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Ehherem Eh-her-herherem. Ehem HELLO! Gattling turrets. How?

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:07 pm
by ghhyrd
Ehherem Eh-her-herherem. Ehemeh-her. Eh-herehherem.
Hello.
'Dis one's going out to all ya modellers out there what what!
How would you create a Gattling gun or minigun model for space-plane that is use gattling gun?

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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:38 pm
by Flipside
You need to make the gun itself as a seperate model. Use the Azaes as an example, it's one of mine with twin gatling guns....

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/Azaes.zip

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:32 pm
by ghhyrd
Ooh. Thankyou!

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:33 pm
by ghhyrd
Why is it pakaged into a .VP? I REALLY don't like that file format and it REALLY dosen't like me too much either. Is it like that so I can plop it into my FS2 directory and play? (that isn't working) or is it so that I can extract it and maul it and mess and play around with it until I can create my own veryvery llllaaaarrrgggggee gattling guns?

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:35 pm
by Flipside
The .vp format is the best type for 'drag and drop compatability'.

Remember, you need to allocate Azaes to the mission you are Fredding otherwise they won't be available. Just use VPView to extract the files to ordinary directories and you can look at the .pof and .tbl files then.

Just remember, rotating turrets are different from rotating primaries, and a lot harder to do ;)

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:57 pm
by ghhyrd
Ah ha. It is just that with the VP in the FS2 folder I attempted to FRED a mission involving me flying or just involving an Azaes but it would not show in FRED. What gives?

Wait wait wait. So when you say
Just remember, rotating turrets are different from rotating primaries, and a lot harder to do
Do you mean turrets that rotate to face an object or turrets that do that with rotating barrels?

And I believe that the topic name might have caused some confusion. How do you create Gattling turrets AND Gattling Primaries?

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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:19 pm
by Flipside
Well, the best bet is to put the .vp file in your Mod folder and use a mod.ini file. Check out the details on:-

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Portal:Modding

That's probably your best resource for modding FS2 SCP :)