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Offline MatthTheGeek

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It's the first time I see this "Vaygr"...
You, dear sir, are making kitties cry.

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ahhww now you've ruined it.
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That'd make two of us  :sigh:

 

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Hey guys, I need your advice about this: since the beam cannon is the primary weapon of my ship, I'd like to add some extra protection to prevent it to be wiped out by a single shot. Here's the options I have thought about:

1- a 4 blade iris at the top of the cannon. Each blade has to pivot around the Y axis that passes through a single point (like clock's hands). I asked on the scripting section but I was told it would be difficult to implement;

2- a shield covering the "mouth" of the cannon, like fighters' one (maybe easier than the iris);
In this cases the beam emitter is assigned few hitpoints, so it can be easily destroyed after clearing the iris or weakening the shield ( or destroying an hypothetical shield generator)

3- the beam emitter subsystem is assigned more hitpoints. This is the easiest way, but the less realistic and the less interesting, in my opinion.

Do you think it would be worthy to spend time trying to make the first 2 ideas work, or I'd better to go for the third option? Do you think that this kind of extra protection would give the ship an excessive advantage over the enemies (considering GTVA as enemy)?

 
Seems like you could do the iris with the 4 blades each rigged to rotate about 4 different points, each 90 degrees apart. You might need to do a bit of trig to work it all out, but it doesn't seem impossible.
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The shield option makes the most sense to me--after all, they're the most efficient, especially given that you could divert power to the shield to recharge it faster than normal, which you couldn't do with armor. On top of that, it'd require bombers to carry anti-shield weapons when before they could just carry an all anti-armor loadout.

That, and I'm not sure how the clock-like blade iris would even work. If the rotating pivot point is the center, doesn't that mean that the blade iris is always at least partially blocking the cannon?

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Offline Dragon

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You can do the iris with the animaiton code already in FSO. The blades would just have to rotate, which can be easily done. As long as there's no translation involved, you should be fine.

 

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The issue with the iris solution i think is making the animation happen every time the beam fires.  if using the beam fire sexps then it is workable but if the weapon is free firing then it will be extremely difficult iirc
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Thank you guys for your suggestions!  :)

The shield option makes the most sense to me--after all, they're the most efficient, especially given that you could divert power to the shield to recharge it faster than normal, which you couldn't do with armor. On top of that, it'd require bombers to carry anti-shield weapons when before they could just carry an all anti-armor loadout.

That, and I'm not sure how the clock-like blade iris would even work. If the rotating pivot point is the center, doesn't that mean that the blade iris is always at least partially blocking the cannon?

I think you're right about the shield. It's maybe the best option: it's the easiest to set up and the beam emitter would be visible. Moreover this weapon is meant to fire from a very long distance (the most of times), so the blade's animation wouldn't have been even seen by the player.
(As far as the blades are concerned, they would have had a pivot point each, so the cannon mouth would have been totally unobstructed after the rotation)

I've almost suspended modelling activities in this period because it's exams time at university, so I had very little spare time. Anyway I managed to build the emitter and here is a picture...


 

Offline Dragon

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The issue with the iris solution i think is making the animation happen every time the beam fires.  if using the beam fire sexps then it is workable but if the weapon is free firing then it will be extremely difficult iirc
Spoon managed that on his Caliburn cruisers. They have a simpler hinged door, but the triggers are the same.

 

Offline Darius

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You can set animations to trigger on firing.

 
(minor) UPDATE:
I worked a little bit over weaponry. If you take a look to the p3d window (first page) you will notice the gauss cannons' configuration (red). I think this will be more or less a definitive layout: 6 gauss cannon on the upper side and 4 on the lower side. I think 10 is a fair number since this is a mid-to-short range type of weapon. (a will 6 torpedo launch tubes) Of course all the others heavy weapons can be used even at short distance, but the ship must be perfectly aligned to the target in order to fire and, given the ship's shape, this wouldn't be so easy when fighting against a Deimos-class ship in close combat.

Those holes inside which the side gauss turrets are placed are intended to break the wings' geometry, because it felt a bit dull to me. But I am uncertain whether to keep them or look for a different solution.

That's all for now. Bye!

 

Offline Husker

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Ok, THIS is what the Masyaf should be when this gets finished. :cool: :nod: