Turret/Weapon Request/Contribution Thread

derekiv · Post by **derekiv** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:57 am

A suicide weapon that blows of a piece (and everything parented to it).
Would work like when it overlaps an enemy ship or its bubble.

Post by **Arcalane** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:01 am

ITT Derek makes a silly suggestion.

But actually that'd probably be simple to juryrig, just make a really really short range weapon that hits friendly ships instead of hostiles and have it hit the section it's on.

TormakSaber · Post by **TormakSaber** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:07 pm

A better thing might be a small module that's like a "detonation Charge" or something, that blow up the section it's on when you use it. Seems like less work in my view, but I've no idea.

Post by **Arcalane** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:48 am

Eh.

In other news;

Now with more pseudospin.

Ed:

Now with more firing animation! And less transparent turret pixels!

T-002 · Post by **T-002** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:33 am

It looks like it's doing a pelvic thrust.

Want. ^^

CheesyErwin · Post by **CheesyErwin** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:56 am

Though I had nothing much new to contribute, but I also want to play a part in this, so I made a "better-looking" version of the vulcan cannon:

Firing Animation:

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:33 am

I'd like to throw in a request for a Freespace 2 style beam animation. I'd do it myself but I'm not exactly sure how beam sprites are supposed to work.

Kanosint · Post by **Kanosint** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:59 am

Eeeeh, link to what a Freespace 2 Beam animation is? ^^;

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:36 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMa3LXe6oVc

Here we go. These are for the upgrade project but you get the general idea.

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:45 am

Kazuael wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMa3LXe6oVc

Here we go. These are for the upgrade project but you get the general idea.

I could never put my finger on what would be cool as far as beams for BSFCE would be... now I know ^.^.

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:57 am

I'm rather fond of Bobboau's LRed animation myself, though personally I think a lot of the oomph behind the beams comes from the sound. BSF's standard beam sound effect is kinda just a dull "chwoo" and it's not particularly powerful sounding.

Kanosint · Post by **Kanosint** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:21 am

I like the first part, but the 'power down' seems kinda silly... But yeah, hmmm, especially a charge-up would be great...

Danny420Dale · Post by **Danny420Dale** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:40 am

Arcalane wrote:Ed: R. Arty and the two tacnuke redesigns;

How's this?

TormakSaber · Post by **TormakSaber** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:46 pm

Without the side roundy bits, the pentagon bit at the rear looks a bit awkward.

Post by **Arcalane** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:15 pm

Kazuael wrote:I'd like to throw in a request for a Freespace 2 style beam animation. I'd do it myself but I'm not exactly sure how beam sprites are supposed to work.

We'd have to recode BSF to support pre-fire animation if you wanted 'charge up' at the moment. As it is, animating the beam itself probably wouldn't be too hard, it's just a tiled sprite with a seperate alpha.

Ed: You could probably animate the flare too but I dunno how well that would work.

The TwinBeam actually uses a generic beam firing noise from FS2.