[Night Hammer]

Has anyone made that dropship from Aliens(the 2nd one i think, where they goto the colony)? It just looks like a big bomber or armed transport for freespace.

Pic:
http://www.batnet.com/skematix/LAF/LastList/dropship.jpg

[Lynx]

Bah this models just too cool to be taken out of it's universe. Make a mod set in the Alien universe where you fight predator ships or some new enemy. Hell, ground assault mission in that thing would be lovely. I'm just imaginening shooting something with that cool mini cannon thingy it has in the nose.

[Swamp_Thing]

If it were possible to animate the missile pods as in the movie, it would look 1000 times better!!  It´s a marvel of model.

[Night Hammer]

Well im not sayin to use it for an Aliens MOD, I just think itd be cool to have an FS ship that is that badass, kinda has an ursa like look, at least the front

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Swamp_Thing
If it were possible to animate the missile pods as in the movie, it would look 1000 times better!!  It´s a marvel of model.

It's possible. Rotational animation is possible. You simply lock the rotation of the model at the start of the mission and then start it when you want the missile pods to deploy. It is however impossible to get them to go back if you do this

[Night Hammer]

still thatd be badass if you could get that to work

[magatsu1]

anymore (bigger) piccys ?

[Gloriano]

*Smacks self* well drop ship mighty be nice idea missions were troop are escorted  to planet

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Don't think he made it HIG, I think he's just using it as an illustration.
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[aldo_14]

I can't really think of a good use for a dropship in FS2, natch.  Despite the fact that dropships are officially the best thing ever.

[Night Hammer]

Haha HIG, I wish I could make that. I was just wondering if anyone had/could, cuz as aldo said:

Despite the fact that dropships are officially the best thing ever.

I think it could be used as a bomber, or as a heavily armed transport for like SOC or somthing

[Gloriano]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Don't think he made it HIG, I think he's just using it as an illustration.
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doh!

edited post

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
*Smacks self* well drop ship mighty be nice idea missions were
is escorted troops to planets

For those who cannot digest this:
Well, this dropship might be a nice idea in missions, where you have to escort troops to planets.

Just helping you. Cheers.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by aldo_14
I can't really think of a good use for a dropship in FS2, natch.  Despite the fact that dropships are officially the best thing ever.

I can

[TopAce]

Light version of the Argo. Relatively fast, almost as maneuverable as a heavy attack fighter and tough. You can even make this ship better if you put shields on it.

[Night Hammer]

You dont even necesseraily need all that planet stuff, say they need to make a quick raid/dock on a hostile ship and its too hot to send in an Argo or a elysium, bam, theres where the dropship comes in, like topace said, heavy attack fighter, with a docking bay.

Boy if I could model i would have done this ages ago.....Ill just go back to FREDding

[aldo_14]

Well, the coolness of dropships is in many ways related to the inherent coolness of helicopters - hovering into a hot zone under heavy fire, shoving off a bunch of troops, then flying out.  With rockets attached.

Problem is that FS2 doesn't have natural gound fire, or troops.  Granted, you could mod the former (and add in atmospheric chop with a modded engine wash), but it's just not the same.

[Getter Robo G]

This has been on my HD over 2 years...

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/getter_robo_g_2004/detail?.dir=a628&.dnm=5ce6.jpg

Yahoo sucks but it loks better in original size and brightness.. KICK ASS but if you notice the main guns would blow itself up? DESIGN FLAW as it was made for eyecandy and not for actual use... A Fanboy with no real understanding of engineering or Line Of Sight field of fire messed this puppy up! LOL (not the modler I mean the ORIGINAL designer for the movie!)...

[Night Hammer]

I cant even see what that is

[Getter Robo G]

And you call yourself an ALIENS fan?

   That and the text BELOW the picture gives it away, It's the Sulaco, the Cruiser that launches the Dropships.. It carries 4 of them! also 90 ground assault vehicles and up to 5000 marines. OF course for visual impact you have to make it 75% to 100% bigget otherwise it looks tiny compared to your fighter...