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Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Hippo on October 19, 2003, 03:08:07 pm

Some of you remember my post about the #beamweapons comment in the FS1 weapons table... Well... After some tinkering, I have goten a crude beam working ingame... It uses FS2 elements, but so far the beam texture are the only thing i have put in as FS1 requires the rest to be logged in tables... It is still VERY crude...

(http://www.sectorgame.com/ahtw/beamfs1.jpg) (//www.sectorgame.com/ahtw)


Take a close look, and you can begin to see the inner workings of AHTW...


To answer the obvious questions, no, this will not be in AHTW. Yes that Orion is called an Aten. There are no Atens in the mission. The railgun and cataclyst will be released with AHTW.


I also need 1 more tester to test the AHTW demo before I can release it... It IS a FS1 campaign, so you WILL need FS1... PM me if you are interested...

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Flaser on October 19, 2003, 03:13:31 pm

...or convert it yourself using the FS-Port if you don't have FS1.
Please don't burn me Hippo I'm merly giving some advice for those unhappy sould who do not posses this great title.

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Hippo on October 19, 2003, 03:17:30 pm

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Originally posted by Flaser
...or convert it yourself using the FS-Port if you don't have FS1.
 

The thing is, FS1 wasn't beam-capeable... Till now ;7...


But im pretty decided that it will stay as FS1 untill the FS1 version is out, then maybe i'll convert it...

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Falcon on October 19, 2003, 05:10:12 pm

Who cares if the beam is crude.... as long as it does massive damage :devil:

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Hippo on October 19, 2003, 07:05:19 pm

Im still weaking it... right now, the damage is at 80... Im leaving it low till it looks god so i can get several angles before the ship exlpodes...

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Setekh on October 20, 2003, 04:47:12 am

Hey man, I played around with that sort of thing years ago - except your version looks ten times better than mine. ;) Nice one, bro. :yes:

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Gloriano on October 20, 2003, 04:51:07 am

FS+beams=cool:) :yes:

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: karajorma on October 20, 2003, 06:10:51 am

NIce work Hippo :) Makes me wonder what else is buried in the FS and FS2 code. :)

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Bobboau on October 20, 2003, 08:20:52 am

is that an actual beam, or a trailed pulse weapon?

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Hippo on October 20, 2003, 02:36:59 pm

:nervous:

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Taristin on October 20, 2003, 03:49:17 pm

:ha:

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Hippo on October 20, 2003, 06:11:09 pm

what do you mean 'HA!'?

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Solatar on October 20, 2003, 06:14:12 pm

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Originally posted by Hippo
what do you mean 'HA!'?

I too have done beams in fs1 this way...except for the background, at one point I had the first mission with the Knossos completely ported to fs1.

EDIT: But they still looks awesome, don't get me wrong.:D  We just thought you meant real beamz...:p

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Hippo on October 20, 2003, 06:16:58 pm

But fred1 doesn't let you access the full backround editor :(...

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Hippo on October 20, 2003, 06:20:00 pm

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Originally posted by Solatar



EDIT: But they still looks awesome, don't get me wrong.:D  We just thought you meant real beamz...:p

Well, other then using the beam weapon heirarchy, they can be exact replicas of beams, except that when the cruiser firing them is traveling at 70+ Mps you can easily see that there is a gap between the turret and the 'beam'

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Solatar on October 20, 2003, 06:28:18 pm

Yeah, but what about slash beams, I always had trouble with that. You figure them out?:D

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Hippo on October 20, 2003, 07:54:18 pm

that would be a difficult task for FS1... unless there were a way to randomize turret acuracy while firing, or move the target ship at the same time...

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Solatar on October 20, 2003, 07:59:27 pm

hmmm....your right, hadn't thought of that.:D

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Hippo on October 20, 2003, 08:03:25 pm

I have to tweak the brightness of that... and the width... it doesn't look like a BFRed yet... If any of you are also insane enough to mod FS1 and want to give this a shot, PM me...

Title: Who thinks that there can never be beams in FS1?
Post by: Joey_21 on October 27, 2003, 06:35:56 pm

:rolleyes:

(http://denebsystem.250free.com/antifighter.gif)

denebsystem.250free.com/antifighter.gif

- something I messed around with in May of 2000 and quite a feature in my first campaign. :D