Author Topic: Drones for us "Dweebs" please  (Read 545 times)

Offline Saintaw

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Drones for us "Dweebs" please
« on: January 25, 2000, 08:46:00 AM »
Hello HT,
Would be nice if you could add a couple of flying drones for us to shoot at offline, not talking anything fancy...just circling ones.

That way we would be able to practice offline shooting (ie: measures of distances etc...)

just to avoid us some useless European telephone pricing, if U see what I mean  


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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2000, 09:07:00 AM »
I like this too, but wasn't going to ask. (was afraid of the resource drain - other priorities!) I think it helps with deflection shooting with various gun types. It was a useful addition to BrandW...

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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2000, 11:56:00 PM »
I'm with both of you on this ... I'd like to have the drones, but would rather have the P-38, as well as the code for hardware acceleration of T&L on the 3D card, as well as allowing more than one USB controller, ...  


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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2000, 01:04:00 AM »
I agree with you Gator there are some features that need to be there before that one  

However, I am not a programmer (Best I can do is using VB in Excell...), but putting a plane up there turning in wide circles should take less time of coding then  T&L...



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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2000, 07:56:00 AM »
I bet you're right, Saint, but you're also correct in bringing it up, regardless, so's HTC can add it to their "to do" wish list for when they get bored and are looking for stuff to add ....