Archangel35757

Poison gas is the same as the nohgri weapon stick-- it will just a imminate from a tag on his body and not a weapon. Same as the flamethrower for Boba Fett except I plan to make unique EFX using FumeFX and Afterburn.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131625/octree_partitioning_techniques.php

IG-88 has numerous weapons: poison gas, flamethrower, a retractable dagger spike, rifle, grenades, melee... I feel like I'm forgetting something. ...and of course the Lancer variant has its Lancer (and swoopbike).

The mesh just needs a few finishing touches (…but I still need to make the Lancer variant bits):

I'm resurrecting my IG-88 model... I want to get this in-game with a custom skeleton (based on a CS Biped) and custom animation set... along with all of IG-88's mix of weapons. Would this need a new class? Or can it use Boba Fett's class?

Interesting... http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=49714 http://bulletphysics.org/Bullet/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=166

Suggestion: keep working on integrating Bullet or "Fill-in-blank" physics engine into SP code.

Yeah, those are circuit breakers...

Here's an update on the new console/dashboard:

Ok... so after Googling cockpit layouts for ideas-- I've sketched out these two concepts: I'm planning to go with #2.

Just load up the model and JK2 skeleton then, remove the JK2 specific bones (mostly fingers and facial bones) from the skin modifiers and re-weight the mesh as needed to the bones that carry over into JK3.

So what is your wishlist for Carcass changes? What was the other thing we said needing fixing-- I posted it on here somewhere... maybe bring this up again in the Carcass discussion thread.

@@Raven, yeah, I can look at the Moldy Crow for certain aspects... @@AshuraDX, @@DT85... I'm not liking the new concept I have above... I think I'll ditch the curved dashboard and go with a more trapezoidal shape. But I'm open to any suggestions.

But do you like the curvature on each side of the dashboard? Or do you think it should be more flat/trapezoidal ( given the Raven Claw's hard edge outer mold line design)? Now I'm leaning towards trapezoidal...

So here's what I have so far on the new dashboard concept: I still need to revise all of the display panels...

Could you do the same to have it support static (animated) GLM models (what @@DT85 made possible)?

Ok... so I have a new concept for the dashboard/console and will begin making the changes this evening.

Ok... so this evening I made a quick review of all six episodes to study various cockpit layouts. Below are screenshots of various cockpit elements from each episode. Episode 1: Episode 2: Episode 3: (pay attention and you'll see they recycle Anakin's targeting scope above into Vader's TIE fighter in Ep4... nice idea as this is the forerunner to the TIE fighter). Episode 4: Episode 5: (there's already been plenty of Falcon cockpit console pics posted, so I won't repeat any here. I will add that 3ds Max users can download a full Millenium Falcon & E-Wing cocpkit here: http://scifi3d.com/list.asp?intGenreID=10&intCatID=10 ). Taking this all into account-- one thing I see in my cockpit design that is too reflective of current military tech, is the Multi-Function Displays with the buttons along the sides-- but that is easy to remedy, as well as modifying the shape so that it isn't quite rectangular. But in the screenshots above, I did see: foot pedal controls, various style yokes and grips, various throttles (some not unlike what I have, ref. Anakin's yellow speeder). I don't plan to change the current seat... but I will be conceptualizing changes to the dashboard console. ...so stay tuned.

Laughable-- these look like they're either band-aids or breathe-right nose strips:

Would someone post some good pics of the Endor shuttle cockpit when Han and Chewie are flying it? EDIT: After work today... I will dive thru all 6 Star Wars movies and take screenshots of all the various cockpits for further study.

Quick Update: So I've modeled a concept for the Throttle Quadrant...

Maybe Rich Whitehouse or Gil Grib? Gil is one of the original Raven coders... who works elsewhere now... is he active on jacoders irc? I have his email I can send you.

I think I will follow your suggestion and just go with the lap belt-- that would simplify animations in the cockpit.