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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Enker on August 11, 2009, 12:02:53 AM
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Not sure if this is the right forum to post this, but as it is user-created, I think this is right. I have made an X-wing gunsight, it looks like the gunsight seen in A New Hope, and though it may not look as nice, it looks pretty similar to what I remember.
(http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/oo280/Enker_photo/Xwing.jpg)
If I can get more material, I might attempt a TIE fighter gunsight...I hope.
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Put a dot in the middle of it, and it'll be my new in-game gunsight.
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Use that sight and change your 20mm hispano sounds to the turbo lasers from Star Wars and you're all set. :)
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Put a dot in the middle of it, and it'll be my new in-game gunsight.
Do you want it to be a two by two pixel dot or something bigger?
Here you go, but I can make the dot bigger if need be.
(http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/oo280/Enker_photo/Xwingwithdot.jpg)
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Use that sight and change your 20mm hispano sounds to the turbo lasers from Star Wars and you're all set. :)
IIRC VansCrew set his .50 caliber sounds to the Star Wars lasers. It was friggin hilarious!
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Use that sight and change your 20mm hispano sounds to the turbo lasers from Star Wars and you're all set. :)
Bwahahahhahahha! First coffee stains on my new monitor- thanks Soul!
Now, what AH fighter would be the X-Wing? Typhie or some version of the Spit? FWIW in the '38, I always felt a little bit like a Y-wing, I guess because of the twin booms.
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Bwahahahhahahha! First coffee stains on my new monitor- thanks Soul!
Now, what AH fighter would be the X-Wing? Typhie or some version of the Spit? FWIW in the '38, I always felt a little bit like a Y-wing, I guess because of the twin booms.
Aye, I use it as the gunsight in the 38s, my P-51B (X-wing, it's fast, not as maneuverable, and has four guns.), the Yak, and the F4Us.
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Thanks Enker, That's probably gonna be my F4U and P-51 gunsight.
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Gents, if you move your head position almost all the way forward (in a 38J or L), it looks like the inside cockpit of an X-Wing..... :rock
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Ok, does anyone have a good image of the Tie Fighter's gunsight from ANH? All my Star Wars movies are still on VHS and Google is not being my friend. Higher definition is preferable, or at least above 200px X 200px.
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IIRC VansCrew set his .50 caliber sounds to the Star Wars lasers. It was friggin hilarious!
whered he get such a soundpack? did he make his own?
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Personally, I always use the Force..... :D
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Bwahahahhahahha! First coffee stains on my new monitor- thanks Soul!
Now, what AH fighter would be the X-Wing? Typhie or some version of the Spit? FWIW in the '38, I always felt a little bit like a Y-wing, I guess because of the twin booms.
X-wing = speed, durability, A2G capability = Typhoon or P-51B (P-51D has too great of a Rate of Fire)
Y-wing = P-38
TIE fighter = A6M Zero
I wouldn't mind having the Star Wars laser and/or cannon effects as sound files, either. :lol
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so how do I add this one to my gunsights?
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A true Jedi wouldn't use a Gunsight.
Let go of your feelings...
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so how do I add this one to my gunsights?
You should save it as a .bmp, rather than a .jpg, photobucket doesn't do .bmps, as far as I know. Then, you put the gunsight into the sights folder inside your Aces High folder. If it doesn't work right, I'll put a copy up on imageshack.
X-wing = speed, durability, A2G capability = Typhoon or P-51B (P-51D has too great of a Rate of Fire)
Y-wing = P-38 But they Y-wing is fairly slow though, I would have put it with the A-20/Boston III
TIE fighter = A6M Zero The TIE may be manuverable, like the Zero, but it should be deadly. I was thinking Spitfire deadly.
I wouldn't mind having the Star Wars laser and/or cannon effects as sound files, either. :lol
Now, Motley, what about those of us who know mitichlorians are BS?
I would hope that some snapshot, we will get a specially designed terrain, with the default skins for some planes being painted to look like X-wings and whatnot, and a special soundpack with the engine and laser sounds. I wonder how hard it could be? I guess I'll have to wait for the new Terrain Editor to find out.
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From what I remember playing Rebel Squadron, TIE fighters were maneuverable, lightly armored and moderately fast.... I don't remember anything special about their firepower.
I would say TIE Fighters are Zeke's and TIE Interceptors are Spitfires :)
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From what I remember playing Rebel Squadron, TIE fighters were maneuverable, lightly armored and moderately fast.... I don't remember anything special about their firepower.
I would say TIE Fighters are Zeke's and TIE Interceptors are Spitfires :)
Well, the TIE Fighters were supposed to be deadly to old junkers, such as the Koensayr Y-Wing, which was relatively slow yet had a powerful armament. The TIE fighters were manueverable and, having two fairly high powered lasers, though they did have a fairly limited power supply, made mincemeat of the Y-Wings. Thus, I vote the TIE fighter to be the Spitfire V due to it's lack of cannon ammo.
