The Apple Cลre, on Apr 19 2005, 09:04 AM, said:
Have an unfold-to-fire type of thing, and have a secondary weapon that does pretty much nothing. Then you hold down your control key when you want to unfold.
Or you have a different ship with identical stats and a new shan and swap out ships when you want it to unfold (all outfs transfer by NCB/mission, fold/unfold handled by OnFire field in weap).
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not a bad idea, make the secondary thngy called 'combat alert' which runs the unfold animation forwards, and changes out ship, adding a few weapons and stronger defenses (as you are now fully combat-ready) and replace 'comabt alert' with 'stand down from alert' or something, which runs another unfold anim (which will be the reverse of the one to get to battle mode) and then changes you back to other ship.
now i just need to model the Andromeda, all i have is Milkshape though... shudders