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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 16, 2003, 09:25:01 am

Title: An asteroid gun platorm.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 16, 2003, 09:25:01 am: I have started work on a sentry gun platform built into an asteroid. It would be useful as it could hide within an asteroid field, and kill anyships that got too close. Useful for pirates and such. Anyway, I have made it in TS2, but am having severe problems with gluing (again), so could someone glue it and them mail it to me at [email protected]

Here's a screenshot from TS:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/14_year_war/PoVBB/asteroidgun.jpg)

And here is (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/14_year_war/PoVBB/ASTER2.scn) the scn file.
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Post by: Black Wolf on March 16, 2003, 10:12:28 am: Good Idea, though I can't help you, sorry - not a modder).
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Post by: beatspete on March 16, 2003, 11:26:30 am: sorry, i cant work out truespace at all.

Looks intresting, though :yes:
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on March 16, 2003, 12:04:20 pm: I would, but i can't work Truespace to save my life.
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Post by: karajorma on March 16, 2003, 01:46:28 pm: I believe Wotja was tryin to answer this thread when he suggested getting Truespace 3.2 (http://download.com.com/3000-2186-10187913.html?tag=lst-0-4)
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 17, 2003, 12:33:16 pm: I would download it, but I am on 56k, so I would have to use a downlaod manager. I have GoZilla, but it's playing silly buggers.

I could go out and buy PCFormat, as its on the discs, but I have no money.

Problems, problems, problems.
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Post by: ChronoReverse on March 17, 2003, 08:49:37 pm: Did anyone else get a VBscript error when trying to get the serial code from the link in the readme? :(
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Post by: Sandwich on March 18, 2003, 02:13:46 pm: Working on it. Now I gotta recall the namig conventions PCS uses for auto-turreting multi turrets. :p
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Post by: ChronoReverse on March 18, 2003, 04:10:48 pm: OK, the page is working again today. /me happy now
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Post by: Sandwich on March 18, 2003, 04:15:40 pm: It's attached in a ZIP. There are COB, POF, and the temp TBL entry I used to test it. The COB, however, is probably trueSpace5 only, so I included a trueSpace 4.3 COB as well. Dunno if that'll help any, but it was the lowest version ts5 will save to.

Here's a badly compressed screenshot of 4, parhaps 5 (hard to tell) asteroid gun platforms inside an asteroid field:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/sandwich/asteroid_platform.JPG)
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Post by: diamondgeezer on March 19, 2003, 12:33:18 am: Got Mara?
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 19, 2003, 08:11:09 am: Thanks, sarnie! I'll D/L it tonight and let you know.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 19, 2003, 12:52:48 pm: I note from that screenshot that the gun barrels are fubared. i got this when I tried to convert it to pof and got it to run. The barrels rotate around a strange point, the result being that they rotate out of the turret, if you catch my drift.
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Post by: Sandwich on March 19, 2003, 03:56:09 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
I note from that screenshot that the gun barrels are fubared. i got this when I tried to convert it to pof and got it to run. The barrels rotate around a strange point, the result being that they rotate out of the turret, if you catch my drift.

Does that happen in the POF I included in the archive?
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 21, 2003, 06:23:44 am: I don't know. I haven't tried it yet.
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Post by: FreeTerran on March 21, 2003, 01:53:16 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
I would download it, but I am on 56k, so I would have to use a downlaod manager. I have GoZilla, but it's playing silly buggers.

I could go out and buy PCFormat, as its on the discs, but I have no money.

Problems, problems, problems.

I have dsl but i use Get right this is a download manager the download is 2.4 mb little and free.
http://www.getright.com/get.html
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 22, 2003, 03:15:04 am: Meh. I've got GoZilla working now, and are downloading TS3.2.
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Post by: Sandwich on March 22, 2003, 03:50:59 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Meh. I've got GoZilla...

:shaking: *shudders* :shaking:
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Post by: Tiara on March 22, 2003, 04:02:57 am: Use DAP!
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Post by: Sandwich on March 22, 2003, 04:11:14 am: Quote
Originally posted by Tiara
Use DAP!

:shaking: *shudders* :shaking:

Seriously, GetRight is the best. I've tried Flashget, tried GoZilla, tried DAP - GetRight rules them all. It's like the Google of Download Managers! :p
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on March 22, 2003, 04:42:06 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

:shaking: *shudders* :shaking:

Seriously, GetRight is the best. I've tried Flashget, tried GoZilla, tried DAP - GetRight rules them all. It's like the Google of Download Managers! :p
:yes:
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Post by: CP5670 on March 22, 2003, 10:12:51 am: Only problem is, it crashes immediately on startup for me. At least the others work. :p
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 23, 2003, 10:15:55 am: All download managers suck. Their features ought to be built into MSInternet Explorer.
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Post by: Tiara on March 23, 2003, 10:42:32 am: MEH! Getright sux big time... At least for me. DAP all the way. I just run a session of ad-aware and voila, not even spy/adware from it.

I already d/l at very high speeds with double T3 so :ha:
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 23, 2003, 10:46:08 am: Don't mock me! I'm wearing my trousers back to front!
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Post by: Sandwich on March 25, 2003, 03:43:53 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
All download managers suck. Their features ought to be built into MSInternet Explorer.

:wtf: :eek2: :wtf: Are you nutzoid?? That's what Microsoft's been doing for the past 10+ years - incorporating all the good apps into their OS as crappy, half-a$$ed functions. Great idea. Wonderful. :rolleyes:

Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Don't mock me! I'm wearing my trousers back to front!

Uhm.... :wtf:
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 25, 2003, 01:33:04 pm: I simply meant, my little cheese grater, that if IExplore had the facility to pause and resume downloads, all would benefit.
With the exception of fileplanet, as they don't allow it anyway.
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Post by: Ulundel on March 25, 2003, 02:12:41 pm: Good ol' Donwload Manager (http://download.com.com/3000-2071-10190981.html?tag=lst-0-1) is da best