[Nico]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Yeah I kinda managed to connect it that way last night. But it's not absolute, and kinda ugly at points.

I put [the cocpit] in an Ares, and in my Tamnanki. I wish I could show screenshots.

Well, it just attaches the two meshes together, then you have to adapt the cockpit to the ship, it's not magic, it won't conform just like you want to, it involves work with vertices, mainly.

Anyway, I'm done with all the lods, I'm working on the debris now:

[karajorma]

I can't see clearly but you haven't already you should tilt the pilots head to the side as if he broke his neck in the death roll

Or at least have the pilot look dead in some way, (blood on the canopy is another good idea) .

[Nico]

the pilot isn't in there, he's a separate debris ( he's gonna fly away when the ship explodes )

Man, making that ship is exhausting

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Nico
I have other ships planed, but not the raziel.

Why? That ship kicked sooo much ass...

[Carl]

Originally posted by Nico
the pilot isn't in there, he's a separate debris ( he's gonna fly away when the ship explodes )

Man, making that ship is exhausting

don't make him one object! have body parts an stuff! oh! oh! and have a red particle spew come out of them!

[Nico]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool


Why? That ship kicked sooo much ass...

Because it took me 3 weeks to make that one, then I have a couple others planed. I don't think you realize the amount of work put into that ****ing ship.

Carl: there's a limited  amount of debris per ships, and I have no idea how to make blood particles
But if that can please you, me and woomeister have already joked about that too ( I also would like to expand on Bob's idea of destoyed capships spawning escape pods, they should also spawn dead bodies ).

[Woolie Wool]

What will be your next one, O Model God (no sarcasm there, you really are godlike)?

[Nico]

Next, I'm gonna remap Karma's fenris.

[Woolie Wool]

And, like a god, Venom has no concern for the opinions of his humble followers.;)

No offense, but you really come across as kind of uncaring sometimes.

One more thing, I think Karma's Fenris is fine already.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool
No offense, but you really come across as kind of uncaring sometimes.

I know, I try hard to be that way, actually

As for the Fenris, well, if Karma tells me it's fine the way it is, I'll let it be, if not, well, I told him I'd do it, so I'd do it.

[Bobboau]

you know our HTL system might make model particle systems posable (the dead bodies everywere after a capship blows)

[Nico]

that would rock, but, honestly, what I'd really like, is for debris to spawn particles ( would be "fireball" anis ) for a short time after the ship is destroyed, that would make explosions oh so much more impressive

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I wish my modelling was as 'efficient' as yours, ultiamtely I stopped because the effort put into it outweighed the satisfaction of completeing one.

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[kasperl]

and that debris should not go away at 300m/s...........

[Trivial Psychic]

As for the dead-bodies thing, if we seriously wanted to add these in, or even if we were just partially serious, it could be flag-activated in the command line.  That way we could advertize it as being rated "E" for everyone but have a cheat to add the bloody bodies with the -dead_bodies custom flag.

I also agree that there should be a way to decelerate debris, but on a ship-per-ship basis with a FRED checkbox.  If we could add as well a "no-explision" checkbox so that if you wanted the player to come accross the remains of a specific ship (not a generic debris field), you could destroy it part way through the mission without the explosion being visible.  The ship would just go straight to debris.  I know that there IS an option to destroy a ship before the mission begins, but even with a slow-debris option the debris would scatter enough over time that if the player got hung-up a bit longer than you expected, the debris could be long gone before the player gets there.

Oops.  I made a feature request in the middle of a release thread.  Dam rants!

Later!

[aldo_14]

10,000 bodies from a burning Orion might seem a bit....excessive, natch.

[Taristin]

well, I'd assume some would still be pinned down in the halls, some would be instantly vaporized, and some would be in escape pods...

[ShadowDrakken]

Hey Nico,

First off, love the work on this ship.

This forum is very confusing trying to find anything useful for beginners, and the FSSCP website is essentially trash unfortunately (half the links are dead, the rest of the pages are broken)... anyway I do some modeling myself, but can't do textures for squat, so I was wondering if there's anyone I could hand models over to for texturing around here.

Also, my models are just models, not for any specific game.  I use MilkShape at the moment but just grabbed TrueSpace 3.2, where are some of the better tutorials for learning how to prep models for FSO? There's a lot of terms I see on the boards here that I can't figure out the meaning of from the context, and as I said, it's a mess trying to find info on the boards.

[Flipside]

[wiki]ShadowDrakken[/wiki]

Theres a good place to start

[Bobboau]

the particle spew for debris, would placeing spewers any random place along the surface work?