New PIE Model for Rail Guns

[Black Project]

New GFX for all 3 Rail Guns in Warzone:
They'll be included in the future Ultimate Warfare V2.0

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[whippersnapper]

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Really cool looking Rails. But there is lots of stuff in these screen caps that look interesting...

You might find this short article I was reading the other day worth looking over. It's about DARPA's
(U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) with Rail Guns:

Darpa is on track for railgun firing of modified mortar rounds....

regards, whipper
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[slvr bl]

The new models look great. I like the covering over the top of the barrels.

Speaking of railguns, this may give some food for thought as well: http://www.gizmag.com/us-office-of-nava ... ure/67915/

and the full article: http://www.gizmag.com/us-office-of-nava ... gun/11035/

Too bad the actual weapon isn't visible...

[Delphinio]

stolen from LOD MOD lol ; D
its almost the same thing^^.

[whippersnapper]

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stolen from LOD MOD lol ; D
its almost the same thing^^.

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That is a dis-ingenuous statement (emphasis on just simply "dissing").

Almost chicken soup, as my granny would say, is NOT chicken soup.

I've known BP to never be anything but a 100% honest and respectful of others
art no matter what latitudes granted by licensing.

This is part of "Ultimate Warfare Mod" were in BP has a Credits Doc acknowledging
all contributions by others that he has utilized in his work.

Steven Pardons (aka RSgod, creator of LOD Mod) modified Pumpkin's Rail Gun by
mainly adding the cabling armature inspired by the old flat, internal SCSI, from MOBO
to peripheral plug (here, the added muzzle).

Below - Pumpkin > SP > BP so you can see GFX model evolving. IMHO, BP's version
represents the finest GFX refinement to date of the Rail Weap - and that is said fully
respecting the stellar achievement by Steven P. in his LOD Mod (itself inspired by
v.1.11 Mod - which it uses btw).

Regards, whipper.
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[Delphinio]

lol be cool... its ok if he do that... i did it too : D.

[NEXUS]

This is nifty looking...I like the way the railguns look. Good job.

[carlIsBeastly]

They are very cool designs, but the look somewhat cartoonish on the bodies, especially the gauss cannon. why would you use a 5 foot diameter projectile in a railgun? That said, i like the turret. Those turret models with the original barrels would look amazing.

[Olrox]

I'm currently wondering the reason to keep only 3 curve steps/barrel. In practic & theory, gauss cannons are always built with cylindrical coils made of highly conductive metals, and always cylinders, because every part of the conductive material is at the same distance from the center of the barrel (where the projectile passes). This way, the electric field is focused uniformly to the center of the barrel, that is, the trajectory of the projectile.

If the only reason is to minimize the poly count, then... But in the midst of these clean textures and detailment, it looks incoherent :rolleyes:

Maybe I'm only that annoying guy who is looking for a meaning to most things and trying to make art in a consistent and coherent way all the time
In this case, should I withdraw to my room, with every kind of evil plan for world domination

[Olrox]

They are very cool designs, but the look somewhat cartoonish on the bodies, especially the gauss cannon. why would you use a 5 foot diameter projectile in a railgun? That said, i like the turret. Those turret models with the original barrels would look amazing.

Forgot to place a necessary quote there.

Hmm, this is not really a problem since we don't actually get to see the exact shape of the projectile. Maybe it's a high-density metal shaft with a lot of low-density high-conductive metal sabot all around it? The later machineguns use tungstenium discard sabots (tungstenium is the pure metal with the highest fusion temperature if I didn't forget that chemistry from 4 years ago), and tungstenium was also used by railgun (railgun, not gauss gun, it's a completely different, much more powerful mechanism) tests in the U.S. Military, as the projectile & rails, because it also offered a great deal of conductivity. If the project uses tungstenium for machinegun discard sabots, I wonder what would they use for gauss cannons. Maybe even gold? xD

Ok, serioulsy now. The projectile of gauss guns ideally don't touch the barrel, they are constantly pulled forwards by... aww, I'll not explain that all, it's simple and Google is free after all. Anyway, the projectile flies through the axis of the barrel so that there's no speed reduction or heat due to friction. So, even if the barrel got 5feet internal diameter, the projectile could have only 1 feet diameter. That's a decision the artist should make, or not at all: We always can talk about phlebotinum mechanic, right, Whip?

Turning particles into matter at the barrel's end also... We could get on a long trip tying to explain that, if we wanted to

[carlIsBeastly]

I'm aware that the bullet wouldn't literally be that large. Still, why would you even have a one foot diameter projectile? You wouldn't be able to accelerate it to a useful speed in such a short barrel, and even if you did, it would be far bigger than you need to kill another tank. Anyway, if the post is tl:dr, smaller barrels needed.

[Michal]

Smaller bullets, maybe, smaller barrels: no.

They look ok. And they might be that big for cooling purposes. Also there are some limitations in how small you can the whole system make.

[theArmourer]

I think that they should be rounded though, or at least made into a hexagon or octagon.

[Saberuneko]

I don't like that design very much... It's original, but I don't finish liking it.