[TopAce]

Aren't those turrets quite hi-poly?
In my opinion, Orions are well armed even in the era of FS2. With beam cannons and those damned AAAs, it is quite effective.
I think it has 4 BGreens, which are not negligible.

[EDIT]Why would the GTVA upgrade the few remaining Orions rather than making modifications on the newer, better Hecates?

[Knight Templar]

Because the Hecates aren't better and the Orion still has plenty of tactical value?

[kasperl]

because after seeing the first Hecate IRL, they decided it was waaaaaay to ugly to use permanently.

[Terawatt_99]

agh! it's Dalek, there's no "R"!!! it's just the actors' british accents that make it sound like there's an "R"...

sorry, big Dr Who fan

anyways, about the destroyed turret, i would say a or c

[Trivial Psychic]

I'd say C if you're planning on making this for FS1 era, and B if its FS2, as it fits more with the dish design of other terran beam cannons... hey, its more cannon... sorry, I know that was bad.

Later!

[Raptor]

It's the Orion, from FS1, so I guess then it's C, the 'Dalek' gun (you sure there isn't a 'r' in there?)

Only flaw is that with poly turrets, you punch the limits.  The Twin hulled version has 8 triple turrets, and that takes it over 4000 vetices total (all LODs, debris + turrets), and my version of PCS hangs when trying to convert.....

normal Orion is okay ATM, but I might have to reduce the number of vertices on the main guns.....

[TrashMan]

Actually all fs2 warships are under-gunned...if compared to a standard WW2 battleship... 250m in length and they have more firepower than Collossus!

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Raptor
Only flaw is that with poly turrets, you punch the limits.  The Twin hulled version has 8 triple turrets, and that takes it over 4000 vetices total (all LODs, debris + turrets), and my version of PCS hangs when trying to convert.....

There was an updated version of PCS posted in one of the threads that came up upon the release of the HT&L code which had an updated higher poly version of PCS. Are you using that version or just the standard version of PCS?

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by TrashMan
Actually all fs2 warships are under-gunned...if compared to a standard WW2 battleship... 250m in length and they have more firepower than Collossus!

I didn't know WW2 Battleships had beam cannons..

[kasperl]

what i would like to see is a ship with lot's and lot's of small flak guns and something machine gun like. very low powered guns, but the entire hull is covered in them.

[Raptor]

Originally posted by karajorma


There was an updated version of PCS posted in one of the threads that came up upon the release of the HT&L code which had an updated higher poly version of PCS. Are you using that version or just the standard version of PCS?

If you mean the one Bobbeau put up for dL in this thread:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,17976.0.html

then that is the version I'm using, took me half a dozen tries to download, but got it in the end.

I'm don't think it's the poly count thats the problem, but the number of vertices in the mesh (I could only convert my Saturn when the vertice limit was below 4000, speaking of which, K, do you think you could put the fixed version of the Saturn up for download or something? I've UVmapped the bad turrets, I want to get this ship done!)

[karajorma]

I knew there was something I was forgetting! I'll send you a copy once I've finished looking at the new posts on HLP.

[Terawatt_99]

Originally posted by Raptor
It's the Orion, from FS1, so I guess then it's C, the 'Dalek' gun (you sure there isn't a 'r' in there?)

yes, i am, unless the BBC misspelled it in every single circumstance of it's appearance on their website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/gallery/dalek/

[Charmande]

Originally posted by TopAce
Aren't those turrets quite hi-poly?
In my opinion, Orions are well armed even in the era of FS2. With beam cannons and those damned AAAs, it is quite effective.
I think it has 4 BGreens, which are not negligible.

[EDIT]Why would the GTVA upgrade the few remaining Orions rather than making modifications on the newer, better Hecates?

Orions have 3 BGreens, one on the underside of the front end, and one on each rear flank, and 3 Terslashes, 2 on either side of the ship at the front, and another one on the port flank near the back, so although the Hecate has almost twice as many turrets as the Orion, it only has 1 BGreen and a couple terslashes.  I always thought of Hecates as giant, less effective Aeoluses, cuz they have all those damn flak guns.

oh, and i choose C, the funny looking gun.