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Originally posted by uthuan:
**That sounds like a great idea . . . I was just thinking the other day that it would be cool if ev had a reverse thrust control for that very reason! I guess there are quite a few ways to work around such things . . .

Thanks for the idea . . . Keep 'em coming!

HEY Matrix - where the heck are you? Have you been getting my email?

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Every so once in a while. Haven't gotten one in... uh... twelve hours. Yea. I downloaded the client software. I just haven't gotten around to trying it yet. I'll do that at around 10:40 Pacific time.

Matrix

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I'll help beta test this and also with any plot questions that might arise. I happen to have every single episode of Robotech on DVD along with Robotech II: The Setinels movie, and the movies Macross Plus and Macross II: Lovers Again (although the last two don't have anything to do with Robotech).

(edit)Also, regarding fighters: You can have escape ships and mburch made a small plug with a seperating Enterprise. Not sure how you would do that specifically, but you could probably use it that way to switch between mecha.(/edit)

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I'll help beta test this and also with any plot questions that might arise. I happen to have every single episode of Robotech on DVD along with Robotech II: The Setinels movie, and the movies Macross Plus and Macross II: Lovers Again (although the last two don't have anything to do with Robotech).

Well . . . we're still quite-a-ways off from beta testing at this point, but we're still interested in taking on some people that might be able to help come up with some ideas for missions/plot stuff especially if they have as much Robotech background as you seem to have . . . if you're interested please drop me a line . . .

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Also, regarding fighters: You can have escape ships and mburch made a small plug with a seperating Enterprise. Not sure how you would do that specifically, but you could probably use it that way to switch between mecha.

There are one or two ships that we plan to use this feature on . . . ie. - the armored veritech . . . but I'm not sure if the escape ship thing would make it possible to do transformation. I would guess that the plug you are talking about had the saucer section of the enterprise separate if he rear part of the ship got destroyed . . . if it created 2 independent ships that would be something we could use for another ship alltogether . . . (alpha/beta Legios fighter) If this is possible it would be nice to know how to do .

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I'd be willing to think of mission strings and plots. storyline stuff. I probably won't be doing it everyday though. my email is scifi_potatoe122@lycos.com

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Originally posted by uthuan:
**There are one or two ships that we plan to use this feature on . . . ie. - the armored veritech . . . but I'm not sure if the escape ship thing would make it possible to do transformation. I would guess that the plug you are talking about had the saucer section of the enterprise separate if he rear part of the ship got destroyed . . . if it created 2 independent ships that would be something we could use for another ship alltogether . . . (alpha/beta Legios fighter) If this is possible it would be nice to know how to do .

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You can.

Matrix

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You can.

What are you refering to . . . ? the escape ship creating 2 distinct ships? Would it then be possible for the two ships to "re-attach"? What happens to the the non escape ship part when you detach? Does it become a escort?

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can i do the storyline and mission string stuff?

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Originally posted by uthuan:
**What are you refering to . . . ? the escape ship creating 2 distinct ships? Would it then be possible for the two ships to "re-attach"? What happens to the the non escape ship part when you detach? Does it become a escort?

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unfortunately, no. When you use escape ships, the original ship gets gets destroyed. I think, however, that you can make a fighter bay that behaves like the second section. You start by rendering the animation twice. The first rotation is without the first part (ie. the engineering section of the enterprise only), and the second is with both parts (ie. the saucer and engineering sections together), and you set the shan so that the second set is an additional weapon. Next, you make a fighter bay that is the first section alone (the saucer section), and when you launch the figher, the saucer disappears off the sprite. Am I wrong with this assessment?

Matrix

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Well . . . we're still quite-a-ways off from beta testing at this point, but we're still interested in taking on some people that might be able to help come up with some ideas for missions/plot stuff especially if they have as much Robotech background as you seem to have . . . if you're interested please drop me a line . . .**

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I'd love to help. Just email me with whatever you'd like to have me do.

An email is on the way . . . thanks for your interest!

If anyone is interested the Robotech EV site is up . . . . (url="http://"http://home.attbi.com/~evrobotech")here(/url)

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If anyone is interested the Robotech EV site is up . . . . here

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Looking good, ya, not much on there, but thats to be expected.

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Originally posted by ArcAngel Counterstrike:
**Looking good, ya, not much on there, but thats to be expected.

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Thanks ArcAngel . . . things have slowed down a bit due to my need to work on my final projects for school, but I have just posted some more stuff . . . semi-ready for human consumption !

