Landing craft
Posted: 2008-12-17 03:48
I saw LCACs suggested but not the more traditional kind of landing craft.
I believe they are called landing craft-tanks or landing craft-utilities and they are just like the landing craft that were used in world war 2 except alot bigger to accomadate vehicles and large amounts of infantry. The US marines use them and so do the british. This is an example:

If we had one of these in game this is how i think it could simulate dropping off vehicles on a beach within the limitations of the bf2 engine.
1: the landing craft is modelled with for example, a hummer as a static inside the craft. this static would actually be the landing crafts "ammo" except that instead of being like a missile or bomb, it would be a hummer static.
2:when the landing craft hits the beach, the drive would "fire" off the ammo, which would make the hummer disappear. then at the same time a real hummer would appear on the beach in front of the craft similar to how vehicles appear from firebases.
so it wouldnt look pretty or seamless like this:

but it would probably be the only way it could be done with the bf2 engine.
OR
we could just use the landing craft for landing infantry, as the previous suggestion still may not be possible for some reason

maybe even make the craft a spawn point? it would be limited to only travelling in water so i dont think it could be abused too much and would help simulate the fact that these ships can carry way more than 8 people
I believe they are called landing craft-tanks or landing craft-utilities and they are just like the landing craft that were used in world war 2 except alot bigger to accomadate vehicles and large amounts of infantry. The US marines use them and so do the british. This is an example:

If we had one of these in game this is how i think it could simulate dropping off vehicles on a beach within the limitations of the bf2 engine.
1: the landing craft is modelled with for example, a hummer as a static inside the craft. this static would actually be the landing crafts "ammo" except that instead of being like a missile or bomb, it would be a hummer static.
2:when the landing craft hits the beach, the drive would "fire" off the ammo, which would make the hummer disappear. then at the same time a real hummer would appear on the beach in front of the craft similar to how vehicles appear from firebases.
so it wouldnt look pretty or seamless like this:

but it would probably be the only way it could be done with the bf2 engine.
OR
we could just use the landing craft for landing infantry, as the previous suggestion still may not be possible for some reason

maybe even make the craft a spawn point? it would be limited to only travelling in water so i dont think it could be abused too much and would help simulate the fact that these ships can carry way more than 8 people
