Modified Iowa Class BB

[vingrjoe]

Thanks for the compliments. I will probably be posting the default and run flics sometime in the next 2-3 weeks. I have yet to start on the attack or death flics. The attack will be difficult, because I want proper lighting from the gunfire onto the ships surfaces. I will not have the Iowa roll or move back in the attack flic, because it doesn't in real life. If you look at the pic alphawolf 64 posted, you will see the water moves from the gunblast, but the ship isn't moving. I don't think I will do a "fidget" flic, although this is a game, in real life, a battleship's turrets just do not swivel quickly. I prefer a more realistic approach to my game, but that is just me.
I'm running my first draft default flics in my games right now, and I have the Iowa set to carry 2 cruise missiles. Although anyone can set the transport capacity to what they want.


*sidenote* There were some claims that the Iowas would move back 3-4 feet when firing a broadside. This allegation is false. When an Iowa class fires a broadside, all 9 guns don't fire at the exact same time, they are timed to fire microseconds apart in sequence. Plus ,the weight of an Iowa class battleship is 58,000 tons, full load. That is a lot of weight to move, even in water! Most of the force from the gunblast is used to propel the projectile, the other enegy is absorbed in each gun's recoil. The disturbance in the water you see under the gunblast , is pressure hitting the water from the gunblast, not the ship moving.

 

[Gringo]

Big guns were majestic, but they'll never be main arsenal again, atleast not in the US Navy. And I doubt that any other countries are budgeting the building of a BB.

Sea Wolf Class & Trident Class Subs are the dominant sea ships now.

 

[vingrjoe]

The USS Iowa and USS Wisconsin are on the US Navy's inactive reserve fleet, so they are not totally out...yet. As for most powerful surface vessel today, referring to nuclear weapons , it would be the nuclear missile sub, but regarding convetional weapons, the Aircraft carrier carries the most firepower nowadays.

*Tom Clancy wrote a non-fiction book called "Carrier", excellent book. It goes into detail about the ship and it's airwing.*

 

[unscratchedfoot]

Those battleships are packed away just to save maintenance costs, but be sure that in the event of a major war they'll be fired up in no time. By the way, as far as nuclear missile strength goes, the Iowa also carries a set of cruise missile nukes just to be on the safe side.

I hope you finish up this unit so many people are waiting for. It would be a nice addition to get some battleship variety.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Originally posted by vingrjoe
Thanks for the compliments. I will probably be posting the default and run flics sometime in the next 2-3 weeks.

Juhuuuu !!!

 

[vingrjoe]

Well, I finally got the Default Flic done...most of you should know what to do...create a new unit using the battleship files, rename it Iowa Class Battleship, and paste this into the art file and change the ini file to use this as default. I will be working on finishing up the run Flic this week.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Hmmm- looks quite decent, Thx for the preview

 

[davidky5]

Hey when's it gonna come. I've been waiting for the run flic for three weeks.

 

[Architekt]

Kuhl.. Ill be looking forward to sinking it with my bismarck

 

[vingrjoe]

Davidky5, sorry man, real life has been consuming my time. I'm remodeling a bedroom right now(have to get at least the new insulation in and sheetrock up before it gets too cold. Plus, I had to reformat my HD, and ended up installing WinXP. I did save the flic files though.

I have the run flc about 60-70% complete. After the run flic is finished, I might just hang it up and let someone else do the death and attack flics. Cut-n-paste and editing pixel by pixel just plain sucks. When I do have free time to spend on the computer, I'd rather play games than do more tedius work. Sorry to everyone for empty promises.

I would really like to see one of the 3D artists in here , takeover and give this project a facelift, while keeping true to the Iowa class distinctions. But hey, who am I to give suggestions when I don't even finish my own work. Patience, the run flic will get done, just can't guarantee when.

 

[computerdude113]

What happened to this unit?!
Can you finish it? Please!

 

[kenshi]

I took the liberty of making a run animation, but only a 6 frames long. I hope the original author won't mind. I'll post it if anyone wants?

 

[zulu9812]

yes please

 

[kenshi]

I'll just stick this in until the real one arrives. Can't figure out how to do the attack anims though.

 

[zulu9812]

looks nice

 

[Yoda Power]

vingrjoe has not posted here since 24 sep and i dont think he will come back, so goahead and complete the unit.

 

[kenshi]

Copy and pasted the Yamato turrets directly onto the Iowa. Had to clip some of the blast since the frames were too small.

Didn't include the water movement though. Maybe someone with more artistic ability can add them?

 

[NoSuchFile]

Really nice job

 

[vingrjoe]

Excellent work. Thank you for your additions. The run looks darn close to the one I was working on, I had the NW/SW NE/SE views left when I quit working on them. The attack animation looks better than I thought it would.
I was hoping, someone would've figured out how to show the reflection of the gunblasts on the ship's surface, like the default battleship attack(you can see an orange blast reflection on the ship). But again, good work ! Thanks for taking the time to finish what I should've but didn't.

 

[Boba Fett]

The INI is missing I think. How can we use the unit without an INI file?