Fly a Talon home today...

masteroforion · Post by **masteroforion** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:06 am

My cockpit for the Talon is complete now. As soon as its zipped i'll send it to the usual place.
Some suggestions (I could not implement myself due to lack of skill or knowledge about the code) to make the Talon an option for the player at least early on in the game (If that is intended):
- make stock version, that can be equipped with armor - the milspec variant's armor is simply too weak. Reactor 2 / Shield 1 maximum.
- If it's not too much work, make mounts for weapons on the ship's model instead of the fixed graphics...
- change the .cpt-file used from galaxy to talon...

But first some screenshots from the test flight:

masteroforion · Post by **masteroforion** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:08 am

side view

masteroforion · Post by **masteroforion** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:10 am

rear view and the place where to buy the ship:

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:38 am

That kicks mucho ass! Two questions:

(1) Can I use it for WCU too?

(2) Where is the usual place?

*is the kingly princess of being out of the loop due to braindeadness*

Post by **MamiyaOtaru** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 1:03 am

So you already made the .cpt file? Great job! I can tweak from there (getting it to use its own .cpt file instead of the galaxy's for instance). It would be pretty easy to use the custom weapon mounts, I'd just have to chop off the ones that are modelled on. I'd probably only do that for player owned ships..

Spirit, the usual place is the email address

I'll forward when it gets tweaked.

masteroforion · Post by **masteroforion** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 1:04 am

1) sure
2) privater@gmail.com (who exactly gets that mail anyway, I assumed it to be a mailing list)

Post by **MamiyaOtaru** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 1:29 am

hellcat and I use that account.

What is the box on top used for? I can't think of any instruments that don't show up elsewhere. Could use it for the jump indicator or something, though that would give that relatively insignificant instrument quite a prominent place

Maybe afterburner fuel in a hypothetical mod where afterburners used that instead of reactor energy..

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 1:50 am

tays ^_^ i have access to that....

btw, i put the Armada transports up there, for the piarmada folks.

cekuhnen · Post by **cekuhnen** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:10 am

hey

how did you do the cockpit. which software did you use?

claas

CoffeeBot · Post by **CoffeeBot** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:38 am

Nice job, Master. It really seems to mesh with the WC/Privateer setting, as well as having a unique "vintage" look to it, almost like it's made to look like it was designed in the 40s-early 50s.

Can't wait to see it in action.

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:07 am

FRIKKIN AWESOME! </carl>

Makes the Talon reasonably fun to fly and the cockpit visibility is fantastic. Reminds me of a postWW2 italian car, nice, simple, readable.

masteroforion · Post by **masteroforion** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:51 am

I used Blender for 3D and Gimp for the textures and sprites.
The topmost "box" you probably refer to is just the reflection of the "EJECT" sign below on the cockpit "roof".

- and there is one more thing that needs to be fixed: The weapons now fire from too far up, so it looks like the bolts come right out of the cockpit. Threfore they have to be put lower, or the cockpit higher.

Post by **hellcatv** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:56 pm

rumor has it mamiya's gotten the cockpit into CVS

congrats

Gosshawk · Post by **Gosshawk** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:17 am

Does sombody have this cockpit on file?. If so, could you zip and post it?

z30 · Post by **z30** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:29 am

Gosshawk wrote:Does sombody have this cockpit on file?. If so, could you zip and post it?

Ditto - had to use the gladius cockpit for the modified Talon. Looks like the weapon mount coordinates have to be adjusted for the hull.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:42 am

That is Great! Where can i get i? the gladius cockpit does not like me so i don't use it. this fits the ship much more. now some person has to go and make a cockpit for the paradigm or steltek fighter.

z30 · Post by **z30** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:53 am

We need new cockpits & modified ship forms for the variants. It would be neat to see them flying around

micheal_andreas_stahl · Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:52 pm

If i had the tools and the know how i would do it my self.