New Player Ship Released: Animated UFO

[FAD]

A UFO with revolving lights. Ship comes with new weapon, shield and armor. Enjoy!

http://www.xelerus.playmenow.org/index.php?s=mod&id=66

Let me know if it needs anything...

[Yugi]

Woohoo! I gotta try this out...

EDIT:
Hey, that's neat...a bit sore on the eyes, though.
An Asgard deflector? Seems rather low HP for an Asgard device.
Is the weapon a Turbolaser array?
It's very difficult pilot. That's the problem with round ships. The ornage dot helps slightly...

[Giulio Cesare Augusto]

Wow,
I'll try, too.

[FAD]

EDIT:
Hey, that's neat...a bit sore on the eyes, though.
An Asgard deflector? Seems rather low HP for an Asgard device.
Is the weapon a Turbolaser array?
It's very difficult pilot. That's the problem with round ships. The ornage dot helps slightly...

Sore on the eyes? Stop staring at it! Yep, it can be a little distracting but you'll get used to it if you play it long enough.

The Asgard deflector was named after the SG-1 Asgards (Originally named A** Guards) I couldn't think of any name for the shield and after just watching SG-1, I said "Why not call it an Asgard?" Since there's only two level IV shields currently in the game, I figured I'd add another.

The weapon is a Turbolaser array with multi-targeting ability. Kinda neat watching it as it pounds a base while also hitting a nearby enemy vessel.

I discovered in game that the UFO was kinda hard to maneuver so I added the red direction indicator beacon in post pro. It helps and again, you'll get used to it if you play it long enough.

My next animated project will probably have simple blinking lights or animated thruster illumination effects.

[Yugi]

The Asgard deflector was named after the SG-1 Asgards

Yeah, I know

[goat not sheep]

I hope I know which is front.

[Yugi]

I hope I know which is front.

The front is marked by the just-about-visible orange dot.

F50, you should have a warning on the mod for eppileptic people

[goat not sheep]

After some practice, i got the hang of it.

[Dosgamer3]

I think this ship should be built into the game itself as a starting ship, as it is very well balanced. Except for one thing: the weapon is just slightly overpowered in the early game. How about getting rid of the omnidirectional thing, and make it just a powerful turbolaser array?

(I'd mod the mod myself, but I'm still learning how.)

[FAD]

I had originally intended to make that mod a friendly non-player (wandering) ship but in order to easily test the animation, I made it a playership.

You can edit the UFO.xml in Word Pad and in the section "Tri-Turbolaser Cannon" delete the line: omnidirectional= "true"
Then save. That'll remove the omni.

May also want to delete the line: multiTarget= "true"
as well, if you only want a Turbolaser array.

Another option, if you want to keep the weapon as is but make it weaker, edit the line:
damage= "laser:2d4+1"
to: damage= "laser:1d3"
which would still add up to 3-9 combined. Same damage rate as a standard Turbolaser.

[Dosgamer3]

Thanks...I decided to keep it standerd though. Thanks for helping the develpment of my modding career though!