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Just was reading this topic on the Nova board (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum26/HTML/006294.html")http://www.AmbrosiaS...TML/006294.html(/url) and was wondering of any RDF ships in the plug will be big enough for mobile PD mech turrets.

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To accomplish folding and unfolding, you could do some sort of escape ship system:
Problems:
1: No Transition
2: Full Shileds/Armor each time you eject (which would have to be an unlimited number of times, or you counldn't ever change back).
3: When you were abut to die, instread of actually ejecting, you would just refold and be regenerated.
This would simply not be a good choice for this...
Joe

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Originally posted by jdh545:
**To accomplish folding and unfolding, you could do some sort of escape ship system:
Problems:
1: No Transition
2: Full Shileds/Armor each time you eject (which would have to be an unlimited number of times, or you counldn't ever change back).
3: When you were abut to die, instread of actually ejecting, you would just refold and be regenerated.
This would simply not be a good choice for this...
Joe
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Well the armored veritech wouldn't need to go back together, I remember the armor and how it blew apart in pannels when the armor was trashed and it became a normal veritech. Never seen the alpha/beta Legios fighter though. With the armored veritech trashed, I can see escapeing into a normal veritech (with a special explosion for the armored veritech to make it look like the armor is ejected). Then on planet with special bits set to that kind of veritech, you are alowed to buy a refit of armor. changeing your ship back to a armored veritech (like the Starbridge C upgrade)
Not sure carried ships of this kind will work, specialy after ejecting. So they would have to work independently.

Folding and unfolding, you can make a animation of one ship becomeing two whenever it fires it weapons (like the astroid minner) but the two ships will still have the shield and armor of 1 ship, and can't work apart from each other.... Theres no real good way to make one ship into two and back again without loseing a few basic elements.

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Originally posted by ArcAngel Counterstrike:
Just was reading this topic on the Nova boardhttp://www.AmbrosiaS...TML/006294.html and was wondering of any RDF ships in the plug will be big enough for mobile PD mech turrets.

Yes . . . most probably . . . we will be recreating the huge Zentraedi warships as well as several RDF ships ( the ARMD platform and probably several others that are mentioned in the series ). I had been thinking about a outfit that would put non-transformable mecha walking the hulls of these ships . . . look for it to show up at some point . . .

We've been making some progress in actually getting some stuff into the engine and we'll probably be putting up som screenshots early next week . . .

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Originally posted by uthuan:
**Yes . . . most probably . . . we will be recreating the huge Zentraedi warships as well as several RDF ships ( the ARMD platform and probably several others that are mentioned in the series ). I had been thinking about a outfit that would put non-transformable mecha walking the hulls of these ships . . . look for it to show up at some point . . .

We've been making some progress in actually getting some stuff into the engine and we'll probably be putting up som screenshots early next week . . .

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Hey, sorry I haven't been able to get on the hotline recently. My school ends late (the end of June) so I've been really busy working on large final projects, etc. After June, I should be able to chat with you. I'm still interested, just that school's preventing EV work of any kind from being done...

Matrix

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Originally posted by what_is_the_matrix:
**Hey, sorry I haven't been able to get on the hotline recently. My school ends late (the end of June) so I've been really busy working on large final projects, etc. After June, I should be able to chat with you. I'm still interested, just that school's preventing EV work of any kind from being done...

Matrix

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Heya Matrix . . .

No problem . . . I totally understand. Things have sort of been slowed to a crawl as far as robotech things are concerned around here as well . . . Maya has decided that it needs to make my life miserable by not working like it should. Never fear though . . . The class has just ended and I will be on a mission tomorrow to get at least the Veritech (fighter mode) into EV . . . I've been toying around with glows and things of the sort and have finally got something that kinda works . . .

Some screen shots are sure to follow shortly . . .

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Originally posted by uthuan:
**Heya Matrix . . .

No problem . . . I totally understand. Things have sort of been slowed to a crawl as far as robotech things are concerned around here as well . . . Maya has decided that it needs to make my life miserable by not working like it should. Never fear though . . . The class has just ended and I will be on a mission tomorrow to get at least the Veritech (fighter mode) into EV . . . I've been toying around with glows and things of the sort and have finally got something that kinda works . . .

Some screen shots are sure to follow shortly . . .

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cool. talk to you later.

Matrix

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, , , and here it is !

Our first "in-game" shot of a veritech doing it's thing . . .

More is soon to follow . . .

**Matrix if you's out there I need to ask you some questions about some funky stuff that my running light rleDs are doing . . . **

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(This message has been edited by uthuan (edited 06-18-2002).)