[Droid803]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WaveMotionTuningFork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81nwcJZgNlI&t=56s

Yep.

[Commander Zane]

That has to be powerful if it knocks the ship back that far from recoil.

[deathfun]

That has to be powerful if it knocks the ship back that far from recoil.

Not to mention the speed of which it recoils

[headdie]

Recoil like than in FSO would be cool

[BengalTiger]

Make a dummy projectile that explodes 0.0 s after firing with a massive, non-damaging shockwave, strong enough to move the firing capship and a child which is the proper projectile (with a spawn angle set to 0).

Something like this I created for TotT:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=50838.msg1564189#msg1564189

I don't know how to make the recoil push something without rotating it, but the effect is fun nonetheless.

[jr2]

Well, unless the launcher is dead-center-mass of the firing ship, it would rotate it, no?

[headdie]

Well, unless the launcher is dead-center-mass of the firing ship, it would rotate it, no?

no because rotation would require a counteracting force on a different part of the ship

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Less talk. More pictures. ASW2 is still awaiting one last mission to be finished...

[yuezhi]

O...M...G!
words cannot express what i'm thinking. except that that galaxy looks a little different from what we saw in act one.

[Firstdragon34]

Two words. Wow. Awesomesauce. (Still one word!) 

[ssmit132]

That is looking great!

Is the first picture an Akrotiri's main cannon equipped with a beam emitter?

[Nyctaeus]

That is looking great!

Is the first picture an Akrotiri's main cannon equipped with a beam emitter?

No, this is the same Akrotiri's trollgun but with new model. Old was a bit ugly.

Awesome screenshots .

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Is the first picture an Akrotiri's main cannon equipped with a beam emitter?

What Betrayal said, I reworked the Akrotiri main gun because it did look rather poor.

[-Norbert-]

Seeing that new gun makes me wonder if it's possible to give a blob turret a warmup glow.
Kinda like the gun builds up a ball of energy and when it reaches a certain size, fires it out.

[BengalTiger]

It's doable right now, with weapons.tbl and muzzleflash animation hacks.

Playing with a muzzleflash and a dummy projectile with 0 velocity would work if the firing ship is stationary or moving really slowly (dummy projectile triggers the muzzleflash which is a growing blob animation, then the child of the dummy projectile shoots forward, being a blob the size of the muzzleflash).

Other than that some scripting magicians might be able to write something to begin the muzzleflash animation some time before firing the projectile.

[blowfish]

That turret is too nice for the tile texturing given to it

[Killer Whale]

What about just a low velocity beam cannon?

[esarai]

Lol Killer Whale,

While I get what you are probably deducing that from, beam cannons have infinite velocity--they strike instantly.  There is no way around this.  The velocity fields are there simply to appease the whimsical tyrant FSO, and to keep it from flipping epic ****burgers all over your debug logfile.

[Dragon]

In retail, they were used for range calculations, before FSO implemented +weapon range: field.

[Spoon]

Suddenly, godrays.