[DaBrain]

I have an idea for a cooler Rocketlaunch Effect.
It´s nothing big, but it would sure look better...

The Rockets got the same Engine as all the fighters do, right ?

Why dont have them activated their Aferburners when they are launched ?
With the standart Engine Effects it´s propably sensless, but with the new ones...


Uh my english is quite bad

[Turnsky]

hmm.. first off.. i'll let the others give the welcome blog

but..

[karajorma]

Using the afterburner effect rather than the standard one would make sense actually. Shouldn't be that hard to achieve either (unless FS2's horrible coding causes problems).

[DaBrain]

I think 2-3 Seconds after the lauch are enough.


I would even do it myself, but I´m kinda limited to Turbo Pascal

[Nuke]

id like a flag that adds your ship's speed to the missile's speed, so you can divebomb

[Unknown Target]

How can you divebomb in space? There's no up or down

[Nuke]

why the f*** does everyone around here be so technical! i am refering to the down that is 90 of the plane that is prependicular to the vector of your ship as it moves twards the capship, you can call this down. increasing your downward velocity dtards this plane constitutes diveing, releasing a bomb during this procedure constitutes diveboming. so there!

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
How can you divebomb in space? There's no up or down

Snipes : DIVE, DIVE, DIVE. HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!

UT : There's no up or down in space. How can I dive.

SPLAT!

Shivans get out the bug scrappers to remove UT's carcass from the front of their sathanas.

[Flaser]

IIRC this already worked with the Helios.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Nuke
why the f*** does everyone around here be so technical! i am refering to the down that is 90 of the plane that is prependicular to the vector of your ship as it moves twards the capship, you can call this down. increasing your downward velocity dtards this plane constitutes diveing, releasing a bomb during this procedure constitutes diveboming. so there!

If there's no down, you can't have a downward velocity

[Flipside]

Well, for me, down is what happens when you push 'up' on the joystick

[Black Wolf]

What happens if you push up and 7 at the same time?

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Nuke
id like a flag that adds your ship's speed to the missile's speed, so you can divebomb

you need to play more instead of making requests that were implemented even in FS_retail

This happens already, for every weapon.

[Nuke]

so how come when you hit the burners on my ancients fighter and it hits about 500 m/s, why do all my shots and missiles lag behind. from my observations, what you discribe doesnt happen.

[Unknown Target]

Because you're missiles' top speeds are too slow. It boosts, then immediately slows down

[gevatter Lars]

What about giving missiles a real afterburner?
Don't know how you do or if missiles can have an afterburner, but I had ones...a long long time ago....an idea of a drone/bomblike thing that has no engine, just a short, but powerfull afterburner combined with a kamikaze action.
Gives a quite funny looking flightpath.

Back to the topic...lets say we have a rocket, add an afterburner that starts itself one second after the lunch and then burns till the impact?

[Carl]

because that would be the same as an engine only faster and yellow.

[pyro-manic]

Would be good for long-range stuff like the Treb, I suppose - they launch really slowly (like 50m/s or something), and then the burner boosts them up to cruising speed. Means they're bloody awful up close, but deadly at extreme range.

Or something.

[magatsu1]

Originally posted by karajorma
unless FS2's horrible coding causes problems.

now you're just being cynical.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by aldo_14

If there's no down, you can't have a downward velocity

"THE ENEMY'S GATE IS DOWN!"

Its not that difficult to remember. What do they teach you kids in the Battle Room these days?