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Making Capships

Is there a tutorial out there for making capships, I'm having problems with the turret objects.

hmm let me gess... they firing 90 off their suposed to and the barrels rotate wrongly in relation to its base.

1-get the barrels to be centered at (0,x,0) referential ,x is any variable you want it to be (height) in truespace.

2- the barrels must be pointing up not to front or back

3-when seting up the POF make sure associated submodel is the base and rotationa submodel is the barrels.

4-when sting up further in POF make sure the base rotates at Z axis and the barrels at X axis, further more fill in prorperties for the base only with this text:

$special=subsystem
$fov=180
$name=GunTurret

You can use Model view32 or Kazans tools for this

ah the ex one who wants to add an unoffical thunderbolt from the great wars mod.... i have spies everywhere !

i really should bookmark this thread

http://www.volitionwatch.com/vwbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2755

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I was wondering if you guys would find out, I hope you don't mind.

Thanks for the link, I am begining to understand how the hierarchy works on capships. That will help with my next project........

what next project?

turrets

I have the hierarcy working good, and the model in fs2 fine. My only problem now is that the turrets don´t fire. They are there and destroyable, but will not fire. Is there a specific way to make turrets?

LOL dont evade my question... I meant what ships are you going to convert (dont want to know the authors ).

Well I have the sentri, thunderbolt, frazi, and skyserpent done.
I am working on capships; sunhawk, vorchan, and battlecrab. I will release them to the public assuming I can get the turrets to work. Now if someone could help me with that........

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Originally posted by TheEXone
Well I have the sentri, thunderbolt, frazi, and skyserpent done.
I am working on capships; sunhawk, vorchan, and battlecrab. I will release them to the public assuming I can get the turrets to work. Now if someone could help me with that........

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Well the point of me doing this was to give myself and others more stuff to play with before the next release. Besides the ships I have will probably be of less quality than what TBP can produce considering that thier models are built for freespace2, and mine are conversions.

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Originally posted by TheEXone
Well the point of me doing this was to give myself and others more stuff to play with before the next release. Besides the ships I have will probably be of less quality than what TBP can produce considering that thier models are built for freespace2, and mine are conversions.

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