[Nico]

 

Originally posted by IceFire:
FS1 and 2 already do glowing lights in Glide mode.  They just need D3D support.

Really? That's cool   Could you post a pic of that?

[IceFire]

FS1 software mode does it as well.  Notice along the Orion in FS1 software that the lights are white no matter it be the sun side or the dark side of the ship.  Glide does it, but D3D was not enabled for that sort of thing.

[aldo_14]

(thinks)

Alternate AI for capships depending on weapons placement /species - i.e. Terran ships try to broadside, Shivan (i.e. Sathanas) attack with the front.

Being able to make the ship visible from the cockpit (i.e. see wings etc) - probably not possible in the engine (close to virtual cockpit)

Being able to select from +1 HUD design (i.e. if you have created alternate leading reticle anis)

Changing the image cameras position in briefing does not affect the FREd camera.

That's all I can really think of....

[Black Sheep]

 

Originally posted by Fozzy:
 Please Explain


i would like to see.

table files which can hold more ships
extra sound table file entrys
extra tech room entry slots
useing sertain tags like homeing and "electronics" on lasers

[This message has been edited by Fozzy (edited 09-22-2001).]

It would make the B5 mod better  

[Pez]

The ability to play DivX Avi (or any other good compression for movies) files in command briefing instead of ANI files.

Pez

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Pez:
The ability to play DivX Avi (or any other good compression for movies) files in command briefing instead of ANI files.

Pez

good idea  

[Thorn]

High res support for glide.....

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[WraithHost]

I second that vote for more varied AIs.

Or better still user moddable AIs.
some sort of script or table entries to set a few more parameters.

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[Sandwich]

 

Originally posted by aldo_14:
Being able to make the ship visible from the cockpit (i.e. see wings etc) - probably not possible in the engine (close to virtual cockpit)

I think that is already supported, no? just define the eyepoint of a ship to be in a different location, and make sure that in front there are polygons that have normals facing back at the eyepoint.



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[jonskowitz]

Does that work?!

Damn, I'll have to give that a try.

[Setekh]

I think that's nullified by the engine. Ever flew inside a destroyer as it jumped in? You can see through the hull, except for a few polygons - I think it's the same with this. The models aren't double-sided. But I'm not too sure about this, so I think it'd be worth testing.  

[This message has been edited by Setekh (edited 09-24-2001).]

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
I think that's nullified engine. Ever flew inside a destroyer as it jumped in? You can see through the hull, except for a few polygons - I think it's the same with this. The models aren't double-sided. But I'm not too sure about this, so I think it'd be worth testing.  

I think there's no way you can see the ship from the inside. I doubt it's rendered while in cockpit view: first some ships have the pov in front of the wings, so a side view would show the tif of the front polys of the wings, and it never does, then seeing how large is that cockpit view, the ship would look ridiculously small (like those planes youp put some coins in, in supermarkets (?), from childs)

[Raven2001]

1- Model animations triggered by certain actions(gun barrels rotating when weapon fires, cannon kickback when weapons fire, tec...), and by FRED2 SEXP's (making the Sathanas animation for a Nova in-game)

2- Ability to put stand alone animations and other models like the warpout effect in mission, continuously, in order to make special effects

3- Ability to use .ani's for backgrounds and model textures

4- Gun fire effects when energy weapons fire(see Starlancer)

5- Better Background and Lightning effects in-game(see Starlancer)

6- Smooth textures and lightning, and reflective armor(again......... see Starlancer   )

7- Model glows, easily done by with a .pof convverter, we would choose the color we wanted to glow in a certain texture, the intensity... and then we could turn these glows on and off in FRED... and then we could make the shivans look EVEN MORE scary  

That's a lot I know   If I remember anything else I'll post it here  

[IPAndrews]

* Bigger table size limits.
* Working rotation for turrets around axis other than the top -> bottom axis. Rotating multi-part turrets are generally a bit screwed up.
* Working fire direction normals for primaries.

[Raven2001]

More:

1- Better explosions and explosion syncronization(if you notic, in FS, the fighters first explode, and only some time after they tear themselves apart, that makes an awefull effect)

2- Capability of making multiple jumps in the same mission...

[Sandwich]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
I think that's nullified by the engine. Ever flew inside a destroyer as it jumped in? You can see through the hull, except for a few polygons - I think it's the same with this. The models aren't double-sided. But I'm not too sure about this, so I think it'd be worth testing.    

[This message has been edited by Setekh (edited 09-24-2001).]

Exactly. If the model is rendered from the cockpit views, then a fully 3D modeled cockpit should show up - one that has polygons with normals in the direction of the eye.


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[This message has been edited by sandwich (edited 09-24-2001).]

[The Avenger]

i have actually been trying to get this page through to dave. Still Trying!

[Kitsune]

The ability to dock with multiple ships!

There's dozens of ships that have multiple docking points.

But you can only have one ship dock at a time.  Now if that's not screwed up I don't know what is.

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[Sandwich]

 

Originally posted by The Avenger:
i have actually been trying to get this page through to dave. Still Trying!

Try Darkage - he seems to be in contact with DaveB.



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America, stand assured that Israel truly understands what you are going through.

"He who laughs last thinks slowest."
"Just becase you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
"To err is human; to really screw up you need a computer."
Creator of the Sandvich Bar, the CapShip Turret Upgrade, the Complete FS2 Ship List and the System Backgrounds List (all available from the site)

[Bishop Gantry]

chargable weapons I really want a D2 Fusion cannon.