Sensor Array

Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

Sensor Array

Unit Stats
Strength: Medium
Weapon: N/A
Advanced Weapon: N/A
Speed: Medium
Requires: GDI Radar

Description:
The Sensor Array allows GDI to scan local areas for cloaked, camoflauged or subterranean units / structures. It also comes with a small built in Scout Droid which is released upon deployment of the Sensor Array and can be used for additional recon missions.

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

So . . . . tiny. It lacks detail TBH. There's nothing much on it.

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Volgin · Commander **Joined**: 07 Mar 2009

It reminds me too much of the TO disruptor in a bad way. It looks more like a scary little combat vehicle that could ztype my shit up rather than deploy and chill.

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Regulus · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:34 pm Post subject:

I like it. The scout drone idea is super as well. Will it only deploy it once? I'm under the assumption of yes #Tongue

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

Krow wrote:

So . . . . tiny. It lacks detail TBH. There's nothing much on it.

Small...? I think you might be getting confused unless you want massive scale voxels all of a sudden or something I'm missing.

Regulus wrote:

I like it. The scout drone idea is super as well. Will it only deploy it once? I'm under the assumption of yes #Tongue

You assume very correct!

Carnotaurus wrote:

It reminds me too much of the TO disruptor in a bad way. It looks more like a scary little combat vehicle that could ztype my shit up rather than deploy and chill.

I posted an image with the Disruptor to try and figure out some of the resemblance excluding dish (part of vehicle image / feature) or the fact it uses 4 wheels / 4 track parts (I guess the main similarity).

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Regulus · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:15 pm Post subject:

Ah the bane of lack of scale. People think things are small and yet in reality they dwarf vanilla assets. CHECK YOUR EYES PEOPLE!

So what happens when your scout drone dies? Do you have to buy another sensor vehicle?

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

I like the Scout Drone idea, though I hope you coded the deployed Sensor Array to undeploy into a clone of the original vehicle which deploys into a clone of the deployed Sensor Array building which doesn't have a Free Unit (feels so strange trying to explain what I mean, but I figure it's pretty straight forward). It would seem silly to me if you were to keep undeploying and redeploying a single Sensor Array to acquire infinite Scout Drones.

[TiberianFuture] · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:33 pm Post subject:

Morpher already said it cannot undeploy after deployed, Aro.

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Ugh, I'm blind. Confused

Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

If you look at the original image, there is a Sensor Array at the top right which has already deployed once, and the graphics have been altered slightly to show the drone has detattched, your sensor array can deploy as many times as you would like, but you only get one free drone.

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Orac · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 6:24 am Post subject:

Regulus wrote:

So what happens when your scout drone dies? Do you have to buy another sensor vehicle?

The scout drone is a bit of a throw away unit. It's free, which means you lose nothing when it gets destroyed (which it most definitely will #Tongue

). After that you've probably gained decent intelligence from the scouting. If you haven't then yes, you'll need a new Array to get another drone.

[TiberianFuture] · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 6:54 am Post subject:

Huh I missed the "it" between "deploy" and "once" in Regulus' quote and misunderstood it :S

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

I meant the drone. #Tongue

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Orac · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:22 am Post subject:

It actually looks quite crisp when it's moving around and bobbing up and down.

Looney · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 15 Aug 2011

Orac wrote:

It actually looks quite crisp when it's moving around and bobbing up and down.

GIF time ? Razz

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Stop.

GIF-time.

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Looney · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 15 Aug 2011

Crimsonum wrote:

Stop.

GIF-time.

iamn00b · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:27 am Post subject:

i see the comparison pic, and IMO i see TO GDI unit need more darker to fit the building scheme

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Orac · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:46 am Post subject:

Darker means smudgier.
It simply has to be admitted that voxels and SHPs will never look the same.

Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

You could make them darker with this.

Code:

ExtraUnitLight

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Orac · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:14 am Post subject:

Certainly an option. Not something I'd like to see on the already fairly dark Nod units, so there'd be substantial tinkering to be done there.

m7 · Commander **Joined**: 17 Apr 2009

TO could adapt an edited VPL that tweaks the lighting on GDI schemes.

But to be honest, they look fine as they are.

Orac · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:22 pm Post subject:

I have investigated it, but the problem is that the different styles of vehicles (Nod, GDI, Cabal, Mutant, Civilian) have significantly different aesthetics/colours which aren't be uniformly improved by a different vpl. It'd take a lot of tweaking and fixing to get everything looking good in a new vpl - imo it's not something that can be done so late in the process.