[magatsu1]

this thing is gonna sit under the chin of my latest masterpiece. Whadya reckon ?



how do you use the invisible texture BTW ? when I convert to bmp. I get the Invisible Light Source tm !!

[Getter Robo G]

Just use a temp texture and then edit the .pof in model view. Change texuter name to INVISIBLE and poof! pof dissapears! (WHOOPIE!) that's how I make beams appear out of nowhere without wasting resouces to have a turret (mjolnir) instead of a capship strike or ground batteries from a planet surface...

[karajorma]

Copy a random texure and name it invisible of course

As for the turret. Don't you think 800 polys is a bit much for a single turret? Unless it's the only one on the ship that is

[Falcon]

hmmmm thats a big turret

[KARMA]

yeah that's a big turreNt:)

btw it doesn't seem to be triangulated so pcount should be little higher, and there's some polywastings (edges that can be removed without affecting the mesh)

[magatsu1]

thanks for the info, that invisible texture should be useful.

And yeah, it will have only one of these things attached. The idea is for a ship which will have a disproportionatley powerful main cannon to it's overall size. Which basically means it will have a fukoff cannon attached. Should be bigger than most Freighters anyway.

Actually I'ain't done yet so the poly count will be higher still. What's the reasonable limit for an HT&L capship again ?

[Liberator]

That could be ship all on it's own, that looks really nice.  This is definitally an alpha strike weapon, I would assume that anything that this is mounted on would have several more tradition turrets as well?

[capsfan9803]

Yeah, that really could be a ship.  The hole above the main-forward-gun-thing could be a fighterbay.  Looks about corvette-sized, to me.

[magatsu1]

Hmmm, I suppose it could be a ship in it's own right, with some modification. But for now it's gonna be a dooms day weapon

And yeah, other than this weapon the ship proper will be a regular cappy.

[c914]

this turret could be a niece ship:D..and i see lost of poly waste in  rounded sections

[Kie99]

Hmm Would it be possible to have it a standard part of the ship, but then, if the ship goes below X% hull integrity it separates and has N% hull integrity, the only "MODding" I've done is editting the .tbls with Word 97 so I don't know much about modding

[karajorma]

Wouldn't be possible without code changes.

You could simulate it using docking but it wouldn't work that well.

[WMCoolmon]

Maybe you could use the set-ship-position and get-ship-position SEXPs, but on a player ship you wouldn't be able to use it as a gun.

[karajorma]

In conjunction with a three entries on the table it might work as a non player ship. You have one model with a gun turret and two models as seperate docked ships. When it all goes pear-shaped you ship vanish the original ship and bring in the other two docked and set the hull to the correct values. Then undock and you're done.

Lot of trouble though if you want to do it more than once in a campaign though

[magatsu1]

I've no idea if I can make these turbine style things rotate without messing up the turret axis.

[karajorma]

Quite simply. You can't.

Why would you have turbines in space anyway?

[magatsu1]

I dunno. 'Cos they look cool ? might move 'em to the main ship in that case

[Max Sterling]

Why would you make an 800 poly turret and then make it invisible??

[magatsu1]

 

invisible ?

[KARMA]

Originally posted by karajorma

Why would you have turbines in space anyway?

antimatter collectors?