[Taristin]

"POP!"

[StratComm]

That might be close enough.  Certainly captures the feel of it while still being visually identifiable.  Just one thing though; doesn't FS automatically rotate the explosion ANI by a random amount every time it plays?  Or is it always upright?  Because a 210 degree word would lose some of that cartoon appeal.

[DaBrain]

Nice thought... I'll make the flak ani so, that I can remove the letters later and recompile it without them if necessary.

[Unknown Target]

I think the flak is more like a BAM or BOOM than a pop.

[DaBrain]

I like "BAM!"  I'll go for BAM.

[Ghost]

Wow, this is ridiculous...

[WMCoolmon]

How about "POW!"?

[Taristin]

Pow shold be the big ship explosions

[MetalDestroyer]

So, plok !

[Bobboau]

kapow...

[StratComm]

Most ironic texture name ever

Simple, but I'm sure it looks great.  I'd try more of this stuff if my install of FS2 was anywhere close to clean enough to actually get a pcx to take precedence over anything.

[FireCrack]

Yeah, it's a preety random name for a tex...

[StratComm]

I'd imagine that it's called redo because at some point, probably very late in the model development stage, someone decided that the erinyes needed a new texture job.  But it wouldn't be ready in time to compile the model, so the texture was labled redo so that it was automatically flagged to be gone back over by the art staff.  As sloppy as redo.pcx in sparky is, it wouldn't suprise me if they never got around to it.

The Erinyes is also slightly disturbing because that one texture (including the low-res equivalents) is listed no less than twenty-one times in the model file.  I'll bet that despite only having one texture, that ship makes HTL scream bloody murder every time it gets processed.

[Bobboau]

I'm actualy prety sure the code catches the duplicates.

[StratComm]

That's always something I've wondered about.  Glad to know that it's been thought about.  One question though: would it still catch duplicates if texture replacement gets used (I.e. two non-alike textures get swapped out to the same one?)  I specifically ask because I've got those stripes on my mods, that could concievably be replaced with the base hull texture if someone wanted to get rid of them.

[Mr_Maniac]

Err... Stupid question:
Is Cellshading in CVS already?
Don't think so...

[Turnsky]

the textures on the models alone, i can use verry effectively

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by StratComm
I'd imagine that it's called redo because at some point, probably very late in the model development stage, someone decided that the erinyes needed a new texture job.  But it wouldn't be ready in time to compile the model, so the texture was labled redo so that it was automatically flagged to be gone back over by the art staff.  As sloppy as redo.pcx in sparky is, it wouldn't suprise me if they never got around to it.

The Erinyes is also slightly disturbing because that one texture (including the low-res equivalents) is listed no less than twenty-one times in the model file.  I'll bet that despite only having one texture, that ship makes HTL scream bloody murder every time it gets processed.

There's more than that texture that should have been flagged 'redo'..... to be honest, some of the FS2 models are really sloppily textured; the Aeolus springs to mind in particular.

[Bobboau]

most of the FS2 shivan ships don't look like they're going to need that much work

[WMCoolmon]

Someone should make command head anims to go along with this.