[Colonol Dekker]

Whatever happened to your solaris?


I want it please

 
 
I think the link in your dump thread is all broke and ting.

[Nx]

Whatever happened to your solaris?


I want it please

 
 
I think the link in your dump thread is all broke and ting.

Yes, most are down, but the three links at the top containing everything work.

[starwolf1991]

Anything new on the Astreus, Nx? 

[Nx]

Sorry for the lack of updates, but there's nothing really interesting. I've decided to remap it again because the previous mapping wasn't giving me enough resolution, so I'm struggling with that now.

I'll use a 4096x2048 map (that can be split into two 2048^2 if needed), plus probably a 1024 one for the hangar bay.

Because the Astraeus is meant for ship-to-ship combat, the hangar bay is normally protected by an armored door.



This opens up to reveal the bay:



The 18 white tubes on the sides are docking points, used for additional fighter storage and quick launching.

I also made a video of the animation. SCP supports this kind of animation now, right?

[Woolie Wool]

SCP only supports rotation, not translation. Unless your door folds in or out it won't work.

Also this is amazing, although I think it would be better as a corvette.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Oh wow, looks nice. But yeah, FSO doesn't support it (yet)...

[Mongoose]

I know I've heard of some way to fake translation via invisible rotating submodel objects, but I don't know if that'd have a chance of working for something as complex as that door.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

I know I've heard of some way to fake translation via invisible rotating submodel objects, but I don't know if that'd have a chance of working for something as complex as that door.

Yes, but FSO doesn't support more than four (IIRC) levels of hierarchy. Vasudan Admiral ran into that when he tried to make turret recoil. So if that door would be single-part, it would work; but a multi-part sliding door is too much for the code to handle.

Unless you use the very-large-rotation-radius hack, of course...

EDIT: Or if you make the individual door panels children of the main hull, instead of each other. That oughta work.

[starwolf1991]

Its great to see the Astreus is still alive and kicking. I've been hoping this much for ages  

Looking forward to eventually seeing it finished

[Nx]

I know I've heard of some way to fake translation via invisible rotating submodel objects, but I don't know if that'd have a chance of working for something as complex as that door.

Yes, but FSO doesn't support more than four (IIRC) levels of hierarchy. Vasudan Admiral ran into that when he tried to make turret recoil. So if that door would be single-part, it would work; but a multi-part sliding door is too much for the code to handle.

Unless you use the very-large-rotation-radius hack, of course...

EDIT: Or if you make the individual door panels children of the main hull, instead of each other. That oughta work.

To make animating it easier I made each door panel the child of the one above it, so that alone would be a problem for FS2. But that also made the animation a bit jerky. I thought translation was already supported, oh well, the rotation hack works pretty well (I assume the center point has to be within the bounding box of the ship): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhpIdfpH21A
The first animation is the one using rotation, the second one is using sliding. The bottom two panels don't align nicely, but otherwise it's acceptable.

[starwolf1991]

Any recent developments regarding the Astreus since your last post, Nx?

[PeterX]

I know I've heard of some way to fake translation via invisible rotating submodel objects, but I don't know if that'd have a chance of working for something as complex as that door.

If the grabpoint of these submodels far enough then the translation can be faked via rotation..i think .
I did the same in a railsim named as Rule the Rail. But in a pof I don´t know yet.
Peter

[Rodo]

Your UV'ing skills make me jealous.

[Colonol Dekker]

Where's it UV mapped?

[Rodo]

Sorry for the lack of updates, but there's nothing really interesting. I've decided to remap it again because the previous mapping wasn't giving me enough resolution, so I'm struggling with that now.

There.

[Colonol Dekker]

Cheers twinkle

[Nx]

It's alive, it's ALIIIVEEE!!

(edit: fighter bay paths are screwed up, that's why you don't see the exiting fighter, it's inside the ship)

[Snail]

That is extremely awesome.

[The E]

Wow. That is, in fact, awesome as hell.

[General Battuta]

Holy ****!