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Offline Drew

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no, there running away from a supernova ;)
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Offline Nico

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No, they're just flying with the sun in their back :p
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Offline Nico

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woopy! I'm done with the countless jet morph targets, so now I can make scenes like that ( I mean the thrusters ) in a couple seconds :):

on this pic, for exemple, the ship is slowing down ( or maybe flying backward ) while strafing left and up :)
All that with ONE single object and three sliders :)
I love morphers :D
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The latest WIP from sci-fi meshes.. Cool to see the Wraith's Manuevering Thrusters in action! Wonder who is more agile. A B5 Starfury/Thunderbolt or Nico's Wraith fighter?
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Offline mikhael

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Venom's Wraith is more agile, of course.
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Offline Nico

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http://www.swooh.com/premium/venom/os/wraithspin.avi

just for fun.
It's a mpeg4 file (1,194 kb)

As for the starfury, well, my verniers seems bigger, and I've never seen a Starfury strafe ( flying sideways thanks to momentum, yeah, but not initiating a strafe ), so... Guess mine is more agile.
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Offline Sheepy

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why the hell wont these things play, it wont download the codec or anything :(

the ship looks beutiful though venom :nod:
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Offline aldo_14

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Cool.

Sigh....wish I could model.  Bloody uni. :(

 

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Offline mikhael

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Originally posted by Nico
http://www.swooh.com/premium/venom/os/wraithspin.avi

just for fun.
It's a mpeg4 file (1,194 kb)

As for the starfury, well, my verniers seems bigger, and I've never seen a Starfury strafe ( flying sideways thanks to momentum, yeah, but not initiating a strafe ), so... Guess mine is more agile.


I would have liked seeing an example of the morph targets in use more than a simple pan around, but I have to admit it looks good.
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Offline Setekh

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Originally posted by Nico
woopy! I'm done with the countless jet morph targets, so now I can make scenes like that ( I mean the thrusters ) in a couple seconds :):

on this pic, for exemple, the ship is slowing down ( or maybe flying backward ) while strafing left and up :)
All that with ONE single object and three sliders :)
I love morphers :D


Ah, now that is indeed impressive. :yes:
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Offline Krackers87

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No, they're just flying with the sun in their back :p


No,

They just found out that their enemy could see them through their camo.

:p
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Offline KillMeNow

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ok not read the whole thread so apoligise if i'm steeping on other peoples toes here but with reguard to the control inputs there are afew areas of concern

2 joysticks sounds like a ncie easy way to go but have you ever tried using 2 joysticks at the same time -  basically your natural instict if to replicate your right hand movements with your heft hand movements

thats where the whole patting your head and rubbing your stomach things comes from therefore its easier to have a simple off hand control liek say a throttle which you simply hjamming forwards or back

however that off hand can be used for button control anyone who plays fps should know this as well moving your mouse around doesn't affect your button pusing prowess there for it would make more sence to have the rudder pedals as there normal fuction of controaling yaw the main joystick controls pitch and bank throttle is your off hand all as in normal aricraft

now you strafting controls i would probally either use a off hand buttons or more likely a hatch switch control on teh main joystick

using the hatch swithc for strafing would then leave your off hand buttons controls for weapons selection

jsut my 2 cents though
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I disagree with you, KillMeNow. Having played Decent2 as well as games like VirtuaOn and a few other games that used twinned sticks, I can say that using two sticks to control a craft is not only easy, but damned near natural. Two sticks and a fully functional rudder pedals with toe-stops will give you full rotation on all axes, as well as vectored thrust in the three axial directions. The drawback, of course, is that you cannot thrust and turn seperately (a consequence of using the same thrust vectors for attitude and thrust) unless you're using an intelligent fly-by-wire system.
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Offline KillMeNow

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the problem with it that it works in degrees you can memoriuse certain postions than produce certain results but  fine tweaking controls alther levels of thrust etc on the fly and while it could be done its not so quick i think your do one action then the next instead of both at the same time

however you look at it unless you are a high level ambidextrous your off hand has a mimic tendancy wwhen moving both at the same time which in some circumstances could prove a vital few seconds time to overrule in which time you get killed

at least i dont think so

where as the way i suggest leaves the basic flight controls with what has been established and worked out over 100 years and after being in devolpment fora  100 years i think its pretty refined

and from playing video games i know you can easily coordinate you thumb action to strafing movements while stille being fully natural with the main control stick

ideally though you could have a neural interface controls not as outlandish as it seems i've seen experiemtns where people ahve flown basic flight sims with thought control now its hard work and very unreliable right now but in the future i wouldn't be surprised to see it at least if pilots aren't removed from planes altogether that is seems curent trend is to create unmmaned combat aircraft
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Offline mikhael

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I guarantee that I am not a high level ambidextrous person, KMN. You're comparing seperate complex motions (one arm performing a task while the other performs another task) to a complex upper body motion (limbs working in concert). Obviously the human body can do the latter: we do it all the time with our legs. We do it often when typing, playing instruments, etc.

You mention modern flight controls, without realising what that really entails. In a modern F16, the pilot deals with (just on the stick and throttle) SEVEN axis directions, plus five different four way hats, a two position trigger, six different buttons. You're going to tell me that they can't handle a pair of sticks? There's a mini-stick on the throttle that is operated by the left thumb. There's an directional antenna knob, a range knob, a radio switch, airbrakes, dogfighting multi positions switch, and the throttle itself ALL on the left hand. I just cannot buy into this idea that people are functionally useless with their left hands.
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Offline aldo_14

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Especially if they're left handed. :p

Although you try finding a left handed joystick in this day and age.... by the time you get bloody thing, you're used to doing it the other way round.  Using a mouse is even worse!

Bah.

 

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Offline Unknown Target

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Ooo, ya, best joystick around.

Good for righties and lefties :D