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The various radar dishes mounted on a target seem to work as well.

It seems to work with stationary targets fine, I am trying HARM missiles at this very moment for a moving ground target.

I made a drone that had the Camera / IR laser thingie, but it would paint a constant ground target, not track a moving vehicle so consistently missed even though the vehicle, a 40 ton fuel truck, was only going about 10 m/s I think one of the challenges in the next tournament will be making a ground attack drone that has to overcome the winner of this one to destroy the radar installation.

I really do wish you could define additional teams. I was going to actually set up using a team of 4 of your drones trying to stop an attacker from destroying a radar site on the top of the VAB. I just have to see if I can make it work. BDA is really bad at hitting moving ground targets, which was my original thought, so now I'll try a radar site... perhaps I'll try a mobile radar site and see how the missiles that back-track radar ( I can't remember their names) do I am thinking there will be scoring like this: Each surviving drone: +1 Each attacking craft destroyed: +1 Radar site surviving: +4 I'll have to play with it a bit though to balance points.

Yes, I will, but the parameters will change for each tournament.

It is bound to 0. The final battles of round 1 are complete, and I am editing the video now. Guns work as well.. just oddly.

The entire first round is finished recording, all remaining 10 matches. I still have to edit and upload them, but progress is made! I did add Destruction FX, thanks for the link!

For whatever reason the embedded video doesn't seem to want to cooperate. I'll poke at it some more tomorrow.

Sorry, I noticed right away. Fixed now, but is still a little odd as it is processing.

Here is the video of the very first 5 matches in round 1. Doppelganger vs. QF-1

I am hoping to get a couple battles recorded tonight. Sorry for the delay, but my family's move has proved to be interesting.

Sorry about the delay. We ended up moving into our new home a week earlier than expected.

52? Wow. I think I did about 4 this time, but I had no intention of actually having my craft win either. Well, I would suggest submitting it by end of day tomorrow if you want it to be included in this round. For the next round there may be multiple parts to the challenge or slightly different rules, just to keep it interesting. Like maybe ground attack runs, or part limitations. i sort of like the idea of tweaking the challenge between rounds.

Should it still be in the challenges section, as the craft, at least nominally, are for the purpose of fighting in the tournament or should we start it in ye old craft sharing threads?

I am starting to think that it may be worth while to start a combat craft sharing thread instead of filling up the Top Gun thread

Oooh, guns only! Here is my attempt! Look, no wing stacking! Craft File

There are a few additional settings I'd like to see in the BD AI: -Minimum Speed to hep set an acceptable speed envelope -Pitch/Roll/Yaw ranges -Behaviors - Aggressive, Evasive, Keep Distance stuff like that

Well, I am considering running with what we have soon, or filling in with my own designs if we can't get another 3. Next run I think I will ask for submissions in private messages, but encourage people to post pics of their craft at least.

Recording is covere. Thanks though It was not specifically disallowed by the rules; however, I was at least hoping that people would live within the spirit of a friendly challenge. If people want to abuse the spirit of the challenge so obviously, well, I did not ban clipping. It is entirely possible that I will haunt all of their posts on these forums and post links to a poor sportsmanship award image or something.

And, going by the rules, there is nothing to prevent me from starting said craft facing directly into the side of the VAB either.

You only have 20000 funds, there is only so much you can get away with. You are quite often required to make sacrifices in lifting surfaces, load out and fuel. I am hoping that naturally limits some of the more abusive ideas.

Did the final results from CrativeCombat's tournament get post ever? I know my submission for that was one of the final 2, but I don't know who won.