[starbug]

I have been messing about with the weapons tbm, and always thought why did the vasudans use mainly terran weapons on there capships except for the beams. So i took a little insperation from the Blueplanet pulse weapons and created these.  A vasudan turret and huge turret,  Vasudan Pulse turrets to replace flak and a more vasudan AAAf. Don't know if anyone would be interested in these.




and heres the file for it. These where created within the Blue Planet 2 WiH mod so and thats what i have been testing it in along with the AI in the mod

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[T-Man]

Certainly interested; they look quite good. Nice job!

[Shivan Hunter]

Those pics look a bit pixelated (interlaced?)...

[starbug]

Yeah i don't know what happened to them, they where fine until i scaled them down it photoshop

[Commander Zane]

What ship is that?

[Snail]

What ship is that?

GVC Newet by Oddgrimm.

[starbug]

Snail beat me to it LOL, The Newet is a cool ship, basically its the vasudan version of the Aeolus cruiser

[Droid803]

What's with that horrible pixellation?

[Rodo]

definitely needed.

good work

[Aardwolf]

Could you upload some better-quality images so we can actually tell what we're looking at? Pretty please?

[starbug]

Here are some more screens hope these a better quality than the last. Dunno why that happened? Screens where taken with the AI setting of BALLS OF STEELE, and wow on that setting everything goes crazy!

[Aardwolf]

So your 'huge' turret has a trail, and all of them have large muzzle flashes?

Interesting choice in leaving them green. I suppose it could be justified, if the Terrans and Vasudans are drawing from the same technological base for their weaponry, with only a few relatively superficial changes...

If I were you I'd modify the front of the trail (or the trail as a whole) to better blend with the laser bitmap.

[starbug]

No i have no Huge turrets on that ship, the ones with the trails is the Vaspulse and the other is the bog standard Vasudan turret, the reason its firing like no tomorrow is because i am playing it on BP2 balls of steele, on normal ai captain it fires more like terran turret. i have put a video on you tube to show it of better. Again i am playing using the BP2 ais.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj2fNcW_ZIM

[Aardwolf]

There's an AI profile called "Balls of Steele" ???

I gotta look at those...

Edit: Ok well, I still think the trails could blend in a little better with the laser bitmap. Also, the muzzle flash is cool... although I can't help but think it'd be even cooler if it extended in the direction of fire... though I'm fairly sure that's not yet doable.

* Aardwolf schemes... 

Maybe if the muzzle flash could be set up to use something like the laser renderer... with a directed billboard (like the laser 'bitmap') and an omnidirectional billboard (like the 'glow' / current muzzle flash system)... it might even be doable now with scripting, although it'd probably be slower and kind of hackish.

[Commander Zane]

There's an AI called Little Devil, which has everything at 100%, Balls of Steele is 150%.

Of course, I've asked about it before, I think twice on the discussion thread, and nobody said a word about it.

[Droid803]

Balls of Steele is used in The Blade Itself for when you set your weapons energy to full.
It makes your turrets fire faster.
According to Battuta, that's all its used for.

Little Devil is used for a few other things, such as that Titan destroyer's escorts, which's name I will not mention cause it is a spoiler.

[Snail]

Balls of Steele is used in The Blade Itself for when you set your weapons energy to full.
It makes your turrets fire faster.
According to Battuta, that's all its used for.

I think it's also used in the Gef gauntlet.

[Getter Robo G]

Nice job Starbug!

 

[starbug]

Cheers

Ok well, I still think the trails could blend in a little better with the laser bitmap. Also, the muzzle flash is cool... although I can't help but think it'd be even cooler if it extended in the direction of fire... though I'm fairly sure that's not yet doable.

How would i blend it better, would it be done from the trail part of the table ie.
$Trail:   
   +Start Width:2.0
   +End Width:2.0
   +Start Alpha:1.0
   +End Alpha:   0.0
   +Max Life: 0.2
   +Bitmap:   beam-green2
Would it be one of those i alter to make it blend better?

[Jeryko]

What would be the best way to get these into, say, the retail campaign?  Replacing certain entries in weapons.tbl with these?