[Vasudan Admiral]

Ooh, this is the first I've seen of someone actually using the Lucy BBT beam tables and side turrets. Kewlies.

I thought the planetary bombardment cannon was orange / yellow?  (Come to think of it, so were the forward arm cannons.)

Though it's not exactly 100% relevant to the current topic, from the Vprime cutscene they're blue, and TBH I reckon they look more powerful for it:



(You can ignore the bottom half of the image - it's just something there to show why I placed the bombardment cannons where I did. )

[Mobius]

Yeah, LGM's right.

I'm always right!

I didn't mean he had to, I thought he was using a default Lucy... if he wants to change it, I guess that's alright... but can he also make a version of the orange / yellow ones that look as good as that bluish one?  (So we can stick it in mediavps... then again, it's been awhile since I've seen the Lucy firing, it may already be fixed up good.)

As far as I know, Shiv is coming out with an original idea. He doesn't want to follow canon laws, his mod takes place in his own universe, and he isn't using shields. He is free to give the Lucifer blue shields

Ooh, this is the first I've seen of someone actually using the Lucy BBT beam tables and side turrets. Kewlies.

There's Inferno too

[shiv]

Admiral, could you tell me - is your HTL Lucifer supporting shields? Maybe I'll add them into my tbl files...

[jr2]

Who's in charge of the mediavp development?  DaBrain?

[jr2]

Ooh, this is the first I've seen of someone actually using the Lucy BBT beam tables and side turrets. Kewlies.

I thought the planetary bombardment cannon was orange / yellow?  (Come to think of it, so were the forward arm cannons.)

Though it's not exactly 100% relevant to the current topic, from the Vprime cutscene they're blue, and TBH I reckon they look more powerful for it:



(You can ignore the bottom half of the image - it's just something there to show why I placed the bombardment cannons where I did. )

Hmm, I know that, have a look at this... (view as a slideshow in IrfanView or similar program)  EDIT: It's kind of funny seeing 11.7MB worth of BMPs squeezed down to 160 KB of JPGs and still being able to understand the pictures. 

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[Vasudan Admiral]

Yeah, I know about that - but seeing all the other inconsistencies in that intro, I tend to ignore it. The cbanis from FS1 are much more reliable (and don't use the hideously low detail in-game model).

Edit: As to the shields question, no. I carefully considered adding a shield mesh in the way that DTP once did for the original, but decided against it because it's effectively doubling the number of collision checks the game would have to do.
The surface shields feature of the SCP was originally designed with the Lucifer in mind, though it's not quite complete yet. Goob is looking into getting it to display a shield impact effect when the surface shields take damage. As is, it just does the damage to the shield rather than the hull, which is kinda useless when we have special hitpoints.

[takashi]

nice to know more than one person uses that version of the lucy

[Mobius]

Theory: Shivan beams become blue when they impact the atmosphere of a planet?

[Snail]

Interesting idea.

[TrashMan]

No, I'm talking canon (FS2 intro / FS1 in-game Orion destruction)... although I think I remember some conversation about the bombardment cannons having two modes, orange / yellow for anti-ship, and blue / green for planetary bombardment...

Or it could be that in atmosphere is has a different color?

That's quite a missile fest going on there.. Whos' doing the shootin'?

[Snail]

I'm guessing it's a type of capship since the Lucy has something to shoot at.

[Mobius]

No, I'm talking canon (FS2 intro / FS1 in-game Orion destruction)... although I think I remember some conversation about the bombardment cannons having two modes, orange / yellow for anti-ship, and blue / green for planetary bombardment...

Or it could be that in atmosphere is has a different color?

That's quite a missile fest going on there.. Whos' doing the shootin'?

Do we see blue/green beams impacting the atmosphere? We just see a beam hitting a city on the surface of Vasuda Prime. Also, the beam looks different...the atmosphere might have changed it's "structure".

[takashi]

they do say beams are plasma. shoot some plasma from space and pummel a city and see what happesn.

[shiv]

Today three new battlescenes:

[Snail]

Doesn't seem that the Beast wants to fight back...

[shiv]

It isn't dangeours for Beast Lucifers have strong armors

[jr2]

Yeah, I know about that - but seeing all the other inconsistencies in that intro, I tend to ignore it.

Such as...?  I remember reading that before, but I don't remember any specifics.  Would you post those here?  I'm curious.

Anyways, I've heard the theory that the atmosphere changes the beam's color, which is quite possible.  The only other explanation that I can think of is that the beam has two modes; one for planetary bombardment, and one for ship to ship combat.  (Maybe it has to focus the beam on a different wavelength to get through the atmosphere without the ozone dissipating it, I dunno...)  But the only thing we do know is that the beam hitting the planet was blue, and the beam hitting the Orion was yellow, as was the forward turret beam to the space station that was destroyed.

[Mobius]

Strange firepoints of fighters and bombers if I remember well + Lucifer side beams...many members have condemned the intro because of its...lack of canon.

they do say beams are plasma. shoot some plasma from space and pummel a city and see what happesn.

I really would like to. "Give me all the girls you have, or I'll wipe your city out!!!".

[Snail]

Strange firepoints of fighters and bombers if I remember well + Lucifer side beams...many members have condemned the intro because of its...lack of canon.

Yeah, the Manticore was firing primaries from its secondary banks (for some reason they did that in both intros, FS1 and FS2, though i can accept FS1 since it was most likely a change done early in development)


Also, it shows the Hades crashed on the planet in Deneb.

[Mobius]

Oh, the Hades. I'm still a bit confused about the indentity of that ship. I thought it was the Hades(in fact, in SthCrs... ), but I was never sure.

I assume that the Hades fell on the surface of a planet, who knows. Silent Threat was still far from FS2, so...