[Colonol Dekker]

Not where i am !

[Topgun]

You want holes, they need to be modelled, entered into the tables and then use a ship class change sexp to create the illusion. Lol this is looking to be pretty fun now i put more than 5 seconds of tired thought into it

not little holes.

[Colonol Dekker]

I know what you mean, like the gtd legion right? Well you'd have to take an existing model, the triton for example. Convert it to a cob/whatever, add gaping holes
And texture it. Then convert it to a pof, give it a tbm and use sexps to change ship type/model in game unless someone can think of an
Easier way?

[Solatar]

Create a weapon that uses a small asteroid as its model. IIRC, Sexps exist that "create-weapon" at a specified location in space. I think you can enter "rand" values to describe the point, and thus create an area that is being shot at. I messed around with this to create the effect of anti-orbital cannons firing with little accuracy at a large ship in orbit.

[Titan]

orbital cannons huh?

 

[haloboy100]

Anti Orbital

[Solatar]

Yeah. Ground based cannons designed to fend off spacecraft.

...Although both are cool in their own, explosive ways.

[haloboy100]

I just realized how cool that would be. In orbit around a planet, to see a huge projectile rip through a capital ship from the planet.

[Solatar]

The way I had it set up, it was more of a passive hazard. The shots weren't aimed. They just went from the direction of the planet in the skybox towards away from it. They'd hit anything they came into contact with. Dealt some minor damage to the capital ship, but really was only causing damage to make things look cooler and more exciting.

[JGZinv]

Planetary Ion Cannon - SW ESB   

[Warp Shadow]

Naaah! For cooler and more exciting you have lots of fast firing minor nuisance cannons in the background so there's lasers flying everywhere. You use anti-orbital cannons for ship ripping pwnage.

[Mobius]

For a "meteor shower" use the asteroid field editor in FRED and check the box to make it "active".

Any chance to give asteroid trails? They would be perfect!

[Snail]

Naaah! For cooler and more exciting you have lots of fast firing minor nuisance cannons in the background so there's lasers flying everywhere. You use anti-orbital cannons for ship ripping pwnage.

Uhh no, not a good idea.

Apparently, there is a maximum of something like 700 shots able to be fired at any one time in the game. So if you have 2 capships with 30 turrets, firing 25 bullets a second each, you've already got 1,500 shots in the game area. So when the player fires his guns, nothing comes out of the barrels except the firing sound (which doesn't travel through space anyway ).

Any chance to give asteroid trails? They would be perfect!

That wouldn't be too hard to implement (I believe) but it would be extremely hard to make it look good... What kind of trails would we use?

[Solatar]

Dust particles?

[Mobius]

BtRL trails of fighters, I think they're ok.

[Colonol Dekker]

Not for asteroids though? Are talking bitmap or particles here?

[Mobius]

Maybe they work if we set the trails as thrusters originating from the center of the asteroid or something else.