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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Krelus on May 13, 2009, 06:52:45 am

Title: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Krelus on May 13, 2009, 06:52:45 am: Recently I came up with the idea of having the GTI Acheron station be transported by a Triton freighter by adding dockpoints to it (Turns out the prongs of the Triton fit quite nicely over the middle of the Acheron if it's sideways!) It seems practical and in-universe it would give Command the ability to rapidly set up a powerful blockade or defense perimeter anywhere it wants. To my knowledge this has never been done before, and I'm quite proud with how it turned out.

So I was just curious, what other innovations have people done along those lines? I'm always interested to see when a ship is used in a way its creators never quite intended.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on May 13, 2009, 07:09:39 am: Is it possible to dock a Mjolnir with an Argo? :drevil:
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on May 13, 2009, 09:58:33 am: Quote from: Krelus on May 13, 2009, 06:52:45 am
So I was just curious, what other innovations have people done along those lines? I'm always interested to see when a ship is used in a way its creators never quite intended.
Just Another Day. Especially a certain cutscene in JAD2.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Krelus on May 13, 2009, 10:14:35 am: I can't look at a Setekh without cracking up, anymore XD

And I can picture it now, Argos with a Mjolnir RBC bolted to the front.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on May 13, 2009, 10:58:05 am: Quote from: Krelus on May 13, 2009, 10:14:35 am
I can't look at a Setekh without cracking up, anymore XD

A Setekh with a frontal BVas? :drevil:

Quote from: Krelus on May 13, 2009, 10:14:35 am
And I can picture it now, Argos with a Mjolnir RBC bolted to the front.

Does it actually work in the first place? That's the question. It'll be nice if it works, but if it doesn't... :(

Quote from: FreeSpaceFreak on May 13, 2009, 09:58:33 am
Just Another Day. Especially a certain cutscene in JAD2.

Spoiler:
It's fun to stay in the
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A

...?

Speaking of which, wasn't...

Spoiler:
...the Knossos rotated in the wrong direction very fast in the second-to-last mission of PI to erase the Procyon-Nebula portal?
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: boewolf on May 13, 2009, 11:09:45 am: Quote from: Krelus on May 13, 2009, 06:52:45 am
So I was just curious, what other innovations have people done along those lines? I'm always interested to see when a ship is used in a way its creators never quite intended.

Does making an additional exo-frame with 4 flak guns count count?
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: JGZinv on May 13, 2009, 11:16:51 pm: Hmm...

Ways I've come up with (with Bax) to use a "ship" in a weird way.

Creating gravity...
Making star bases...
Base killing missiles...
Potential air vents around space colonies.
Fin funnels
Indoor corridors

There's more, but I'd have to pull out my 200+ page thread of ideas to really do a proper listing.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on May 14, 2009, 03:01:28 am: Quote from: Androgeos Exeunt on May 13, 2009, 10:58:05 am
Quote from: FreeSpaceFreak on May 13, 2009, 09:58:33 am
Just Another Day. Especially a certain cutscene in JAD2.

Spoiler:
*snip*

...?
Yeah :D
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on May 14, 2009, 09:41:07 am: Has anyone tried docking a Mjolnir to an Argo yet?
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: redsniper on May 14, 2009, 12:01:35 pm: You do it.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Axem on May 14, 2009, 12:36:15 pm: The Mjolnir (atleast the HTL one) doesn't have any dockpoints, so it can't be docked. :(
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Krelus on May 14, 2009, 02:04:06 pm: Quote from: Axem on May 14, 2009, 12:36:15 pm
The Mjolnir (atleast the HTL one) doesn't have any dockpoints, so it can't be docked. :(

*COUGH*pcs2*COUGHCOUGH*
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: shiv on May 14, 2009, 02:33:21 pm: Quote from: Androgeos Exeunt on May 13, 2009, 07:09:39 am
Is it possible to dock a Mjolnir with an Argo? :drevil:
Can anyone make dockpoints in Mjolnir model? :drevil: ;7 :drevil:
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Droid803 on May 14, 2009, 04:16:55 pm: Eherm...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/kc1991/MjolnirCruiser1.png)

Not exactly an Argo, but the Mjolnir here has a dockpoint on it, as does the modified Leviathan.
The Mjolnir looks a little too big for the Argo.
I'll get it uploaded to FSMods.

EEDIT: http://freespacemods.net/download.php?view.548
Leviathan Not Included.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Snail on May 14, 2009, 04:24:00 pm: Hoho. That's one of the ways I envisioned the GTVA fighting back if they didn't have time to prepare. Improvised superweapons. Frikken sweet.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Titan on May 14, 2009, 05:03:27 pm: Retextured and with some tbl and pof changes, that would be one great post-capella cruiser.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on May 15, 2009, 06:32:11 am: That actually looks pretty good. It turns the Leviathan into a Terran Lilith. :drevil:
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: asyikarea51 on May 21, 2009, 04:54:35 am: Guess that Mjolnir-Argo idea isn't that original after all... :lol:

GTDI TITAN!!! XDDDDDDD
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Grizzly on May 23, 2009, 12:40:07 am: Wasn't there some sort of cannon in Derelict?
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on May 23, 2009, 02:14:39 am: Yeah, a Zephyrus with a Meson bomb attached to it and a BIG beam. Indeed, that was unique :lol:
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Trivial Psychic on May 23, 2009, 08:04:54 am: Zephyrus + Meson + 4x Elysium each mounting a BF (or possibly LBF) Green.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Snail on May 23, 2009, 08:11:03 am: Isises armed with Morning Stars = Srs pwnage.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Krelus on May 23, 2009, 10:12:36 am: Quote from: Snail on May 23, 2009, 08:11:03 am
Isises armed with Morning Stars = Srs pwnage.

Oh god. Those things are already annoying enough to kill.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Aardwolf on May 24, 2009, 01:07:40 pm: Wow, that would be mean.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on May 25, 2009, 11:58:19 am: Quote from: FreeSpaceFreak on May 23, 2009, 02:14:39 am
Yeah, a Zephyrus with a Meson bomb attached to it and a BIG beam. Indeed, that was unique :lol:

Did the Zephyrus have that many dockpoints, or were the Elysiums just touching the gas miner?
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: Droid803 on May 25, 2009, 05:24:36 pm: I think it was set up so that they were just touching.
Title: Re: Using things in unique ways
Post by: redsniper on May 25, 2009, 09:57:29 pm: no multi-docking back then. :D