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Da_orky_alchemist
Light Infantry


Joined: 04 Jan 2003
Location: States

PostPosted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 6:53 am    Post subject:  Aircraft Questions: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

A few things I was pondering...

1) why cant I make railguns work on my Orcas! Is it the particle effect?

2) can you add a turret to an aircraft? ie: if I wanted to add the vulcan cannon turret to the back of an orca transport, could I do it?

3) can I make an aircraft deploy into something? what Id realy like is a "security vehicle" that you can deploy and looks like a hovering Orca transport with spotlights... Hell I want spotlights on anything! tanks, Infantry, whatever, can you do that without seploying?

I think thats all... thanks...

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Banshee
Supreme Banshee


Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam)
Joined: 15 Aug 2002
Location: Brazil

PostPosted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 7:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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1) why cant I make railguns work on my Orcas! Is it the particle effect?


- Never tried that before. What happens when you order the Orca to fire railgun?

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2) can you add a turret to an aircraft? ie: if I wanted to add the vulcan cannon turret to the back of an orca transport, could I do it?


- Also never tried, yet I've heard rumours that the game just doesnt accept it.

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3) can I make an aircraft deploy into something? what Id realy like is a "security vehicle" that you can deploy and looks like a hovering Orca transport with spotlights... Hell I want spotlights on anything! tanks, Infantry, whatever, can you do that without seploying?


- I dont think so...

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Da_orky_alchemist
Light Infantry


Joined: 04 Jan 2003
Location: States

PostPosted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Railgun on an orca or jumptrooper if he's in the air pulls up an error of some sort and crashes the game. Im guessing its because of the particles. When the Ghost or Mammoth fires a railgun the unit comesa to a complete and total stop, fires, then once the shot has finished, resumes movement. What I think happens is since the tag "israilgun" or whatever is set to yes, the computer calculates how many damagable things are touching the line from ship to target and dispenses damage. But aircraft/jumptroopers bob and sort of wiggle when they fire, so it has to recalculate the damagable units, which the engine says is a big no no. But now that I realy think about it, making the weapon not a rail gun ie: it ONLY damages the target not everything in the path would be A-OK for an aircraft shooting down at something since the idea is to make it an a-10ish tank hunter, one good shot from above and boom. Twisted Evil railgun shooting orca may have found its solution...

For the turret, Im HORRIBLE with anything but rules.ini, the other ones are a bit cooky for me. What I have traditionaly done is make a tweak of an Orca Transport with bomblet and bomblet (I use a special one, it airbursts and breaks into five submunitions, very good effect) and thought adding an AA turret to its back would 1) distinguish it 2) make it a somewhat more effective bomber, since I dream of dogfights one day...

no deploy eh? well thats cool, I just LOVE that spotlight effect and kinda wish you could add it to units, but alas I dont think you can...

some more:

What tells the AI to distinguish between a strafing and a shuffle weapon? Id like to make an Orca FIghter with a Vulcan Cannon that strafes Infantry, but every attempt ti just bobs there and shoots, thats not what I want! If you give it the Banshee weapon then it strafes, but I want a vulcan!

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curlupanddie
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Joined: 01 Jan 2003
Location: USA

PostPosted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

for the vulcan thing, try copying the banshee shot, then replace the model, sound and impact with the vulcan things.

about ur little railgun thing on aircraft. what lazers can i put on aircraft?

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Banshee
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Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam)
Joined: 15 Aug 2002
Location: Brazil

PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Mate... check the research related to it. All 3 initial questions were sucessfully replied.

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Da_orky_alchemist
Light Infantry


Joined: 04 Jan 2003
Location: States

PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I havent tried Lasers yet, though Id assume they work fine so long as there is no ambient damage, have you tried yet? If they crash the game as is I'll take a look

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TS
Energy Commando


Joined: 23 Aug 2002
Location: California

PostPosted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 12:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Air planes with lasers work just fine, it wont crash.

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Banshee
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Also Known As: banshee_revora (Steam)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 2:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

PPM has some aircrafts with Laser working very well.

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hellfire
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Joined: 09 Jan 2003
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Could some one point me in the direction of the deploy aircraft reaserch I have always wanted an arial command center.

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Banshee
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2003 2:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread


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hellfire
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2003 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Thanks.

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