[Jouzin]

Hi guys.
I know that there is a lot of talking about shields and cap ships. But I couldn't find the result of these talkings. So is it possible to have shields on cap ships??? For example is it possible to have shields on Sathanas or Colossus or maybe on bigger ship like Gigas ??? 
And the animation of shields ? Can it looks like this http://www.gateworld.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=137848&fullsize=1

Thank you guys for your answer...

[Colonol Dekker]

Check the wing commander saga mod out, they've made some progress............i think

[Stormkeeper]

Having asked this before I can tell you now; a simple table edit will be all that's necessary to get a shield on a capital ship, simply adding the "surface shields" flag will suffice, as well as adding the appropriate field to add shields.

However, if you mean a shield like the ones on fighters, you will need to model a triangulated sphere with an invisible texture. I'm not exactly sure how its done though, as I've only done surfaces shield before.

[Topgun]

Hi guys.
I know that there is a lot of talking about shields and cap ships. But I couldn't find the result of these talkings. So is it possible to have shields on cap ships??? For example is it possible to have shields on Sathanas or Colossus or maybe on bigger ship like Gigas ??? 
And the animation of shields ? Can it looks like this http://www.gateworld.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=137848&fullsize=1

Thank you guys for your answer...

yes to all your questions.
afew problems with the ai using shields in a cap fight, though.

I have been working on something. Something BIG! that has to do with shields of all kinds including capship shields.

just wait a few months...
I'm so exited...

[Krelus]

I know Trashman's GTVBS Archangel has shields... That thing is impossible to kill XD

[Jadehawk]

This is something that's been bugging me ever since the SD Lucifer. That ship had shields and considering how long it's been time-wise, you'd think by now The Terrans and Vasudans would have as LEAST a cruiser if not a Cap ship with Shields as standard? As for the shields power, we could make a corporeal agreement on how powerful it should be for reasonable game play. Yet be something worth while to have.

Opinions?

[Topgun]

save it mods.
if mods want it, then yeah, that would be cool. however, it sounds as if you want to change the retail missions to incorporate this beast. that's a bad idea.

[Getter Robo G]

I haven't tried to shield anything larger than a 2-3km Trek ship...
Never had a real problem.

[TrashMan]

I know Trashman's GTVBS Archangel has shields... That thing is impossible to kill XD

Erm..surface shields.. it HAD them. Didn't I remove that line?

Anyway, speaking from FoW cannon, the Archy doesn't have shields....yet.

[Trivial Psychic]

IIRC, the "surface shields" flag doesn't create shield impact effects... yet.

[Stormkeeper]

Well, it doesn't. I didn't see any shield effects on the cruiser. Although I used to. It seems utterly random in appearing.

[Jouzin]

Hi guys.
I know that there is a lot of talking about shields and cap ships. But I couldn't find the result of these talkings. So is it possible to have shields on cap ships??? For example is it possible to have shields on Sathanas or Colossus or maybe on bigger ship like Gigas ??? 
And the animation of shields ? Can it looks like this http://www.gateworld.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=137848&fullsize=1

Thank you guys for your answer...

yes to all your questions.
afew problems with the ai using shields in a cap fight, though.

I have been working on something. Something BIG! that has to do with shields of all kinds including capship shields.

just wait a few months...
I'm so exited...

OK I am waiting so... quick quick

Hmm btw as I see it is really a "big" problem to make some shielding on Cap ships... Hmm crap.
Bcs I was thinking about making shields on my Prometheus and Daedalus. Well these two ships are really big like Gigas... heh Well I made them so big, bcs I need them to be so big in my campaign  
So crap with these shields and cap things...
So our only hope is... waiting for some good MOD??? Or try Stormkeeper's idea...

[nvsblmnc]

One thing I've noticed with surface shields is that the impact anim plays when a primary weapon is fired, rather than when the bolt hits.

Doesn't seem to happen for secondaries - has anyone else seen this?

[Wanderer]

Yeah

[Getter Robo G]

"need it so big in my campaign"...


Jouzin has aroused my curiosity...
(and yes that's all - I know some of you too well..)

 

[Galemp]

The SC Rictus on Freespacemods.net has a shield mesh.

[Jouzin]

The SC Rictus on Freespacemods.net has a shield mesh.

Cool.
SO I will try this SC Rictus... thanks

Hmm so my idea was to make not surface but some normal shields on Cap ships. And these shields will last/hold firing from lasers or torpedoes and about 5 shots from beam turret....   But hmm well as I can see it is really difficult...
But I think it is possible to do this... Just there is a lot of work with this...

[Flaming_Sword]

Beams pass through shields unless the beam has a flag set.

[Topgun]

"need it so big in my campaign"...


Jouzin has aroused my curiosity...
(and yes that's all - I know some of you too well..)

 

wat

[Getter Robo G]

Jousin just adjust the hit points of the shield to X amount (take the number of the biggest beam you want it to hold against and multiply X5, adjust as needed)

It's not rocket science...