I Maek Gatling Lazer Tank!

[Forboding Angel]

Thank you lurker, for helping me get the scripting worked out.

New Evolution RTS Unit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1QJx1veWHM


Sorry about the jerkyness, I for some reason thought it would be a good idea to use fraps, and not close firefox down (had about 15 tabs open). Oops :/ I had a really bad migraine at the time. Wasn't thinking too clearly.

Anyway, this tank just propelled it's way to one of my favorite units, second only to the Cruncher.

[[Krogoth86]]

Eww - pink...

Besides that a nice effect...
Why don't you use the ingame recording function btw? When you do that (preferably in a replay) you don't get those fps collapses as the video is encoded in "real time" even if everything on your screen goes on very slow. I use this to record in high resolutions with things like AA and AF at full - works nice...

[Forboding Angel]

Sorry about the jerkyness, I for some reason thought it would be a good idea to use fraps, and not close firefox down (had about 15 tabs open). Oops :/ I had a really bad migraine at the time. Wasn't thinking too clearly.

For the reading impaired

[[Krogoth86]]

For the reading impaired

Well I understood it in a way that you apologized for not having shut down other programmes while recording with fraps...

[nemppu]

what the duck mate that makes no sense have you any idea how a real gattling gun works????????

[Forboding Angel]

Realism in a fantasy RTS game? SAY IT AIN'T SO!

Yes I am very well aware of how a "Real" gatling gun works. Do I care? No. Does my tank look neato? Yes.

Nuff said

@krogoth
Yar, for some reason on my machine, having firefox open or wings or upspring causes my fps in spring to plummit, however, when I made that vid it was 4am, I had a migraine, and I was vewy vewy tired, so I said screwit.

[nemppu]

Does my tank look neato?

no, seriously, no offense but no it does not. i twould look much MUCH like 200000% cooler if it was spinning rapidly and only the current top barrel would be shooting all the time, just like real gattlings. more than with realism it has to do with looks. looks much better. MUCH BETTER. that all barrels just shooting randomly just looks like shit...stupid, unbelievable, unconsistent, silly, retarded, not cool at all.

[Forboding Angel]

I don't agree. BTW it shoots in a clockwise fashion. Not randomly.

My game, my rules. Lern2imagination

If I cared about realism I would be working on 1944.

As a referance point. THe core hlt in TA is a gatling gun. Does it look cool? Meh, not really. I mean it's neat, but rahter boring.

[smoth]

nice tribute to a classic addon unit.

[Forboding Angel]

nice tribute to a classic addon unit.

Finally, someone catches on

Of Course it could be done much better, but if it was, I wouldn't be using it in evolution which has a style all it's own.

Meh, maybe I will do a proper remake someday. But the HellFire was one of my favorite if not the favorite unit addon for ota.


The Gatling-esque fireing is in line with what I always thought it should look like, so that part is all to imaginative interpetation.

Anyway, nice to know that 1 person in the masses caught onto it

[Forboding Angel]

Updated vid http://youtube.com/watch?v=ujdSDd8K5oI

Weapon color is subject to many changes

[[Krogoth86]]

Well I now always have to think of giving that effect to a vulcan where there are shot numerous ballistic thingies which have a trail just like that laser...

[Forboding Angel]

Well, I still have to add a flare to the barrel tips. But I got lazy last night, so meh.

[kiki]

Barrels? No offense, but it looks like a pizza-table with way too many spokes shooting lazers out of its little toothpick legs. Maybe just thickening the barrels a little bit would make it better. But still a very cool unit. Especially with its scattered effect due to the width of the pizza table and the angle of fire. Spam killer.

[Forboding Angel]

There are quite a few people that would rip out my entrails if I changed the style of evolution (including myself).

I wasn't asking for critiques (course if you want to, knock yourself out), I was just posting it cause the effect is cool. Once again, thanks to Lurker for bigtime helping me sort out the firing.

[rattle]

There are quite a few people that would rip out my entrails if I don't change the style of evolution.

Fixed.

[Forboding Angel]

How about this.

In the future I will refrain from posting anything that I like or found that is neato, in this forum.

That way everyone will be happy, no?

[Peet]

How about this.

In the future I will refrain from posting anything that I like or found that is neato, in this forum.

That way everyone will be happy, no?

That has been pulled so many times before, you should at least baaw in an original manner

[Forboding Angel]

Yar, but mine was a joke I don't really care what people think. I make things primarily for myself, cause I enjoy doing them. Edit: Which sounds a lot more militaristic than it is supposed to. I'm simply saying that I enjoy doing this stuff, and it is primarily for my own enjoyment. Mebbie that makes more sense.

In fact I should make a whole bunch more vids and post them randomly, just to give people something to baw about

Maybe a few more 50 meg maps? That will generally get the kettle boiling

[smoth]

Evolution and nanoblobs were both going for surrealistic units. This is not mean to be realistic.