[jr2]

Is that the Gigas?  It looks like it.

[Snail]

Gigas!! Yay!

I'm guessing the Gigas wins that battle.



And getting hosted on SG you just need to mail Hunter...

[TrashMan]

Those bluish beams look great. Did you make them yourself?

[shiv]

Nope, trahsman. I've found it some time ago on FSUP category.

[Snail]

Wow you dig around everywhere for this stuff.

[shiv]

Okay! Huntar said that I'll get hosted on SG in may.

[Vasudan Admiral]

Actually, the bluish beams are crap.

I should know. I made em up as a cheap impression of the Lucifer's bombardment cannons.

All I did was simply copy that really low res and poorly coloured image from the VPrime cbani, blurred it up sufficiently to look ok when static, and used it as the only section in the beam. The effect I'll be going for when I rebuild it using Prox2 will hopefully be animated in the same way as the one in the cbani. I love that sorta rippling flux of energy look - something the static image just totally fails at.

[Snail]

Well it looks cool anyhow.

Don't berate yourself, it's indirectly insulting us who can't do as good as you.

[Vasudan Admiral]

Errm, it really was just a copy+paste+blur. I am quite certain you can do better than that.

And I reckon being critical of what oneself makes is the best way to get better at making it.

[Mobius]

So, my FRED sucks and I want back all the time I lost using advanced SEXPs and creating cutscenes.

[Snail]

Code: [Select]

$Formula: ( every-time
   ( has-boasted-delay
      0
      "LieutenantGeneralMobius"
   )
   ( send-message
      "Snail"
      "High"
      "STFU"
   )
   ( modify-variable
      @LtGenMobiusBoasts[19293813]
      ( + 1 @LtGenMobiusBoasts[19293813] )
   )
)
   )
)

$Name: STFU

$Team: -1
$MessageNew:  XSTR("We know you're good at FRED, so shut up.", -1)
$end_multi_text
+AVI Name: Head-SNL
+Wave Name: none.wav

[Mobius]

Every-time and send-message? You must suck at FRED

Given Shiv's work, I suggest the coders to work on the gravity option for FRED...

[Snail]

Simplicity is everything.

What would you do? I say there should be more specialized SEXPs:

when-argument-everytime-has-snail-done-anything-add-fifty-to-the-variable-snail-does
  true



Gravity has not been implemented yet is checkable, it bugs me.

[Mobius]

Never modify number variables or send message when you use the conditional every-time...

[shiv]

Okay. So tiem for a frist screenies from mission one alpha version:

[Snail]

Never modify number variables or send message when you use the conditional every-time...

Why not?

[Mobius]

ZOMG, Shiv!

But why you're using those Alt Names?

Never modify number variables or send message when you use the conditional every-time...

Why not?

Because every-time is triggered about 5-6 times per second(Karajorma's FAQ)and sending 10-12 messages in 2 seconds will probably make FS2 crash. Also, numeric variables are for specific purposes. If you know that the variable is modified 5 or 6 times per second, well, it's a bit random.

[Snail]

Just because it is checked doesn't mean that they will happen, correct? Or am I wrong? And no, it doesn't crash FSO, I did it before!

(we're going off on another tangent )

[shiv]

ZOMG, Shiv!

But why you're using those Alt Names?

It's totally new universe. Scouts like SF, SB, GTF are from FS. In AIII you'll see diffrent ship classes(other ship sizes and weaponry) and names must be another.

[Snail]

So far the only primary weapon I've seen is the Standard Rifle. Will there be shotguns, gattlers, lasers, etc?