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RAYfighter · Last edited by RAYfighter on Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:55 am, edited 1 time in total

Hey all,

SuSE asked me to post the ship roll animation template for 3ds max. It's version 6, so you can open it in both 6, and 7. Short info is written inside the scene. There is also some sample fighter - use it for your reference to place your models correctly before linking them to the animated Dummy.
Make sure your model doesn't run out of the rendering output - I'm using Show Ghosting to check this.
For rendering setup, you should turn Super black on to avoid holes in your rendered ship (RGB 0,0,0 = transparent ingame). Don't antialias against background, too.

Enjoy.
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Phyran · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:15 am Post subject:

roll is evil >___________________>

Assassin2684 · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:22 am Post subject:

I like roll sometimes, it depends which ships its used with.

Purge · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject:

Roll is good for zones with airplanes and spaceships, etc.

Phyran · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject:

Purge · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject:

True, but with practice (like in EG) you can master the gameplay.

Phyran · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject:

Purge · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject:

...The default ships have roll which is also in EG.

Phyran · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject:

well putting aside the default ships which you wont notice enough to hamper your gameplay (or done well enough not to) custom ships i have seen so far hamper gameplay whenever they have roll =_=

Purge · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject:

Lol, indeed.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

if you're looking at your ship while you aim, you're hopeless anyways

Phyran · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject:

Solo Ace · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject:

SuSE feels which direction his ship's going in.
That's how real men do it.

Purge · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject:

I just radar shoot.

RAYfighter · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:29 am Post subject:

My oppinion is that roll looks always cool on any ship. And if you wanna blame roll for your crappy aim, you can always turn it off in options. I could even imagine using roll feature for soldiers and those "shipsets", which are not any airplane nor ship actually.
And what really makes me sad are those shipset maker wannabes who steal some crappy scifi fighter from some starcrack site and put it into those funny tools like EZ image rotator - the result: when you rotate your ship, also the sun runs in circles around the world. You don't have to be graphics God to laff at that

Aside of that since other players' ships does not roll, I decided to save some (reasonable) download size for my upcoming race arena = no rolls. (just imagine it, you and your opponent, fighting for 1st and 2nd place, drifting some long wide turn at a full speed - your racer is excellently banked, while his is just like a pinned bug.. )

Phyran · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:56 am Post subject:

Purge · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:21 pm Post subject:

Or start off with roll on an optional status, and tell your pop to disable it if they want to.

Phyran · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:01 pm Post subject:

RAYfighter · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:48 am Post subject:

Phyran · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:35 am Post subject:

Purge · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:41 am Post subject:

Yes it is.

Smong · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:02 am Post subject:

RAYfighter · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:20 am Post subject: