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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Galemp on January 29, 2002, 09:21:00 pm
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Hello to the usual gang of idiots.
You know how you can order cruisers to 'attack my target' and 'depart?' What if you had it on the reinforcements list? Then you could have command of your own cruiser.
But let's take this further. What if, through skillful use of Sexps, you made the cruiser avaliable in a series of missions in a campaign? You could use events in previous missions to set initial hull strength, making it so the cruiser has 20% repairs done between missions, and full repairs if you don't use it for a mission.
I was pondering this because I wanted to use it in my Vasudan campaign...eventually. What do you guys think? Would it be worth the sexp work?
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor:
Hello to the usual gang of idiots.
Calling us idiots isn't a good way to start a post.
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A VBB convert, probably...they have a hard problem adjusting to a useful environment...now, back on topic...
I dunno (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
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Better yet why not convert all the FS models into Startrek academy or Klingon academy game models, redo all the sounds, interfaces and Movies and make Freespace Academy, where u command Fenris to Orion class cruisers!
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Thats a really good idea!
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That sounds good, but it wouldn't really make much sense story-wise. If your rank is high enough to give direct orders to a cruiser captain, you would not be flying a fighter in the first place but would probably be sitting behind a desk. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif) (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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You could always give the player an invisible fighter that's invunrible, change the HUD, and call it "The Command Interface" (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/tongue.gif)
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The great thing about the Klingon Academy game is that it uses 3dmax models like FS2's can be, and btw it is completely modable!!!! and the game already has fighters in it, like the klingon scout shuttle and the mythrial fighters... why not have someone join forces with http://www.3dap.com/klingonacademy/ ("http://www.3dap.com/klingonacademy/")
and make a freespace academy mod??
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Red, If I had klingon acadamy, then I would be ready to help you, I wanna fly a deimos!!!
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Jeez, you guys know you can fly these things, but anything over a corvette (deimos is pushing it) would cause the game to crash, due to the damage report on all the turrets. But knock yourself out and fly that slow ******* .
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No no no no, I don't want you to be able to fly the cruiser, just be able to call it in as a reinforcement and give it a target to attack.
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Well i for one want to see a Freespace Commander game, where u order crewmen to move ur cruiser/destroyer to attack other targets!!!
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Create some fighters in fred.
Make them into a wing.
Select the ships and edit them as a group, change them to deimos'.
Now you should be able to give the wing orders as per fighters would.
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Have you tried it? Does it work?
I thought capship AI wasn't good enough to protect or disarm, only attack.
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A FS, KA mod would be great, the one problem that I can see would be that FS ships move and turn a lot slower than Star Trek ships. Naturaly you could increase the turn rates etc of th FS ships but seeing an Orion turn rather rapidly makes me feel 'uneasy' (for want of a better term).
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Originally posted by vadar_1:
Calling us idiots isn't a good way to start a post.
Hey... idiot. "The usual gang of idiots" is how the staff ("http://www.collectmad.com/vivamad/person/eperson.htm") of MAD Magazine have refered to themselves for the last few decades or so. It's a "joke". Repeat after me... "j o k e". (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/rolleyes.gif)
BTW, I think that's a cool idea. Using SEXPs it's possible to make pretty much anything happen from the reinforcement menu. I once put a "Planetary Cannon Strike" in my reinforcements menu-- calling it caused a beam to appear to fire from a nearby planet. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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[This message has been edited by ZylonBane (edited 02-05-2002).]
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j o k e
ok...whats next?
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how did you do that zylon? the beam?
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I don't think he'd imagine you asked him how to do the insults. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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Trigger it? Or create the visual effect?
The visual effect was easy... just put a beam cannon really far away in the vicinity of a background planet. Eh, here's the demo mission:
http://home.att.net/~clay.h/zb_planetarycannon.fs2 ("http://home.att.net/~clay.h/zb_planetarycannon.fs2")
Check the reinforcements menu when you feel it to be, ahhh... appropriate. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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[This message has been edited by ZylonBane (edited 02-05-2002).]
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klingon academy interface is so much like FS2!!! heres a pic... http://www.3dap.com/klingonacademy/images/modpics/s1/entnx4.jpg ("http://www.3dap.com/klingonacademy/images/modpics/s1/entnx4.jpg") there is a viewing window of the attacker ship, a radar screen that can be changed from square to fs2 circle, and the weapon interface box is similar to fs2's!! just like fs2 you have unlimited weaponry like phasers and laser turrets, and you have limited weaponry like hornet missles and photon torpedoes!! For example say the GTC-Leviathon has 6 regular laser turrets, a beam turret and a fusion mortar cannon. By simply specifying the lasers as main weapons that continually either computer or fire under your command, they fire just like FS2's AI. By editing you can even group some of them together!! the Beam cannon can be set to have a recharge of say 15 seconds or more and can also be linked as a main cannon or fired separtly. The fusion mortar can be limited say you only get 50 or 100, when you run out, you run out!!!
whats great about it is the fact its like really being there in the game, you can increase photon beam power(freespace univ) and a voice will say "Powering up the forward beam cannon" you can cut power to certain systems like the jump drive and sensor range and all kinds of stuff. Its totally modable, any takers!!!
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Originally posted by Red5:
klingon academy interface is so much like FS2!!!
Ummm... I guess I don't see the similarity.
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They mod similar too!
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Red5 seems to be in the MODing startrek games for Freespace2 mode... nice...