Crazy idea... is this possible?

[sullview]

Okay, in honor of Sui's news posts I will communicate this idea with badly made pain drawings.

The idea, basically, is that each team has a tower on opposite "walls" of a large indoor box arena.

The base of each tower and the floor surrounding it are each a center of gravity. Basically, this means that when a person on one team looks "up" they'll be looking "down" on the members of the opposing team. Teams climb their towers, and, by jumping across an invisible tradeoff point between the two "gravities", they fall down onto the opposit tower... jump up into the ai from the top of one tower, fall down onto the other tower. Get it?

Is this even possible? I can only imagine the absurd gametypes it would invite, and I'd really like to know if hammer is capalbe of such maps. Thanks in advance,

Sullview

 

[Selkcip]

That would be sick! I too have wondered about using source to screw with the laws of physics, but have no idea if it's possible.

 

[Para]

Doable by some coding in a mod. One possible way to do it would be to create the gravitational plane as a huge portal or if it has to be a specific point one could orbit, then it'd be some coding to achieve "magnetic gravity".

 

[simon]

I think pretty much everythings possible.. just find the coder who can do it.
There are a number of mods with wallwalking, and after seeing what Garry did with his mod and seeing Portals why wouldn't this be possible?

 

[Unarmed]

It needs coding yes... Firstly to get gravity to bahave like this (So that a phys item that is launched "high" enough from one of those towers will start "falling" "upwards")

Also you need some coding to roll the player. HL2 always keeps players head pointing up and feet down, and you need to override that somehow.

So this really belongs in the coding section and not the mapping one, since the map can easily built if you have the right entities.

 

[Penguin929]

Could you do a teleport and camera+screen with two upright towers; a crappy way to do it without coding maybe.

 

[Unarmed]

You could give the "image" of the other tower being there that way although it wouldnt look right and it wouldnt look good.

And then if you do it like that you cant shoot the other guy or throw stuff at him (maybe throw with a teleport) and then what is the point when its now working and hella ugly?