Valve Announce Alien Swarm

[no00dylan]

Oh noses she gonna eat u with har vagana

[MNM]

Oh noses she gonna eat u with har vagana

Ohoho she has an attack where she sprays tentacles out of there too

[Preamp]

Tried to convert Jeanette from Vtmb to Alien Swarm :O
but it uses the same thing as l4d where it forces the game to load the models from the games vpk files
(not addon vpk's)
could have been cool tho

[Terr]

BTW, I believe there is an server-side asw_* cvar that allows the host to turn on the AI director.

So if anyone is getting bored with "predictable spawns"...

[Valar]

what AI director?

[ErikKiller]

That's quite cool but she's a bit too naked. (Seriously, get some more armor on her)

what AI director?

Does it work or not?

[babbaloerie]

Has anybody seen this yet?

[source-maps]

That's quite cool but she's a bit too naked. (Seriously, get some more armor on her)

too naked? hah! there is no such thing

[ThePain]

I tried turning on the Director with no luck.

Looking at the director debug it would go through the motions- Detect how well each player was doing and rate them, and said it would be spawning new waves in, but nothing was ever actually spawned.

too naked? hah! there is no such thing

This is what's wrong with the game design industry.

[ErikKiller]

That's quite cool but she's a bit too naked. (Seriously, get some more armor on her)

too naked? hah! there is no such thing

Sorry 'bout that - too much blood got into my brain.

[Jangalomph]

Particles don't work. Nothing i try will work.

[source-maps]

too naked? hah! there is no such thing

This is what's wrong with the game design industry.

erh.. this is what wrong with man in general.. it's not really a game industry thing

[Nullvector]

I tried turning on the Director with no luck.

Looking at the director debug it would go through the motions- Detect how well each player was doing and rate them, and said it would be spawning new waves in, but nothing was ever actually spawned.

I just generated a random tilegen map using the example theme to test out the Director. While looking for the command to turn on the director, a horde attacked me! I turned on director_debug and saw that it was already doing its job, no commands required.

So I checked out the vmf for the map and it seems the trick is asw_director_control. This entity has options that allow the director to spawn hordes, random wanderers, and even take over control of the static spawn points placed in the map.

It seems the default campaign either doesn't have an asw_director_control, or it does but all the options are turned off. So while we can't play a Director driven version of the default campaign, custom campaigns can in fact be director driven, or even a hybrid of both systems.


Pretty awesome.

[Phott]

Dear gawd that's awesome, I gotta try and make something.

[Nonowa]

so uhh, do we phong on LightmappedGeneric textures now?