Combat Starter Kit 1.0 Released

No one's on the bridge. Using the trees and larger rocks as cover, you weave through the foothills until you reach the foot of the bridge. Looking around, it's clear but once you're on the bridge there is no cover. You'll need a good 60 seconds to capture the flag.

You make a sprint for it, HEART pounding. As you reach the flag your brain registers what your ears have been hinting at... an Assault Chopper bearing down on your position too quickly... too late. You drop to prone and try to melt into the unyielding bridge. The flag crawls up the pole as the concrete around you erupts in near misses, debris flying wildly as the chainguns do their dirty work. Enough is enough. You unsling your rocket launcher and turn around as the heli pilot repositions for a final assault. You flip open the monitor and wait the 3 seconds it takes to lock on to the heli's heat signature. *Launch*

You can almost see the look on the pilot's face through the windshield as the rocket finds its target.


We are proud to announce the release and availability of the Combat Starter Kit on our website:
Combat Starter Kit

You must be a registered owner of TGE to purchase the kit, this is a GG sanctioned product.

The CSK team worked for the better part of 2007 to bring you this new entry into the Starter Kit market.

Here is the result of their hard work:



Gameplay video here

Here is a master feature list of specific changes and additions.

Vehicles
Helicopter (New Object Class)
Tank Vehicle (New Object Class)
Transport Helicopter with source art
Attack helicopter with source art
HumVee with source art
Tank with source art
Vehicle Repair Pads,
Vehicle Refit Pads
Vehicle Lockon and Lockon Warning System
Helicopters with multiple mountpoints and turrets
Gauge Controls (Velocimeter, Altimeter, Compass)
Customized GUI swapping depending on vehicle, weapon
Vehicle Location-based damage system
Steering Decay
Upright Camera
Weapon Camera (Barrel Cam)
Vehicle Throttle
Multiple Gear Transmission, Configurable RPMs, Engine Pitch
Tread/Track Thickness (Position Offset)
Rigid Body forces on vehicle
EngineOn/Off
Engine sounds for flying vehicles

Sample Classes
Engineer (Repair Tool)
Medic (Medikit)
Sniper (Sniper Rifle)
Support (Ammopacks)
Heavy Assault (Rocket launcher, C4, Detonator, grenades)
Assault

Commander Map
Supply drop
Vehicle and Place Icons
Target Area Set
Spawn Points
Custom IconType set on Shape Level
Optional spawn sweep cam (camera slowly moves in and focuses on player)

Other Additions
Turrets
Parachuting
Teams
Group Targets
Team Targets
Custom Player Positions (Swimming, Prone, Kneeling, Parachute)
Update Bounds Box, and optional Bounds Box Update to include weapon extent
Climbing: Buildings and Objects
Sliding Doors
Encrypted Zip support
Equipment Mounting and Reskinning
Mounted Object Fine Tuning (pass in a transform)
Individual Gravity
Flag capture mechanics
Team scoring
Base command console destruction
Radar destruction

New Art
Icons
22 New Interiors
2 New Player Models
Assault Rifle
M60
Shotgun
Sniper Rifle
Submachine Gun
Grenades
Knife


Weapons
Multiple Weapon Recoils
Exclude Built-in Hands Rendering of models
Sticky Bombs (C4): note: these do not follow when vehicles move
Bullet Line Tracers
Autoload when empty
Weapon swapping
Multiple firing modes
Switch to alternate weapon on noAmmo
Rocket launchers with lock-on
Head shot notification
Chainguns with spin-up
Configurable Directional Weapon Recoil
Ammo and Clip GUI
Custom Crosshair based on weapon

General
Allow multiple copies to run on same machine
SQLite Database Integration

New Gui Controls
CommanderMap
Generic Progress Bar
Vehicle Gauges
Vehicle HUDs

Drawing
dglDrawBitmapRotated
Animated UV support for mesh materials (variable speed directional animation)


Turrets
Allow multiplayer client control of vehicle mounted turret
Added max Pitch and Yaw to turrets for a configurable field of fire
Added configurable max pitch and yaw speed, to allow variable turret speed

Crosshair Hud
Per weapon crosshair
Weapon Range
Render Object Range
Optional Frame
Configurable Offset
Fill Colors, Frame Color
Lock-on Cabability
Change Name color based on team

Mapmaking/Level Editing
Object builder additions: add preconfigured clusters of objects (landing pad with lights)
Custom light objects


The price for all of this is only $99. Documentation and forum support included.
Combat Starter Kit