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[Sparky]

Guys, i'm out of state for the month, and will be back home and at my computer desk starting in May.

AID and nil, thanks as always for handling HDM affairs while I'm away.

I have great ideas for new spaceships for Galaxy Wars and some StarWars craft like the Millenium Falcon. While testing GW with vehicles like the pelican and longsword, I found it boring to be the only one shooting while piloting the craft, or to be sitting in the passenger seats doing nothing. So I'm going to start making vehicles with multiple gunner seats, where you shoot spacecraft turrets as the passenger, rather than sitting there idle during transport. (And handheld weapons are ineffective against spacecraft, for balance purposes.) So you'll be getting some cool new spaceships with rotating passenger-fired gun turrets like on the Millenium Falcon in the StarWars movies. This should give an advantage to spaceships flown by more than one player.

I'll also experiment with some things that should let players walk or move inside moving spaceships, to simulate gravity controls inside the walls. I'll probably start by giving the interiors special materials and enabling "walk on walls" in combination with removing vehicle collision damage. If need be, I'll even add a little attached tram that the player can drive around the inside of the vehicle. Haha! Should be fun to do.

Anyway, so I'm away until the start of May. These vehicles will be in the spare time while I'm not Zeusing of handling other life tasks.

[kiddten]

You cannot have multiple turrets on one vehicle ._.

[{DKW}drk]

thats not true, not if ya dont use CE (thats the best way i know so dont judge)

[kiddten]

No, it is absolutly impossible. One turret will control all the others too. the best you can do is jam another vehicle in the pilot vehicle, and hope it stays in place.

[Sparky]

No, it is absolutly impossible. One turret will control all the others too. the best you can do is jam another vehicle in the pilot vehicle, and make it so that it stays in place.

fixed.

Also, I have yet to experiment, and you know where that usually leads me!

oh yeah that reminds me, i almost forgot to finish working on ai synchronization

[Sparky]

I lurk around the forum, 'cause I'm relatively bored. Anyone wanna lurk with me?

[{DKW}drk]

oh yeah that reminds me, i almost forgot to finish working on ai synchronization

This sounds interesting. :>

[Sparky]

I should be back and available about May 4th or 5th.

My bitmaps and sounds collection is almost done, I just need to visit an ice rink and the beach for ice and sand materials and sounds, respectively. That will take a day, and then editing might get done the same day, then testing another day, maybe... so I estimate the bitmaps and sounds collection to be released by May 7th.

[Sparky]

I'm back and will be available tomorrow, May 3rd.

[Vegerot]

I'm sorry for asking this question. And feel free not to respond (just delete the question (you can do that, right, aren't you a moderator)) if it's too personal. But what do you do for a living? I mean, it seams as though you have a lot of time on your hands. Or are you like a 16 year old kid in high-school or something?

[Nuthead_]

check his profile. hes 21, i think.

[Sparky]

I'm 24 or 25 or 26, depending upon how you calculate these things. I'm the president of my own corporation.

The bitmaps and sounds release will be delayed because I'm waiting to hear back from this manager at an ice rink. If they deny me access to the ice for my purposes or just don't get back to me by tomorrow, I'll use my backup plan A, involving water I froze in the freezer. I've sorted and labeled the raw data images and sound. I tested footsteps once in-game, but didn't touch the image editing yet.

[Amy]

Moderators are yellow or another color, Sparky is not a moderator.

/justsaying

Sparky i can't believe this, that's so awesome what you are doing!

[Vegerot]

Sorry for being SO off topic, but what corporation do you own? I would totally buy something from you (unless your stuff is expensive). And I think Sparky is at the top of my list of should-be-Moderators that aren't moderators.

[Fonzeh]

oh yeah that reminds me, i almost forgot to finish working on ai synchronization

This sounds interesting. :>

Yeah dude godamn lol. Ya want never ending zombie carnage or not?