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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Star Dragon on March 14, 2003, 12:38:59 pm

Title: Weapon Animations...?
Post by: Star Dragon on March 14, 2003, 12:38:59 pm

Ok I got all sorts of torpedoes, I can make the tables for them (deadfire, still need to lean about homing), using a single image taken from the animation.) BUT can you fire an animation? If I take all 30 -60 images and bundle them up with ani builder like for explosions to get the graphic sequence like in other games can we fire it so they all flicker and flucuate? This would be a HUGE improvement then a static balll/blob/ whatever... (see Karnak Thread for Station firing my conversion of teh Photon and Quantom torpedoes)...

   FYI, for weapons we have phasers, lasers, disrupters, plasma, photons, and a few other things... Plus weapon .pof's for beams, blobs, missiles... about 8 or 9 I think...

Title: Weapon Animations...?
Post by: karajorma on March 14, 2003, 01:54:54 pm

I believe the SCP have got working animated textures but I`ve got no idea how well they work or if they can be used for weapons etc.

Title: Weapon Animations...?
Post by: Goober5000 on March 14, 2003, 02:29:02 pm

Animated textures are working, and AFAIK they can be used on any model in the game.

Title: Weapon Animations...?
Post by: Bobboau on March 14, 2003, 04:40:15 pm

but it hasn't been tested much

Title: no model...
Post by: Star Dragon on March 14, 2003, 05:31:57 pm

There is no model. I'm just wondering if instead of the single pcx for the current torps, replace it with the rest of the images as an animation. However if it neds a model we can made a tiny sphere for each type of torp and animate the textures for it then (like a ballistic primary or missile)... Is this how it would be done?

BTW if anyone is able/willing to try this as a test (and post a screen or two) I can send you a zip of any type torp set you want (fed, borg, red, blue, Quantom, breen, gorn)...ect...

Title: Weapon Animations...?
Post by: Solatar on March 14, 2003, 06:35:32 pm

I thought torpedos used model files.

Title: Weapon Animations...?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 15, 2003, 04:53:04 am

Photons would'nt, they'd just be balls of red light with spikes flying out of them.