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Tim McSweeney writes:
> a few questions:
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> There is a white rod down the center of the side plasma cannons. Would you
> mind if this was made transparent green? I have an idea for the firing
> effect where a light source is shot down the center of the cannon when
> firing, it needs to be transparent to really work.
That would be okay. I made the rod white only because that's the piece I used
when I actually built the model.
> Does the rear turret catch on the top turret when it flips up? it's hard to
> tell from the Ldraw images.
No. I made sure of that on the real model. It's because I used 1x1 cone
emitters for the rear turret. If they were 1x1 rounds instead, they'd catch.
> Do the lights around the edge and on the top turret flash on and off all the
> time like aircraft lights or do they have a special purpose?
Originally I thought of them as steady-glow formation lights in case there is
a sklunge of tanks, but for the top it's not really practical if the top
turret is turned, which could be a lot of the time. Use them however you think
looks coolest, blinking, pulsing, whatever, if you use them at all.
> What does it look like when it fires? is it a straight beam of energy? a
> ball of light? a short burst like the blasters in star wars?
I had thought more of a combo of a burst/ball, because it's supposed to be
plasma, but use your best judgement as it's not a hill I'll die on. Coolness
is what matters here :)
> What is the firing rate on the different weapons? I was thinking that the
> two main cannons should be fairly slow, and probably out of phase while the
> little turrets fire very rapidly and in phase with one another.
Sounds good. Big guns every 1 or 2 secs, can be out of phase with each other,
or together, as the tank can do either.
Little guns definitely faster, but probably not while a big gun is actually
firing, say a half second gap in little turret firing while a plasma ball
launches. But not a big deal if they end up firing anytime.
> What style pilot do you picture in it?
Preferrably Blacktron I, but if you can't then slip in a space Police I or II
pilot. Third choice is an Explorien pilot. BTW, I use a Spyrius droid as a
crash dummy whenever I test a model... ;-)
Thanks!
-Tom McD.
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| All this animation talk is making me very jealous :) Anyone offer to do my Ice Planet fighter with the turning turret that tilts up and down? (Thanks to John Van, the model will soon have a hose in the right place too!) --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) would (...) with (...) if (...) Of course, that's kind of what I had in mind, it is your model after all. I've made a start on it. I broke the model up into subparts so that I can manipulate and turn them (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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