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Air Transports and Gunships should be Helicopters.

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neddiedrow wrote:
Licho wrote:Or someone could retexture this heli and it could be rapier. I dont see reason why not.
Well, for 1faction or for CA? Because the model is distinctly unlike Logos.
better for CA.there is always a point to start.
(if anyone puts it into 1Faction,good too.)
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what is it now!is the topic not interesting anymore,suddenly?
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There is nothing to be said. If someone wants to make heli for ca, he/she can!
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Noruas wrote:
Licho wrote:In what future? Its more energy efficient to use lift from rotor.
Only problem is radar reflectivity and noise.
Well then you have no idea how top secret helicopters work today... Its been already solved but i decided not to say it.
FAKE AND GAY
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CA is not real life.

i thought about the heli thing again
i found the reason why the vtol┬┤s are moving unrealistic is because they move like planes.or better,planes move like vtol┬┤s.
Zpock has written a non vtol diagonal aircraft take-off and land lua,but it might be only useful in ┬┤44.
imagine BA DSD there would be runways...no way.
so i consider planes HAVE to move like vtol┬┤s in a game.
heli┬┤s...if we just change the model...it might look good at the first glance,but if you look closely,the heli wouldnt tilt forwards and backwards or roll,wouldnt it?

the moving aircraft in general always looks a bit unreal in RTS┬┤s,so we should be able to live with it.
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or they are some crazy sci-fi yet to be made tech...
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smoth wrote:or they are some crazy sci-fi yet to be made tech...
(the planess dont look so futuristic :twisted: )

would look sci-fi when the planes get catapulted in the air from underground by special re-arm buildings, i think.
that s just crazy :mrgreen:
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then make one better or stop bitching.
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ok the planes are using hi-tec.
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srapop wrote:ok the planes are using hi-tec.
i still cant stop laughing. high five

or should i say hi-five
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I like the look of the helicopters from Avatar. They are visually interesting, would be fun to animate (the blades rotate to change the direction) and they LOOK like gunships.
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yeah, they look cool, normal helicopters don't really fit in scifi mod
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Mav wrote:I like the look of the helicopters from Avatar. They are visually interesting, would be fun to animate (the blades rotate to change the direction) and they LOOK like gunships.
avatar_helicopter-580x326.jpg
You mean the Orcas from Command and Conquer?

Seriously _everything_ about Avatar is lifted from the early '90s.
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Is there a big advantage in having 2 rotors positioned like that?
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Gota wrote:Is there a big advantage in having 2 rotors positioned like that?
Doubt it, since the only real-world aircraft with that sort of layout is the Osprey, and it holds them like that for good reason (they become propellors when the wings shift fowards).

I think gamedevs just like that layout because it looks nice and symmetrical, whereas choppers are bizarrely asymmetrical (this also makes them harder to fly)
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This is how it looks like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-22_Osprey
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this gunships from Avatar look so CA.
Gota wrote:Is there a big advantage in having 2 rotors positioned like that?
yeah,there is a bigger stability and the heli doesnt need a back-rotor.
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Pxtl wrote:
Mav wrote:I like the look of the helicopters from Avatar. They are visually interesting, would be fun to animate (the blades rotate to change the direction) and they LOOK like gunships.
avatar_helicopter-580x326.jpg
You mean the Orcas from Command and Conquer?

Seriously _everything_ about Avatar is lifted from the early '90s.
Or maybe, just maybe, there are no new ideas out there. I guarantee I could take your "90's" ideas and find them repeated in 1960s sci fi.

I chose Avatar because it is a high-profile movie that is fresh in most people's minds right now.
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Rotors on side is overdone (and the Osprey reputedly crashes more than Vista, but that's not really relevant to a work of fiction).

Needs moar coaxial.
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coaxial isn't very attractive visually.
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