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Offline gevatter Lars

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How big can it be?
on: August 12, 2002, 12:16:25 pm
How long can the longest ship be?
What can the FS2 engine support?

I am just asking because for the WC Saga mod we need to know it.
Is the Kilrathi DN possible with its 22km or must we reduce its lenght?
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Offline IceFire

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Reply #1 on: August 12, 2002, 12:57:31 pm
The Apocalypse from Machina Terra is about 20km long with no problems.  You shouldn't have to worry.
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Reply #2 on: August 12, 2002, 01:04:50 pm
Thats good to here and I am sure the rest of the WC Fans would also think so.

Thanks for the info
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Reply #3 on: August 13, 2002, 04:47:45 pm
In my opinion, anything over about 15 is stupidly huge. But, my ideas on large ships differ to everyone else's, so ignore me! :)
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How big can it be?
Reply #4 on: August 13, 2002, 05:32:32 pm
158th is working on a vessel we're expecting to end up weighing in at 120-240 klicks in diameter, we may have to make some engine modifications to get it to work though.
 

Offline Raven2001

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Reply #5 on: August 13, 2002, 06:07:22 pm
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Originally posted by Killfrenzy
In my opinion, anything over about 15 is stupidly huge. But, my ideas on large ships differ to everyone else's, so ignore me! :)


Not everyone... for me 10k is enough huge...
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Reply #6 on: August 14, 2002, 03:09:30 am
Well, the Super Star Destroyers (Executor, Eclipse etc...) are about 12-15k so, that's why I accept them. :)
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Offline Nico

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Reply #7 on: August 14, 2002, 05:49:31 am
there's no size limit, I have real life sized planet models, they work fine.
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Reply #8 on: August 14, 2002, 07:09:21 am
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there's no size limit, I have real life sized planet models, they work fine.


:wtf:
I tried this. Its a pain to get them look good once they're textured, even with the reg. fix

P.S. Its not the size that matters, it what you do with it that counts ;)
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Reply #9 on: August 14, 2002, 09:24:54 am
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Originally posted by vyper


:wtf:
I tried this. Its a pain to get them look good once they're textured, even with the reg. fix

P.S. Its not the size that matters, it what you do with it that counts ;)


well, when you do good, if it's big, it's an additional bonus ;)
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Offline IceFire

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How big can it be?
Reply #10 on: August 14, 2002, 09:35:11 am
But planets and a fully armed dreadnought are two different matters.

The Kilrathi Dreadnought is supposed to be a massive  behemoth of a warship.  It was the second ultra big ship ever in a WC game (the first being the Behemoth itself - a big gun! :D).
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Reply #11 on: August 14, 2002, 11:49:54 am
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Originally posted by LtNarol
158th is working on a vessel we're expecting to end up weighing in at 120-240 klicks in diameter, we may have to make some engine modifications to get it to work though.


:eek2:


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Reply #12 on: August 14, 2002, 03:00:55 pm
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the first being the Behemoth itself


Oh THAT sodding thing! :D:D
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Reply #13 on: August 14, 2002, 04:17:16 pm
I had a working 20+ km Shivan superjuggenaut, although I never got round to actually LODing and fully turreting it.
 

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Reply #14 on: August 15, 2002, 05:25:09 am
I got a 120km long ship with a few turrets, works fine too, btw.
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Reply #15 on: August 15, 2002, 05:34:47 am
Amazing...

I actually am stunned and relieved that there is someone more silly than me concerning modding... :nod:

So how do those planets work. Do you crash into them? Are you supposed to look for ships hiding in the polar magnetic fields?

BTW you're on the RT mod team right? EZ board is not letting me register for now, so with the mod basically on vacation can I use you as a point of contact? I have almost 1 gig of voice capture and have some missions done. I am getting back to writting more soon. (If the Borg let me). I can burn them all on CD or ICQ them (Kazaa?)
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Reply #16 on: August 15, 2002, 03:21:51 pm
What's RT?
 

Offline StarGunner

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Reply #17 on: August 15, 2002, 03:42:59 pm
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Originally posted by Killfrenzy
In my opinion, anything over about 15 is stupidly huge. But, my ideas on large ships differ to everyone else's, so ignore me! :)


I'm with you dude I think that would be imposible to fight. but thats just me. Ignore me too.:)
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Reply #18 on: August 15, 2002, 06:28:35 pm
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Amazing...

I actually am stunned and relieved that there is someone more silly than me concerning modding... :nod:

So how do those planets work. Do you crash into them? Are you supposed to look for ships hiding in the polar magnetic fields?

BTW you're on the RT mod team right? EZ board is not letting me register for now, so with the mod basically on vacation can I use you as a point of contact? I have almost 1 gig of voice capture and have some missions done. I am getting back to writting more soon. (If the Borg let me). I can burn them all on CD or ICQ them (Kazaa?)


1) they work fine for what I want to do with them, but I've never tried to crash into them ( would be a bit silly anyway ). Mostly they're background stuff, nothing more. My earth model is quite cool, it uses four 512*512 maps, so I can use it on different agles, for different missions, etc.
2) well, for now, I'm not at home, but you can try with Gortef, he's around at HLP too.
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Reply #19 on: August 15, 2002, 06:29:07 pm
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What's RT?


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