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Title: How hard will it be... bomber modelled as capship
Post by: IronForge on January 25, 2010, 10:36:01 am
I was wondering, the typical request for playing as capships is often shot down as undoable, but come on, every one of us has had dreams of flying the colly or the lucy. However, what about just ripping a bomber, making it obscenely huge, removing shields, putting in lots of bomber turrets for the autofire effect and done!!
Just a thought. Awesome campaig possibilities. While its nice to aim and shoot, I always wanted to play the role of the capship captain, moving the ship into position for OTHERS (gunners) to shoot.
Was wondering if theoratically this can be done?
Title: Re: How hard will it be... bomber modelled as capship
Post by: The E on January 25, 2010, 10:56:16 am
......

Please learn to use the search function. Piloting capships can and has been done. It's just not very enjoyable, really.
Title: Re: How hard will it be... bomber modelled as capship
Post by: IronForge on January 25, 2010, 11:11:09 am
Yes I heard someone created a capship piloting mission, posted in that thread too. However they fly different from bombers. I was wondering maybe make bomber type capships.
On that matter, maybe sub-cap ships.  Gunboats if you like. That will prove interesting.
Title: Re: How hard will it be... bomber modelled as capship
Post by: The E on January 25, 2010, 11:13:02 am
Please download TBP. Fly the WhiteStar.
Title: Re: How hard will it be... bomber modelled as capship
Post by: terran_emperor on January 25, 2010, 11:28:06 am
Quote from: The E on January 25, 2010, 11:13:02 am
Please download TBP. Fly the WhiteStar.

You forgot the EA Valkyrie from the same mod
Title: Re: How hard will it be... bomber modelled as capship
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 25, 2010, 01:51:50 pm
Run a forum search. . Not google search for war.zip. That's what it was called if I recall.
Title: Re: How hard will it be... bomber modelled as capship
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 25, 2010, 03:55:23 pm
Quote from: The E on January 25, 2010, 10:56:16 am
......

Please learn to use the search function. Piloting capships can and has been done. It's just not very enjoyable, really.

QFT.

It sounds cool at first, but all you're doing is essentially being the helmsman--just making the ship move.  Now that key-reset and key-pressed are broken, that drastically, drastically limits what you can do FRED wise to control it.
Title: Re: How hard will it be... bomber modelled as capship
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on January 26, 2010, 11:16:03 am
GTTB Armageddon, anyone? (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/GTTB_Armageddon) :p
Title: Re: How hard will it be... bomber modelled as capship
Post by: TrashMan on January 29, 2010, 04:27:23 am
I really ought to make a custom texture for that thing..... :blah:
Title: Re: How hard will it be... bomber modelled as capship
Post by: Marcov on February 03, 2010, 09:58:03 am
Quote from: IronForge on January 25, 2010, 11:11:09 am
Yes I heard someone created a capship piloting mission, posted in that thread too. However they fly different from bombers. I was wondering maybe make bomber type capships.
On that matter, maybe sub-cap ships.  Gunboats if you like. That will prove interesting.

What's awesome is if the FS engine can handle you individually controlling the turrets one by one :)
I've seen a YouTube video on that...be the flak gunner, the laser, the beam gunner, the pilot, etc....
Flight Simulations simply aren't built for that. Ship games (like Age of Sail) is more likely.