[LVS] Spider Tank - six legged walking tank [MAJOR UPDATE]

Spider Tank - a six legged walking tank for LVS

A heavy tank on six legs with a crew of three. It walks with a real tripod gait - every foot is placed on the ground on its own - climbs walls and ceilings, leaps over obstacles, anchors itself in siege mode, and can lose its legs in a fight. Two factions: the desert tank (LVS team 1) and the grey tank (LVS team 2). Every tank can be driven by players or spawned with an AI crew (the [AI] entries in the spawn menu).

MAJOR UPDATE

Added

• Shell types (mouse wheel): APFSDS, HEAT, HE, guided ATGM and Railgun for the main gun; APFSDS and HE for the 40 mm.
• LVS armor on the hull, turret and legs with real penetration values for every weapon.
• Active protection system: the launcher on the turret turns to incoming missiles and rockets and shoots them down.
• Ammo cook-off: a penetrating hit in the ammo rack can blow the turret off.
• 6 new camouflages: Winter, Olive, Woodland, Blackout, Whiteout, Navy. Every tank can be repainted (C menu - Edit Properties - Camo).
• Night and thermal vision (N).
• Barrel heat glow, smoke and steam after firing. The turret machine gun is now a .50 cal.
• Visual damage: smoke and fire from the hull, leaking hydraulics on damaged legs.
• Footstep sounds for every surface, water splashes, turret drive sound.
• AI idle animations, the AI picks the right shell for the target.
• Utilities: new AI and Ammunition pages with many new settings.

Fixed

• Landing in mid-air after a leap, legs snapping on touchdown (now a smooth landing).
• AI hit too precisely: now it has a reaction time and near misses (adjustable).
• Driver camera turning to the same direction on every entry.
• Allies turned hostile too fast: now only after 20 hits or 250 damage within 30 s.
• AI did not see VJ Base NPCs and NextBots (and they did not see it).
• AI had infinite main gun ammo.
• The scanner swept while the tank was idle or the engine was off.
• More main gun elevation.

Requires LVS Base.

Crew

• Driver - the legs and the 120 mm main gun. First person through the gunner sight, third person over the turret. Siege mode, leap, lights.
• Gunner - the 40 mm autocannon under the nose: high explosive rounds that punch through thin walls and burst behind them.
• Commander - the machine gun on the turret, the scanner and the smoke launchers.

Features

• Wall climbing: it walks up walls and over onto ceilings, takes inside and outside corners.
• Leap: hold Space to crouch and charge, let go to jump. Anything under it when it lands gets flattened.
• Crushing: its feet trample people, NPCs and light props, vehicles get hurt when it steps or lands on them.
• Main gun: ballistic 120 mm shells that punch through thin walls and explode behind them, barrel recoil, finite ammunition.
• Siege mode: the tank lowers itself, spreads its legs and anchors. It cannot move, but the main gun hits harder, reloads faster and kicks less, and the armour takes less damage.
• Directional scanner: a fan of light from the camera on the commander's turret (like the drones in Oblivion). It turns red on enemies and marks them - the whole crew sees marked enemies through walls for 15 seconds.
• Smoke screen: six grenades form a wall of smoke. AI vehicles and NPCs cannot see through it.
• Breakable legs: every leg has its own health. Shot off at the knee, the lower leg flies away burning and the stump sparks. With legs missing it limps and leans to one side; lose three on one side and it collapses.
• Destruction: a burning wreck stays behind and the legs fly away.
• Lights: headlights that light up the world, red marker lights on the legs, the commander's camera glows red while it is manned.
• Repair: the LVS repair tool repairs the legs too - lost legs grow back. Ammo boxes and repair stations refill the smoke launchers.
• Own HUD for every crew member: a tactical display with the real legs and threats around, hull and leg status, weapon panel, compass, scanner panel.

AI

• The AI driver patrols around the place where it was spawned (300 m, adjustable), keeps its distance in a fight, leads moving targets, goes into siege mode against far targets, sets a smoke screen when it is badly hurt and leaps over what it gets stuck on.
• AI gunner and commander: the empty gunner and commander seats fight on their own - also when a player drives an [AI] tank.
• Whoever shoots at it becomes its target for a while, no matter which team.

Controls

Set in the LVS controls (category "Spider Tank"): [table] [tr][th]Key[/th][th]Action[/th][/tr] [tr][td]W / S, A / D[/td][td]walk, turn (driver)[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Space (hold, let go)[/td][td]leap (driver)[/td][/tr] [tr][td]X[/td][td]siege mode (driver)[/td][/tr] [tr][td]F[/td][td]lights (driver)[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Middle mouse (hold)[/td][td]scanner (commander)[/td][/tr] [tr][td]G[/td][td]smoke screen (commander)[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Mouse 1 / Mouse 2[/td][td]fire / zoom (LVS keys)[/td][/tr] [/table]

Tool

Spider Tank Patrol Route (Tools - Spider Tank): place waypoints and give them to an AI spider tank - it walks them in a loop (walls too, it climbs) and stays near the route in a fight. One click copies the route to another tank. Saved with the tank (duplicator, saves).

Settings

Utilities - Spider Tank - Settings: crushing, breakable legs, AI patrol radius, wreck time, headlight beams, camera shake.

Credits

• Code: Der1k
• Model: MattiasChet