Tiberian Apocalypse is a Partial Conversion for Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars with the goal to create a true Tiberian Sun sequel. GDI, Nod and the Scrin are getting a complete overhaul.
New railgun projectile
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Very nice, does the railgun add more weapon range as well?
No, only firepower.
ahh! I like the thing in the front of the line of the railgun! Keep up the hard work Helge
i think it should have a slighly thicker line in the trail, and have a sort of rifling pattern from the extremly high speeds that it rotates, and that the beams should be a bit brighter, either way it still looks cool (sorry ive done alot of reasearch into railgun tech and to what state it is now and the tests of them)
however i must say the wake paterns you have there are absolutly spot on man
The projectile actually doesn't rotate at all. It's a hunk of metal at high speed. It may spin, but doesn't do so particularily fast.
but surely rifling the round would have the same positive effects it has in a convectional cannon?
The round is in a square sabot :P
instead of the trail being something like a streak of beam projectile it should be a thick line of smoke (remember it's a lob of metal at sonic speeds).
Looks awesome, but perhaps remove the ejected cartridge case because no case is needed when using non-gunpowder-driven mass accelerators.
That's just a minor change tho. Also the railguns used on Titans have catridges in some sense. The projectile is composed of a capacitor, a sabot, and the projectile. The capacitor powers the railgun itself, and is discarded after use.
That's a good idea for powering electromagnetic weapons. I often thought about how to supply this type of weapon with this huge ammount of energry. If today Rheinmetall (Developed the 120mm Gun which is used by nearly all modern western MBT's) would produce a fully functional rail- or coilgun and we would build it into a Leopard 2 for exaple, there would be a big problem concerning the energyconsuption of this weapon. Imagine that all the chemical energy stored in the gunpowder must be gerated by the main engine --> bigger engine & much more fuel would be needed..
There is a main problem with capacitors when compared to chemical energy propellents, capacitors loose energy over time while it takes a huge time for chemical propellents to loose their power.
Well unless we are talking about super conductors and super electrical insinuators using capacitors is not exactly feasible. Of course because of the Tacitus we can handwave that.
The capacitors are charged before resupplying the units before a mission, which typically doesn't take very long. Additionally, their charge-levels are kept up by channeling unused energy into the capacitors. And then, as you said, the tacitus helped them build more lasting capacitors.
Awesome!
Nice job on all the pictures Helge!
Awesome
why bubbles ?
There are no bubbles.
The effect looks similar to the Gauss trails from MechWarrior 4.
Very nice.