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Offline Goober5000

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Re: Dropship style launches
Now that I've dug around some, it looks like there's no such SEXP as as what I suggested

What about jettison-cargo-delay?

 

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Re: Dropship style launches
There's an interesting idea!  For the horizontal launch you'd probably need to modify the fighters to have a special docking point on the side, but for the vertical launch... that sounds feasible right away!  Get right on that! :p

Hmm... Does anything determines the jettison speed of the cargo?  Density?

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Dropship style launches
Cargo gets dumped by the ship moving away from the cargo in FS, unfortunately.
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Re: Dropship style launches
Get right on that! :p

Hey, you're the one who was asking.  You get on that. :p

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Hmm... Does anything determines the jettison speed of the cargo?  Density?

Mass and distance.  I think it's the same whack as when you have a freighter destroyed and its cargo shoved away.

 

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Re: Dropship style launches
Right,but a jettinson-cargo-delay with an Argo looks quite strange!
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That would be quite weird, I'll post ome other crazy missions i'vde done soon enough. thrn you can see how i make use of the new schmancy sexps - avast ye mangy currs........
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Like that mission with the probe in Epsilon Eridani?
That was cool.
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Re: Dropship style launches
I love using the fade-out sexp's in conjunction with a ship explosion. You know that something big just went boom.

I'll illustrate with a quick cutscene mission.

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Seems that everyone here has different styles...
Cutscenes with FRED offer many interesting things...
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