[Wobble73]

"Impressive pilot!"

[--Steve-O--]

heh...BFG.
hopefully i can table that out right. if not, im sure somebodies got a nasty gun they can use instead. i'm still trying to figure out how fast and manuverable i want it. i'm thinking with 6 engines it'll have a descent cruise speed, but due to size and purpose, it'll maneuver about like the Aries take or give. I'll have to play with it in game and get a feel for how it should handle. I'm about to embark on finishing the cockpit tub. the tub is straight forward all the panels and controls and such is a different story. trying to maintain a balance of interesting and none hindering, as it already has a visual handycap that i think is acceptable on the grounds that this is not a pure dogfighter, it'll hold its own sure, but its really meant to just flat out make bad things go away. anyways back to work with me, so i can get this done and turn it loose.

[Water]

Another option is to make it a sniper with zoom function. Give it some speed and to add balance a really crappy turn circle.

[Colonol Dekker]

I war defiance style?

[Bobboau]

first thing I thought is it looked like it came directly from some anime.

and I love TS's interface too.

[--Steve-O--]

i guess you can trace the gun idea back to Cowboy Bebop, you know the big gun on Spike's fighter. i thought that was a neat idea.

[Colonol Dekker]

Cowboy Bepop =  MAke the Bebop someone............

[--Steve-O--]

it is possible to have 3 gun banks instead of the normal 2 right? i'm not on  flight of fancy i hope.

[Water]

it is possible to have 3 gun banks instead of the normal 2 right? i'm not on  flight of fancy i hope.

yes for guns and also for missiles

[--Steve-O--]

sweet.

[--Steve-O--]

Beta is ready for you folks to tinker with. same deal...any troubles let me know. everything seems stable.
have fun!
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[Topgun]

What do you mean you can't get TBM's working?

[--Steve-O--]

i would make it like shipname.tbm, fred would load fine but the table for the ship was just out right ignored. so i just add straight onto the table to avoid that problem.

[Woolie Wool]

It should be shipname-shp.tbm.

[Topgun]

um, you sure it had the TBM extension and not txt? did you put the tbm into a mod folder? if you did you need to add -mod [modfolder] command line to fred, where [modfolder] is the name of the folder you put it in.

[--Steve-O--]

nope i made sure it was TBM and not TXT. i even took the Ezechial TBM deleted its info, dropped in my info and saved as shipnamehere.tbm.
nada. no mod folder, just straight data/tables. i was actually just looking round and i saw something like shipname-shp.tbm. maybe my filename was wrong in that it was missing that -shp part?

edit: the little icons even matched

[Getter Robo G]

hmm try this (cause it sounds like the old "save as" problem I used to have with table files getting corrupted into txt files...)

Take an actual .tbm file and copy it
then rename it to your final lable
(this ensures it IS a .tbm file)

Open it and delete info, add your own.
SAVE FILE!!!!! Do NOT use "save as", EVER!!!
File should be a valid.tbm (in theory) same as when I edit custom ship or weapon.tbls

Tell me if this worked for you, unless you found another way or it stopped corrupting on you.

[Topgun]

or that's not the problem.

[--Steve-O--]

To Getter:
that worked out nicely, thanks! now for the question. additions to the weapons table via TBM, does each weapon need a separate TBM or can multiple weapon entries be listed in one TBM?

[Topgun]

tons and tons weapons can fit in a tbm.