[TopAce]

Hmm... one of the wikis, I think they said that that was all that was mentioned in the movies.  And I don't think the games mentioned anything else either.  Oh, wait... there was that multiple warhead missile the V-Wing used in Rebel Alliance.

In the movies only the proton torps are mentioned. Concussion missiles are seen fired by the Falcon at the DSII's main reactor, but adv. proton torpedoes are LucasArts' gameplay inventions.

[chief1983]

Even so I would think that it might be used more as a plot "device", rather than a fighting ship.

Exactly.  Besides, who wants to fight in a transport?  It's going to handle like shat.

[Axem]

Good news everybody! The messy high poly version is now "Axem Certified"* complete. Most of the detail will go into a normal map, thus justifying my insane reasoning behind making a 20,000+ poly transport.

Work will now begin on making a clean low(er) poly version so the UV mapper won't go mad.

*Axem Certification not valid in the following galaxies: Far away galaxies a long time ago, Milky Way, Andromeda, Axemia, Pegasus, The Forbidden Zone, New Jersey, and The Galaxy of Death and Unicorns.

[maje]

Maybe I'm wrong, but don't you have to have the UVs laid out for the high res too? 

[Turambar]

no

[Titan]

Is it possible to make the wings move up when its landing, or is that kinda stuff not available?

[TopAce]

Theoretically, it can be done with SCP already. Someone mentioned this when we were asking questions about S-foils.

[brandx0]

A bit of an update from Axem.

[rsaxvc]

that's totally sweet

[aurora_energy]

I dont think the s-foils are going to make much of an impact anyway...
cause it is all in space, the only time the sfoils will take place with the lamba shuttle is when it comes out of the star destroyer fighter bay

[Titan]

I dont think the s-foils are going to make much of an impact anyway...
cause it is all in space, the only time the sfoils will take place with the lamba shuttle is when it comes out of the star destroyer fighter bay

......Can we do that?

[aurora_energy]

you really want to see the s-foils in action dont you

[brandx0]

Meh, S-Foils are sexy

[Flipside]

Shouldn't be difficult, it's only a matter of a triggered animation as I understand it, make the wings seperate objects, start them off at uproght position and apply the unfolding animation (something like a 120'/-120' rotation along Z) to each for for when the ship exits the Bay.

The downside of this, however, is you will have a ship that is naturally in a landing setup, you'd have to make them unfold their wings whenever they arrived from Hyperspace, which would look a bit odd.

I'm not up to date on the animation code itself, but I know that actual animation itself wouldn't be hard to set up, you'd need to tweak its behaviour a bit, however. It wouldn't be as complex as, say, an X-Wing because there are no firing points on the wings iirc.

[Axem]

I didn't pick the Lambda for no reason. I love moving parts on ships. This is my 3rd ship with (potential) subobject animation.

Anyway, that's an interesting point. The Lambda doesn't require to fold its wings for hyperspace. I guess the solution would be to have separate "ArriveHyperspace" and "ArriveHangar" triggers so the Lambda would only trigger on the second one. (As well as Depart* ones)

And actually it is as complex as the X-Wing. There's 2 twin lasers on the wings that rotate up when the wings fold.

[Titan]

if you guys need help with animation, just get nuke or steve-o

[Vretsu]

Beautiful model.

The Lambda has landed.

[Snail]

It's flyable, right?

[TopAce]

Technically, it could be flyable. I'm just not sure people would like to fly something as sluggish and hard to control as the Lambda shuttle.

[Snail]

Well, with Nuke's turret control scripting, it could make an interesting mission.