[JC Denton]

Did this in just under an hour, but basically I made a Shivan Flux Beam that actually looks convincing.  Since I don't have a web page (yet--I'm in the process of setting up one on Tripod (I'M SORRY!!!;)), I can't post screenshots just yet.  Hopefully I'll have a few up by tomorrow.

EDIT:  Okay, I'm impatient.  Anyways, here's the few screenshots I have, plus a few more that I think are nice. You'll of course have to enter the addresses manually...

First, the SD Demon get's a _huge_ beam on that heavy turret near the hangars.  Revised description states that it is used as both an anti-capship beam and as an orbit-to-surface bombardment device:

http://quantium40.tripod.com/screenshots/demon_beam_00.jpg
http://quantium40.tripod.com/screenshots/demon_beam_01.jpg

The infamous Lucifer gets it's own fluxers.  These are identical to the Demon flux except that they are physically smaller:

http://quantium40.tripod.com/screenshots/lucifer_flux.jpg

And the Rakshasa gets special rapid-recharge beams.  They are simply weaker SReds with lower damage, quicker fire delay, and a red beamglow:

http://quantium40.tripod.com/screenshots/rakshasa_redbeams_00.jpg
http://quantium40.tripod.com/screenshots/rakshasa_redbeams_01.jpg
http://quantium40.tripod.com/screenshots/rakshasa_redbeams_02.jpg

And I'll busily be making a site for that big empty directory right about now...

EDIT:  Got it fixed...I think...

[WS-Thunder]

Tripod
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Ummmmm...

[JC Denton]

I'm working on it!!!  

EDIT:  If you didn't see in the first post, I got it fixed.  Forgot that tripod does that screwy stuff with linking images, etc..

[WS-Thunder]

Hehe, np. Couldn't help but tease ya

[JC Denton]

*sigh* My first experience with Tripod, and already I think it sux.

Anyways, whaddaya think of the pics?

[WS-Thunder]

Looks awfully... perdy

[LtNarol]

well, my opinion is this:

nice beams, but tripod sucks, so does angelfire, and geocities while being the best of the three is still terrible.

[JC Denton]

Okay okay okay, enough about the servers sucking massive amounts of something bad!!  It's to be expected since they are very well free (and not worth starting a war over).  I'm happy to at least have a place for me to put my stuff onto, and not having to pay for it is even better.

Since the Demon isn't quite as fullblown a killer as a Lucifer, should I lower the damage it's beam causes?  At current a glancing blow incinerates a Deimos

[WMCoolmon]

http://portland.co.uk
BTW, I'm having trouble with the last 3...is the capitalization right? The other two look good.

[CP5670]

The Demon beam looks cool. You might want to make it red in accordance with the other Shivan things, but nice work otherwise.

I can't get the others to load.

Tripod is IMHO is worst hosting service on the whole internet; I was once trying to upload a website there, but I happened to start with the images first. In less than a minute after I has started putting up images, they had disabled my account. (only a couple of images and no html's were uploaded) Well, I sent them a formal but flaming email and that was the end of it; I would strongly recommend staying away from Tripod for anyone who is looking for hosting.

[JC Denton]

Well, I'm sure Portland is a good host, but unfortunately I live on the wrong side of the pond...

Well, scratch that.  I just signed up as quantium40.port5.com and will proceed to fill the miniscule 15MB of web space with all due haste.

BTW, try the Rakshasa pics again.  Turns out I misspelled "redbeams"

[LtNarol]

nooo, flux cannons are supposed to be orange.  for the demon, cut back severely, and dont set that cannon as the standard weapon for that turret, you can change what a turret carries in fred, so make it compatible but not standard.

For the most part such a beam sould only be used for fancy cinematic effects in missions.

[JC Denton]

Well, I originally made it for a minicampaign where the Shivans we all know and love aren't the intragalactic blight we all thought we knew and loved...and their ship configurations were...somewhat...slightly...different...

Anyways, I toned the Demon's beam to something down closer to (but still more potent than) a BFRed's.  Lucy's beams can still atomize anything they touch.  I might redesign the Demon's beams to look more like the Rakshasa's new ones, unfortunately, I didn't take a picture of them actually on.  I'll grab a screenshot later, but right now, I'm getting tired, and will proceed to resume experimenting sometime next week

[Galemp]

Personally I like my LuciferBeams better. Check them out in the weapons.tbl on my site.

[Galemp]

Aha! Here's a screenshot from Doomsday showing off the new LuciferBeams.

Edit: lousy file compression...

[Nico]

mmh, they should look a bit more massive, but otherwise: I like

[JC Denton]

Hmm...I think I prefer mine more not because I'm prejudiced or anything, but rather that they look more like the ones both from FS1 and the opening cutscene from FS2 (to me, anyways:)).  If I decide to alter their appearance any, I'd probably make them a tad larger.

GalacticEmperor, IMHO, yours could use these 3 things done to them:

• Make the muzzle glow a different color (probably a reddish-orange coloration)
• Increase the overall thickness of the beam
• Make the impact explosion about 5 times the current size

And there's my 2 cents worth:wink:

Unfortunately, my system has suddenly decided to frag itself most unglamorously (explaining why there are no new screenshots), and at current I have a corrupted DOS boot record, something screwy lurking in the partition tables, and about a half-gig of unrecoverable data flooding my HDD (and most of it is, or rather, was the VP files from FS2!!:().  If anyone's got any suggestions on whichever flavor of WinXP I should take (either Home or Pro), I'm open to them!

[Black Wolf]

What's wrong with the SSLs already in FRED2?

[Galemp]

Please tell me you're kidding...

[Galemp]

New LuciferBeams! Check them out.