[LFS] LAAT/i Gunship

Lore :

“The Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry (LAAT/i), also known as the Republic attack gunship, Republic Gunship or Assault Gunship, was one of the several models in the Low Altitude Assault Transport line of starships that mainly served as gunships and troop transports for the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. Its role was to transport Clone troopers as well as offering air-to-ground and air-to-air support for the Galactic Republic against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The LAAT/i gunship saw extensive use in numerous battles and campaigns of the Clone Wars. During the Imperial Era, the ships were used by both the Galactic Empire and Alliance to Restore the Republic.”

Features :

• 22 seats, including crew

• Animated doors and missile loading mechanism

• Atmospheric and Space versions.

• Physical doors and ramp. Once they're closed, you can't get inside or shoot through.

• Sounds from Battlefront II

• Crash landing system.

• Wing lasers and side turrets laser overheating system

• AA Rockets with locking/tracking system.

• Modified Munnulist 10 LAAT/I, with Carpet Bombing system (As seen on the 2003 Clone Wars show), blue lasers, an increased rate of fire, and speed.

• Loading and unloading of BARC Speeders and AT-RT Walkers.

• ..And many more !

Skins available :

• Republic LAAT/i Gunship

• Imperial LAAT/i Gunship

• Plo's Bros LAAT/i Gunship

• Plain white LAAT/i Gunship, use it to make your own gunship.

• 3 skins slots free for you to create your own. I won't provide a tutorial for this.

How to use :

I won't make an LFS tutorial, just explaining the basic functions of the gunship, and the controls associated with them.

Pilot :

Seat 1

Mouse Left Click : Firing the front anti-personnel turrets Mouse Right Click : Firing the main missile launcher. Be aware, 2 missiles are shot in one salva. Space : Opening/Closing the doors. Be aware, the animations change wether you have the side turrets or spotlights on or off.

Suit Zoom + Space : Interior lights On/Off

Co-Pilot :

Seat 2

Mouse Left Click : Firing the wings laser turrets. While looking behind the aircraft, the left click fires the rear anti-personnel turret Mouse Right Click : Launching one of 8 AA missiles. Your target must be locked. (The locking takes like 2s, your target MUST be in front of the gunship.) Space : Carpet bombing. Works only on the Munnulist 10 LAAT/i.

Suit zoom + Space : Spotlights On/Off (Only on the space version)

Side turrets gunners :

Seat 3-4 - Only on the Atmospheric version.

Mouse Left Click : Firing the laser turret. The turrets damage is an area of effect of short range, that can kill targets that are in immediate proximity. Mouse Right Click : Zooming.

Loadmaster :

Seat 5 on the Atmospheric version, Seat 3 on the Space version.

Space : Opening/Closing the rear hatch Mouse Left Click : Loads the vehicle (BARC/BARC Stretcher/AT-RT/74-Z Speeders) Mouse Right Click : Unloads the vehicle

Passenger :

Seat 6-22

Just enjoy the ride, and pray not to crash

Known issues :

• None

If you enconter any issue, please let me know so i can fix it fast !

Adding a vehicule to the hatch pickup whitelist :

If you wish to add one of your own vehicule to the pickup system, you need to add this to your .lua files.

ENT.LAATHeldType -> "dual_barc", "solo_barc" or "dual_atrt" ENT.LAATHeldPos -> Vector ENT.LAATHeldAngle -> Angle

Reuploading:

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Credits :

• Venator for the LAAT Base Textures of the entire gunship. Amazing job.

• MyDude, for making the beautiful animations that makes this gunship so special.

• SaulWorthy for buying the model from CGTrader. Nothing would have been possible without you.

• !Ben, for making the lua files, thinking of and developing all the nice features of this gunship. If you need to thank someone, thank him.

• Fisher, for making the different skins, rigging some parts of the gunship, creating a lot of bones, blah..blah..blaah... all the behind-the-scene work, pretty much, except actual developement.

• Luna, for providing assets, like effects, sounds,helping us with code and poseparameters, and creating the LFS base. The best vehicule base available.

• Alrix and Black for getting the sounds from BF2, cutting them, etc..