Getting Ships To Fire In Edit Mode

[Killallewoks]

You ask and I shall do, how to get ships to fire to get some good action shots. This is more of a visual tutorial so me talking is just me talking im most places.

[mckinneyc]

Great tutorial there Kill. I have developed a method too pretty similar to yours but I make my ship invisible

[Killallewoks]

Great tutorial there Kill. I have developed a method too pretty similar to yours but I make my ship invisible

Any idea why sometimes friendly ships don't fire?

[sovereign001]

Very nice tutorial again! I think this has to do like you said with the arc, sensor range(too close? damage it self perhaps?) With these movies, i hope people will realize how time consume screenshot taking is!

[mckinneyc]

Any idea why sometimes friendly ships don't fire?

No encountered that myself in my latest picture. The Endeavour fired but the Incom class didn't

EDIT - I have been trying to figure out a solution. I set up an Excelsior class ship against a Dominion Battlecruiser, nothing happened after I made the battlecruiser an enemy so I went to the fleet orders section of the helm station and picked 'attack my target' then suddenly the Excelsior burst into life. Haven't tried it on a fleet yet

[Killallewoks]

Ah! I orderd the fleet to fire and nothing happened so you may have to order each ship individually then.

[mckinneyc]

I think I have solved it!

I took a small fleet against a borg cube. I transported to each ship but before disabling engines etc I went to green alert then back to red alert on each ship.

Set up everything as normal. Then ordered the fleet to attack my target. Was a delay of a few seconds but they all did. But so hard trying to capture them all firing but I took some screenies which I'll post in the other thread

[Killallewoks]

Hurrah! Results in the next hour. 

[B5]

ya know, i'm having difficulties editing the stock light (moving and darkening)

[mckinneyc]

ya know, i'm having difficulties editing the stock light (moving and darkening)

Are you remembering to press 'p' and cycle through the placements using the 'select next' and 'select  previous' tabs?

[007bashir]

guys, i need help!


Tryed to get ships to fire in the edit mode. Somehow after i got the ship to fire, i cant get rid of the target field (where the cursor is). I think i have to unselelect the target befor a hit the edit mode, but dont know ho to do.

[Killallewoks]

guys, i need help!


Tryed to get ships to fire in the edit mode. Somehow after i got the ship to fire, i cant get rid of the target field (where the cursor is). I think i have to unselelect the target befor a hit the edit mode, but dont know ho to do.

Ctrl-T 

[007bashir]

yer, just saw it too. never mind.