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Offline Martinus

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How about the equivalent of the XWing vs. tie/XWA 'sfoil' i.e. a command that activates some kind of ship transformation/animation.

Could also apply to switchable cloak generators (umm on second thoughts this might be more of an engine aspect), deployable weapons, that kind of thing.

 

Offline KillMeNow

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ok simple really turrets on the sides of ships

and mulitple shockwave but ok different angles etc like incoming used ot have never knew how the thing would blow up
ARGHHH

 

Offline Setekh

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Originally posted by venom2506
Oh, yes, I know:
ships and turrets being different pofs. basically, a capital ship pof has no turrets, just docking points for turrets. then you have multiple different turret pofs. In fred, you can attach the turret you want where you want on the ship. That may also allow the barreled turrets to be placed at an angle.
mmh, basically, allow the capships to have more than one working docking point at a time.


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Offline Styxx

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Just to clarify: this is supposed to be about the Freespace Forever project, right?
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Offline wEvil

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Just to clarify: this is supposed to be about the Freespace Forever project, right?

:rolleyes:

 

Offline LtNarol

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Two ideas:

1. Allow for sequencing of explosions so that a ship blows up in a specific way.

2. allow turrets to have a default position other than pointing straight up

 

Offline Sandwich

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How about detail-mapping capabilities? This system is used by a few graphics engines (Unreal and Serious Sam) to make textures look very sharp and detailed close-up by applying a bump-map only when the player is really close to the texture. Very cool effect, and it would be great to see it in a space sim. ;)


More engine-oriented, but definetly - that effect was so awesome the first time I saw it, and every time thereafter... amazing.

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Its a radical idea -

but some kind of vertex-animation tool? Bone based or straight frame-by-frame manipulation.

I.E
Some way of making the sathanas beam pods move in close together like they did in the last FS2 cutscene?


Look to the user-made units in Total Annihilation for a guide to this kind of stuff - I'll never forget the first time I saw a Raptor (mech) walking across the map, swaying slightly from side to side. Or the model animations for the factories opening up, or those super-defense towers deploying to fire (Annihilator, Doomsday Machine). The model animation flexibility in TA was simply awesome.

Also, definetly enhance the whole docking thing. I like that swappable-turrets idea (fits in with the ship customizability idea in the main FsF thread), as well as being able to simply have multiple objects docked together at once.
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Offline phreak

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dunno if this would be considered an engine or a model thing, but multitexturing would be a good addition.
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Offline wEvil

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endjinn .

 

Offline phreak

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true, but i dunno where else it would be used...

<2 second pause>
now that i think of it, the "skybox" is another good example.
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Offline Styxx

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:rolleyes:


I'm too lazy to read through all this nonsense. So sue me. :p
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Offline Nico

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oh yeah, multiple skins in the same pof, too.
but the turret thinguy is something I'm attached to, so I mention it again :ha:
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Offline LtNarol

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ok, now im confused, are we talking about what can be done for FS2 using a new version of PCS or are we talking about a modding program based off of PCS for the FSF engine?

(Im sure this is a really stupid question but i have no clue whats going on around here anymore)

 

Offline phreak

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we are creating a new game with new POF specs, new engine.

or trying to.
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Offline CP5670

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I think we're just thinking of ideas for what the new game's model format should have in it. The stuff would have to be implemented into an engine first, though.

 

Offline Zeronet

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I'm too lazy to read through all this nonsense. So sue me. :p


So true.
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Offline LtNarol

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so dispite the name of this thread, it really has nothing to do with FS2 and is instead about FSF?

 

Offline phreak

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the "FS2= version 2117" was a reference
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Offline Kazan

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ok.. im killing this "turret dock" thingy right now - it's called overheard people. and unreasonable
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