Engineer able to build on the blimp in achievement_idle4life maps

[meatsim009]

Hi there

I was mucking around on the achievement_idle4life v2 map, which has a blimp in it (made by Nik). A couple of us experimented to see a engi could wrangler jump up there, and perhaps build on it.

We discovered that an engi CAN wrangler jump onto the blimp, but unfortunately, CAN'T build on it.

some questions...

Does anybody know of an achievement map where an engi can both wrangler jump onto a blimp, AND build on it?

Does anybody reading this have the know how to edit a map to make such a feat possible?

thanks for yout time.

[CoL-Bullseye]

I don't know of any because I haven't downloaded too many custom maps, but it's not very difficult to modify a map to allow that. You'd need an in-tact .vmf file to work with in Hammer, which might prove difficult to find. You could always decompile the map of your choice, edit the things you want changed, then add in whatever the decompiler couldn't figure out.

You'll just need to make sure there is enough room on top of the blimp to allow building clearance. You need at least 95 Hammer units of space for a teleporter to work properly. I'd leave even more just to be safe. Also, make sure you're not trying to build in a "func_nobuild" brush area. These are invisible in-game, but you can see them in Hammer.

[Domenic]

Building can’t move. The blimp does 360s in the sky, so even if you could build on there the buildings would just be suspended in mid-air when the blimp moves away. (Well technically they can move but only if they’re placed in the world by mappers, sort of like how the cart in tf2 is a moving level 1 dispenser.) Secondly the blimp itself is a custom model and so decompiling and recompiling would be out of the question, unless you have the model on hand. Easiest way would be to ask the map maker to do these changes, but I think the map maker has moved on, what I mean is this blimp exists in achievement_idle4life_v2 and I know v3 is already out and he removed the blimp.

[meatsim009]

thanks guys for the replies. answered my question, cheers. there's an achievement map that has little platforms up high built into the walls. might just have to see if you can build there.

[CoL-Bullseye]

That's a pretty cool idea. I might have to check out the moving blimp map just to see it.

[Stripedy]

one of the mario kart maps

[meatsim009]

one of the mario kart maps

ok, can u be more specific. I've never seen a mario kart map before. does it have a blimp which u can build on?

[Beetle]

ok, can u be more specific. I've never seen a mario kart map before. does it have a blimp which u can build on?

you can't build on moving objects. The one in mario kart moves.