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A suicide weapon that blows of a piece (and everything parented to it).
Would work like when it overlaps an enemy ship or its bubble.

ITT Derek makes a silly suggestion.

But actually that'd probably be simple to juryrig, just make a really really short range weapon that hits friendly ships instead of hostiles and have it hit the section it's on.

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A better thing might be a small module that's like a "detonation Charge" or something, that blow up the section it's on when you use it. Seems like less work in my view, but I've no idea.

Eh.

In other news;


Now with more pseudospin.

Ed:


Now with more firing animation! And less transparent turret pixels!

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It looks like it's doing a pelvic thrust.

Want. ^^

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Though I had nothing much new to contribute, but I also want to play a part in this, so I made a "better-looking" version of the vulcan cannon:





Firing Animation:

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I'd like to throw in a request for a Freespace 2 style beam animation. I'd do it myself but I'm not exactly sure how beam sprites are supposed to work.

Eeeeh, link to what a Freespace 2 Beam animation is? ^^;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMa3LXe6oVc

Here we go. These are for the upgrade project but you get the general idea.

I could never put my finger on what would be cool as far as beams for BSFCE would be... now I know ^.^.

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I'm rather fond of Bobboau's LRed animation myself, though personally I think a lot of the oomph behind the beams comes from the sound. BSF's standard beam sound effect is kinda just a dull "chwoo" and it's not particularly powerful sounding.

I like the first part, but the 'power down' seems kinda silly... But yeah, hmmm, especially a charge-up would be great...

How's this?

Without the side roundy bits, the pentagon bit at the rear looks a bit awkward.

We'd have to recode BSF to support pre-fire animation if you wanted 'charge up' at the moment. As it is, animating the beam itself probably wouldn't be too hard, it's just a tiled sprite with a seperate alpha.

Ed: You could probably animate the flare too but I dunno how well that would work.

The TwinBeam actually uses a generic beam firing noise from FS2.

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