[stithe2000]

A lot of people were asking if it were possible to have the vorlon charge effect.... It is possible, and we will release how to do this in the near future.... The technique is still being played with, but will be released on the next major TBP release! Enjoy the pix!

[Fury]

Well done.

[snake60]

  no word for this ! Amazing work !

[Primus]

Snake

And truly well done Stithe.

[I_E_Maverick]

that looks sweet, great work!!
i hope this works for the victory too

[snake60]

thanks Primus, but i'm not a nOObie:D  (look at my "registered date")
It's just that i don't post often. I just didn't manage to resist (i think you understand why!)
But thanks anyway:)

[aipz]

So theory became truth... in action so to say..
How big is actually the vorlon dreadnought?

[Col. Fishguts]

Arrrsome :arr:

[stithe2000]

It is to scale according to references... 1.3km long

[ToecrusherHammerjaw]

Wow, you actually got that to work?!! I'm impressed!!!

[Fabbro]

dont you get different sized ones like shadow ships?

[karajorma]

Okay. I'm interested now. I gave the same thing a try and it didn't go quite to plan.

[Azrael15]

kara, I thought you tried that a few weeks ago?

But, stithe, I'm amazed. Now the Vorlons can finally take the war to the Shadows.

And, 1.3km, isn't that smaller then the Omega?

[Bri_Dog]

So how did you do that?

[StratComm]

ROFL at Kara's post

I can think of a couple of ways to potentially script that effect, especially with a fire-weapon SEXP (actually, five of them) but the charge-up almost looks like it's being done with geometry.  Needless to say, I am intrigued.

[Fenrir]

Niiiiice. I definitely see this being useful for the Star Wars mod, too.

And about that effect... would it be a far off guess to say you used some trick with that "damage lightining" to do that? You know, that electricity that arcs between segments of damaged ships?

[Singh]

its more than likely there is an invisible submodel at the centre of the beams that's also a beam cannon. You get the four 'sub' beam cannons to fire at it, with no or a very small explosion effect, and then just get hte main cannon to fire afterwards.....

I bet this would be a good  way to recreate the Sathanas subspace weapons effect though.

[Black Wolf]

Maybe it's an invisible plane with animated glowmaps, being being triggered by sexp seconds before the beam fires (also sexped) from an inviisible, cenral turret?

[stithe2000]

Nope... It will be revealled on the next release...

[Slasher]

That screenshot of the Sathanas up there is a good attempt at recreating the final lightsaber battle from ROTJ.



Oh!  You were trying to do the Vorlon Dreadnaught fire effect!?  Oh, well, that looks....good too.