[TrashMan]

Been out of town today.. Got backa few hours ago nad just started doing something in turespace without any general goal or purpose...

And this came out:


A Alliance Jump Gate (complete with 4 beam cannons, 10 defense turrets and 2 big assault plasam cannons + 2 backup generators)


Allso, which of these turrets do you liek the best?
First, second or third?

[Anaz]

nifty knossos mabob, I made something kinda like that a while back...

One thing I don't particularly like about it is that you comand center thing has too many 90 degree angles. At least use a few angly bits.

As far as the turrets go, I don't like any of them. Since you seem to be going for the old style BB turrets, I'd suggest segmenting your turrets a bit so that your barrel has a "step" in it

Crude ascii art:

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of course there'd still be a little bit of an angle on them, but ASCII doesn't quite allow for that...

[TrashMan]

Mah...I prolly won't be changing the portal. Work in the game, everything is fine.. I really see no need to waste time on that.

Better I focus on other models and FREDing...

Which reminds me - I re-converted the Archangel with no2 turret (alltough just a tad more angled and thinner at the top)

The next in-line is the Retribution and then the LODs..
After that? Hmm... Prolly another starbase or another fighter...
If anything else, I'll post art or screenies from my campaign missions....

I still have 3 days left before collauge starts again..

[Roanoke]

should a knossos have beam cannons ?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Roanoke
should a knossos have beam cannons ?

Well, how likely are you to build one in a warzone?

[Taristin]

How do you what won't potentially become a warzone?

[c914]

Turrets are still one big box:ick: Change they dessing or if you dont want to please reduce size of barels:nod:

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by Roanoke
should a knossos have beam cannons ?

Have you ever played Inferno?

[TrashMan]

Hey, I modeled those turrets after a REAL WW2 battleship turrets.

The are barrels are somewhat narrower at the top, but that's nothing I can't fix..

anyway, I re-converted the Retribution and it finally looks good.



Allso, the Orion(16 turrets) and Typhon(15 turrets) had way too little turrets, so I fixed that.

Darn PCS screwed up the lights on ALL subobjects during the
pof->cob conversion, so I had to make all the turrets and subobjects anew...
So the "new" Orion now has 23 and the Typhon 24 turrets respectivly, and they work OK...

Something is wrong with hy FS2 tough. Only the stock nebulas show up in the selection list in FRED and none on the actuall screen (alltough they do show up in missions).
And I can't load my campaign missions I was doing!!!!!!ARGH!

[TrashMan]

Noise convinced me to post this - a Shotgun laser...

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; Shotgun
;
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+Title:                                XSTR("GTW-9b Shotgun Cannon", 3270)
+Description:
XSTR(
"Medium Energy Usage
Level 4 Hull Damage
Level 1 Shield Damage", 3271)
$end_multi_text
+Tech Title:               XSTR("GTW-5a Prometheus R", 3272)
+Tech Anim:                  Tech_GTW-5a_Prometheus_R
+Tech Description:
XSTR(
".", 3273)
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$Model File:                           none
@Laser Bitmap:                           laserglow03
@Laser Glow:                           2_laserglow03
@Laser Color:                           20, 150, 20
@Laser Color2:                           20, 150, 20
@Laser Length:                           10.0   
@Laser Head Radius:                     1.0
@Laser Tail Radius:                     1.0
$Mass:                                 0.2
$Velocity:                             450.0                          
$Fire Wait:                            1.2                            
$Damage:                               4
$Armor Factor:                           1.1
$Shield Factor:                        0.8
$Subsystem Factor:                     0.35
$Lifetime:                             1.2
$Energy Consumed:                        3.0                            
$Cargo Size:                           0.0                            
$Homing:                               NO
$LaunchSnd:                            79                              
$ImpactSnd:                            85                              ;
$Flags:                                ( "player allowed")
$Icon:                                 iconPromR
$Anim:                                 PromR
$Impact Explosion:                     none
$FOF: 1.8
$Shots: 30

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by TrashMan
Something is wrong with hy FS2 tough. Only the stock nebulas show up in the selection list in FRED and none on the actuall screen (alltough they do show up in missions).
And I can't load my campaign missions I was doing!!!!!!ARGH!

That's normaly apparently. Something about FRED Open not being able to read the 32-bit nebulas to put on the list, I think. Or maybe it was that FRED Open can't display them on the background. I think that's it, because suns work fine.

Nice Knossos, by the way,, although the armament annoys me.

[TrashMan]

I figure, with Earth narrowly escaping anihhilation the first time, the humans would defened their only way in and out of SOL....

[Knight Templar]

That's what Mjolnirs are for.

[pecenipicek]

they cant rotate

[aldo_14]

Neither can gate mounted-beam cannon, really; my instinct is that such as gate simply wouldn't have the power to spare for weaponry.

[TrashMan]

That's what those two powers generatos are for....

[FireCrack]

How about a subspace disrtuption device that colapses the knosos'es node then reforms it.

[pecenipicek]

whats good that for?

[NGTM-1R]

Instant node blockade, one you absolutely can't get through.

Actually, that would be why one would arm the Knossos as well. Easier then parking several destroyers around it.

[pecenipicek]

point.