The TIE Interceptor however was faster, more heavily armed with four wingtip blaster cannons and two chin laser cannons, more manuverable thanks to the its new twin ion engines with advanced ion-stream projectors (think thrust vectoring), and a redesign of its solar panel array to provide more energy to power the new parts. Due to this, I vote for the Spitfire XIV to be the TIE interceptor, as it is just as flimsy as the other Spitfires.
Sidenote, the above is pretty much a shortened copy paste from Wookiepedia and the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, a book on Star Wars craft. Also, I'm going off of the movies' footage, as what happens in the movies is considered to be the ultimate truth among both Star Wars fans and Star Wars game developers, though the developers would like to create a game, rather than a slaughterfest.
Also, in Rogue Squadron, not only did they turn down the lethality of the enemy lasers as a gameplay mechanic, the X-Wing is sturdier than its size would suggest.
Opinions are fun!
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This is what the computer gunsights on the X-Wings used.
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/6/66/XwingTargetingComp.jpg/800px-XwingTargetingComp.jpg)
And this is the one used on the Tie Interceptor.
(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/c/ca/TIE_target_FF7.jpg/800px-TIE_target_FF7.jpg)
The sight you made I believe was the sight that was used on the old Star Wars arcade game from the '80s.
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NERDS!!!!! The lot of you, NERDS!!!!
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Actually, I don't think the X-wing had a gunsight, because of automatic targeting systems.
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Actually, I don't think the X-wing had a gunsight, because of automatic targeting systems.
It wasn't so much a gunsight, but rather a ship to ship targeting system. The targeting system told you whether or not your lasers would hit your target. Or, at least as far as I could tell.
The sight you made I believe was the sight that was used on the old Star Wars arcade game from the '80s.
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Thanks for the TIE Fighter image AKAK, running Photoshop and WMP playing Star Wars with its resource gobbling DRM does not work well on my 2003 computer.
Screen captures from the Star Wars DVD collection that I didn't know we had.
(http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/oo280/Enker_photo/wmplayer2009-08-2115-49-15-39.jpg)
(http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/oo280/Enker_photo/wmplayer2009-08-2115-49-11-31.jpg)
I made the gunsight before I had anything to reference it, so I made it look like I remember it to. I think I like my sight more than the one in the movie.
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yeah enker if you could do that, it'd be much appreciated :aok
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This is what the computer gunsights on the X-Wings used.
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/6/66/XwingTargetingComp.jpg/800px-XwingTargetingComp.jpg)
I'm pretty sure that's just the A2G sight. The A2A had 4 triangles in the corners.
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yeah enker if you could do that, it'd be much appreciated :aok
Here you go, I think .PNGs work as gunsights.
(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8138/xwing.png)
(http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/7219/xwingwithdot.png)
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Thanks Enker :aok
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The X-wing series of games had gunsights....
(http://thunderkeys.net/images/emu/xwing.png)
In ANH, they have shot on the inside of Vader's cockpit and it actually shows the laser canons tracking the target while the cockpit is stationary..
It would've been pointless to use this element in the games.. If anyone remembers playing them, it was extremely difficult it hit anything with the
laser cannons in the X-Wing series unless you were in a Corellian Transport (like the Millennium Falcon) that had auto gun support.. You could either lock
the ventral and dorsal turrets to fire forward, or you could have them operate independently.. Man, I miss those games..... :cry
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This is what the computer gunsights on the X-Wings used.
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/6/66/XwingTargetingComp.jpg/800px-XwingTargetingComp.jpg)
And this is the one used on the Tie Interceptor.
(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/c/ca/TIE_target_FF7.jpg/800px-TIE_target_FF7.jpg)
The sight you made I believe was the sight that was used on the old Star Wars arcade game from the '80s.
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Can somebody please make one from the TIE Interceptor? I think that's even better.
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Can somebody please make one from the TIE Interceptor? I think that's even better.
(http://home.comcast.net/~novelisteye/TIEFighter.bmp)
Hereya go. :salute
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(http://home.comcast.net/~novelisteye/TIEFighter.bmp)
Hereya go. :salute
WTG. Thanks man. :salute
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Sweet! thanks too AKP! I'm also loving my X-wing one so this one should be interesting :devil
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If anyone remembers playing them, it was extremely difficult it hit anything with the
laser cannons in the X-Wing series unless you were in a Corellian Transport (like the Millennium Falcon) that had auto gun support.. You could either lock
the ventral and dorsal turrets to fire forward, or you could have them operate independently.. Man, I miss those games..... :cry
I remember those games, loved em. But I don't remember it actually being difficult to hit anything. Just lead your target - just like in AH :lol. The original X-Wing was the first game I ever had to shoot lead in. I was 6 years old at the time so I often find it amazing that people don't realize you have to lead your target...