[Lynx]

Here are some new screenies from one of my test missions. I took them only in 16 bit,  so the effects aren't special, but IMO but thers much action in those pics.

A Tallahasse class heavy cruiser meets doom at the hands of a Fralthi II class warship:


A Kilrathi corvette pays the price for staying to long in the vicinity of a Savannah class light cruiser, Here's als the new effect for the Anti Matter cannons visible, the main weapon of the WC battleships(The yellow bolts). On the left side, two destroyers show the FS AIs amazing navigational capabilities.

[GT-Keravnos]

May I be the first to say... what a beautiful sight!

[Lynx]

Here are some screenies of a WC 3 style textured Sabre class fighter. You won't get to fly it in the main campaign since by the time WCS takes place they have already been pulled from direcct frontline combat and are serving now in reserve squadrons, InSys and planetary defense.

[Moonsword]

Hey, Lynx, is the green on the hull in that last shot just lighting from the weapons?

[Lynx]

Yeah. I'm still using an older weapons tbl. the ship should be illuminated orange/pink by the particle bolt, I know.

[Lynx]

Tallahassee got some glowmaps:

[Bobboau]

hmm, nice,
could use some greebleage...
I always seem to say that, it's like I have some unnatural fixation with greebles or something.

I am always finding myself impressed with the weapon effects.

[gevatter Lars]

@Bobboau
Maybe you have watched to much StarWars ^_^
Yes greebles and stuff are a quite common sight on SF ships...but not this one.

Maybe we should make a special Bobboau version of the game with lots of greeble ^__^

PS: Great stuff with the new Hangar code...when it works fine we could have some realy cool hangars to show.

@Lynx
Nice mapping...man I need ascess to the server again to get the latest files.

[Bobboau]

you know I just had a funny thought, you could hack in code for hanger doors opening as you get close to them, wouldn't be perfict, it'd be jerk but it might work well enough for leaveing the hanger

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Admiral Nelson
Here is a silly question....  

What the hey does ' Caernaven'/'Caernavon'  mean anyway? Shouldn't it be 'Caernarfon' -- the castle??

Caernarfon is the welsh spelling; I guess they just went with the english version as it is likely to be more prevalently used in any historical references.

[gevatter Lars]

@Bobboau
Well problem is that exept for the Lexington-class no ship has Hangardoors....well I think the Kilrathi had some since they don't use forcefields to keep the air inside the hangarbay...so it was mentioned in one of the books.
In the Movie we see the Tigers-claw having both...but that ship isn't in the actual releaseplans...one of my favorit ships.

[Bobboau]

well the option is there.

you know I would think they would have doors there anyway, just in case of a power loss or something.

[Lynx]

Actually AFAIK there are at least some other backup systems for each forcefield and independent power sources, so you could probably blow away good chunks of the ship and it'll still coninue working. In the end run novel the Tarawa was bsically no more than a dead hull anymore with at least 1/4 of the ship completely destroyed and the forcefields continued working albeit blinking on and off for a few seconds...not that it mattered anyway since the flightdeck was on fire.

But hangardoors would be nice I imagine for the TBP guys at least and if anyone attempts to bring Wing Commander Prophecy ships to FSOpen, (I'm looking into your direction, Starman:p ) The Midays launch tubes had doors, and AFAIK the Tiger's Claw too.

[Tolwyn]

actually there are hangar gates on EACH confed ship... that has a hangar

[Lynx]

Nope, there aren't. They can be only found on ships that use launch tubes, which are AFAIK the Claw, Miday, Plunkett and that destroyer from SO.

[Starman01]

Don't forget the star-wars-guys here, they would probably kiss you for making this, since this could also enable the x-foils moving on the x-wing

The only good usage I can image for us, is to let the hangar-truck
move around

[Lynx]

Originally posted by Starman01
The only good usage I can image for us, is to let the hangar-truck
move around

Now imagine that plus the ambient sound points I suggested a while back so that you actually could hear what's going on there.

[Bobboau]

it isn't animation,so it would not enable the things starwars wants, it's just haveing one model disapear at the same time anotherone turns on, you have twenty of these of these and you can make it look like there is one object that is moveing, it's just sort of a little hack thing that could be done.

[Thrilla]

that's good stuff!  I just spent like 30 minutes looking at all the pics!

[Tolwyn]

This is TCS Wellington. No problems to report.