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Shadow Keegan
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Join date: 3 Aug 2004
Posts: 38
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04-22-2005 07:03
Hello I was wondering if it was possible to make a battleship and have a crew on it and everyone could control somthing
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Chris Wilde
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Join date: 21 Jul 2004
Posts: 768
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04-22-2005 07:59
Hello I was wondering if it was possible to make a battleship and have a crew on it and everyone could control somthing You mean a moving vehicle (31 prims) or a stationary ship that doesnt move (except maybe guns and stuff turning)? |
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Walker Spaight
Raving Correspondent
Join date: 2 Jan 2005
Posts: 281
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04-22-2005 08:10
Well you could make a huge prim-heavy object that moves clumsily with llSetPos. You can use sensors to keep it from crashing into the shoreline (though this takes a lot of sensors if you really want to be sure that no part of the thing crashes into the shoreline), but you couldn't keep it from driving right through anyone else's objects. I made an 86-prim bathysphere that operates this way and it's pretty fun to pilot around the undersea reaches of SL. Aircraft carriers aren't known for moving very fast anyway.
If you wanted to do that, then yes, it's probably possible to make something where different people can operate different parts of it. One av stands on the bridge piloting the thing, one guy sets up the exhaust barriers for launching planes, you need a couple of pilots, maybe someone to operate a gun turret, if you add one of those. Thing is, there isn't much deep or clear water to operate in and you'd probably have to buy an entire island sim and make sure it's terraformable to some depth that's going to allow you to float the thing there. Which wouldn't leave with many interesting destinations, unfortunately. I'd love to hear about it if you get this project going, though. Good luck! _____________________
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Foolish Frost
Grand Technomancer
Join date: 7 Mar 2005
Posts: 1,433
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04-24-2005 16:53
Aircraft carriers aren't known for moving very fast anyway. QUOTE] Er... Did you know the Enterprise Aircraft Carrier CVAN-65 was matching speeds with a hurricane for a short while a few years back? It's also has a KNOWN top speed of about 42 MPH, and rumors say a bit higher... That ain't slow for a boat that big... |
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Chosen Few
Alpha Channel Slave
Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
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04-24-2005 18:06
Aircraft carriers aren't known for moving very fast anyway. QUOTE] Er... Did you know the Enterprise Aircraft Carrier CVAN-65 was matching speeds with a hurricane for a short while a few years back? It's also has a KNOWN top speed of about 42 MPH, and rumors say a bit higher... That ain't slow for a boat that big... 42 miles an hour would equal traversing 254 sims every hour, or one sim every 14 seconds. That might be doable. You're not gonna keep up with "normal" vehicles like planes, trains, automoiles, space ships, other boats, or even balloons, but I'm sure you could move at speeds equilvilent to those achieved by real aircraft carriers. In other words, slow. _____________________
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