Future Map Concepts

Inphidel · Post by **Inphidel** » 03-12-2003 19:09

heres a new idea i've dubbed Moon Boots

basicly there is an area in the middle that is lower gravitys. there are boost pads which should only have enough power that with all 3 jumps to reach a littler farther then its destination as show with the lines. might be fun. I dunno how to do jump pads or anything. so if anyone wants to map it go for it. i got other stuff on the burner right now. but thought i'd post the idea whiles its in my head.

Armagon · Post by **Armagon** » 03-12-2003 19:28

There would be a lot of ball resets with that particular idea, I'm not sure if many people would like it.

Post by **DavidM** » 03-12-2003 19:29

this one looks way too adventerous, there wont be any gameflow, i tell you

Inphidel · Post by **Inphidel** » 03-12-2003 19:32

Yeah I was thinking of maybe instead of falling to death there just be a lower level

tho i'm not sure if i'd want people to be able to run around under the higher ones.

Armagon · Post by **Armagon** » 03-12-2003 19:34

Perhaps what you could do there, is to have a laser grid that the ball doesn't fall through, but the players do. So there is still the solid ground for the players but the ball doesn't reset a ridiculous number of times.

Post by **DavidM** » 03-12-2003 19:34

inphidel, that would be worse, falling down all the time would get damn annoying
i dont really see much potential in this layout, but feel free to try it, i just think the flow would suck

Inphidel · Post by **Inphidel** » 03-12-2003 19:35

hmmm that could work too. just hafta taste so its still possible to retreive the ball if it comes to rest on the grid. but with a bit of low gravity i doubt the ball will ever stop moving

good call guys.

Armagon · Post by **Armagon** » 03-12-2003 19:36

I think I'm going to have to agree with DavidM on this one.

Inphidel · Post by **Inphidel** » 03-12-2003 19:39

::shrugs:: - i'm bound to make it. hopefully it'll atleast get a test drive, it'll be a learning experiance at the least for jump pads for me

- the other low grav idea i posted with the small hole sin the wall for goals idea is 60% complete. i'll post some screens later. i'm not sure how it'll work out but its pretty cool feeling.

Inphidel · Post by **Inphidel** » 03-12-2003 19:42

oh shwing! however.. this just gave me another idea someone else should try out

for a limboish looking dbw map losta floating islands in space?

Post by **DavidM** » 04-12-2003 02:06

no.....x_X
all this is not working with deathball

Mentat · Post by **Mentat** » 13-12-2003 06:38

How about an arena that is an ellipse with goals like in DB-Hole placed at the...shoot, forget name now, the two points where any lines drawn from point to curve to point is always same length - anyway, the ball shot from one goal to the other in any direction will (if shot hard enough) go into the goal...

Could make for some hectic gameplay with long-shots enabled

Mentat · Post by **Mentat** » 13-12-2003 06:39

remembered now, just seconds after last post:eek:

foci (singular focus)

Geometry...bad...

Mayer.hun · Post by **Mayer.hun** » 13-12-2003 10:13

The Y shape sounds interesting... it is a harder jounrey from your penatlty zone to the enemy goal if u want to go and get the ball from it's reset spot. I think a Map with normal goals (not like in DB-Hole) would be interesting, And it's worth a try.

Good Idea Mentat :p

Mentat · Post by **Mentat** » 13-12-2003 23:24

Well, not so much a Y-shape as a squashed circle. Time to break out the mad Paint skills...

Anyway, the length from one of those dots to anywhere on the edge to the other dot (d1 + d2) is constant. Also, if you throw the ball from one point to the wall, no matter where you throw it, it will go toward the other goal (unless you bannana)

It should be pretty simple to make a test map - just have to find my math book that told me how to find the foci.