Mac Gaming Mods

2310's comment about the difficulty of tracking flag carriers through teleporters that have entrances in the team's base (viewtopic.php?p=216911#p216911) makes me wonder if it would be feasible (for Samuco) to write a memory modding application that:

- only allows the red team to use the red base teleporters, and the blue team to use the blue base teleporters (and the ability to randomize or change access)
- prevent a certain team from accessing coordinates on a map
- teleport a player to a certain coordinate when they reach a certain coordinate area

In other words, we could probably do a lot more with teleportation than we have already been doing and that the game typically allows with its default netgame flags.

I dont think number two will work, but the rest will probably work.

Restricting teleportation to certain teams sounds like a terrible idea. You'd have to completely re-balance the map the compensate for the added difficultly when you normally wouldn't have to.

rEsTnPeAcEz wrote:I dont think number two will work, but the rest will probably work.

Sparky wrote:- prevent a certain team from accessing coordinates on a map

I wrote a mod called Kill Zones, once. I never released it because I thought it to be useless. If you entered a region, you would slowly/rapidly lose health depending on the settings of a text file. Number two is totally possible with memory modding.

Sparky wrote:2310's comment about the difficulty of tracking flag carriers through teleporters that have entrances in the team's base (viewtopic.php?p=216911#p216911) makes me wonder if it would be feasible (for Samuco) to write a memory modding application that:

- only allows the red team to use the red base teleporters, and the blue team to use the blue base teleporters (and the ability to randomize or change access)
- prevent a certain team from accessing coordinates on a map
- teleport a player to a certain coordinate when they reach a certain coordinate area

In other words, we could probably do a lot more with teleportation than we have already been doing and that the game typically allows with its default netgame flags.

Take a look at the memory mod for 5 team slayer.
1 - You would track the players coordinates and teleport them if they go to a certain location. I had a special version of swordedit that helped me get map locations.
2 - Same as 1. If they go inside a zone then teleport them outside.
3 - The same as 1.

Samuco wrote:

Sparky wrote:2310's comment about the difficulty of tracking flag carriers through teleporters that have entrances in the team's base (viewtopic.php?p=216911#p216911) makes me wonder if it would be feasible (for Samuco) to write a memory modding application that:

- only allows the red team to use the red base teleporters, and the blue team to use the blue base teleporters (and the ability to randomize or change access)
- prevent a certain team from accessing coordinates on a map
- teleport a player to a certain coordinate when they reach a certain coordinate area

In other words, we could probably do a lot more with teleportation than we have already been doing and that the game typically allows with its default netgame flags.

Take a look at the memory mod for 5 team slayer.
1 - You would track the players coordinates and teleport them if they go to a certain location. I had a special version of swordedit that helped me get map locations.
2 - Same as 1. If they go inside a zone then teleport them outside.
3 - The same as 1.

I realized they were all the same task, just slight variations in functionality for ideas.

Implement them by modifying the code in halo and we haz success!