New teleportation code I made (preliminary version)

Remeber my rant about how teleportation did not belong in Zerok? Well, rather than just being the useless guy who rants about everything, I decided to code my ideas into reality. xponen ended up doing most of the work, however. (Thanks for the code, xponen) Anyway, here's the code

http://pastebin.com/2TRPpea2

This is my version of unit_teleport.lua .Rather than automagically teleporting units, it uses it's newton-like powers to toss them across the map, then slow them to a stop so that they don't die on the recieving end.

The result of my ideas is a Unit Cannon, not unlike the Noah unitcannon from SupCom2. It's just too cool to watch.

There are a few rough edges on this code (currently it does not find the optimal launch angle for transport, and as such sends units flying higher than it needs too. But it does get them to the drop zone safely every time.

This code is dedicated to all the Scallops that died during testing. May they rest in pieces.

quote: This code is dedicated to all the Scallops that died during testing. May they rest in pieces.

lmao
Off topic: what happened to scallops? they used to rule land and sea, now they can't even kill a glaive swarm... I think launching them is the only useful thing u can do at the moment...
Anyway, RIP xD

Stick it on some new unbuildable unit (use some other unit as a base if you like) in the SVN so people can test it out.

My code is not a new gadget but a new version of unit_teleport.lua . This gadget is tied pretty heavily to the Djinn/Lighthouse pair, so I can't really just stick it on a new unit. To try it out open up unit_teleport.lua, delete the current contents, and paste this in: http://pastebin.com/2TRPpea2

I would very much like to commit this to the SVN dev repository, just so people can see it and try it out. I don't have commit access, can anyone commit it for me?

Yanom, I played with that gadget and found out why unit misses the jelly.

Because the jelly only update every 8 gameframe.

I suggest moving the jelly checking outside:
http://pastebin.com/2Pb8rmkm (i tried it, and putting it outside, work)

Update:
It have been commited here: http://code.google.com/p/zero-k/source/browse/trunk/mods/zk/LuaRules/Gadgets/unit_teleporter.lua?spec=svn8474&r=8474

overwrite existing version xD

have commit xD
overwritten old version xD

it is which ZK version yanom? just wanted to make sure about something.

EDIT: okay, maybe we couldn't get that info

UPDATE: actually I renamed the launching version to "unit_teleporter(2).lua" (enabled=>false) and somehow it effects the older teleportation version "unit_teleporter.lua" (enabled=>true). I thought it was safer to do 2 copy, but this came up. So I'll make the launching version the primary again :D

i propose this as the design behind the cushion!

it spits the units out the mouth XD

Sudden moment of panic: units mid-hijump are still active, right? right!? Flying warlord + space altitude bonus!?

quote: omg... is this really possible? shooting from space?

local function interruptTeleport(unitID, doNotChangeSpeed) says we have found our new mega-newton. You don't even have to sacrifice the launcher. Just undeploy it :P