Totally agree, we will get so much more beautiful and powerful turrets out of it.
I never got into that mindset and I am SO GLAD I avoided it like the plague.
paint dot net is great. it does everything except for pressure sensitivity. lol.Testing continues, i was hoping to release the refitted edition of the Manticore pretty soon but:
a) there are still a few small errors in the ship
b) i am still not sure on the amount of mass enhancers it actually needs.
c) the rail system needs a few tweaks, i get massive lag and framerate drops when the AI in the turret activates to fight pirates
d) in 10+ attempts not a single ship spawned without massive errors (mostly docking errors: missing turrets, turrets docked at the wrong spot,...)
On other news, i heard a lot of good things about paint.net... wanted to give it a try:
(got the inspiration to do a stat sheet from Thalanor )
so the only thing that swivels up and down is the camera? That's cool, might do that on my destroyerStill trying to solve problems with the blueprints...
Firestorm heavy missile turrets A4 - most of what can be seen is the base part, the little protruding spire in the very middle with the camera is the only part of the barrel that can be seen.
I did not got too fancy as i wanted to preserve the look of the ship.
yes, if you are going to implement this you need to be aware of the weapon output (in this case it is situated just below the camera), it can be a little bit tricky with the collision and firing arcs (you somehow need more free space behind for the missile not to hit the base/ship - i hope that makes some sense
otherwise happy testing)
Argh. That happened to me: a BP with tons of complex turrets would crash on load and continue crashing the sector for a while. Then the turrets would be messed. I solved it by taking another BP of the original. You'd think it wouldn't have made a difference but it did.ah damn it... i did forget to leave out step (a2) Null Pointer Exception
