Here's a few Modo screen grabs of a space station defence weapon. It behaves like the Phalanx Close In Weapon System (CIWS) does on board ships to shoot down incoming missiles.
It was modeled for the independent sci-fi film LVJ and features in a huge space battle.
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Then again ... if that don't matter, then it don't matter!
Since it's space based, it's probably firing some kind of magnetically accelerated, shard like projectile, that's designed to puncture hulls to cause catastrophic explosive decompression in space, so the projectiles could be quite small. Given the time, I would've liked to add a large magazine that would be belt feeding the weapon, but since the asset is only featured in a handful of shots in the movie, I couldn't justify the time to get the rigging set up for that, so I settled for a halfway house of a fairly large magazine (the oil tank shape at the back) combined with a port (the one on the top) that could have a refill attached which would then deposit a fresh round of projectiles.
I'm currently working on one of the shots that the model features in so I'll upload it when it's done.
lacks a huge camera/telescope for aiming.
the belt ammobox would have been uber cool
Aresius, haven't you heard? Bigger's WAYYYYYYYYY better. Even she said that...oh, wait.
I agree completely with you. Looks like a couple of GAU-8s and I keep expecting to see a huge drum full of 30mm depleted uranium rounds.
Overall, I really like this weapon system and I think it'll fit well with your Pegasus base. Quick question, though. Why'd you start a new thread from something in the same overall project?
Re, Juvat's comment about starting a new thread. Sorry, I should've made it clearer at the beginning of the thread, the model for the space station was modelled quite a few years ago now and I wasn't a part of sci-fi meshes then, so there was no original thread for it. You can however see the space station model in a short clip from the movie that I've attached here, you can also see the gun letting loose on some attacking alien fighters.
Again, thanks for the comments.
It'd be better if you responded with more useful criticism, too.
Pfft. Sounds like laziness on your part to me. Perhaps if you had some semblance of decent grammar and could coherently ask things politely you might get better results than you would if you keep typing like a five year old with an attitude of entitlement.
Luckily, ctaylor was nice enough to embed the video as you, er, requested(?).
If it was a conventional type of gun, as it appears in the video now, then an exhaust port for gasses would be perfect for that.