Fortress Fallout WIP

[Anubis Zombie]

If you've ever wonder why there are many places called bases and fortification yet when you get there there is no fort. Just some building with some sandbags laying around. Well wonder no more I have your answer. It's because too jive real world fortification principles with the game engine, in a manner which the bots can use, requires building, loading, testing, demolition, rebuilding, loading, testing...... This is about the fifth rebuild and I see atleast one more after completion and navmeshing bot testing. Sofar I'm happy with the results of two weeks of 12+hours a day on this thing, alot of that is research though.

Well fear not friends. After much research in the Arlington Library the Wasteland Messiah has found the solution too all the wasteland's problems. Apparently everytime society crumbles it's rebuilt by feudal war lords and apparently to be a feudal war lord you need peasants, and army, AND a CASTLE.

Since no1 else seems willing too step up too the plate looks like another job for The Wastlander dun dun

 

Here's the top down view of the foundation walls.

 

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Like any real fortification this one breaks down into several sub forts which farther breakdown into fighting positions. Here's the main gate complex.

 

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Here is the main gun port design. I'm hoping too narrow it out in the Bot testing phase. In the proof of concept testing phase this was about as narrow as I could make the ports and still have the bots fire out the holes. Those ports were made out of sand bags and I'm hoping too narrow out the ports now that they are concrete. They can be about half the thich ness and provide near 100% cover, but the bots can't use them either. any rate

 

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Here's half the firing line on the front gate fort main wall.

 

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/GECK2009-12-2616-59-15-51.jpg

[Anubis Zombie]

This is the courtyard. Like a real castle it will be filled with structures too serve the needs of the castle. The original plan was too put the farm and brahmin pin in this courtyard with services on the mid deck and houses on the top deck, but with the problem's I'm having navmeshing the carrier deck its looking like the entire Settlement is gonna be in the courtyard. Unless I can fix the deck navmesh issue with a false floor. Originally this was gonna be a base for Real Time Settler but at this point any villagers may be GECKed in like the castle. so here's the nice big ass courtyard

 

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/GECK2009-12-2616-57-08-06.jpg

 

From the inner courtyard you go through the inner gatehouse, or mid fort. This is where the stairs up to the carrier deck will be located. This will most likely be the deadliest part of the defense works.

 

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/GECK2009-12-2617-22-51-23.jpg

 

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Now its on too the final gatehouse, keystone of the network, thee entrance too the kings keep. The kings keep will hold all the tools of regency, a great hall for the throne and the warriors too feast and the king too hold court. A head steward too manage the court, personal bath attendents, a royal guard seperate and distinct from the other soldiers, a maid or two. It's gonna really be something spectacular on the inside. The master control room for all the automated defenses. Special secret suprise for mod release :whistling:

 

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/GECK2009-12-2618-19-09-35.jpg

 

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/GECK2009-12-2618-19-26-81.jpg

 

There are alot of things I haven't even started too learn, like how too bound a flame thrower effect too a fire hose nossle and tie that too two switches (one at the site of the defense and the other in the control room,

(flamers gonna go here in this section of the gatehouses, in the little hallways .I was hopin to have ports into these halls but have sofar been unsuccessfull in making a port usable by the AI that doesn't compromise the fortification part)

 

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/GECK2009-12-2618-31-35-64.jpg

 

or like making the camera system so a master control for the defenses will be useable, how too control the doors from this same controlroom. I have some other assorted ideas for automated defenses, getting the flamer nossle to work will be step #1 and the others will be easy if that can be done. Imma finish the layout before I go off learning how to make that stuff.

 

I figure at some point imma havta learn how too model too reduce the number of peices in the castle for proccessing speed, but that's WAAAYYYY off.

 

I would like too incorporate this into other largermods that make the waste a more dangerous place, Like Ultimate War or Zombie Apocolypse. Nothing ingame now justifies such a large base. Eventually it'll grow into its own sub faction with outpost in the waste. I was also thinking about adding some splashes of the fort too places like Big Town, Areufu, Cannteberry Commons, Oasis. Agatha is DEFFINANTLY getting a gate house fort and some guards. Gotta keep that old lady safe she make good music.

 

The outpost, and spreading influence into the towns will all be quest related. You will build a fiefdom one town at a time.

 

Anyway that's all WAY off in the future. The immediate project is the layout of the HQ fort. The construction of which I hope too make quest related so you build it one section at a time and have too recruit ppl and gather materials too do it, hoping too find some help in RTS for that, cept have it all scripted so you don't havta *ban me* with the layout, just tell'm too build.

 

Well thanks for reading, and if you read this far you're deffinantly interested so if you think you can help, and would like too, drop me a PM and maybe we can create beautiful giant meat grinder together :biggrin:

[Anubis Zombie]

Since this whole thing revolves around protective fighting holes hears a look at the ports in action. probably gonna change them back to the original design. steps were farther back originally, gonna havta make a second firing line up top if the steps get moved back and I was trying too make it work with only one line of ports.

 

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/Fallout32009-12-2619-20-54-38.jpg

 

elevation deffinantly has its advantages :devil:

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/Fallout32009-12-2619-21-58-91.jpg

 

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/Fallout32009-12-2619-24-35-40.jpg

 

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/Fallout32009-12-2619-24-30-10.jpg

 

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As you can see things get pretty hot up on the wall, but there's no way you could just stand there without it.

 

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[JA stu]

Impressive, you should make a youtube video to show us how it looks like in-game. (More in-game than this!)

[Anubis Zombie]

Impressive, you should make a youtube video to show us how it looks like in-game. (More in-game than this!)

 

 

good idea gimme a minute.

 

I got FRAPS but I wanna make an audionarative on the video what program do you do that with?

[IgnacyOrder]

Really nice. I will be glad to help you with it. I see you know what you doing :)

[GeneralAwesome]

Looks great! I'm not a modder, but I'm a good writer, so if you need any text, PM me. I can also create custom music, if it's needed. Even though I don't mod, I'd like to help, so just PM me if you need anything.

[Anubis Zombie]

Right now Im havin trouble getting the bots too use the ports. Looks like they are gonna havta offer pretty much no cover to make it work for the bots. ba humbug

 

Their use of the ports is real dodgy, they'll squat down and find th hole for a second and use it fine then they'll lose it all of a sudden and wander around all stupid tryin too walk through the wall.

 

Thx for the offer to make voice

i'll proably take you up on that when we get to that point.

[Anubis Zombie]

Good news for all you folk who've always wanted a city on top the carrier. I've begun work on the terraced false floor and it seems too be taking the nav mesh in previously unmeshable area's of the carrier deck ! woot looks like main setttlements gonna be on top the carrier :)

[Anubis Zombie]

For any1 following this here is a new screenie of the work on terracing the carrier deck so it's navmeshable. Looks like this is gonna be the largest town in all the waste:)

 

I'd also like too thank Ignacy Order for agreeing too do the faction work and to DantheGeek for offering too do the bunker work. Hopefully in a week or so things will be to a point where they can start their work and the first stage of the Feudal Warlord/Castle mod for Fallout will be complete and the hard part of stage 2 can begin of faction related quest making and figuring out how too have the castle built in game through quest completion.

 

Anyway here's a look at the foundation work on the Royal Wastlander Keep and Rivet City South, or "Uptown" as the Riveters call it :)

 

http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/EmpororAntonius/GECK2009-12-3018-05-21-87.jpg