[NGTM-1R]

There's really nothing here I can make use of. The test mission...well, let's just say that it's horribly unbalanced. Your love of gatlings has caused them to become far too good. Ships simply do not last long, energy weapons are damn near useless. I was tempted briefly to hijack the projectiles for Ancients craft, but a few rounds of playing the mission convinced me it wasn't a good idea. Maybe it's just transition shock on my part and I'd manage to use them effectively at some point. But I doubt it. The AI is exceptionally deadly with them, stupidly so.

[neoterran]

The models for some of the ships are great, come on. Simply re-table the ships if you don't like the way their weapons are, etc.

[Nuke]

balence features are only about 1/10th the way done btw

[Dark Hunter]

Man, MDLView won't let me view half those models due to various errors. Anyone know of a different (and better) model viewer?

[Nuke]

funny, my modelview version doesnt report any errors. if you want to view my models, the best app is freespace 2 open

[Dark Hunter]

BTW, I love the invisible thing. That could be extremely useful in campaign-building.

[Nuke]

what invisible thing?

[Dark Hunter]

Well, the models name is "Invisible", it appears to be just a simple triangular pyramid.

[Axem]

That was one of my things I was using before we got real cutscene sexps. It's basically a player flyable no-collide ship. It can be used as a dummy point where waypoints couldn't be used or a sensor ghost.

[Dark Hunter]

Ah, cutscene building....

Is there a way, when using a disabled player's ship (ai-playdead, player-use-ai) to change the direction it faces? That move-ship sexp will change position, but not direction, and that is quite annoying...

[Colonol Dekker]

Thats what camera_face and Camera_transition is for, just use a dummy waypoint to calculate viweing angles vecotrs etc....

[DaBrain]

Edit: How did I end up posting in the wron thread?...

[Nuke]

i also use invisible.pof for when i do scripted particle effects. or any case i dont want a weapon rendered.

[Dark Hunter]

Ok finally got around to putting that into FSOpen (Nuke, why why why did you put a cache file in there? That damned folder is screwing up VPMage, and it won't let me move it because "some other program is using it"!  )

Anyway, those are the craziest backgrounds I've ever seen... bar none.

But I have a problem:

Little problem: Black boxes around my weapons (I'm running 3.6.9)


EDIT: figured out the ships thing, it works now.

Advice to people gonna play this mission: Don't put the Dante in while Adveffects are on.

Nuke, you sure to made those Charlatans' afterburners fast enough? 

[Nuke]

i was gonna fix that.   the charlatan has its bugs, the shine maps too bright, i forgot to put its beam weapon back in, the afterburner. some of that is easy to fix, but sence the model is so low poly i guess il just redo it at some point. but its usefull if anyone needs an ancient fighter.

[Getter Robo G]

Wow, lots of neat stuff in there. Thanks for releasing that. (I even noticed an interesting retexture of the old Valkyrie from Combat Federation, nice!)

That background of yours makes me want to throw a bunch of asteroids around the ring for a D-Punch attack on a cruiser.. ;D IF we had the storm attacker that is...

[Nuke]

no all my ships are original. the only model i have thats a clone of anything is the merc missile from d2.

[Dark Hunter]

Oh, btw.... when I said I recognized some ships from Inferno, turns out it was only the names I recognized. MDLView was too inprecise for me to tell the difference.

[Nuke]

is inferno naming stuff after black metal persona's as well?

[Getter Robo G]

Was just curious, as I got the alpha build back when I was initially involved (voice & fredding) but I wasn't involved long.
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