[diamondgeezer]

Might have been discussed before, and no doubt the SCP crew will ignore it in favour of some fancy graphic thing, but **** it - I'm posting it anyway.

How's about trying to make a sub-object rotate, but only when a weapon trigger is held down. Thus, we could have a working minigun which spins as the weapon fires.

Yes/no/maybe?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Oi loik de sound o' dat!

It'd be like the Grendel in Starlancer, then.

[Bobboau]

I have tryed something similar to this, but I never got it to work quite right.. er, um, at all

[KARMA]

a very funny thing would be a fighter with a big rotating ring and primary banks on this ring, in order to create a "vortex" effect

[Raptor]

YES! This is an excellent idea!

Please consider this at some point, or at least put on the list of things to work on...

[Nico]

Originally posted by KARMA
a very funny thing would be a fighter with a big rotating ring and primary banks on this ring, in order to create a "vortex" effect

there was a custom ship like that for starlancer.

[TrashMan]

*Thinks of (his) Thunderbolt..

[Galemp]

Originally posted by KARMA
a very funny thing would be a fighter with a big rotating ring and primary banks on this ring, in order to create a "vortex" effect

Yes, very neat. But I don't think it will work, as the firepoints are definite coordinates and don't more with the submodel.

Oh, wait, yes they do... for turrets... hm.

[TrashMan]

So...It wouls still look good.

You have a rotating gatling submodel, a primary point set at it's top barrel and a hi-vel weapon in the bank.

When a gatling fires it allways look as tough the bullets come out hust out of the top barrel (they do not, but it does look that way)

[Nuke]

my varient of the ulyses already has rotating barel (that dont rotate) subobjects, looking forward to the day of weapon triggered subobject rotation.

id like to see spinup/spindown physics though, where the fire rate accelerates when you pull the triger and decelerates when you let it go. combine that with the spinnie barel thingie and it would be cool.

[TrashMan]

I SECOND THAT!

[Vilkacis]

I'd be nice if someone would fix the muzzleflash first.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Nuke
my varient of the ulyses already has rotating barel (that dont rotate) subobjects, looking forward to the day of weapon triggered subobject rotation.

Need Iwar2 style animation channels.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Vilkacis
I'd be nice if someone would fix the muzzleflash first.

What's wrong with it?

[Vilkacis]

It doesn't work properly on weapons other than flak. The flash does not show up every time a shot is fired. Furthermore muzzleflashes should be available on fighters as well.

[StarGunner]

Originally posted by Vilkacis
It doesn't work properly on weapons other than flak. The flash does not show up every time a shot is fired. Furthermore muzzleflashes should be available on fighters as well.

yeah like in the FS2 Intro when that Shivan Manticore shoots it has a muzzleflash and stuff these are things I like to see people ask for not crazy things like 45 SEXPYS THAT ALMOST 100% OF THEM WOULD NEVER BE USED!

[Goober5000]

StarGunner, the TVWP is using almost every new sexp in Chapter 1 of our campaign.  Don't get so excited - ask politely and maybe someone will make a sexp for you.

[Deepblue]

Actually custom muzzleflashes show up fine... the problem is that they do not move with the ship.

[redmenace]

maybe we can use the glow point code?

[Nico]

Originally posted by TrashMan

When a gatling fires it allways look as tough the bullets come out hust out of the top barrel (they do not, but it does look that way )

yes, they do