Maybe someone else still has them?
Nope, the ftp server got hacked.
It's probably for the best, anyways. If I remade it, I would do it a lot differently and it would be a lot better.
Well, if you read the world history on the wiki or inside the game, there has been a lot of strife and collapse worldwide.
Yep, that's what I was thinking.
I'm following the idea that we're advancing, but not quite as quickly as most people seem to think or hope for. I mean, all over the 20th century, people were convinced that we'd have artificial-gravity space stations and permanent moonbases by 1984, 1999, 2001 etc. etc. None of that has materialised. We're supposed to be making second manned missions to Jupiter in 2010, for pity's sake. :p
Well, I believe we
could have been making manned missions to Jupiter if there was a stronger focus on it - just look how quickly we got to the moon when we tried to.
Brilliant work, mate, I really like how you've pulled together that plasma gun. The spinning fan was not what I had in mind (which was static turbofan blades) but it works well enough. If only we had animated texture support. 
There's the neat bit
. The textures themselves aren't animated, but the disks they're textured
onto are.
(I might have to up the polycount of the disks, though. 8-sides is enough to not make a seal inside and to poke holes on the outside.)
hmm it doesn't looks like very extraterrestrial,
Alien textures will make it look a lot more, uh, alien.
Maybe fans are too large, in my opinion they should look a little more circular and thinner, like terminator 3 skynet model.
My only real objection to the model is the size of the turbines; other than that the model's fine, though I personally would go with a frame more reminiscent of the scanners from HL2.
If you see at the top of the thread, the original design had thin fans instead of turbines. I had two rings instead of one to make it more visually interesting. Of course, Winter's the Art Lead, so what he says goes.
Regarding the 2 spikes popping from the bottom of the plane, I assume they are done for planes stability purpose.
Uhh... sure? Let's go with that.
Actually, the spikes are there to make it look dangerous. Angular and spikey make it look dangerous.
I suppose it also gives it ramming options once it's out of ammo.
Whats the pointy bits at the front for? Do they ram people and impale them on spikes?
Like I said, they're dangerous-looking.
It doesn't seem to have any kind of stability, wouldn't it pitch backwards and forwards on its axis?
On a very last note, how is this plane supposed to deal with ground height ?
The engines are located along the center of gravity - just like an Osprey or a Firefly.
The main body can pitch up and pitch down without having any effect on its movement. (If bits of hull weren't in the way it could pitch a full 360 degrees in place.)
It maneuvers through thrust vectoring. The engines rotate to give yaw forces, and differential thrust provides roll.
To give pitch control, there's thrust vectoring at the bottoms of the engines.
Ooh! I just figured out how it works, too!
Air forced into the nozzle from the sides can deflect thrust up to 15 degrees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_vectoringNow being researched, fluidic injection nozzles divert thrust via fluid effects[1][2][3]. Tests show that air forced into a jet engine exhaust stream can deflect thrust up to 15 degrees.
On a somewhat related note, this kind of machine must be cleaned from time to time, thus need to land in the hangar, maybe small landing gear or somehting similar need to be attached to it ?
There are actually two long 'feet' on the bottom of the machine. In the BFG version (The original one with a gun mounted between the main prongs) those feet were the lowest objects - thus the hoverbot could just land.
In the plasmagun version, the gun is the lowest object, and I haven't got around to updating the feet yet.
Actually, maybe the turret retracts or rotates upward... This would keep the feet from becoming oversised, and provides another reason for the white 'core' to be in there.
Ooooh, Preeettty toys. Me wants toy. MAKE TOY!
Mwa ha ha, I have the .blend version. The gun automatically tracks a target I have set up.
(I can spend minutes just moving the object around and watching the gun go around to track it.
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