Ecl barracuda gunboat released!

[Asmodeus 0]

ECL Barracuda Gunboat Released!  2-22-03

After months of work, our Barracuda Gunboat is finally released!  

Description of the gunboat:

A large, heavily armed and armored Gunboat.  It has full weapons capabilities against all Air, Armored and soft targets as well as an animated floating mine deployment device!  With a top speed of 105+ it also holds a total of 19 people including the crew, plus a large amount of weapons and ammo!!  It's also fully compatibale with our TAAB addon!  E-mail webmaster@everoncartel.com with any questions about the boat (after you've read the readme) or go to our forums!

Details:

High Cargo Capacity (16 + 3 man Crew)

High Camoflauge Value

High Speed Capability (105+)

Custom Animation for mine deployment device

Working floating Mines!

Agressive threat modeling

Custom Engine Sound

2 types of ammo for main gun (ZSU cannon and .50 cal MG)

Gunner is well protected

Detailed Commander View

Ability to carry large weapon loadout (comes with East weapons inside)

"Gatling gun" barrel style and effects

Does not move well on land (like it should be, it's a boat!

Go to http://www.everoncartel.com/news.htm and click on the links provided there to download it!  (It's 1.99 MB)  

An important thing to note is the readme and example mission included in the zip.  There is a small command necessary in an init.sqs for the mine function of the boats to work correctly.  There are more details in the readme.

Now go have some sea battles!  

Asmodeus

P.S.  Here's a pic.  (it's the only one that's under 100 K)  

[king homer 1]

WTF, why is it so blue?

[Asmodeus 0]

Because we used Blue Tiger Stripe Camo...  

Also, we brightened up the screenshot a bit. (It was very dark before) It looks slightly different in-game.

Asmodeus

[ZiRo 0]

yeah, make it blue, not turquoise..... and dont play with the britness feature in photoshop cus it makes ur addons look different from how they really are...

-ZiRo

[Asmodeus 0]

*cough*

Thanks for the feedback...

But telling us what to do with our screenshots??

hm....

[ZiRo 0]

*cough* to you too

yeah i was giving a bit of advice, but telling you it was quite important at the same time, changing screenshots gives people a faulse look at your model/addon so i advise you dont edit them.

-ZiRo

[Koolkid101 0]

Give him a break, plus I was at your site yesterday and was wondering when you where releasing it thanks! But whens the sub comming out?

[Koolkid101 0]

I've tried it out, its pretty cool except the gattling gun sounds to regular, it should be like the dkm commache one, or the BAS Chinook sound. But other than that its fine!

[Asmodeus 0]

@ ZiRo

Point understood.  

@ KoolKid

Thanks!  As far as the sounds for the gun goes..  They are the default game sounds..  I've yet to find a "gatling gun" sound that I would prefer to use at this point.  (Wish I could just go to an Apache manufacturing facility or summin and record one in RL...but I don't have clearance)

However, if anyone has a better sound for our cannon than the default game sounds that we can use, by all means, please send them to us!

Also, An important note:

I just found a very slight error in the addon.  We forgot to remove 1 line of code from a script.  This line of code could generate an error message when you choose to deactivate the mine deployment if you got the version before this post.  

I have fixed this error and uploaded the corrected version to the same link.    

Thanks!  (there's always something...)  

Asmodeus

P.S.  The Sub is coming out when we finish all inside view geo's and various weapons' scripts that are going to be involved.     (Translation:  hopefully soon!  Thanks for the interest.

[CrunchyFrog 0]

ehm... I really don't like the textures, it looks like you took one big picture and wrapped on the model.

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Doesnt look very tiger stripe camo to me.

[Johann "onn" Bitsoenn 0]

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-ZiRo<span id='postcolor'>

Use "Adjust Gamma" feature, or whatever it is named... :]

[Kaliyuga 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Koolkid101 @ Feb. 22 2003,13:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"it should be like the dkm commache one"<span id='postcolor'>

LMAO ..... any sound is better than that supposed MG sound on the commanche

any other, non-screenshot related input?

[philcommando 0]

sorry i didnt have the time to try your addon, as i am currently working on a project, heck! i didnt even have time to download anything made since jan.:p

However i think its a good idea on the floating mines and the gatling gun and i will take your word on it its as powerful as u say, lol!

Just a suggestion:- there are only 2 types of sea in ofp - coldwar and resistance. Most are at resistance, so why not use a texture of the sea as the texture for your boat? With that texture, user controlled air and land units will have a problem distinguishing u from the sea.... u can lay in wait and then rip them apart with your gatling guns. Furthermore your boat will be more unique as most boats of ofp are in drab grey or green.

And if u do have time, perhaps u might wanna add some shading to the boat to make it more photo-realistic? Most real objects have shades but unfortunately, cpu resources are limited to shade it, so we got to apply a few tones of darkness or brightness on the object to make it seem real.

To apply the shade, just imagine the sun at 10 am and determine yourself which part of the boat will receive direct sunlight and which part will receive no light and be dark shaded. Of course once ingame some folks will say the shades are in wrong direction but most of the time, they will either be too busy driving the boat or shooting it down to notice where the sun is.

Thanks for sharing it with the community.

[Kaliyuga 0]

Thanks for the input Phil....

textures certainly can be the hardest part of a project, and your specific suggestions will definately be taken into consideration.