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Hosted Projects - FS2 Required => Between the Ashes => Topic started by: mjn.mixael on August 13, 2011, 12:24:21 am
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GTDr Phidias
(http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/19/18396/drone.jpg)
Officially designated the Phidias by the GTA, this service craft has been in service since early years of space exploration before the formation of the GTA. The success and the historical importance of the Phidias is well-founded. It was the first ship designed to construct complex designs in space. Prior to the deployment of the Phidias, all spacecrafts were constructed on Earth and then launched into space, but this became impractical and prohibitively expensive. Engineers, scientists, and corporations took part in the design of the Phidias in order to maximize efficiency and versatility. Initially, the Phidias were manually operated, but technological advancements have gradually replaced those with the more-modular and cost-effective drone variants in the core systems. As a result, the Phidias became the most widely distributed spacecraft in the GTA. Because of the large number of contractors and variations, the Phidias has many brands depending on the owner. No other equipment has been able to compete against the Phidias successfully. ~ Thanks to SDM for this.
It comes complete with a specialized beam weapon that acts as the welding beam or whatever you want to call it from the cutscene.
Drop the 'Drone' folder in your freespace2 directory and load up the mission 'Construction Zone' for a quick and dirty example of how the drone can be used. Then think of the possibilities of mixing this with this. (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Modular_Construction_Kit)
This was made possible by The BtA Team (and Bigchunk1)!
Download Here. (http://www.mediafire.com/?689f6o92dkb4mas)
Other Notes: My original plans included submodel animation.. but I couldn't figure all of that out. If you look at the POF, you'll see that all the submodels still exist. So all it needs is a multipart turret/animation expert to make this even more awesome! If you do this, please let me know.
GTDr 3301
(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/mjnmixael/Private/dronebud.jpg)
Just a varient of the Probe but with the repair weapon and textured to look more construction like.
Download Here. (http://www.mediafire.com/?fw4xnim4wef2r5n)
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**** yeah. Damned cool, and bloody quick too (frlm an outsiders perspective anyway). Congrats to the team. Course, it stands to reason you'd release this when I'm still 4 or 5 days away from my FS compy. ;)
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Construction bases will be so much cooler with these things flying around.
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wow, cool stuff!
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Ok, now I'm psyched to see the half-way- built collossus.
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:yes: Really cool. I can see these working on the deck of the new Arcadia. :yes:
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GTDr 3301 released, see first post!
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Weirdly, in PCS I can see through all the black parts of the texture. Not sure if this is a PCS issue on my end, or something weird with the alpha channels and the transparency settings? It's particularly noticeable in the sort of circuit mesh stuff on the drone.
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I've noticed that too.. it's definitely PCS2 though.
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GTDr 3301 released, see first post!
:o I didn't know about this.
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Someone highlight this!
...who isn't me!
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I like it , I love it, thanks ! , will test it ASAP :D
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It's is possible to simulate that Phidias is repairing the ship?
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Looks nice :D Good job!
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I remember asking if anyone had made this a long time ago, glad to see someone finally has.
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It's is possible to simulate that Phidias is repairing the ship?
I think there's a sexp for repairing the hull so you'd call that in a repeating loop or something.
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The mission included with the download is a quick example of how to visually make it look like they are repairing the hull. Do that in additino to the repair-hull sexp (or whatever it's called) and voila!
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Awesome... combine these with the modular construction parts released.... I forget who released them, but they were awesome too. Anyway, combine the two for win. ;)
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Cool beans! Thanks for your work!
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http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.808
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.809
Mirrored both.
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Great job! I'm really looking forward to seeing someone use these ingame! :yes:
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Gonna guess a mission in BTA where we finally see the collossus being built... and alpha 1 must protect its secrecy from any incoming public disclosure threat....
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Damn, I haven't written such a lengthy post on the Facebook wall since goodness knows when. :D
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Damn, I haven't written such a lengthy post on the Facebook wall since goodness knows when. :D
Did you wrote it with the construction drone?
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Here's another test mission to show a better way to set the drone to fly waypoints and fire it's welding gun. It's MUCH more reliable than the example mission in the original download.
EDIT: This one's better.
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Damn, I haven't written such a lengthy post on the Facebook wall since goodness knows when. :D
What'd you write?
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What'd you write?
mjn.mixael has released the GTDr Phidias, a vessel based on the unnamed drone seen during the Colossus cutscene. This ship features a special beam cannon that is supposed to replicate the "welding torch" used by the original drone in the cutscene. The Phidias comes with unused submodel animations. In addition, mjn.mixael has also released a re-skin of the Terran Probe from FSPort, featuring a repair weapon.
The Colossus cutscene, for the forgetful or ignorant, may be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX6bzq3M4M4.
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Here's a video of the drone in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEPW24fZTo4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEPW24fZTo4)
Right now we have two options with the repair beam... Type 3 which allows it to aim wherever and sometimes causes it to aim far away on the target. (Using fire-beam to force fire or it doesn't really actually fire the beam all that often.) Or, Type 4, which forces it to fire down the turret normal.. but on these girders.. it misses more often than anything else that way. :(
I'm hoping someone can get the multiparts working because then we can use type 4 and it will still be able to aim slightly.
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If the FS RTS ever becomes a stable, working, stand-alone mod, I really want to see these in it. :D
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If the FS RTS ever becomes a stable, working, stand-alone mod, I really want to see these in it. :D
Me too.
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Construction bases will be so much cooler with these things flying around.
This. :D
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Sorry for the necro...
But has anyone made a version of the Phidias with a docking port, so it can look like it is picking stuff up? - I want to use them as an alternative to the Centaur for the recovery of lifepods and damaged fighters...
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I haven't, but that should be trivial for you to add in the POF.
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I haven't, but that should be trivial for you to add in the POF.
I know, just wanted to be sure
FYI, I added to 2 docking points: one for the aforementioned pick-up simulation (0.00;0.05/-0.05;7.75) and one for mounting it on somehting (0.0;-0.8;-5.8/-5.7) - the required paths were of course autogenerated