[Titan]

wouldn't it be cool if, say, you were about to make a run on a convoy, and all the sudden it and most other ships in the area get pulverized by a sudden meteor shower?

it would probably be kinda simple, simply make a ship that looks like a meteor, make it go on a course so that it collided with something, and have it set to kamikaze.

[colecampbell666]

Have fun.

[Woolie Wool]

The idea of meteor showers in space makes the fog nebulas in FS2 seem realistic by comparison. Meteors are rocks in space that burn up in a planetary atmosphere, and only in a planetary atmosphere. In space, you might as well make the transport go through an asteroid field, because meteors are just rocks.

[Jeff Vader]

Yeah. You might as well throw in some rainbows while you're at it. Or tornadoes.

[Titan]

i'll do both once i'm 20

what i mean is sorta like in episode 5 of star wars, when the asteroids looked like they almost homed in a the falcon.

[Snail]

what i mean is sorta like in episode 5 of star wars, when the asteroids looked like they almost homed in a the falcon.

IRL the nearest asteroid would be kilometers away.

[Polpolion]

IRL you'd be lucky to see any asteroids if you were plopped into a random point within the solar asteroid belt.

[Woolie Wool]

i'll do both once i'm 20

what i mean is sorta like in episode 5 of star wars, when the asteroids looked like they almost homed in a the falcon.

Make the ships fly through an active asteroid field, and that's exactly what happens. Play the missions "Rebels and Renegades" and "Paving the Way" again.

[Topgun]

what about really tiny, fast meteors?

[Scooby_Doo]

what about really tiny, fast meteors?

.....with LaZeRs!!!!  LOL

[Herra Tohtori]

what about really tiny, fast meteors?

I believe a random ship destruction SEXP would do exactly this. General probability of impact set by mission designer; individual ship's probability to get hit derived from the ship's volume...

You wouldn't even need to do any graphics effects because the rocks would be practically invisible.

Bang, you're dead. Sounds real fun.


Might work as a plot element, but not as an in-game hazard.

[Topgun]

that gave me an idea. can you change the texture of a ship many times during a mission via sexps? I could make it look like a convoy just got hammered right when you jump in.

[Colonol Dekker]

Use waypoints to create 8 any corners then use distance < to simulate entering the path of the "mini asteroid storm" and rand time/damage sexps to simulate non uniform detonation.

[Topgun]

I want the ship to have holes lol

[Colonol Dekker]

"Any" should read "box" (predictive text ) on second thoughts only one waypoint point could be used with a distance less than. Are you gonna have this happen in an asteroid field inner box? (As defined in the asteroid editor)

[Topgun]

no, I don't think that would look cool. if their is going to be "dust" flying around I think it would come from a far off explosion. not a clump of rocks. but what I want to know is can you change a texture via sexps. and if you can make said texture animated .

[Warp Shadow]

no, I don't think that would look cool. if their is going to be "dust" flying around I think it would come from a far off explosion. not a clump of rocks. but what I want to know is can you change a texture via sexps. and if you can make said texture animated .

Yes and yes.

For a "meteor shower" use the asteroid field editor in FRED and check the box to make it "active".

[Titan]

I want the ship to have holes lol

have a convoy a derelicts with eletrical shocks mving over there surface, and GTD legion-style hole in them... that would acually make a pretty good plot elemet for- *runs away before anyone can take his idea*

[Colonol Dekker]

You want holes, they need to be modelled, entered into the tables and then use a ship class change sexp to create the illusion. Lol this is looking to be pretty fun now i put more than 5 seconds of tired thought into it

[Titan]

seriously, its 3 am... go to bed.