Eggman's Orbital Strike Beacon

[Eggman]

I whipped this up yesterday for a custom side and figured it could be useful for other people. It's essentially a modified remote droid - deploy the "crosshairs," move them to wherever you want in the map, and call in the orbital strike. The download includes the model/texture for the crosshairs and all the necessary .odfs. Feel free to modify any of the files in whatever way you wish.

Download link(s):
http://www.filefront.com/17570268/Orbit ... eacon.zip/
http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.co ... con;117632

Video:
http://www.xfire.com/video/3bb296/

It's really not too different from any other orbital strike weapons, but I think it's a fun little modification.

[DarthD.U.C.K.]

wow, thats a great idea!

[Fiodis]

Indeed, very nice idea.

[acryptozoo]

cool, people could always use this great job

[[Padawan]Helkaan]

Cute. Nice. Good. Great. AWESOME!

[skelltor]

Vary nice i like it

[Ginev]

This is the same like in COD4 Airstrike cool!

[Anakin]

looks great would be awesome if YOU can fire the canon. so you fly automatically and can only fire.

[Eggman]

This is the same like in COD4 Airstrike cool!

That was actually a large part of my inspiration. A perfect replica of the COD air strike wouldn't be possible in Battlefront, so I just replaced the model for the remote droid, changed the camera angle to be top-down, and beefed up the remote's health so it wouldn't be destroyed by enemy AI, but would be destroyed properly by the orbital strike. It took me a while to work out the right values for the camera angles, but in the end it was a very simple weapon to set up.

A note on the camera angle, while I'm thinking about it: if you want to adjust the vertical height of the camera (so you're closer to or farther from the ground when moving the aimer around), adjust only the z value for TrackOffset and DestructTrackOffset (the third value in each line, set to 75.0 by default). Messing with the other values may give you wonky results.

[Firefang]

Nice idea and execution

[THEWULFMAN]

I may use this for my TCW mod, thanks.

[yukisuna]

WOW, thats Amazing!! Killstreaks, anyone? i guess thats what comes up next

[Cerfon Rournes]

Very nice!!

[SAMofBIA]

one word: EPIC!

[Delta-1035]

Very nice, good job!

[commander501stappo]

WOW...it...is...amazing... ... ... ...

[Maveritchell]

Thumbs up - very clever use of camera angles.

[Null_1138]

Its beautiful Eggman, excellent work!

[Darth_Spiderpig]

Wow, that is something nice. :O

Are we allowed to change the reticule msh or skin?

[Eggman]

Wow, that is something nice. :O

Are we allowed to change the reticule msh or skin?

Yep, you can change anything you want. I don't expect anyone to use the weapon exactly as-is; I expect people to use it more as a reference to follow if they want to set up something similar. The reticule took no more than five minutes to create - I just made a triangle, duplicated it three times, slapped a flat red texture on it, and exported the model.