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Offline robin

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TFTD Biodrone's standHeight, kneelHeight, floatHeight?
« on: August 06, 2014, 04:25:58 pm »
I'd need to know

    standHeight:
    kneelHeight:
    floatHeight:

for TFTD Biodrone unit. Anyone knows them (or where to find them)?
Thanks.

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Re: TFTD Biodrone's standHeight, kneelHeight, floatHeight?
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2014, 11:20:41 pm »

  - type: STR_BIODRONE_TERRORIST
    stats:
      tu: 80
      stamina: 120
      health: 140
      bravery: 100
      reactions: 40
      firing: 90
      throwing: 0
      strength: 120
      psiStrength: 90
      psiSkill: 0
      melee: 0
    standHeight: 17
    floatHeight: 2
    kneelHeight: 11
    intelligence: 7
    aggression: 2
    loftemps: 2

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Re: TFTD Biodrone's standHeight, kneelHeight, floatHeight?
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2014, 10:56:49 am »
    standHeight: 17
    floatHeight: 2
    kneelHeight: 11
That value is very strange.
floatHeight should stand for the empty space between the bottom of the unit and the ground level, if I understand it correctly:



then how can these two units both have "2"? It doesn't seem right to me; even if it was 2 in the original game it looks more like a mistake. Unless there's a technical reason for it to be 2.

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Re: TFTD Biodrone's standHeight, kneelHeight, floatHeight?
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2014, 04:04:40 pm »
I believe the "hover effect" for the BioDrone is also part of the unit's "body", so it basically has the same height as the Floater.

Probably the LOFTs give it a small "targetable" body, but for display purposes, it is the same as the Floater.

Warboy please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Re: TFTD Biodrone's standHeight, kneelHeight, floatHeight?
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2014, 12:50:02 am »
it's a gameplay thing. your rookies can't hit a sectopod from ten tiles away, imagine how much fun it would be to try shooting something the approximate size and shape of a frisbee out of the air.

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Re: TFTD Biodrone's standHeight, kneelHeight, floatHeight?
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2014, 02:02:17 am »
it's a gameplay thing. your rookies can't hit a sectopod from ten tiles away, imagine how much fun it would be to try shooting something the approximate size and shape of a frisbee out of the air.
I see, so nothing can stop me from making that deadly alien mosquito. Good.

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Re: TFTD Biodrone's standHeight, kneelHeight, floatHeight?
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2014, 06:10:41 am »
I see, so nothing can stop me from making that deadly alien mosquito. Good.
Go on Robin !!!  ;)

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Re: TFTD Biodrone's standHeight, kneelHeight, floatHeight?
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2014, 03:09:39 pm »
it's a gameplay thing. your rookies can't hit a sectopod from ten tiles away, imagine how much fun it would be to try shooting something the approximate size and shape of a frisbee out of the air.

We need bigger guns...