[BlasterNT]

Hi, for the ships of a species I'm making, main weaponry on  capital ships are mounted on "tentacles" (kind of like the flexible arms on desk lamps) that are segmented in metal.  Is there any way of achieving this effect in FreeSpace, or of faking it? 

[AndrewofDoom]

inb4tenticlerapejokes

As of right now, I don't know whether you can or not. I'm venturing a guess at no though.

[zookeeper]

Well, if you build the tentacles out of many subobjects and then control those with a script or something, then maybe. It depends on whether the turets would work right when mounted at the end of such a chain, and whether there's a big enough limit on chained subsystems to allow for proper tentacles in the first place.

[Jeff Vader]

inb4tenticlerapejokes

I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

[Ravenholme]

inb4tenticlerapejokes

I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

I'm not sure that's something to admit in polite company, Vader. 

[Admiral Nelson]

ISTR Nuke's GTF Phoenix uses variable geometry wings that may be analogous to what you are looking for.

[Nuke]

that doesnt work to well, especially after they reduced instance depth from 7 to 5 a long time ago. you can get 5 stages of geometry for animations, but the turret code will only animate 2 of them, so you will have to learn scripting.

[BlasterNT]

Wait, why did a reduction in depth happen?

[Nuke]

instance depth was upped way back when subobject animation was implemented. but i guess somewhere it caused other issues so it was reduced back to 5. so that version of the phoenix doesn't work anymore.

[Woolie Wool]

inb4tenticlerapejokes

I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

If we hadn't been such prudes during the occupation after WWII and let the Japanese have their penises we could have avoided all of this.

[Kadaeux]

inb4tenticlerapejokes

I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

If we hadn't been such prudes during the occupation after WWII and let the Japanese have their penises we could have avoided all of this.

I maintain it was less prudish occupation and more the fact nuking the Japanese broke their minds (No offence intended.)

[Droid803]

Naw I'm pretty sure they were slightly whacked beforehand.

[Ravenholme]

inb4tenticlerapejokes

I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

If we hadn't been such prudes during the occupation after WWII and let the Japanese have their penises we could have avoided all of this.

I maintain it was less prudish occupation and more the fact nuking the Japanese broke their minds (No offence intended.)

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife [Mildly NSFW]

Your argument = Disproven. (Or what Droid803 said)