[Nuke]

hi poly phoenix class, now with variable geometry and gatling guns

now before i hear any "whaaa my mod already has a phoenix waaaaa you stole my name waaaa" you best take note that i designed the original the summer of 2000 and i believe it was included in nukemod release 2.

*edit*
i did say variable geometry...


this is our atmospheric flight mode btw.
i finally get to torture-test the animation code

[Col. Fishguts]

The variable geometry is insane ..... I like it.

[NGTM-1R]

Son of Flying Bullseye.

The notched wings look very odd to weird to me, but okay.

[Unknown Target]

Looks cool but a bit...big...wouldn't it be really easy to hit ?

[Taristin]

I'd like to see that in action before I can make comments on the model. Though the idea fascinates me.

[Nuke]

i dont see any reason to open the wings in 99.99999% of the game. unless of course they implement a proper areodynamic flight mode. variable geometry was part of the original design but didnt become part of the model until now. i still dont know if it will ever get used. but its there for ****s and giggles.

[Taristin]

I think if you used it simply to make the ship look imposing. If they're in an enemy wing, have them go to a waypoints in front of the player, a bit of brief dialogue, an insult, and then he pops the wings out and gives chase. It'd be intimidating, I think.

[Nuke]

it would be cool to have them open up when you exit a docking bay. but in space theres no reason to. might just use it to inspire the coders to get an atmospheric flight model into the engine

[Nuke]

now with a cockpit. just using nico's pilot model to get the scale right. i intend to make my own pilot models eventually.

[FireCrack]

Meh.. put an engine texture on the back of each sgment and make the wings open for "cruise mode" and then close again for "combat mode"

Nice ship though, the wings look a tad fragile when open, but col nontheless..

[Nuke]

i wish there was an animation trigger for afterburners id make them deploy when hit.  i think were still limitid to the original 6 triggers. the animation works perfectly and its a shame there is not enought triggers to cover every possible configuration.

[Flipside]

Now, if each 'segment' of those wings contained a single mine which could be released in the path of a capship, or EM charges for pursuing ships, then you really wouldn't want to see those wings unfold

[Nuke]

ya know i could make them blades. put weapon firepoints down them and fire a very short range weapon from them  but tht would be too trickey to operate.

[Mefustae]

Looks great! It'd be great to see that baby zipping around the battlespace literally coat-hangering several opponents at a time with its outstreched wings...

...Hmmm, for some reason, the images appear cropped to me, like the right hand side has been cropped off to fit the forum... what's up with that...?

[Black Wolf]

...Hmmm, for some reason, the images appear cropped to me, like the right hand side has been cropped off to fit the forum... what's up with that...?

Happening for me too, on all big images - I thought I was an isolated case. Didn't there used to be image scroll bars?

[Nuke]

probibly looks cropped because it is cropped. some i used render to file, then cropped out the useless black, and some i just used prentscreen and cropped in photoshop. i think il open the wings in and on entrance to subspace and then close on exit from subspace. cause they potrude from the shild mesh too much. the fighter will have an inter system drive by default, being a shivan-tech-based next gen gtva design and all. sow i need a subspace trigger bob

[Flipside]

Once the lvlshot tags are fixed, this should be fine, but at the moment, the board autocrops anything that goes off the right of the screen as far as I can tell.

[Nuke]

what happened to the pics?

[Taristin]

...Hmmm, for some reason, the images appear cropped to me, like the right hand side has been cropped off to fit the forum... what's up with that...?

Happening for me too, on all big images - I thought I was an isolated case. Didn't there used to be image scroll bars?

Bizarre. I'm not getting this issue. I'm getting a working lvlshot.

[Sandwich]

...Hmmm, for some reason, the images appear cropped to me, like the right hand side has been cropped off to fit the forum... what's up with that...?

Use anything except a 4-yr-old browser (i.e. IE), and regular images will work properly. lvlshot works in any case.