Jefenry's Pocket Billiards

Jefenry · Post by **Jefenry** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:12 am

Originally this was intended to be a fun, easy project to do over Thanksgiving Break. I'm not sure how playable it is, but is is mildly fun to fly through and blow up bots. With -set _friction 1, and -set _tankSpeed 75, the tanks are borderline out of control.

Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

Edit- Oops, I must not have clicked submit when I added the new map this morning... Sorry.

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:29 am

Wow, those balls have a really low face count, perhaps you could add more. Other than that, great work.

CUPCAKE · Post by **CUPCAKE** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:04 pm

Oh wow that is nice... Maybe set up large invisible walls around it (if you haven't already...) and put large 3D people outside waiting for their turn, and one person getting ready to hit the cue ball? Of course, thats making it a bit complicated

Jefenry · Post by **Jefenry** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:32 pm

PETER wrote:Wow, those balls have a really low face count, perhaps you could add more. Other than that, great work.

It is pretty low, but I really don't know what's an acceptable number of faces. This morning I changed the balls to 12 x 12, and the map turned out to be around 300kb. That seemed awfully high, so I redid the balls using soft lines. I think they look a little better, and the map's a lot smaller.

CUPCAKE wrote:Maybe set up large invisible walls around it (if you haven't already...) and put large 3D people outside waiting for their turn, and one person getting ready to hit the cue ball?

That should be fairly easy to do with a skybox, but finding the right textures might be a problem. Maybe though. It would look cool.

CUPCAKE · Post by **CUPCAKE** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:15 pm

Things can't always be perfectly smooth. Its usually best to not have too many faces, because it takes up a lot of space. My first map using wings was over 1000kb, luckily less than 1024kb (1mb). This was mainly because I didn't realize how many faces I was putting in.

ducktape · Post by **ducktape** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:20 am

Looks good! Awhile ago me and AVM were Trying to Team up with LouMan and make something like this. But i like it. Keep up the good work.

zaa · Post by **zaa** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:46 am

Nice one Jefenry!

Very creative.

What would be cool is that if that in each pocket was a teleporter that lead to another spot on the map... Well, nevermind my ideas.

Hope to see more from ya!

-Zaa

F687/s · Post by **F687/s** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:15 am

> What would be cool is that if that in each pocket was a teleporter that lead to another spot on the map... Well, nevermind my ideas.

Yeah...too bad horizontal teleporters aren't implemented (And vertical ones wouldn't have the same feel).

As far as my notes go, I'm not sure how much of this map is to be _played_ as much as it's to be _looked at_. From the screenshots, it just looks like a flat board with some balls to ricochet against. But I will have to play it to find out for sure.

soccermiles · Post by **soccermiles** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:54 pm

I think It's a pretty good map, just turn down the sliding a little tiny bit!

ahs3 · Post by **ahs3** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:13 am

its up for now at ahs3.no-ip.biz:5000

Thanks

--ahs3

F687/s · Post by **F687/s** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:57 pm

I played it. Reminds me of Quidditch.

ducktape · Post by **ducktape** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:39 pm

I think that if you fall into a pocket it should shoot you down to the end of the table with one of those moving bridges like on BloodBath (I cant remeber what they are called) and then pop you back onto the table.

CUPCAKE · Post by **CUPCAKE** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:44 pm

That would certainly be interesting... But probably not that easy to do. I don't think that I fully understand though...

Jefenry · Post by **Jefenry** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:11 pm

ducktape wrote:I think that if you fall into a pocket it should shoot you down to the end of the table with one of those moving bridges like on BloodBath (I cant remeber what they are called) and then pop you back onto the table.

That would defeat the point of the pockets! One of the original intents of this map was to really require accurate jumping. If you are going too fast and land on the outside edge, there's not much you can do to keep from going over the edge. The same with landing too close to a pocket.

I attached the latest map to my original post. It's nothing new than what's already hosted, but I've been too preoccupied with exams and kind of forgot about it.

bolon manik · Post by **bolon manik** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:50 pm

i have an idea for this map but i don't know if its possible or if you'd like it.

But if it would be possible to have the bullets not kill another player but rather push them as a cueball would another ball on a real pooltable. then the goal would be to actually pocket your opponents.

The sliding could be a real help here. and some flags like ricochet would be funny and machine gun very pursuasive(spelling?). other flags like laser and gm would be useless though.

Also it might be difficult to have scoring system as the server would do all the killing.

Anyway its just an idea and it sounds fun to me. i do like the map already as it is. i'm a big fan of slidng surfaces. just a pitty that those kind of maps don't get played much. i really don't know why?

Joe-Schmoe · Post by **Joe-Schmoe** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:27 pm

That sounds like fun, but I don't think the game can handle things "pushing" tanks.

hamburger ham · Post by **hamburger ham** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:34 pm

That wouldn't be possible... The easiest thing to do it make physics to make is seem like that (unlikely) The bullet pushes you into the pocket right? You get killed in the pocket anyways, so, whats the point