New Release UMMU Displacement booths

[Artlav]

[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4386"]Displacement booths[/ame]

Displacement booths to be used by UMMU's for instant teleportation.
Code by Artlav, mesh by Woo482.

Basically, you put the booths whereever you want, and can teleport UmmUs between them.

Being another random idea i picked up on Orbiter IRC, the question is - is anyone wants one, and what can be done out of it?
Ideas are welcome.

 

[Urwumpe]

Replace the bloody mesh. This is ugly and completely unrealistic.

A real booth has to look like this:

And needs such a VC:

 

[Ghostrider]

That's a TARDIS. I think they're making a Transmat booth...

 

[garyw]

The original idea (and I think I'm partly to blame for this) would be to have such a booth as a UCGO cargo. The ship goes to the world, moon, whatever, drops off the cargo, unpacks it and boom, transporter available for shifting UMMU's between worlds.

 

[Woo482]

I was trying to base it off the TARDIS but I also needed to keep it low poly

 

[Artlav]

Replace the bloody mesh. This is ugly and completely unrealistic.

Given that i don't have any 3D modelling programs around for the moment, it was either a simple romboid, a procedural mesh worth a sleep-less night, or a volunteer. I choose the latter.

The original idea (and I think I'm partly to blame for this) would be to have such a booth as a UCGO cargo. The ship goes to the world, moon, whatever, drops off the cargo, unpacks it and boom, transporter available for shifting UMMU's between worlds.

Sounds even more interesting, but so far i have no idea what UCGO cargo is. Could wait till it's out, could make it fit into XR2 bay.

 

[garyw]

Sounds even more interesting, but so far i have no idea what UCGO cargo is. Could wait till it's out, could make it fit into XR2 bay.

It should (I think) just be a config file, i.e. This box which changes to THAT mesh when the ummu activates it. I've not played with this part of the UCGO BETA yet but I'll give it a go.

 

[Woo482]

The config file Garyw mentioned above should be as simple as this

; === Configuration file for UCGO cargo ===
ucForceName    = Displacer                ; Force object name when cargo is released.
Module         = UCGODynamicCargo            ; if this cargo is active (chute,unpack, module etc)
Mass         = 250                    ; mass of content in kg
MeshName     = UniversalCars/displacpacked    ; Box mesh name (packed cargo)
UcDescription     = A displacement booth for Mars            ; description
ucSpawnModule    = displacement         ; name of vessel config to spawn once cargo released.
ucSpawnCondition= 3                    ; 0=Landed 1=Not landed 2=Always 3=unpack by UMmu


ImageBmp = Images\displacement.bmp ;image for scenery editor


; === MANDATORY NO NEED TO EDIT THIS BELOW ===
Size = 20.0 
AlbedoRGB = 0.6 0.6 0.6
TouchdownPoints = 0.0 -0.005 3.0 -4.0 -0.005 -3.00 4.0 -0.005 -3.00
EditorCreate=true
EnableFocus = true               ; One of the rare case where one want focus available on cargo
BEGIN_ATTACHMENT
P 0.0 1.0 0.70  0 0 1  0 1 0  UCGOCG
END_ATTACHMENT

 

[T.Neo]

Perhaps this could be extended for any vessel?

A sort of "as long as it fits, we can teleport it" sort of thing.

 

[Urwumpe]

I was trying to base it off the TARDIS but I also needed to keep it low poly

Yes, but you should have got more than just 100 polys left.

Maybe I can do a TARDIS over the christmas holidays, am already a bit into meshes again...

(1934 triangles BTW, despite being a bit benevolent on the sail. :lol

 

[jedidia]

The ship goes to the world, moon, whatever, drops off the cargo, unpacks it and boom, transporter available for shifting UMMU's between worlds.

Sounds very much like Perry Rhodan...

 

[garyw]

just tried it and it all works, UMMU's can transport themselves and anything they are carrying. :lol:

 

[Notebook]

That's a TARDIS. I think they're making a Transmat booth...

Or a Transfer Booth?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld


N.

 

[gattispilot]

Sounds good like a transporter from Star Trek. Could it be used to transfer between vessel no mesh seen. Like transfer between 2 attached vessels on the ground. Or maybe 2 vessels not docked.

 

[Sky Captain]

Yoohooo teleportation!!!

Now I will be able to set up alien invasion mission. Aliens from distant planet will send a small fast probe carrying teleportation booth with objective to secretly deploy the booth in some remote location on Earth. Then the aliens disguised as humans will teleport in with objective to TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

 

[NukeET]

With all of this talk of displacement booths, how did Niven get missed?

 

[Notebook]

Maybe he didn't...^

N.

 

[Artlav]

The config file Garyw mentioned above should be as simple as this

Then it's likely will be, when the UCGO thing will be released (tomorrow?).

Perhaps this could be extended for any vessel?
A sort of "as long as it fits, we can teleport it" sort of thing.

Like a stargate? http://orbides.1gb.ru/sway/sway-090917-0.jpg
I think it will get a little bit boring that way.

Sounds good like a transporter from Star Trek. Could it be used to transfer between vessel no mesh seen. Like transfer between 2 attached vessels on the ground.

That sounds like a distinctly different add-on. A wireless UMMU vessel-vessel transfer?
Hm. A beam-a-passenger-down-to-a-planet kind of thing? The booths system is a module, so it could target any vessel and any point.

TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

What kind of aliens will want a planet like that? Those pesky humans always ruining every plan, however much you exterminate them.

With all of this talk of displacement booths, how did Niven get missed?

He never did. His stories given the name, dialing, and booth-shape.

 

[T.Neo]

Like a stargate? http://orbides.1gb.ru/sway/sway-090917-0.jpg
I think it will get a little bit boring that way.

Or maybe not- if it were then the StarGate television series wouldn't have been so successful.

 

[Lucy]

Or maybe not- if it were then the StarGate television series wouldn't have been so successful.

The problem with that idea, that I see, is that it's in essence removing the "flight" from "Space Flight Simulator". Which is not to my liking, personally. I like this mod as it currently is, for simple UMMU transporting, though.