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I measured it so that there is  enough room for someone to stand up in it, with room for the bulkheads and equipement and whatever. Chief, that's not its correct texture, so it'll look different once it's done. Possibly look more detailed.

 

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Yeah, pcs2 or the collada exporter likes to screw up the texture slots, so that's why it looks like that. Anyway, I just wanted to make sure the size is intentional; I think it's within realistic bounds (whatever that means in this context), and you're unlikely to see a fighter parked right next to the bridge during regular gameplay anyway.

 

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I thought it was just a temp texture.  The mesh itself seems a bit low, but a proper texture could bring it to life, so I'll wait and see what you guys cook up :)
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Yeah, pcs2 or the collada exporter likes to screw up the texture slots, so that's why it looks like that. Anyway, I just wanted to make sure the size is intentional; I think it's within realistic bounds (whatever that means in this context), and you're unlikely to see a fighter parked right next to the bridge during regular gameplay anyway.

No, but you might see the occasional A-Wing fly through it...

 

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Ok, the ship's almost done. Some notes:

1. There's now a communications subsystem behind the bridge (that grid of blocks), with a -destroyed model too.
2. The front bay is a fighterbay, the rear bay doesn't have anything to it atm.
3. No dockpoints since I didn't really know where exactly to put them. Are those needed for the fighterbay in the first place?
4. I made the hull plating a separate subobject in case we want to make it more durable and thus encourage the player to aim for the softer bits. Currently it just transfers all damage to the main hull.

The only thing still remaining is paths for all subsystems (the only ones I did were fighterbay paths). Unless someone volunteers to do them, I suggest just leaving them out and seeing how things work without them.

However, there's one annoying issue: the turrets are difficult to hit. I've got their hitpoints set so that I can blow one up with two shots, but quite often, especially when shooting from straight above, the hits just don't register. Although it probably could be fixed by tweaking the turret models (detach the pods the turrets are mounted on into separate subobjects and then linking the turrets to them, making them share damage with each other), I'd really like it if there was a better solution, like for example using an orb subsystem for hit detection (which I tried, but didn't get to work). Anyone got any ideas?

 

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The dockpoints are needed if you want to have the fighters appear docked in the fighter bay, otherwise, no.
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I haven't been able to experience it myself, but having hard to hit, but if hut they're down for the count tourets sounds kind of cool on paper, and encourages the player to strafe the target with a spread of shots, as opposed to flying at it needing several hits to take down.

Maybe the hull plating subobject is interfering with the touret..

 

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Are the turrets within the bounding box of detail0?  Any part that extends beyond it will tend to have no collision detection.
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Done and committed. The only things missing are subsystem paths except for fighterbay paths which I've wired in along with a docking path for the rear bay.

I put 12 docking points in the fighterbay (6 on the floor, 6 on the roof) and just 1 in the rear bay, which looks like a bay for bigger stuff. It easily holds a DX-9 Stormtrooper Transport (could actually fit 4 of those in there if we added more docking points) and could probably hold something like an AT-AT barge as well.

For some reason engine wash didn't seem to be working. I didn't test if it's just this ship or all of them, though.

 

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Yay! It's been committed! Yay! :D
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Calm down TopAce, or someone might think _you_ need to be committed ;)
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I committed a slightly tweaked version yesterday. The targeting bracket bounding box issue should now be fixed, and I've revised the fighter hangar in the following way:

It's now just a regular fighterbay, capable of launching 6 fighters at once. However, we still have to figure out a way to cap the speed of fighters when they're flying out after arriving through the bay, because currently they accelerate way too quickly and end up crashing to each other and/or flying through the sensors because the space is so limited. It doesn't seem like there's a clean and reusable FREDding solution to that, so maybe we'll have to make a feature request.

I also spent a lot of time coming up with a TIE rack system so we could have modelled racks from which TIEs could be launched. However, even after spending hours and hours on it, I found no way to make undocking fighters properly obey their docking path, which made it impossible for TIEs docked in the hangar's ceiling to be able to fly out without cutting through the hangar's walls. Therefore, I've scrapped the whole idea of TIE racks both for this ship and the Dreadnaught and we'll just be having regular fighterbays, since those seem to work pretty nicely. Therefore there's no docking points at all in the forward hangar anymore.

 
It's now just a regular fighterbay, capable of launching 6 fighters at once. However, we still have to figure out a way to cap the speed of fighters when they're flying out after arriving through the bay, because currently they accelerate way too quickly and end up crashing to each other and/or flying through the sensors because the space is so limited. It doesn't seem like there's a clean and reusable FREDding solution to that, so maybe we'll have to make a feature request.

I might be speaking out of turn on this, so please forgive me if I am.

I watch two projects here.  FotG is obviously one.  Diaspora is the other.  Recalling their videos, The have a rack mount system set up on the Cylon Basestars that launch the Raiders.  I know they were having issues with it at one point but I think they resolved it.  You might be able to poke one of them about this.

 

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You mean issues like these? :P Yea I think that was fixed. Don't ask me how, though.
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You mean issues like these? :P Yea I think that was fixed. Don't ask me how, though.

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Any ideas for Strike variants? I'm thinking some kind of tanker varient with fuel cylinders. Maybe an orbital assault version, with a shuttle bay and some big guns.

 

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Orbit to surface bombardment package. 

Think AC-130.
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I like both of those ideas--a version with a heavy turbo battery in place of the fighter bay would be especially nice because it would allow the ship to challenge a heavy cruiser, but they player would still realistically be able to pull its teeth.  You could also try a scout or AWACS approach with massive sensor and communications arrays in place of the bay (think of the ISD tower equipment for reference).

 
I like those ideas. I'll start making one tonight (I'm on the night shift :( ) The orbital bombardment package could make for a cool mission. You could have a far away and invisible ship that's invisible and untargetable, and a big planet right behind it. Then have some strike class cruisers and a SD bombard the object. Or something. Your job as the pilot would be to patrol the perimeter and catch runners. It would look something like this, but with different ships:

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Do you think that you'll create the Peregrine-Variant (the one with gravity well generators) from X-Wing vs TIE Fighter: Balance of Power?
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