[TopAce]

It flies.

[Night Hammer]

it out?

[Omniscaper]

The model is at a standstill. That turret issue REALLY urks me. I really WANT to have the nose turret functioning as its supposed to. Unless you are willing to accept a turret that fires downward at a 140 degree fov. You'll have to fly the ship at an angle to get dudes in front of you.  The missle system will be perfect though. It can be used primarily as a bomber, that is unless, I put non-canon forward guns. If so, where do you think I should put it?

As it is, the model can open the wings only ONCE when a designated button is pressed. I was thinking of using the weapon select key. The animated version of the model will DEPEND on its Fred settings. Otherwise, I can always a static model of both an opened and closed version.

Give me some input, whoever wants this released. For me, its gonna be in the backburner till I resolve the turret issue. But if you folks want it out now, just tell me how to set it up and I'll release it as a beta version.

[StratComm]

That won't work either Omni.  Actually if you want this thing flyable you're going to have to make that turret a static firepoint.  You can't shoot a turret and firepoints have to have normals pointing straight ahead.  The canon thing and the ability for this thing to actually work in FS completely conflict on that regard.  There really is no way to make the nose gun work right.  But when you're flying it, you'll want it pointing straight forwards anyway, so I'd say fix it at that and don't worry too much about it.

[Night Hammer]

yeah i say just make the turret fire forward like a primary, but thats just me

[Omniscaper]

No no no, the nose turret will not be a firing point. It will be like the turret on the Medusa bomber. The secondary banks will basically be the only thing you can fire manually. Of course there is your option too.

I was actually thinking about adding non-canon guns where the headlights would be. Those would be the gun banks that can be fired manually. To go further away from canon, I was thinking about putting a turret on the belly, right before the rear landing gear in order to make this bomber class not so defenseless.

ARGH.....
too much considerations.

SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO SET IT UP AND IT WILL BE SO. WHOEVER MAKES THE NEXT SUGGESTION (a sane one)WILL BE IMPLEMENTED.....

....this will be just a beta anyway.

[Night Hammer]

haha, chill buddy,


i like all your noncannon ideas as well as making the nose gun a turret. i cant speak for everyone else though

[Omniscaper]

DONE... beta will be out in less than one hour.


Update....

Crashes occuring... tracking the problem....15 minutes.

[Omniscaper]

Alrighty then... sorry it took longer than the hour I stated earlier. Fredding gets annoying.

Beta release DROPSHIP
Mesh/Textures - Fox Interactive / Sierra



http://penguinbomb.com/omniscaper/DropshipBeta.rar

UPDATED..... forgot some maps and models.... sorry.

Any other issues or suggestions please tell me.

[Deepblue]

Nice...

[Night Hammer]

Goodwork Omni, this ship is beautiful:nod:

[magatsu1]

the front missle pods open! Yay! I thought you had ignored my moaning posts!

wouldn't it be better as a kind of Assualt Transport than  a bomber though (like an Elysium)

[Woolie Wool]

If I can't get the Holler to work, this will be the new Microsol Consortium bomber.

[Omniscaper]

Originally posted by magatsu1
the front missle pods open! Yay! I thought you had ignored my moaning posts!

wouldn't it be better as a kind of Assualt Transport than  a bomber though (like an Elysium)

Would the AI for that class of ship function differently?

PS: Has anyone managed to destroy the Sathanas in the included mission?

[magatsu1]

um, i would imagine so, but not the turret AI if that's what yer thinking

[Deepblue]

PSst, whered you get the Holler WW, that model was freakin awesome when Aldo first posted it in the Reci private forum.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Deepblue
PSst, whered you get the Holler WW, that model was freakin awesome when Aldo first posted it in the Reci private forum.

He posted a mods release after he canceled Reciprocity. Included were the new Claymore, the Mafdet cruiser (a GOOD Vasudan cruiser! Hallelujah!), the Gryphon, the Heset fighter, that stealth fighter whose name I forgot, the Holler, and possibly a couple of others.

[Gloriano]

Nice *downloads*!