[Mutator] MorphBall [FINISHED!!]

[legacy-WMS]

Here's the required info, screenshots, and download link:


Info
This mutator is very simple, it allows you to change the staticmesh the ball in BombingRun, Deathball, or Find The Ball, or pretty much anything that uses the BR ball. Thats all it does, simply and effectively. The mesh is automatically scaled, so you dont even have to worry about that, and it has been fully tested online.


Screenshots
http://www.wsheppard.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/william/mods/morphball/rockball.jpg

http://www.wsheppard.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/william/mods/morphball/spikeball.jpg

http://www.wsheppard.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/william/mods/morphball/oiltankball.jpg

http://www.wsheppard.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/william/mods/morphball/tdball.jpg

http://www.wsheppard.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/william/mods/morphball/plusball.jpg


Download
Download here (http://mods.spambox.co.uk/morphball/morphball.zip) -- 4KB.

Enjoy, please post feedback.

PS: The "balls" look big in those screenshots, and that's cos I was close to them when I took the screenshots. The "balls" aren't actually that large.

[legacy-Tweak-fragger]

haahahahahahh looks awsome bro HAHAHAHA

[legacy-jo3]

lol, nice work =)

[legacy-51mmz0rz]

haha, this is awesome. I hope some servers start using it. It's a nice original idea too. Nice job.

[legacy-acc]

Great job :up:

[legacy-Iceburgs]

Gonna have me some fun with THIS mutator. Wheeeee! :)

[legacy-Teddie]

great stuff.

It's little extras like this that keep it interesting.

Keep makin' em.

Thanks!

[legacy-Kirin RiotCrash]

Nice mutator. This could be full of laughs when you pick the right staticmesh to use. :D

[legacy-WMS]

What are your favourite ball meshes? I particulary like the SpikeBall and RockBall ones I've posted in ym screenshot. Theres nothing like playing DB or BR with a rock :)

[legacy-Beefypeanut]

NICE WORK! I really like this its very very fun! haha.

[legacy-WMS]

Modsquad MorphBall Review (http://modsquad.beyondunreal.com/review.php?id=102)

[legacy-Ejen34]

Looks interesting...downloading now....:)

[legacy-PT357]

can u use a caracter as the ball??? would be fun to shoot gorge in the goal... hehehe... keep these mod comming!:up: :up: :)

[legacy-Shatorb]

Originally posted by PT357
can u use a caracter as the ball??? would be fun to shoot gorge in the goal... hehehe... keep these mod comming!:up: :up: :)

Thats a great idea!! I was also thinking you or someone else make a static mesh that more resembles Metroid(aka morphin ball. And Is set to morph one random person from each team. Then while being the ball to shorten you sentance as the ball if you team scores 3 in a row he Morphs back to 'normal' and then another random person is chosen. Your goalies should be the killer pits, like from some bombingrun maps the pit was right under the goal.

[Wormbo]

It's called "Static" Mesh for a reason. Static Meshes can't be animated, so you can't use player meshes or a "morphing" ball at this point.

[legacy-bigtoe]

Why dont u give us a list of standard meshes to use!!!

[MorphBall.MorphBall] BombMeshString=E_Pickups.SuperKeg


I see this one works but, Why dont u give us as many more
standard ones you can come up with so we can go right into it!!
U know the ones everybody allready has installed!! :up: :up:

[legacy-bigtoe]

Yea this is a hit!!
Heres the first one i tried!
ADD BulldogMeshes.S_Chassis

The ball will be a little bulldog Chassis! LOL!:p :p

[legacy-bigtoe]

I can see in the static mesh browser some 1000+
different possibilities!!

But maybe if U could supply like 10 good ones for people
Who might not be so in tune with finding the mesh strings in
the editor!!:up: :up:

[Wormbo]

Be a little patient and wait for the next version to be finished. It will contain a selection menu with about 12 good static meshes for the ball.

