[brandx0]

And just for fun, a very terrible quality video of me flying around the ISD in Max

http://swc.fs2downloads.com/movies/ISD.wmv

[Colonol Dekker]

Here's an invisible gold star to put on your fridge.

[chief1983]

8 firepoint turrets are possible, I've verified this on the corvette by just adding points to its top multipart turret.  Seeing it fire 8 shots at one time was pretty awesome, can't wait to see that erupt from the ISD.

[StarSlayer]

8 firepoint turrets are possible, I've verified this on the corvette by just adding points to its top multipart turret.  Seeing it fire 8 shots at one time was pretty awesome, can't wait to see that erupt from the ISD.

Out of curiosity can you introduce a slight stagger to their fire?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkx68UdcPA0&feature=related

Might be a bit more visually interesting then just having all eight barrels fire simultaneously

[MR_T3D]

thing is, if you did all 8 at once, you could create a special projetile consisting of 8 lasers spaced out likek the barrels, and this would free up resources for more turrets elsewhere

[brandx0]

I personally do like the idea of them being staggered more than one large salvo

[chief1983]

It would be very difficult to make a sprite that looks like 8 laser blasts, or even 4 for that matter.  And using a model for that, well that'd eat up other resources then.

[zookeeper]

I'd say the guns should fire in volleys. Meaning that whenever the gun fires, it'd fire all eight barrels in quick succession (in the span of about 1 second), not simultaneously. Naturally the gun would need several seconds (at least five) to recharge between shots.

[chief1983]

I think I'd prefer simultaneous, as I thought it looked fine on the vette, and it doesn't require any extra work.  I could see having two banks though, one for each side of the turret that fire independently.  I think we can do that too but I'm not sure if it would maintain the same target for both or actually fire independently.

[SpardaSon21]

Isn't there a $Burst Shots flag to allow primary-style weapons to fire in staggered bursts instead of all at once?  I'm not sure how much extra work adding that flag in would require though.

[chief1983]

If that's what it does, not much.  We'll look into it if it's what we want.

[AugustusVarius]

I know that TBP uses burst for some capital ship primaries, but I've only ever seen it used on single barrel turrets.  Dunno how it would look on a multi-barrel turret.

[SpardaSon21]

I think TBP actually uses the $Swarm function for those burst weapons.

[AugustusVarius]

Oh.  That makes sense.

Confirmed that there is a $Burst Shots flag for 3.6.11 and up, but considering the fact that 3.6.12 is already out (sort of), that shouldn't be a problem.

[SpardaSon21]

You probably don't want to use $swarm for that anymore.  Check out the new $Burst Shots.  Same results without eating up all the swarm slots (there are only 50)

From this very thread info about $Burst Shots was posted.  I don't know why it was forgotten.

[chief1983]

Cause it was from seven months ago?  (to the day)

We'll definitely look into something like that I think.

[brandx0]

And here we go, another update

[spaceranger]

That's just hot. 

[chief1983]

Was that a rushed render?  It's a little jaggedy along the back.

[brandx0]

A little bit, didn't have the AA set up as high as normal