Space (ie a vacuum) is a great place to shoot a laser... no dispersion 
caused by the medium!

Anyway... who said it was just a laser?  When you see the animation (coming 
soon to a newsgroup near you!) you'll see an outpouring of material in the 
beam proving that it isn't a laser...

The guns on this ship are plasma cannon.  The hyper-heated plasma is 
injected into a laser beam which keeps it collimated and stops the plasma 
cooling.  Actually its less of a cannon, more of a cutting torch!  I'm 
working on the code for when the plasma cannon beam hits the "bad guy's" 
shields...

I've attached an image of the "bad guys" ship... Much bigger and more 
advanced...

Rarius

"Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegociocom> wrote in message 
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> How can you shoot a laser in the space??
> Anyway, it's really good.
>
> Best regards,
> Oleguer

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Attachments:
Download 'Goauld.jpg' (65 KB)

Preview of image 'Goauld.jpg'

All right, thanks for the explanation.
Congratulations for your work!!!!!

Best regards,
Oleguer



news:41a653a9@news.povray.org...
> Space (ie a vacuum) is a great place to shoot a laser... no dispersion
> caused by the medium!
>
> Anyway... who said it was just a laser?  When you see the animation
(coming
> soon to a newsgroup near you!) you'll see an outpouring of material in the
> beam proving that it isn't a laser...
>
> The guns on this ship are plasma cannon.  The hyper-heated plasma is
> injected into a laser beam which keeps it collimated and stops the plasma
> cooling.  Actually its less of a cannon, more of a cutting torch!  I'm
> working on the code for when the plasma cannon beam hits the "bad guy's"
> shields...
>
> I've attached an image of the "bad guys" ship... Much bigger and more
> advanced...
>
> Rarius
>
> "Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegociocom> wrote in message
> news:41a64c1b@news.povray.org...
> > How can you shoot a laser in the space??
> > Anyway, it's really good.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Oleguer
>
>
>

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Thanks for the praise... I'm just posting an animation of this to 
povray.binaries.animations...

Rarius

"Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegociocom> wrote in message 
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> All right, thanks for the explanation.
> Congratulations for your work!!!!!

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Stoopid system won't allow me to post the animation... Its too big!
I'll have to spend a little time geting it to fit under the 1Mb limit!

Rarius

"Rarius" <rar### [at] rariuscouk> wrote in message 
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> Thanks for the praise... I'm just posting an animation of this to 
> povray.binaries.animations...
>
> Rarius
>
> "Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegociocom> wrote in message 
> news:41a7443a$1@news.povray.org...
>> All right, thanks for the explanation.
>> Congratulations for your work!!!!!
>
>

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I want to see the animation. If you can not poste it on the
povray.animations Can you put it on a server?



news:41a7d0fb$1@news.povray.org...
> Stoopid system won't allow me to post the animation... Its too big!
> I'll have to spend a little time geting it to fit under the 1Mb limit!
>
> Rarius
>
> "Rarius" <rar### [at] rariuscouk> wrote in message
> news:41a76691$1@news.povray.org...
> > Thanks for the praise... I'm just posting an animation of this to
> > povray.binaries.animations...
> >
> > Rarius
> >
> > "Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegociocom> wrote in message
> > news:41a7443a$1@news.povray.org...
> >> All right, thanks for the explanation.
> >> Congratulations for your work!!!!!
> >
> >
>
>

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OK..

Good Guys, Magrathea
Without stars, and with the old version on the turrets... 
http://www.rarius.co.uk/magratheafires.avi
With stars, new turrets, but not quite as good an angle to see the weapon 
beams... http://www.rarius.co.uk/magratheafires2.avi

and by contrast...  The Bad Guys, http://www.rarius.co.uk/goauld2.avi

Rarius


"Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegociocom> wrote in message 
news:41a82d96$1@news.povray.org...
>I want to see the animation. If you can not poste it on the
> povray.animations Can you put it on a server?
>
>

> news:41a7d0fb$1@news.povray.org...
>> Stoopid system won't allow me to post the animation... Its too big!
>> I'll have to spend a little time geting it to fit under the 1Mb limit!
>>
>> Rarius
>>
>> "Rarius" <rar### [at] rariuscouk> wrote in message
>> news:41a76691$1@news.povray.org...
>> > Thanks for the praise... I'm just posting an animation of this to
>> > povray.binaries.animations...
>> >
>> > Rarius
>> >
>> > "Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegociocom> wrote in message
>> > news:41a7443a$1@news.povray.org...
>> >> All right, thanks for the explanation.
>> >> Congratulations for your work!!!!!
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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"Rarius" <rar### [at] rariuscouk> wrote:
> OK..
>
> Good Guys, Magrathea
> Without stars, and with the old version on the turrets...
> http://www.rarius.co.uk/magratheafires.avi
> With stars, new turrets, but not quite as good an angle to see the weapon
> beams... http://www.rarius.co.uk/magratheafires2.avi
>
> and by contrast...  The Bad Guys, http://www.rarius.co.uk/goauld2.avi
>

Hey, looks great :-)

Just the rear "turbines" (the huge white ones in magratheafires2.avi) might
need more work?

I really like it :)

Greets, Mark

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I also like them. Very good!!!!

Regards,
Oleguer





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> "Rarius" <rar### [at] rariuscouk> wrote:
> > OK..
> >
> > Good Guys, Magrathea
> > Without stars, and with the old version on the turrets...
> > http://www.rarius.co.uk/magratheafires.avi
> > With stars, new turrets, but not quite as good an angle to see the
weapon
> > beams... http://www.rarius.co.uk/magratheafires2.avi
> >
> > and by contrast...  The Bad Guys, http://www.rarius.co.uk/goauld2.avi
> >
>
> Hey, looks great :-)
>
> Just the rear "turbines" (the huge white ones in magratheafires2.avi)
might
> need more work?
>
> I really like it :)
>
> Greets, Mark
>

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Rarius wrote:

> Space (ie a vacuum) is a great place to shoot a laser... no dispersion
> caused by the medium!

And invisible lasers are boring. As they would be, methinks.

> I've attached an image of the "bad guys" ship... Much bigger and more
> advanced...

Nice - inspired by a Romulan Warbird?

Nice pics
-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions

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"Stefan Viljoen" <ryl### [at] polardcom> wrote in message 
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> Rarius wrote:
>
>> Space (ie a vacuum) is a great place to shoot a laser... no dispersion
>> caused by the medium!
>
> And invisible lasers are boring. As they would be, methinks.
>
>> I've attached an image of the "bad guys" ship... Much bigger and more
>> advanced...
>
> Nice - inspired by a Romulan Warbird?

No.. Actually inspired by the Goa'uld motherships from Stargate SG1...

Rarius

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