Ares Expansion DLL - Prism Forwarding Video

[dbjs2009 25]

A gameplay video of the Ares Expansion DLL for Yuri's Revenge has just been posted. This video shows off the enhanced Prism Forwarding logic, however Prism Forwarding is only available in a testing build of Ares 0.2, and not released to the public yet. Have a look.

 

Visit the official Ares website to learn more about Ares Expansion DLL features.

[Plok 327]

Impressive, but I question the idea of letting other team's Prism Towers to join the forwarding process... Though it is more realistic, it will be rather irritating in a scenario where two Allies with bases very near to each other are being attacked from two fronts, and all Prism Towers are concentrated on one.

[Speeder 2]

It's all up to modders who will use Ares in their mods to specify the behavior of Prism Towers and any defense which uses this logic.

[Nmenth 291]

Impressive, but I question the idea of letting other team's Prism Towers to join the forwarding process... Though it is more realistic, it will be rather irritating in a scenario where two Allies with bases very near to each other are being attacked from two fronts, and all Prism Towers are concentrated on one.

Agreed.

 

The video was amusing, but I personally don't like the forwarding logic at all and don't intend to use it.

[Plok 327]

AFAIK, you said you won't be using Ares at all for Paradigma

[Nmenth 291]

I did say that, but later I had to change my mind because I realized many of my plans were impossible without Ares.

[Plok 327]

So much for explicitly your mod...

[Nmenth 291]

Ares doesn't change that, it is just another tool, not content.

[Inferno 22]

Ares doesn't change that, it is just another tool, not content.

You'd still rather do this yourself though, wouldn't you

[Plok 327]

From the Amphibious APC thread in RA2 modding...

 

Doctor Destiny:

Just use Ares. It doesn't even modify your EXE.

Nmenth:

You waste your breath, DD... or typing fingers as the case may be... I will never bend to your temptations.

Where did these gems go?

This means.... YOU HEED THE WORDS OF FURRIES!!!!!

[Nmenth 291]

This means.... YOU HEED THE WORDS OF FURRIES!!!!!

Luk3us is horrified by furries, I find that amusing, so I provoke him. However, I personally couldn't care less how much fur, flesh, feathers, scales, or tentacles people want in their lives.

 

It wasn't DD's incessant insistence that drove me to use Ares anyway, it was the fact that at the time, I had been carefully planning my factions out to each fit a specific theme for so long that I had grown weary of it. When I found out at least three of my designs would require Ares or be scrapped, I decided I was done planning.

 

Truth be known, something went wrong with my Ares download causing it to not work and I never downloaded it again, so technically, I still haven't used Ares. I'm putting that off until there is nothing else left to do.

 

It was the EMEffect that was the final straw.

[AlexB 8]

Can you explain what went wrong or what didn't work? Maybe I can help out.

[Nmenth 291]

It just said a file was missing and wouldn't open. I'm sure a fresh download would fix it. Not too worried about it at this time.

[Skritza 0]

That waz damn entertainin! if d prism laserz wer disco laserz it wud b an epileptic's worst nightmiare (if it waz triggered by flashing lites) :lol:

[keithktam 2]

very cool!! and the prism logic demo, ROFL! would be seeing a lot RA2 mod it seems gonna be.

[Gben 20]

Amusing video... I think the logic of the prisms forwarding to any tower within range is fun.

 

I don't know why you would even worry about the logic of sharing prisms with enemy towers. How many times do Allied mirror matches actually result in the opportunity to build bases and prism towers within range of each other???

Majoring in the minors I think.

 

What I find interesting is the thought whether the enemy towers can be damaged as they pass on the prism?

ie Damaged and prism passed on prism