[BengalTiger]

Good to see the people coming back, especially when I was absent for a while. Seeing the super secret forum activate without me was a big surprize.

When I get to Poland in a couple of weeks, I'll reactivate myself too, so we can get this stuff roling just like in the good old days.

[BengalTiger]

About time I posted something here...

I'm pretty busy with school at the moment, so it took me a little longer than "a couple weeks".

But this time I come with a little something- the T-MF Ansar, now textured:








Coming soon- the Hussar Mk 2 with textures, and a test flight of the Ansar as soon as I get it fully operational.

BTW- Has anyone seen Nx in the last couple months?

[BengalTiger]

And the Hussar Mk 2:







Images taken in PCS 2, it doesn't fly yet...

[Black Wolf]

I understand that you have a style going here, and I suppose there's something to be said for low poly models if it means cranking them out at pace but... having seen what can be done for these guys, with Nx's Cataphract, is going backwards to this level of quality really the direction you want to be going? Sure, it's the feature creep from hell to want to HTL every model, but even updating the texturing style would make these ships significantly more attractive, and now that you have a template for how to do that... like I said, it seems like you're going backwards.

It's up to you, of course, your mod, and I know I'm suggesting feature creep, but these textures really do need work, in my opinion.

[BengalTiger]

Well, as soon as Nx and Jadehawk (or perhaps any new volunteers?) appear here or on FS Mods, I'll upload the models for them to give the magic treatments that make them look really awesome  . Right now I'm trying to get everything to fly (posting something here once in a while) so the missions in the campaign could get done, and I'll leave the high quality modeling and textures for the experts.

[Thaeris]

I must state that's a viable approach, and you're to be commended for doing it. One-man-shows often demand such approaches so as to get anything done at a reasonable rate.

[PeterX]

I´m modding for Rule the Rail! and also make some 1manshows,but i do so as i´m just modeling the locos and cars,but i release it in the last moment of my postings on brainbombers and Little Ville....with boards.

So my question to bengaltiger;
Do you release the models in a complete mod with campaign? and how is the whole progress?

Peter

[BengalTiger]

A few already came out with the intro:

http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.475

The rest is coming out in 3 chapters, of which chapter 1 has a couple missions done, and is waiting for a few models to get going further. Also, most new ships will be featured in chapter 1, so the rest should be a bit quicker.

[PeterX]

Thanx for this info,and your models are not from bad parrents 
Good luck for the mod.
Peter

[BengalTiger]

Question:

How do you use this:
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Weapons.tbl#.24Piercing_Impact_Draw_Modifier:?

I have fs2_open_3_6_12r_INF.exe running, and I get

Code: [Select]

tiigran-wep.tbm(line 314:
Error: Required token = [#End] or [$Name:], found [$Piercing Impact Draw Modifier: ]
in weapon: Tiigran Arty
.

<no module>! KiFastSystemCallRet
<no module>! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>

when I try to set it up....

When the $Piercing Impact Draw Modifier: is not there, everything works (except for the fireworks beginning when the target's hull is at 10%, which pretty much ruins all the fun).

[The E]

Uhhh....

Why aren't you using armor.tbl to fine-tune the piercing effects?

[BengalTiger]

Well, I didn't find anything on setting up the piercing effects in http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Armor.tbl

There's the http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Ships.tbl#.24Piercing_Damage_Draw_Limit:, which is set to 10 by default based on what I've seen testing, and there's the http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Weapons.tbl#.24Piercing_Impact_Draw_Modifier: which acts as a multiplier of the draw limit for a specific weapon. In this case I need the Artillery gun to hit stuff with penetration effects at 100% health, and I don't want anything else to do the same, so I need to get the modifier to work...

[The E]

Please check again. Someone forgot to add the tbl options.

In Armor.tbl, use "+Weapon Piercing Effect Start Limit:" to define when piercing effects are going to start.

Basically, what you need to do is to create an "Artillery" damage type, create an armor class that always displays piercing effects when hit by a weapon with that damage type, and then apply it to all relevant ships.

[BengalTiger]

Alright thanks, but I'll leave that for tomorrow I guess...

[BengalTiger]

Code: [Select]

#Armor Type

$Name: Capship

$Damage Type: Artillery
+Weapon Piercing Effect Start Limit: 100.0

#End
Doesn't seem to work...

I also noticed that with 3.6.12 mediavps I don't even get the effects when the target gets killed...

Here's what I need for each hit, the following images are on a dying target with 3.6.10 m-vps (BTW giving the eye candy this thread lacks lately...):




As soon as I get this working properly, I'll get Fraps and post a video of the poor Lilith getting gunned down on youtube...

[The E]

Did you set the weapon damage type in weapons.tbl? Did you set the ship armor type in ships.tbl?

[BengalTiger]

Yup, and the game runs without warnings, so I assume it's not done terribly wrong...

[BengalTiger]

+Weapon Piercing Type: Default

This was missing.

Now's the time to get Fraps...

[BengalTiger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siKfgId8BK0

So, what do you people think?

P.S. It's still done with 3.6.10 mediavps, as I have yet to figure out how to get the effects working with 3.6.12.

[Quanto]

Heh, those plumes are like solar ejections! How big is the ship those are being fired from?!