Ace of Nails Official Release

[Wazat]

I recently realized I had never released AoN to the public. Some of you saw the early beta/alpha, but that's it.

Well, I've put it up on moddb.com for download. You can get it here:



The engine comes highly recommended here. Other engines, like Cheaphack, ought to work too. I haven't tried it with fte or plain tomaz yet, but I assume it won't crash or die and will probably look just fine. Scale and Alpha are the important engine features, and the rest is presentation and seeing things the way they were meant to look.

My apologies to the linux folks, I'm not sure if I need to rename everything to lowercase. Stupid windows obsession with all-caps files and extensions. If this is a problem I can fix it.

AoN, Jeht and Best of the Void are the 3 DM mods I'm proud of, both because I made really cool features (like the AoN gibbable corpses) and because I personally think they're a lot of fun to play. I'd like your feedback!

How did you like it? Please enter the poll and leave comments on what could be improved or removed.

[Urre]

I can say this: although I have little time to try it out, I'm still as puzzled about the math behind curving those sparks today as when I saw the screenshots a couple of years back. Are they truly capable of bending in to touch a given spot, or do they just twist randomly from the muzzle?

[Wazat]

It's really just a daisy chain of straight lightning bolt models. I make sure the tips touch as much as Quake's angle precision will let them, and it ends up looking pretty good. The curving line of straight segments ends up looking pretty nice because the models for the segments are jagged and non-straight, so it ends up being really cool.

If I can work up the will to make a Quake map again, I want to do a map that has lightning striking outside often using this code. The lightning will branch out to hit multiple target locations and could look really nice! I could even tie it to triggers so it strikes right in front of the player as he steps into an area, and even strikes monsters.

Edit: And yes, they can curve in to touch a specific point. In a couple of those screenshots they fire out at an angle from the starting point and curve in at a certain amount per segment until they converge at the destination.

[leileilol]

I remember this, it hasn't aged too well though. Some of the weapons feel cumbersome to use (particularily the railgun using rocket launcher, and the lavagun)

[Urre]

[ceriux]

[r00k]

[Wazat]

[leileilol]