[Sandwich]

While chatting with Aldo about how modeling jumpgates was boring, it hit me: why not make an animated jumpgate?

The only animation on a model that the game supports is thrusters, so I figured out a way to use them to animate my very own opening into subspace.

I cooked up a quickie model to test it out on, and using my digital camera I took a movie of the in-game animation on my screen. Unfortunately it's very dark, so you can't see anything but the animation, but you can get the picture. Download the movie here. (271kb)


------------------
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)

[Stryke 9]

Er... subspace jumps ARE animated.

[ZylonBane]

You gotta wonder about someone who RAR's an MPG... and then ZIPs the RAR???

[Darkage]

can't we model a sun? we cover the surface of the sun whit flames and then texture them whit a yellow Thruster.ani. Would that work? would be cool a real sun thus a real supernova

------------------
                                         
------------------
                               [email protected]                             Staff member of
Inferno,
Don't loose
your headz
over it.    
Soc Inferno
Project Rebellion
Gost of the past
iqc 102628858
Pizza rules over pasta!
Look at me i am a hottie

[Sandwich]

 

Originally posted by Stryke 9:
Er... subspace jumps ARE animated.

The movie isn't clear, I know. What you are looking at is not the animation of a ship jumping in/out. It is the center portion of a jump gate - a Knossos, essentialy. There are no ships jumping in or out, yet you still have the effect.  

 

Originally posted by ZylonBane:
You gotta wonder about someone who RAR's an MPG... and then ZIPs the RAR???

Look where it's stored. GeoCities. As I discovered, they don't allow RAR files. But since RAR compressed better than ZIP, and since I'm on dial-up...  


------------------
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)

[Styxx]

That's some majorly weird stuff you have there... I like it.  

Can you post the model so we can have a better look of what's going on there?

[Sandwich]

I'll do one better: POF and COB.

Keep in mind that it's a very simplified model, for testing purposes only. It's also relatively small, at 635 meters diameter.

I'll probably include this concept in a Knossos add-on to the Arcadia - when I get around to it.  

One last thing: the textures of both sides of the gates' center are not flipped - I made them reversed from each other to see which way I liked best.  

------------------
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)

[Setekh]

 !

I always thought about how cool it would be to have animated textures, and I thought it would be possible (because of our thrusters), but I never had enough knowledge to put it to practice and give it a shot. This is exactly what I wanted to see. And it works brilliantly! Top job!