Tank Battles

[Sung]

little update..

2 new tanks



T-62



M1A1

[Xaron]

Some screenshots from firing the cannon:





At the moment I work on the target scope view. We removed the arcade like cross hair from the outside camera view. Targeting will be done now with the scope. Bullets have a ballistic curve now as well.

Still a long way to go though...

[frinik]

Hi Xarun and Sung! I see that you have made headways!

I have a couple of questions for you.

What kind of simulator do you have in mind? One with tanks from the 50s and 60s exclusively? Will you model/create maps of various places( Europe, Middle East, Africa etc)?

How do you plan to deal with the tough part:

Ballistics
Damage effects
Rate of fire and the various type of ammo
AI( any infantry planned ?Will the crews be able to leave the vehicle etc?

Good start I'll try your firing demo

Cheers and best of luck!

[Xaron]

@frinik: Thanks for your posting!

We want to cover more modern tanks, so no WW2 scenario. Regarding the scenarios at all we still want to do the technical part first.

Ballistics are integrated now even though it's not ready yet.
What do you mean with damage effects?
Rate of fire and various types of ammo are planned, yes.
AI will come of course and other targets beside tanks as well. We do not plan any crew yet.

New screenshot from the targeting scope:



Here targeting an Abrams M1A1, you see the scope of a T-62. Not that the russian tank would have a big chance against a M1A1 but anyway, that's another story.

AND FIRE!



A short video showing the attack:

[frinik]

Xaron by damage effect I mean every time a shell hits either the target or the ground you need to reflect whatever damge the impact has produced on the target, hole in the armour, tracks disabled, twisted metal, turret flying due to internal explosion or simply a hole in the ground etc.



Anyway it´s a good and promising beginning!Don't give up!
BTW Graviteram is developing a new tank sim based on the T62 and the M60.It's called Steel Armour Blaze of War. You should propose your talents tpo them or consider modding that game once it comes out sometimes this year.Check it out on the Graviteam website.

Cheers

[Sung]

v1008 test it
3,5 MB (Download)
http://www.machgames.de/downloads/tb/tb_v1008.zip

Manual

Tank stearing:

throttle = w/s
left/right = a/d

tower = mouse

fire = left mouse
sight = right mouse

camera:
foward/ back = cursor up/down
F2 free camera
F1 tanksight

What you think

[frinik]

Hi Xaru n and Sung!

Tested your latest release and it works well! You've made headways and it's great.Somehow you sim reminds me of T72 Balkans on Fire also called Iron Warriors.It's a sim that could have been better had the dvelopers spend more time on it.The graphics, the effects,the tank models, the gunsight etc.BTW speaking of tanks what tanks models are you planning to introduce in the game?I hope you have the Leopard 1 A5 in mind? I love that tank.I play it in Steel Beasts.

Good work now what's next on your agenda?

Cheers