Looking for Forge details? You’ve come to the right place! To watch the unveiling video, go here and skip to 1:43:30.
Details:
Objects high-light when hovered over.
Name of object hovered over appears under reticle.
Ability to “lock” objects so they can’t be moved without unlocking.
Ability to “duplicate” objects for ease of access.
Quick orientation reset button (D-right).
Huge budget (prone to change before release).
Object magnetism; objects now magnetically attach to each other perfectly for VERY easy placement.
No Undo Button
No Weather/Day control
3 Forge World pallets/maps shipped with game
From what Frankie said, all Forged maps will look very different from each other due to the dynamic lighting!
Trait zones that change player traits.
Gravity Volumes that change gravity (can change direction of gravity). I don’t know about you guys, but I’ll use heavy reverse-gravity volumes to cap my maps with a ceiling instead of using those annoying pesky kill zones.
Again, dynamic lighting. I can’t stress how amazing this is. All Forge items will have dynamic lighting, which means tunnels will be dark and walls will cast shadows.
It appears kill zones have returned (much to my disparagement).
When switching from monitor to player, a very short lighting render loading takes place (happens to ALL players on co-op).
Kill balls returned.
Object types:
Gadgets
- Explosives
- Powerups
- Cannons, Men
– Cannon, Man
– Cannon, Man, Heavy
– Cannon, Man, Light
– Cannon, Vehicle
– Gravity Lift - Gravity Volumes
- Trait Zone (Edited in Start Menu under “Change Trait Zone Traits” from Alpha to Delta. All player traits apply)
– Team <Neutral>
– Physics <Phased>
– Spawn Time <Never>
– Advanced
– Shape <Cylinder/Box>
– Radius/Width <2.0>
– Top <1.0>
– Bottom <0.0>
– Length <0.0> - Teleporters
- Shields
Spawning
Objectives
Scenery
Vehicles
Structure - Ravine
- Building Blocks
– Block, 1x1
– Block, 1x1 Flat
– Block, 1x1 Short
– Block, 1x1 Tall
– Block, 1x1 Tall and Thin
– Block, 1x2
– Block, 1x4 - Bridges and Platforms
– Bridge, Small
– Bridge, Medium
– Bridge, Large
– Bridge, X Large
– Bridge, Diagonal
– Bridge, Diag, Small
– Dish - Buildings
– Bunker, Small
– Bunker, Small, Covered
– Bunker, Box
– Bunker, Round
– Unlit Bunker, Round
– Bunker, Ramp
– Pyramid - Decorative
- Doors, windows, and walls
- Inclines
Object Tools:
Edit Coordinates
Reset Orientation
Rotation Snap
Delete all of these
Delete by palette
Magnets
- Enable magnets <True/False>
- Magnet strength <?/Medium/?>
Duplicate Object
Note, Forge UI is a cut/paste of Reach as placeholder; will NOT have some layout in retail
Hope I helped in some way. (:
