[Ace]

If you guys can model them up real quick, send me a copy ASAP.

I'd love to have something like this for the Semnai's drydock in tBE.

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[Setekh]

'Civilian liner Britannia, you are authorised for docking. Please follow the runway to your designated dock.'

Damn that would be so cool... I so want to see this...    

[This message has been edited by Setekh (edited 07-27-2001).]

[Unidan]

Kind of like the landing lights in MS Gundam.

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[Taristin]

Ok, I made a rough model. I'm going to put engines on it, and make the outter sheilds rotate, and this should simulate blinking   *crosses fingers*

[Taristin]

I made one, it's fairly simple, but it should work, Sandwich is testing it for me now, on account of my FS2 not working temporarily. He'd better taks screenshots if he knows whats good for him.  

[Sandwich]

LOL - ok, ok... hehehe. I tested the thing and took some screenshots, but they didn't come out very well at all. Tha main problem was that the engine glows were way to small to be seen at anything further away than 500m or so. I'll get some good screenshots of beta 2, once Sni- Raa Tor'h is finished with it.  

But the general concept works.  

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[aldo_14]

Maybe you could try an alternate approach for this - mount a beam on each nav ligh.  Make it a custom one with 0 damage, fairly small glow, long lasting and 0 warmup / warmdown time.

Then, set up a guide path by aiming the turret on the light object at the corresponding light on a second, etc... you'd need to ensure the distances matched the glow length.

Have a beam path at the left / right side of the ship, and maybe give the beams a reasonably high mass so they 'bump' the ship if it crosses their path.

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by aldo_14:
Maybe you could try an alternate approach for this - mount a beam on each nav ligh.  Make it a custom one with 0 damage, fairly small glow, long lasting and 0 warmup / warmdown time.

Then, set up a guide path by aiming the turret on the light object at the corresponding light on a second, etc... you'd need to ensure the distances matched the glow length.

Have a beam path at the left / right side of the ship, and maybe give the beams a reasonably high mass so they 'bump' the ship if it crosses their path.

--> mission designer nightmare I think.

[aldo_14]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
--> mission designer nightmare I think.

Not really - simple as placing 3/4 Mjolnirs in a straight line and telling them to fire.

And use the 'distance between onjetcs' tool.

[Sushi]

 

Originally posted by aldo_14:
Maybe you could try an alternate approach for this - mount a beam on each nav ligh.  Make it a custom one with 0 damage, fairly small glow, long lasting and 0 warmup / warmdown time....

I LIKE this idea...  

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[Sandwich]

IT IS FINISHED

I've made working navigational lights - complete with a blinking effect. The lights are visible from quite a distance away (at least 4 km, I haven't really tried beyond that). Included in the .ZIP are a readme with the ships.tbl data, the .POF file and a demo mission. Enjoy!  

Rah Tor'h - I must confess that I copied POF settings from your model - hope you don't mind...  

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[This message has been edited by sandwich (edited 08-02-2001).]

[Sushi]

Alright! News time! Staff, this means you.  

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[Nico]

post pics plz, my data folsder is full of stuff, I can't test it yet  

[Sandwich]

I would, but I don't have anywhere to upload the pics.   Get on ICQ and I'll send 'em to ya.  

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['Captain' Nick Brown]

 

Originally posted by sandwich:
I would, but I don't have anywhere to upload the pics.   Get on ICQ and I'll send 'em to ya.  

Send them to me and I'll upload them onto my site if you would like...

[email protected]

[Sandwich]

Sent! I'm going offline now, so do me and everyone a favor and post 'em here. Thanx!  

EDIT: BTW, this version is around 80/80/42 H/W/D and is visible as being larger than the stars at 12,000 meters! Yay!  

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[This message has been edited by sandwich (edited 08-02-2001).]

[Alikchi]

Hmmm. I got an error when I ran the mission...Weird, the same thing happens when I try to run the GVI Cairo..


Error: Couldn't open texture 'xhull05'
referenced by model 'navlight.pof'

File:C:\projects\freespace2\code\Model\ModelRead.cpp
Line: 1802

Call stack:
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[Sandwich]

Darnnit! I can't tell which textures are included in the original game and which are add-ons... hmmmm... If you have the POF CS edit the POF and replace the xHull05 texture with AWACtile4. The other texture was a nice dark texture; this AWAC one is very similar. I'll update the ZIP as soon as I can. Sorry once again, people.

EDIT: The .ZIP in the link a few posts above is updated with the correct version.

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[This message has been edited by sandwich (edited 08-02-2001).]

[Setekh]

 

Well, keep working at it guys. It's very, very close  

[Sandwich]

 

Originally posted by sandwich:
EDIT: The .ZIP in the link a few posts above is updated with the correct version.

Setekh... it IS finished...  



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