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Capital ship lasers

Jonathan_S47

Jonathan_S47

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Do to a technical difficulty I had with my laptop I was unable to do any modeling yesterday and got board. So I started playing with Lightspeed’s and DaBrain’s weapon effects. :biggrin1:
The Shiven turret lasers still need a bit more work on them.

Note: I am using Raptor’s upguned Orion so it’s using the “Triple Terran Huge” It uses the same effect I have for the Terran Huge Turret.
 
Yeah... I wish they had trails, and fired a wee bit faster, too... but yes... the plasma turrets pwn.
I prefer them to beams. And they can be just as deadly on insane...
 
Ever heard of the Capital Ship Turret Upgrade? Makes turret lasers much more lethal.

I'll find the link somewhere...
 
I once tried putting 3 beams on one of raptor's turrets, and it didn't work. i even used beam-free-all and waypoints, and nothing. too many?

man, it would have kicked so much ass. :(
 
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Triple turrets such as the Orion's main turrets don't allow beams for odd reasons. It's just the way the game works - there's no way around it, far as I know.
 
From :V: Orion ship entry:

$Subsystem: Turret01a, 1.875, 3.0
$Default PBanks: ( "BGreen" )

Basically you can have a beam cannon on those turrets but it has to be the only weapon on that turret or it will not work.
 
The Orion's Turret 1 is the exception. It shows the same model, but it doesn't have the same triple-Primary Bank capacity as the other main turrets. That turret was probably intended by :V: to become a forward-hitting turret for the Orion to give it some modern firepower for Freespace 2.

The other turrets are labeled as having three Primary banks: all of them Terran Huge Turrets.
 
I know, I was pointing out that if you delete those other two primary entries you can then make a beam cannon work on those turrets.

Anyway, back on topic. A Lilith has a dual with a Fenris.
 
Of course the lilith.... or i would think...the fenris is too lightly armored to win in an engagement against anything other than a fighter or a cain.
 
No... the fighter would own it so easily :p A Fenris might last in a battle against a cargo container. Even then, it would have to take evasive action and put extra power into the weapons and the life support in the very event that the container somehow moves and tears the side open with a light tap.

I'm not saying this because I don't like the Fenris, not at all. :p
 
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Hey, don’t dis the Fenris! The Lilith had to call in reinforcements to deal with it.

Ok, all 3 ships are set to invulnerable. :p I did that because the Fenris would aim strait for the weapon subsystem on the ships. They couldn’t hit an Orion when the weapons system is out.

The Rakshasa is using the Shivan Megafunk Turret.

Edit: Update. Here ya guys go. It includes table entries for both FS2 normal tables as well as Sandwich’s upgraded turret entries.

EDIT: old file removed. Let me know if you want something from it.
 
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Brushing up on my Necromancy.

I wasn’t really satisfied with the Shiven Megafunk turret but I couldn’t work out anything that looked better. Then when I was taking a brake from homework this weekend I found out about Lightspeed’s weapon FX dump on his site.

Which of these do you think looks better?
 
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