In the meantime try some meshes from the following short list:

E_Pickup.TrippleDamage (similar to the double damage mesh)
E_Pickup.BombRing (the rings around the bomb ball, but no ball)
WeaponStaticMesh.FlakShell
WeaponStaticMesh.LinkAmmoPickup
WeaponStaticMesh.RedeemerMissile
XEffects.GibBotHead
XGame_rc.BallMesh (the bomb ball without the yellow rings around it)
XGame_rc.DomAMesh
XGame_rc.DomBMesh
XPickup_rc.AdrenalinePack
Citadel_Static.BalloonBall (a shiny metal sphere)
Citadel_Static.citadelballoon (the spike ball from the screenshot in the first post)
Citadel_Static.citadelballonb (a shiny version of the spike ball)
Citadel_Static.CitadelCactus (a cactus)
AbaddonHardware.ABCAtowertopdecos02
AbaddonHardware.RoxDoA (a black rock)
AboreaHardware.ArenaPlatform01
AboreaHardware.goopGatherer01
BarrenHardware.MiscRock01BA
BarrenHardware-epic.rec-snake-disk


Erm... you get the idea. ;)
(I didn't check for typos or playability.)

[Wormbo]

Before I get more emails/PMs: I'm not the author of this mutator. Please don't send me requests or suggestions. ;)

[legacy-WMS]

Originally posted by bigtoe
U may have tested these meshes online non dedicated
but in a dedicated server to client format I think U will have trouble with it. I tried quite a few and was unsuccessful! I was able to get the dompoints A and B to work and the bulldog rearwheel to work and the pickups I think work, but triple
damage doesnt work or the balloonball spiked or not, doesnt work.and many others I tried didnt work! I believe net code and bstatic are the 2 issues which will prevent this working! Now I was able to see the meshes in a nondedicated game but I had no clients in other than myself! I am very familiar in setting up
the serverpackage and also was very careful in transfering the right wordage into the ini and or mesh configuration to start!
I was also able to get the download of the .u file from the server
but Like i said dedicated and non dedicated are 2 different things! I think the stuff u will find to work are the common Bstatic=false stuff like a bulldog wheel or a pickup or a dompoint
but fixed meshes like rocks and stuff u use to build maps wont work because there non movable! Dom points and pick ups move with the player controller and the bulldog rearwheel is part of a movable pawn I think anyway! So Im using the rearwheel as the br ball, but I think this mute may not get too much air time!! like i said U test it like I do! Start a dedicated server then enter that dedicated server as a client either via lan or another connection and then tell me which meshes work!!

Did you read the readme?

Add a serverpackages=meshpackage line in your ini for the mesh package you're using. Then it'll work.

[legacy-WMS]

Okay, just to prove a point, I have started a BR server at unreal://62.30.88.234:7777

This server is running morphball, with the BarrenHardware.MiscRock01BA rock as a ball.

I've added the ServerPackages=BarrenHardware line to my servers INI file, and... OMG! It works!! ;)

Please read the readme, that's what it's there for :)

[legacy-bigtoe]

I Should have looked and followed your directions MY Mistake!
Sorry ill delete the other thread responses! Dam I knew I missed something:cry: :cry:

[legacy-bigtoe]

Can U delete my quote please in bold print Thank u!!

[legacy-§uper-]V[oose]

Can anyone give me some more names of statics. Ued doesn't like Voodoos. :(

[legacy-Fisch]

Hi!

Nice Mutator. I love it. Looking forward to a new version.

[legacy-Fisch]

And how can i view the Static Meshes Files?

[legacy-px2so]

It has same number of polygons as the original object right?

[Wormbo]

Originally posted by Fisch
And how can i view the Static Meshes Files?
Use the Static Meshes browser in UnrealEd.


Originally posted by px2so
It has same number of polygons as the original object right?
It uses the original model, so yes.

