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In this thread, we discuss weird findings with meteor's engine that can be potentially used/abused to create somethings that were not meant to happen in meteor but we can do it anyway, I'll start by listing a bunch of things that I have used in mods of mine:
-1 Projectile sighting: Meteor WW3 - Any unit other than the player that uses a weapon with a projectile that has -1 speed, the bullet line is displayed followed with the projectile sprite right at the tip of the gun. (This was used to create fake muzzle flashes when enemy units attacked the player)
Attack Triggers: Meteor WW3 - Creating a unit that is allied and has a tiny amount of health with a sprite that is entirely magic pink, which will render it invisible in-game, though enemy units will still see it, and attack in its direction (This was used to make Big Mechs appear to shoot the walls of buildings they were trapped inside to escape, a more obvious use of this trick was used in my map "Caughtyard" where allied rocket troopers fired at an enemy laser turret conveniently placed near destroyable tiles so as to break you out of a prison cell)
Land Mines: Crater - If you make a tile's special trigger to "trigger explosions at link tile" and make the Used Tile, and Link Tile the same tile, walking over it will trigger an explosion to itself, damaging the player. It does 30 damage.
Animated Doors: Mankind - Similar to the "Hard to Destroy" tiles, except using special door triggers instead.
Breakable Glass: Mankind - Make a 'glass tile' (Solid, appears clean and untouched), a 'damaged glass tile' (Solid, appears very cracked) and a 'shattered glass tile' (Land, appears to be just glass shards on the floor) Make the 'damaged glass tile' a door, with it's used tile being the 'shattered glass tile'. then make the 'glass tile's' destroyed tile the 'damaged glass tile' That way when you encounter a glass wall, it is solid until you fire at it. Then you can walk through it, breaking the glass, similar to Half Life 2 and Counterstrike Source. You can make the door activation sound like broken glass too for added effect.
Short Range Explosive Weapons - Projectiles typically dissappear if they reach their range without making contact with something, however, a projectile that has the "grenade bounce" property explodes whenever it reaches its range.
Map Hubs - Being able to exit a level, and go back to the level you previously came from. Start by making "map1A". Lets say the player start is on the west side of the map, and the exit is on the east, exiting to "map2". Save "map1A" when it's completed, then edit it by moving the player start position near where the exit is. Save it as "map1B". Finish making "map2", then give it two exits. The first exit should exit to "map1B" and placed directly behind the player start position, and the second exit, at the opposite end of the level, should exit to "map3" The player will be able to exit map1, but still be able to go back to map1 whenever the player desires.
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Edited: 29 August 2009 18:33
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. Funny thing is that i dont recognize some of them 
