[Singh]

Rebuttal originating from the wisdom of Duke Setekh Of Tanghurst


Nice angle. Oh, do these beams slash or art they direct beams?

Direct. not to mention AAA as well - you should see them go on and off as they attack another vessel (especially a cap vessel) its much better in game than in those screens

[Ferret]

It looks insane as it is, if they were slash... Well then.... It really would be something to see in action.

[Singh]

Rebuttal originating from the wisdom of Ferret
It looks insane as it is, if they were slash... Well then.... It really would be something to descry in action.

This actually gives me the temptation to go and try it

[Janos]

Take a vid and show us.

[Singh]

video? how do you do that???

[Zarax]

No way unless you have a really good PC...

[Singh]

count me out then
incidentally, i have these rather recent pics. Not as good as what was posted before, just some more tests. i have an idea on how to get the beam to appear as I wanted it - will try a bit later.

[Ferret]

That 2nd one... *Is in love....*

[adwight]

Lets see one, with red yellow green blue and purple beams if you possibly could.  That would be cool.

[Lightspeed]

They look odd.

I don't really like them

[Ferret]

That might be the fact that Singh has tried to cram as many beams on as possible, so they end up looking quite crap when they're that far away.
You have to look at it as if you were close to them.... And them slashing......

[Arculis]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
I don't really like them

Me neither. At least not in such abundance. They might be a nice change on occasion though, if there aren't too many of them used, and they're used in the right places. (Sticking one in the mouth of the Sathanas, for example, would look alright.)

[Singh]

hehe.
As i said, its just an experiment, nothing more. The actual weapon (if I ever release any) will be like in the table entry (as seen in the bottom pic), which is much more sane and reasonable as opposed the other pics and stuff posted here.

[Zarax]

Yes, when the effect is well mixed it looks great...

[Falcon]

You know you could open up a laser light show with those. just make sure its the jumping kind and not the continuous. Only thing is to make sure there are only three beams coming out one turret. Now what would be really cool is if they revolved in a circular fasion.

[terren]

no, what would be realy cool is if they all converge on a single point then seperate (sp) again, especaly cool for an AAA beam.  Or is that what a slash beam would do if you gave it more then one beam per port?  I'm not realy shure, havent played with the beams much.

[Singh]

Originally posted by Falcon
You know you could open up a laser light show with those. just make sure its the jumping kind and not the continuous. Only thing is to make sure there are only three beams coming out one turret. Now what would be really cool is if they revolved in a circular fasion.

If you set it as Type 3 (AAA) then yes, it is the jumping kind - hell yeah its jumping!

[Falcon]

yeah but it would be nice if three beams revolved in a circular fasion like it was cutting a chunk of a ship then see that chunk float out of space. *Meet Dr. Beam he will be operating on you soon don't worry*

[phreak]

im surprised it actually doesn't crash the PC since i believe FS2 (or even FSO) has a limit of 40 beams at a time

edit: its 500 which probably is hogging up a bit of memory people are complaining about.  FS2 Retail has 40 beams at a time.

[Singh]

The .tbl entry mentioned earlier doesnt hog up much memory, just does if you turn it up to the insanity level as seen in some of hte pics before the above one. hell no I dont intend to do that again!