[legacy-Fisch]

Originally posted by Wormbo

In the meantime try some meshes from the following short list:

E_Pickup.TrippleDamage (similar to the double damage mesh)
E_Pickup.BombRing (the rings around the bomb ball, but no ball)
WeaponStaticMesh.FlakShell
WeaponStaticMesh.LinkAmmoPickup
WeaponStaticMesh.RedeemerMissile
XEffects.GibBotHead
XGame_rc.BallMesh (the bomb ball without the yellow rings around it)
XGame_rc.DomAMesh
XGame_rc.DomBMesh
XPickup_rc.AdrenalinePack
Citadel_Static.BalloonBall (a shiny metal sphere)
Citadel_Static.citadelballoon (the spike ball from the screenshot in the first post)
Citadel_Static.citadelballonb (a shiny version of the spike ball)
Citadel_Static.CitadelCactus (a cactus)
AbaddonHardware.ABCAtowertopdecos02
AbaddonHardware.RoxDoA (a black rock)
AboreaHardware.ArenaPlatform01
AboreaHardware.goopGatherer01
BarrenHardware.MiscRock01BA
BarrenHardware-epic.rec-snake-disk


Erm... you get the idea. ;)
(I didn't check for typos or playability.)

Hi!

I can´t get the Citadel_Static.citadelballon Static Mesh to work at my server.

This is my entry in the ut2003.ini file:

[MorphBall.MorphBall]
BombMeshString=Citadel_Static.citadelballoon

What is wrong?

[legacy-WMS]

serverpackages?

[legacy-Fisch]

Hi!

No, but with the one from the readme it works without the serverpackage

[MorphBall.MorphBall]
BombMeshString=E_Pickups.SuperKeg

This works for me.

[legacy-Fisch]

Hey, it works! Thanks for this tip.

I add Citadel_Static to the Serverpackages.

[Wormbo]

Packages used in a map (E_Pickups is used in any map) don't need to appear in the ServerPackages list. The Citadel mesh would have worked in CTF-Citadel if that map was a BR map.

[legacy-Fisch]

Hi!

Yes, it was BR-Anubis.

Now i know what´s wrong.

[legacy-Chuklz]

Not working for me-

UT2003.ini

[Engine.GameEngine]
ServerPackages=MorphBall
ServerPackages=Citadel_Static


[MorphBall.MorphBall]
BombMeshString=Citadel_Static.citadelballoon


All I get is the keg
:mad:

[legacy-Chuklz]

tried-

[MorphBall.MorphBall]
BombMeshString=Citadel_Static.General.Citadelballo onb

Works locally but not on the dedicated server.

:( :(

[legacy-!Wicked DUDE!]

i like to trhrow the redeemer rocket around

Weaponstaticmesh.redeemermissile

[legacy-dumbass]

Originally posted by Shatorb
Thats a great idea!! I was also thinking you or someone else make a static mesh that more resembles Metroid(aka morphin ball. And Is set to morph one random person from each team. Then while being the ball to shorten you sentance as the ball if you team scores 3 in a row he Morphs back to 'normal' and then another random person is chosen. Your goalies should be the killer pits, like from some bombingrun maps the pit was right under the goal.

LOL! :haha: :up:

[legacy-WMS]

ker bump :)

[legacy-Shatorb]

Originally posted by dumbass
LOL! :haha: :up:

good idea, no?

[legacy-MikeSobe]

Does the "ball" still have sphere properties if you change it, or does it act like the shape? I.E the rock, does it bounce at different angles or like a sphere? If you made it a cube, would it roll or slide? Does anyone know what I am asking, if not I will try to explaine better. (Even thought the appearnce of the shape has change do the physics change with it?)

[legacy-§uper-]V[oose]

I'm pretty sure it behaves like a normal ball.

[legacy-WMS]

Boing.

Up from the depths of the forums again!

[legacy-EvILCaNNON]

Lol

I guess I should have looked at the thread post dates, because I found the file already on UT2003HQ (http://www.ut2003hq.com/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=1806) and was uploaded months ago.

I got all excited and thought I found a new file to upload, now I'm all disappointed. :cry:

[legacy-Fisch]

Hi!

Can i use this mut for ut2004 or are there any changes?

[Da Spadger]

I'm bumping this thread, mainly because it rules.

And yes, you can use it for UT2004!

[legacy-Cat-E_<frEsh>]

uhh looks nice and a good thing for our "Ultimate BR Fun Package" (details on www.bombingrun.org )