Droppods

[Ivan2006]

modular system FTW!

[҉]

TNT drop pods are called 'bombs', by the way.

[Keon]

Are they? Interesting...

[ACH0225]

Will bomb bays be blast bores or big bomber bays? And by blast bores I mean like drop tubes or missile tubes.

[Keon]

Drop-pods. Now, with explosions and fire particle effects!

[fr0stbyte124]

Will bomb bays be blast bores or big bomber bays? And by blast bores I mean like drop tubes or missile tubes.

I don't think that is something which needs to be pre-defined. If we have the capacity to shoot things out of missile tubes, it shouldn't need to be context sensitive to launch bombs. Same goes for dropping them out of a door, assuming they are entities with physics.

[Keon]

Droppods are like boat or minecarts. If you want them to drop from a launch tube, they can. If you want to drop them from a chute out the back, you could.

[fr0stbyte124]

Can you make them latch onto rails if present?

[Keon]

I suppose I could, but I don't know if that fits with droppods. I'm working on having dispensers place them.

[joykler]

but it would be cool to hang them on powered rail
but then i think you should add the possibility for rails to hang on the sealing
so a drop pod can hang on it that would be far nicer

[Ivan2006]

but it would be cool to hang them on powered rail
but then i think you should add the possibility for rails to hang on the sealing
so a drop pod can hang on it that would be far nicer

I think we are replacing rails and minecarts with something else.

[joykler]

hmm
cant you just leave this then maybe change the texture
because i like it very much
why cant you have minecarts with a roof that are air thight
so you can ride on rails without air

[Keon]

Fun fact, droppods are really easy to direct in flowing water. Just found that out. So if that counts, there's that as an option. I'll work on minecart rails after I get a demo launcher.

Also, TIL that you can jump on entities if they are set to never move out of the way.

[fr0stbyte124]

@joykler
Normal rails can't go up walls or ceilings, which is going to be a problem in FC. They are fine for now, though.

@Keon
Yep. And as it happens, minecarts were like that before SMP as well. It was only disabled because the lolphysics system would stop the player's movement before calculating the pushing force on the following tick, so each cart moved like it weighed 10 tons. A lot of my minecart inventions were ruined the day they switched it over.

[joykler]

but cant we make it possiblle to let minecarts hang from the ceiling
maybe there would be no witch between the two but you can make them hang and have an magnet kind of effect right