OK... I've made this for last couple of days
And sorry... I'm terrible 3D artist
W/S - speed
mouse - movement
LMB - fire
M - create new ships as many as You want to (You are nautral for them so you can shoot to everyone and they will not attack You)
Space - make your ship straight

Here it's a demo
LINK

This isn't bad, nice mini game tompo
Btw, the graphics are oke

Cheers

Frazzle

It's just the beginning of something a much more bigger
Finaly... maybe in view years it will be a something like FreeLancer
For now press "M" several times and look how they fight... and of'course You may shoot too
Waiting for replys

good start! i how the canons turn: very well done. how'd you limit the amount of turning?
also, the AI seems to be partway done, good work!
what I don't like is the lasers. don't ask me why... maybe it's just that you should use better images, ones that fade to black on the sides, for example. Or change the sound?
The explosions also look bad, work on those.
It's kinda hard to figure out who's friend and who's foe ...

But I like the canons a lot, and the rest is good!!

the ai looks good, how much scripting whent in to it ?

AI... this is just the beggining of AI but... about 200 lines of code with follow the path

path??
how would that work... do you define a path and follow it???

Micha

no... I mean when they are not fighintg, they are moving along the path
Fighting... all is randomize

Great stuff tompo, Freelancer is still my favourite game after all these years.

I see you have solved the prob of maintaining a beam weapon even while moving, I'm a little envious now .

Flying AI need not follow paths but can operate and rely on if statements but I think you already know that..

effect with beam is only the trails behind the player...
lasers... it's just a 5x5 pixels bmap scaled and with moving u/v
player fire is model but will be replace with bmaps as the rest of ships have