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Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 16, 2003, 01:10:32 pm

Courtesy of Star Dragon:

(http://www.angelfire.com/magic/diamondgeezer/127th.jpg)

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: J3Vr6 on May 16, 2003, 01:25:22 pm

I soooooooooooooo can't wait to play this campaign!!!! S:AAB was the reason I bought Freespace in the first place!  What's the status of it, anyway?

The pic looks awesome, btw.  Do you have any with them dogfighting?

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: Amon_Re on May 16, 2003, 01:35:15 pm

:hopping: What's taking you so long? Stop teasing us! I wanna play!!! ;)

Cheers,

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: Nico on May 16, 2003, 01:36:08 pm

neat :)

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: tEAbAG on May 16, 2003, 01:55:49 pm

The cockpits look a little strange, but other than that:yes: :yes: :yes:

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 16, 2003, 02:03:01 pm

Teabag, the cockpits are complete sealed units which can be seperated from the aircraft fuselage. Handy for cramped flight decks, and it doubles as an escape pod :)

OK, here's the pitch - most all the ships from the show are flying in game. Couple of minor things like UEF drones and the Chiggy satellite still to do. Also, a few things not seen in the show are up and running, mainly based on concept art and stuff. I've got three or four oustanding warships to turret and test.

I've gone and aquired a load of hi-res piccies of the planets in our system for background art, along with some hi-res NASA images of nebulas. I'm going to try and combine them with FS2's existing backgrounds, if I can. Also, I've just harvested a crop of sound effects from the internet, I'll be adding those in soon I hope.

I'm starting to think about FREDding, by which I mean a demo. All I've done so far is have a flight of SA-43s defend a convoy of ISSAPCs from Chig fighter attacks... I've been working like a bar steward all week, so I haven't done any more of it.

The main obstacles at the moment include some very dodgy skinning on my part, and some equally dodgy flickering polys. I'm not sure what Star Dragon was doing in this screenie, but on my machine those SA-43s suffer from clipping on their nacelles... basically, unless I can get a pro to sort my polys and skins, then the final product will have some of my bodge-jobs in it :sigh:

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: Sheepy on May 16, 2003, 04:03:31 pm

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Originally posted by tEAbAG
The cockpits look a little strange, but other than that:yes: :yes: :yes:

I think what he meant is the pitch blackness of the canopy glass/whatever

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: Unknown Target on May 16, 2003, 06:04:33 pm

Hey, someone's still using the RT mod!!! :D

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: IceFire on May 18, 2003, 10:11:54 am

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Originally posted by Sheepy


I think what he meant is the pitch blackness of the canopy glass/whatever

They were nearly pitch black in some scenes of the show.  Therefore, they should probably follow as closely with the show asthetic as possible.

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: tEAbAG on May 18, 2003, 12:26:28 pm

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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Teabag, the cockpits are complete sealed units which can be seperated from the aircraft fuselage. Handy for cramped flight decks, and it doubles as an escape pod :)

I know they are in the show, but are you saying they're seprate models?

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: Stunaep on May 18, 2003, 01:00:44 pm

tHIS Looks Kick-Ass!!!
good work, DG.

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: TrashMan on May 18, 2003, 01:15:36 pm

I like the ships...!

I like the targeting reticle....!

Title: S:AAB mod - 127th 'Angry Angels' Attack Wing
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 18, 2003, 02:28:03 pm

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

For the record, no, I didn't mean the cockpits were seperate models (couldn't be arsed to fiddle around getting an ejector pod to work), and the HUD is all Star Dragon's.

BTW,

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Originaly posted by Stunaep
I'm gonna proclaim the day when DG makes a non-spam post a national holiday of Papua-New Guinea, mark my words