[beatspete]

Today i made my first freespace ship! Yey! I'd had the software for a while, but only recently de-coded truespace's interface of doom. So i managed Sandwich's tutorial (very helpful), then went on to do the tutorial in the Freespace Oracle, also very helpful.  I had a go at a turret with an arm... on a rather strange model:

http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/beatspete/panzer1.JPG

http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/beatspete/panzer2.JPG

Model is pants, textures suck.  I was gonna do this, but it just wasnt as funny:
http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/beatspete/images/site1.JPG

Anyway, my question is thus - how do i set a field of view for the turrets?  As you can see my lovely little tanks are firing in all directions.
Yes, i made the shell too.

[Rampage]

Ja, mein führer.

Welcome to the better world of Freespace 2 modeling.

[karajorma]

You set the field of view in PCS. Check my turreting tutorial in the FAQ for more details.

[beatspete]

Ah - i'd overlooked that part before.  Thanks.

[Knight Templar]

j00 make teh bodem 1?

[IPAndrews]

http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/beatspete/panzer2.JPG

That is so funny. Of course, I do have a slightly odd sense of humour.

[karajorma]

I think I finally have a ship ready to go up against my own GTC Great Big Cube

[Darkage]

The Space shoebox!:D

[beatspete]

Ok, another question - glow points for engines - how do i do them?  I can make subsystems etc, but how do i get the glowing effect... and for fighters, do the engine exhaust "flames" just animate themselves if i use the relevant thrust texture?