To all programmers here:

[campinge]

Hey, guys, i got an idea.
do you remember the pirate films, where the camera is flying besige the ship, the flaps are opening and the cannons came out?
I'd like to add such a function to the game. not the camera, the cannons <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

for using it should be just a little butten that sai's 'Ready for fight' or something and when it's beeing used, the cannons will come out.

my requesting is, if you could write a little program, that says Start animation 'guns' and i'll try to add this function to my surprise. if this will work, i'll try to add it to all other ships.

 

[fudge dragon]

Well i have a good idea how this would be done but as it uses perks and the button commands I have no idea how to do it. One thing though! you defenately need to add a trigger to buildSettings.h as I would always forget to open that.

Imagane this, right at the end of the game against slihards manowar you give the order to fire, and your 1st mate runs up to you and tell you "you forgot to open the hatches Cap'n" :sink <-- You need a sink emote but never minf you get the picture

 

[Merciless Mark]

its not doable at this time, its been discussed before, but ship animations arent currently possible as i understand it.

 

[horationelson]

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just a little butten that sai's 'Ready for fight' or something and when it's beeing used, the cannons will come out.
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Sirs,
The correct term would be "Clear for action"

 

[Merciless Mark]

i'd say "beat/pipe to quarters"

 

[campinge]

how can you say that this isn't possible "yet" ? if con or anyone else can write me the program code, i'll try to do that and find out if its possible or not.

 

[Merciless Mark]

ships dont have/cant have animations at this time.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Ships do have the sails animated, but they're generated automatically by the game. Animations triggered by the pressing of a button only works for characters and it is hardcoded for those. Although this would be great to see ingame and have it as a mod, I don't think it is possible at all. You'd have to rewrite the engine for that and I think only Akella knows how to do something complicated as that. We can't even access the code that is hardcoded in the .dll files! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" />