OldUnreal (Engine)

WTFS is singularity?

Singularity - A point in the universe where the density of matter and the gravitational field are infinite, such as at the center of a black hole.

Basically, the Singularity Cannon is a blackhole gun. It makes the DOOM BFG and Quake 4 DMG look like Dispersion Pistols.

That explains why you only get it at the very end of the game...

Yeap, but nothing prevents you from summoning a few It would be a great replacement for Redeemers in UT. If there was a Redeemer and SC 1on1 battle, I'm sure the guy with SC would win, because all the enemy's Redeemers would be thrown into another universe. Or at least the course would be altered dramatically by the Event Horizon, making the projectiles useless.

But wouldn't Singularity Cannon kill its user too? :-?

For some reason, it doesn't (some reason = a check if the actor isn't the Instigator ).

Would it technically be possible to recreate this in Unreal? Can you have a weapon that kills specific actors (Lights, pawns ect..) within a certain radius?

Would it technically be possible to recreate this in Unreal? Can you have a weapon that kills specific actors (Lights, pawns ect..) within a certain radius?

Lights are static and cannot be changed outside of unreal ed. Killing all pawns within a certain radius is simple.

Just a note: I once set Engine.Light's bStatic and bNoDelete to False and it crashed the client, although the server was still up and Stalker didn't crash.

As for destroyable lights, you could make a class that acts just as a light, and possibly use a mutator that replaces all instances of Engine.Light with ThatPackage.ThatClass. Although I don't know would the latter work.

Just a note: I once set Engine.Light's bStatic and bNoDelete to False and it crashed the client, although the server was still up and Stalker didn't crash.

As for destroyable lights, you could make a class that acts just as a light, and possibly use a mutator that replaces all instances of Engine.Light with ThatPackage.ThatClass. Although I don't know would the latter work.

It would not. You cannot change a static object. You've already discovered what happens when you try. You can make a custom map, use triggerlights, and do ingenious mapping stuff to make it so lights/whatever can be destroyed by a specific gun. You can make a copy of an existing map and modify it like that. But you cannot modify lights, or any other static object, in existing maps.

So the closest we can get is creating a Carbon-Copy of a map, with the destructible lights?

So the closest we can get is creating a Carbon-Copy of a map, with the destructible lights?

In short, yeah. In long...well, also yeah.

I started to remake stock maps on my PC but can't work on them now, but I'll start from beginning on the laptop. Things like merging SkyCaves with SkyTown and throwing some parts away, while adding new ones, etc. And while I'm at it, I'll have a look what can I do with the lights.