[Flipside]

They look more like missile trails to me....

[Herra Tohtori]

I suppose similar efect with slight difference willbe available for the Excavator - sorry, the Victory class cruiser?

Only, the charge effect should be a little thicker... and btw, how much does that charge effect "fluctuate"? (Can't think of any other word for it...)

What I mean is that how stationary is that effect in-game? Will it be able to make it really seem like some energy is seriously flowing into the center, where the main beam then fires?

Okay, what I really mean is something like this...







Understand my meaning? Thicker, starts from the edges and really goes to the center - and even when it reaches the main beam startpoint, it should still seem like pumping energy into main beam... Though I think that current effect is also awesome.

The pictures are screenshots from Star Wreck 6: In the Pirkinning... there the effect is really quite nice.

[starfox]

Just watched "Call to Arms". Frankly, I like "The official charge effect" more than the one is Star Wreck, but both are very good in their own way.
By the way, I noticed your username. It's good to have more Finnish people onboard.

[Herra Tohtori]

There we go again...

I haven't actually seen any B5 related material on TV, that I must confess. So I haven't seen the original Victory main gun charge effect either...

What pictures I could find about it, don't make justice to it - I really should see it on moving picture to be able to judge it.

Some pictures I found on http://www.b5tech.com/science/weapons/excalibur_guns/exweapons.html... I'd say that the original effect would be somewhat less "dense" light of the charger beams?

Well, whatever. I must say that I'm fully confident that the final solution of Victory's main beam effect will be more than satisfactory, given the top-notch quality of the earlier accomplishments of TBP...

It's amazing how many of 5e6 Finns are here, when you compare to the participation of the rest of the world, eh? =)

[Herra Tohtori]

By the way, while we are on topic of getting B5 effects into FS2:

Has anyone figured out how to make a jumpgate have those blinking lights during the gate-opening-sound effect, before a ship emerges through it? It would certainly add to the feeling that it's the jumpgate opening the gate and not the ship itself.

[Trivial Psychic]

It could be done with a glowpoint bank series, activated and deactivated via SEXP.

[Colonol Dekker]

Quick point, In B5, the Jumpgate opens the Jumpoint right, and several ships can enter/exit it before it closes. You guys forayed into this area yet. (instead of having a point per ship?)

[0rph3u5]

you can use the "warp-effect"-sexp to open a jumppoint - for both departure and arrivial - without a ship
or you place a dummy (novas or warlocks are perfect for this) which jumps in and is erased by "ship-vanish"-sexp right when it arrives - only works with arrivals as far as I know

than you can make a group of ships appear with activated "no warp effect"-flag short range before it or as I prefer it short behin the jumppoint and make it pass on a waypoint path or anyway else

I don't know if there is the possibility to make the jumpgate to have this charge effect...

[Trivial Psychic]

The only irritating part about using a single warp-effect sexp for multiple ship arrivals/departures, is you don't get the accelleration and decelleration that you do with ship-self-generated warp effects.  There are however, a few changes coming to the source code that will give the ability to simulate this, with a bit of creative event use.

[Herra Tohtori]

Well, is it possible to have the ship warp in/out with deceleration/acceleration, but only remove the vortex of that single ship, for example if many ships are coming through a jumpgate simultaneously? Like the situation on "Severed Dreams" -mission, for example. It looks kinda goofy when all those ships generate their own vortex but still come through the gate...

So, is it possible to just disable the vortex part of warp effect and keep te acceleration/deceleration thingy there?

[Trivial Psychic]

Not that I've heard of, though I have suggested it in the past.