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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Beowulf on April 28, 2004, 05:09:47 pm

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Beowulf on April 28, 2004, 05:09:47 pm

Here's a more "realistic" turret design. It was inspired partly by one I saw in a Cowboy Bebop episode during a firefight. If you don't watch Cowboy Bebop, you should... at least for the space battles.

Note how the ammo feed is constructed as part of the cannon, and guides in a track on the chasis of the turret. This is the feeding mechanism. Just to get the ol' +1 on reality.

The whole thing is 630 polys. Viable for SCP?

Now if only we could get rotation of subobjects on command... ;7

(http://ox.wit.edu/~nobless/01vulcan03.jpg)
(http://ox.wit.edu/~nobless/01vulcan04.jpg)
(http://ox.wit.edu/~nobless/01vulcan01.jpg)
(http://ox.wit.edu/~nobless/01vulcan02.jpg)

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: mikhael on April 28, 2004, 05:11:38 pm

sweet. A little high poly though, for a turret. Still, SWEET. :D

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Solid Snake on April 28, 2004, 05:13:56 pm

I love that show.  Ending was kind of sad though.  The mushroom episode was the best.

sweet turret.

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Beowulf on April 28, 2004, 05:16:43 pm

Thanks mikhael, Solid Snake.

Yeah the mushrooms were funny... that with Ein hopping around. THAT was the best. :lol:

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Nico on April 28, 2004, 05:19:20 pm

Well, that looks like a futuristic version of the phallanx weapon system found on US ships :)

Always loved that with CB, all of it looked really convincing.
Oh, and the best episode was Mad Pierrot.

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Unknown Target on April 28, 2004, 07:26:33 pm

whatsup with it, anyway? I set my recorder for it, but haven't been getting anything new lately :(

Great model, tho! :D I agree, looks like a futuristic version of the phalanx guns on US carriers :)

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Anaz on April 28, 2004, 07:43:13 pm

is that really a bad thing? phalanx cannons look badass...

Shorten up the barrel a tad, perhaps make the "dome" a bit shorter, and stick it on a bomber...

Looks like it'd make a kick-ass anti-missile turret, ala the AMS systems from battletech...

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Flipside on April 28, 2004, 07:52:13 pm

Can you rotate the barrels on turrets in FSO? I was under the impression that you could only do it with gunpoints?

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Taristin on April 28, 2004, 10:04:25 pm

For big ships it'd work OK. I don't know about bombers...

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: phreak on April 28, 2004, 10:05:21 pm

its a big paintball chaingun :yes:

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Bobboau on April 28, 2004, 10:21:31 pm

just assume eventualy we'll come up with a solution

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Setekh on April 29, 2004, 10:25:06 am

Whoa, nice. But yeah, overkill on the polies. :D

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Miburo on April 29, 2004, 11:17:36 am

I agree with paintball gun comment, that "canister" in top makes it look bit funny, without it and stands for canister it could look extremely elegant and beautiful, as it does it now too :yes:

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Nico on April 29, 2004, 12:24:47 pm

The real thing is a radar, not a canister :p

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on April 29, 2004, 03:13:09 pm

that big pod on top doesnt really look that great to me, but still it is an awesome model.

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Singh on April 29, 2004, 04:41:02 pm

man, that is SWEET. Great job!!

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: mikhael on April 29, 2004, 05:21:22 pm

You could always flip the radar canister on its side (parallel to the base, perpindicular to the gun barrel) and see how that looks.

I'm more concerned with the polyliciousness of the rest of the model though. Its very high poly for a turret.

Title: Real Firepower
Post by: Sheepy on May 19, 2004, 01:45:40 pm

this was good, what happened to it?