[aldo_14]

Where's the fighterbay?

[JC Denton]

Argh, I'm absent for a few weeks and look what crops up while I'm away!

Oh, well, I guess a few late entries won't matter much, will they?  Gimme about a day and I'll have something....although I'm feeling very intimidated by Ryx's beastie of a battleship.

Btw, you are keeping with the FS tradition of destroyers having hangar bays, correct?

[Bobboau]

I was going for a bit of a fat look

[JC Denton]

Well, I've not been drawing in a good while, and unfortunately I can tell, due to some very ugly intersections...of course, this is merely pre-alpha sketchwork, so it isn't expected to look nice....

GTD Parhelion* (~102kb)

* Subject to change as campaign mandates

EDIT::  Main missile battery armament includes- 2x Subspace Missile Tubes (anti-destroyer+), 13x Antimatter Fusion Missile Tubes (supporting anti-destroyer, primary anti-cruiser/corvette), and 36x Anti-Fighter Missile Tubes (Primarily anti-strikecraft, supporting anti-cruiser armament).  Or if you like, the anti-fighter missiles can be cut down to 6x 6-missile swarmers.

There are three such main batteries.  Forward underslung BFGreen-equivalent for forward anti-cap fire.  Various AAA beams and flak/laser mounts for point-defense, and a few slashers to give some flanking protection in addition to the broadside anti-cruiser tubes...

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by JC Denton
Well, I've not been drawing in a good while, and unfortunately I can tell, due to some very ugly intersections...of course, this is merely pre-alpha sketchwork, so it isn't expected to look nice....

GTD Parhelion* (~102kb)

* Subject to change as campaign mandates

EDIT::  Main missile battery armament includes- 2x Subspace Missile Tubes (anti-destroyer+), 13x Antimatter Fusion Missile Tubes (supporting anti-destroyer, primary anti-cruiser/corvette), and 36x Anti-Fighter Missile Tubes (Primarily anti-strikecraft, supporting anti-cruiser armament).  Or if you like, the anti-fighter missiles can be cut down to 6x 6-missile swarmers.

There are three such main batteries.  Forward underslung BFGreen-equivalent for forward anti-cap fire.  Various AAA beams and flak/laser mounts for point-defense, and a few slashers to give some flanking protection in addition to the broadside anti-cruiser tubes...

Whoa.... I can't tell which way I like better - that being the side view or the top view.

[Ryx]

Originally posted by JC Denton

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Btw, you are keeping with the FS tradition of destroyers having hangar bays, correct?

Yes.

How many bays can a ship have in FS2 (in-game)???

If Many, then the bays can be seen here. Otherwise some will be fighter bays and some torpedo bays.

Haven't given the torpedo situation much thought.

[boewolf]

by memory a ship can have as many fighterbays as u wish.  you just name them like turrets.

[Taristin]

I've seen 2 used, but FS should accept as many as you please, right? It is all just table stuff, anyway...

[JC Denton]

Actually, if the SCP had some way of implementing it, I would've preferred the Parhelion's 'missile batteries' to actually be arcing beams ala Vandread, but I can't imagine what horrors they'd have to brave to even figure out how to tag beam effects to a missile flight path...

[Nico]

You'd want them to avoid friendly ships, too?

[JC Denton]

Would be handy, that.

[Baron MacDoblin]

x < 7000 polys (turrets 'n stuff not included)
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Define "and stuff"

[Ryx]

Fine, just turrets then.

I'm playing with the idea of adding antennas also (destroyable).

[Bobboau]

my atempts at textures so far have been incredable failures, could someone take a shot at something with long relitivly thin metal pannels, with smooth osft flexes along there length, would be nice if you could get them to twist around each other

[vyper]

You know, some of you are right: Ryx's ship isn't very GTVA-esque per se. however what about as an advanced Destroyer for SOC? (It certainly looks hella-cool enough) Bob's could be a GTVA ship of the line one.

[Bobboau]

I just realised nobody saw the little zip filled with sound effect for beam cannons I was planning on useing for the destroyer in the last post I made with a pic in it, I thought they were prety good, though they are not very freespacey, they have more of a 'oh, my god that thing is pointed at me' feel to them

[Sandwich]

Just tried them... They're a bit too electronic for my tastes, but they are quite cool - how'd you do them?

[Bobboau]

goldwave and some mucking about with the formulie thingy, there mostly composits of several mathmaticaly generated sounds

[Sandwich]

SHHHH!!! CP'll hear you, and we'll never hear the end of it! He'll try to make a beam warmup sound based on Fermat's Theorem or Graham's Number, and then the world will dissolve into chaos when he plays it!

[Bobboau]

now that would be a beam to fear, just the warm up sound alone would cause the fabric of space around it to unravle and undo it's self

the sounds do have perhaps a bit too much of a 'can you hear me now' sound to them (especaly the aaa ones), but there sort of experimental