Cocoon

Smasher

<div class="IPBDescription">What is it?</div>When joining a server, several lines pop up in the console, things like:
Couldn't open model Onos
Couldn't open model Shift
etc.

Then there's a "Couldn't open model Cocoon" there aswell, and it has been there in the console for quite some time/patches now, anyone know what it is?

Floodinator

Seema an old name for the Eggs.

Smasher

But eggs are correctly loaded/opened?

Edit: And isn't a cocoon hanging from the ceiling, as opposed to laying on the ground? Hmm..

Deadzone

Lerk in sniper position? Or maybe just an environmental cool thing for infestation?

peregrinus

I saw this and thought aliens might evolve into an Onos in a cocoon rather than an egg.

fsfod

<a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=110837&view=findpost&p=1820591" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...t&p=1820591</a>
<!--quoteo(post=1820591:date=Dec 31 2010, 09:35 PM:name=Squeal_Like_A_Pig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Squeal_Like_A_Pig @ Dec 31 2010, 09:35 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1820591"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yup, that is a render of the drifter / structure cocoon. Peregrinus got it exactly right. The drifter lands, grows a bit larger, turns into this cocoon, the alien structures appears inside at their smallest size, both the cocoon and structure grow in size a bit, then the cocoon bursts, the structure finishes growing to its full size and then deploys.

The scale will be = much smaller then shown in that render, they just didn't have the animated small ungrown versions of any of the alien structures, so it looks like they just used the full sized whip.

This has been rigged and animated but is fairly low in priority at the moment to implement in game.

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Shilorius

That looks awesome!