Indeed they do. If it had Allisons under the cowls this would be a major problem, but instead it's just a matter of a telescopable prop shaft coming from the gearbox in the back of the engine space, with microturbines arrayed around it. I didn't model the thing, but did a napkin sketch of the arrangement. the turbosupercharger on the upper nacelle... uh... it makes it look like a P-38. Hmm, how about we say it's part of the cooling system for all those little fusion chambers?
As for the knee jets, they're pretty clear on the C-mode ("gerwalk" in Macross-style, but I expect it's a trademarked term) and in the initial A(-ttack or -ircraft)-mode pass you can see them going through 15-20 degree (I forget now) thrust vectoring, though since elevator input is happening at the same time only one actuates at once corresponding to aileron movement, since the other would be opposing the elevator's effect. I only realised after everything was said and done and rendered and posted that I should have run the ailerons in the opposite directions, so the camera motion would look ;like the plane was swooping under the control input.
I don't think I've gone over any machine stats in detail - if I have, I don't remember the details myself either. I haven't thought too much on it, it's basically eye candy plus getting frustrated over not being able to play Macross 30 multiplied by the fact that the only gameplay video series' I've found are by people who should be hiding their shame, not posting it on YouTube.
(insert image macro here: "YouNoob: Embarrass Yourself")
That is a rant I'll skip for now except to put on a phony accent and say, "My pride as a mecha pilot is offended by seeing you flail about with such pitiful skills! GERWALK! Learn it, love it, live it! When engaging anywhere but melee combat, G is the ideal blend of mobility and off-track shooting capability. Armor! It's not just for Destroids, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE NOT DODGING AROUND LIKE A CRACKHEAD SQUIRREL IN GERWALK! ARRRGH!" Then I go play Ultimate or Triangle Frontier for an hour or so to repeatedly obliterate either the kind of enemies they were facing or their player mecha, before coming back to my project of creating something to have a big screen and better customization than just paint scheme tints and stat mods of a fixed weapon mix. Though today's challenge is trying to get the J7W1 exported from Blender 2.63 into something 2.61 will read the faces of, instead of only importing the wires... I loathe 2.63+'s n-gons and even more so the fact that you can't disable n-gons as the default, but due to the rewriting .blend files are only nominally backward compatible, and I don't want all the annoying work already put into texturing the damn Shinden to go to waste.
ETA: Ah, I've gotten into bad habits with months of only being able to post short stuff, now I only try o cover one question per post and if it work's I'm happy... Anyway, WRT roles of variable fighters, the main difficulty has been in building a suitable control interface light enough for aircraft - semiconductors were only just being worked on in labs at this point OTL, and for a mecha you need both an esper pilot and an amplifier network built into it to extend their automatic body-reinforcing TK to the unit. Not only is doing so on a mass production basis troublesome, as you noted the air force commands involved were at best on the stodgy side - only the proven effectiveness of the few example Bluo mecha - and the fact that when they arrived in 1920, there was not a weapon system on Earth capable of reliably fighting them, since anything with enough damage output couldn't hit except by chance - had US designers working on them at all. The ground forces have lots of things in various grades of walking tank, but since most of the Battle form's effectiveness comes from physics-raping hax the benefit of increased structure is more place to put amplifier systems or powerplants to run them.
I'd happily welcome a collaborator or two for fitting the history/politics/ops doctrine together, but basically yeah, I'm operating on the level of OMGVARIABLEWWIIAWESOME more than anything.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
As for the knee jets, they're pretty clear on the C-mode ("gerwalk" in Macross-style, but I expect it's a trademarked term) and in the initial A(-ttack or -ircraft)-mode pass you can see them going through 15-20 degree (I forget now) thrust vectoring, though since elevator input is happening at the same time only one actuates at once corresponding to aileron movement, since the other would be opposing the elevator's effect. I only realised after everything was said and done and rendered and posted that I should have run the ailerons in the opposite directions, so the camera motion would look ;like the plane was swooping under the control input.
I don't think I've gone over any machine stats in detail - if I have, I don't remember the details myself either. I haven't thought too much on it, it's basically eye candy plus getting frustrated over not being able to play Macross 30 multiplied by the fact that the only gameplay video series' I've found are by people who should be hiding their shame, not posting it on YouTube.
(insert image macro here: "YouNoob: Embarrass Yourself")
That is a rant I'll skip for now except to put on a phony accent and say, "My pride as a mecha pilot is offended by seeing you flail about with such pitiful skills! GERWALK! Learn it, love it, live it! When engaging anywhere but melee combat, G is the ideal blend of mobility and off-track shooting capability. Armor! It's not just for Destroids, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE NOT DODGING AROUND LIKE A CRACKHEAD SQUIRREL IN GERWALK! ARRRGH!" Then I go play Ultimate or Triangle Frontier for an hour or so to repeatedly obliterate either the kind of enemies they were facing or their player mecha, before coming back to my project of creating something to have a big screen and better customization than just paint scheme tints and stat mods of a fixed weapon mix. Though today's challenge is trying to get the J7W1 exported from Blender 2.63 into something 2.61 will read the faces of, instead of only importing the wires... I loathe 2.63+'s n-gons and even more so the fact that you can't disable n-gons as the default, but due to the rewriting .blend files are only nominally backward compatible, and I don't want all the annoying work already put into texturing the damn Shinden to go to waste.
ETA: Ah, I've gotten into bad habits with months of only being able to post short stuff, now I only try o cover one question per post and if it work's I'm happy... Anyway, WRT roles of variable fighters, the main difficulty has been in building a suitable control interface light enough for aircraft - semiconductors were only just being worked on in labs at this point OTL, and for a mecha you need both an esper pilot and an amplifier network built into it to extend their automatic body-reinforcing TK to the unit. Not only is doing so on a mass production basis troublesome, as you noted the air force commands involved were at best on the stodgy side - only the proven effectiveness of the few example Bluo mecha - and the fact that when they arrived in 1920, there was not a weapon system on Earth capable of reliably fighting them, since anything with enough damage output couldn't hit except by chance - had US designers working on them at all. The ground forces have lots of things in various grades of walking tank, but since most of the Battle form's effectiveness comes from physics-raping hax the benefit of increased structure is more place to put amplifier systems or powerplants to run them.
I'd happily welcome a collaborator or two for fitting the history/politics/ops doctrine together, but basically yeah, I'm operating on the level of OMGVARIABLEWWIIAWESOME more than anything.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows