Creating Different characters that you can choose from when you start the game/log on.
Giving each character different abilities, like higher jump, being able to use different items, restricting some so they cant swim, flying, etc.
And the different characters would all work a different way. Using different and similar abilities, but with different animation. Some would be short but move quickly, others would be tall slow on foot but great in water, some can roll fast along the terrain, others can use launching pads to fly for short intervals, etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
Edit (Different Features):
Is there a way to stop a specific player/race from swimming through the data block?
Is there a way to make a certain race/player fly for a few brief seconds?
And is there a way to make a certain race sprint, using a new animation other that sped up walking.?
And if so, how might one do it?
Creating Different characters that you can choose from when you start the game/log on.
Giving each character different abilities, like higher jump, being able to use different items, restricting some so they cant swim, flying, etc.
And the different characters would all work a different way. Using different and similar abilities, but with different animation. Some would be short but move quickly, others would be tall slow on foot but great in water, some can roll fast along the terrain, others can use launching pads to fly for short intervals, etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
Edit (Different Features):
Is there a way to stop a specific player/race from swimming through the data block?
Is there a way to make a certain race/player fly for a few brief seconds?
And is there a way to make a certain race sprint, using a new animation other that sped up walking.?
And if so, how might one do it?
#2
05/17/2011 (9:28 pm)
Thanks for your help, I was able to figure out the choosing of the other races, however im still trying to figure out how to make the other features for the different races. 
Associate Michael Hall
Distracted...
Most everything will simply be setting up the various player datablocks for each race. Once you have the datablocks and properties adjusted how you want it's simply a matter of letting the player/client pick their desired race in a gui screen and modifying the spawn function when joining a server to spawn the client as their chosen player class/race.