[Knight Templar]

hot ****! i remember those, niice darkage  

hey did it also come with the ships that don't die when they reach zero... like they explode like that but then they stay derelict corpses, like in "real life" ?

[Solatar]

Derelicts are cool.

[IceFire]

So it'd have to be mapped onto a model of some sort.  Trust me, changing the ANI perspective does not work at all.

[Bobboau]

so would you like it to be totaly random orientation, or somehow aligned with the model

[LAW ENFORCER]

Wathever you do just make sure you can switch it or use both flawlessly

[Nico]

random is probably best. ala Prophecy.

[KARMA]

but what if we use an ani that is already in perspective? (that will be a deformed ani)
it will just simulate prospective, there will be no profondity (right term?i mean 3d space propagation) so there will be some distorsion (you wan't see a shockwave passing through a ship) but it may work enough good

and about prophecy, i can't remember if it was really fully random or if perspective angle was always the same and what was changing was only the rotation angle...

[aldo_14]

remember that the explosions in FS 'throw' the debris backwards and forwards... if you rotate the shockwave, you'll need to rotate that sort of 'logical split point', so the ship gives the impression of being cut in half along it's length when it explodes.  That'ss need some SC change sto do with the explosion order and physics, IMO.

[Nico]

Originally posted by KARMA
and about prophecy, i can't remember if it was really fully random or if perspective angle was always the same and what was changing was only the rotation angle...

they were fully 3d and fully random.

Originally posted by Aldo_14
remember that the explosions in FS 'throw' the debris backwards and forwards... if you rotate the shockwave, you'll need to rotate that sort of 'logical split point', so the ship gives the impression of being cut in half along it's length when it explodes. That'ss need some SC change sto do with the explosion order and physics, IMO.

I don't agree, the tests in OTT worked perfectly, nothing seemed wrong ( save on those pics, don't ask why, but my staff chose the only shots where the shockwaves are all at the same angle  )

[Fury]

For TBP it would be perhaps best to have increased amounts of smaller but more detailed explosions.  While perhaps small shockwaves coming from "exposed" areas of hull.

Aww, dunno... I am probably gonna be blamed for such comment.

[##UnknownPlayer##]

Making the shockwaves have perspective like that doesn't actually seem like it would be too hard. I'll take a shot at it I think.

[KARMA]

another nice thing (but probably impossible) about shockwaves would be the glow sphere
i mean a smoothed spehere that grows inside the shockwave ring (the ani we were talking about in precedent posts), a sphere with a semi-transparent glow, no textures
something like -if some of you remember it- the shockwave in the film star trek: generations when the mad scientist kidnap laforge and launch a starkiller torpedo against the star: the star explodes and a massive shockwave semitransparent sphere grows, that shockwave was just a "glass sphere" but it was very funny:)

[Darkage]

Originally posted by ##UnknownPlayer##
Making the shockwaves have perspective like that doesn't actually seem like it would be too hard. I'll take a shot at it I think.

I already did that whit the OTT shockwaves. But you can't see that on the pic i posted.

[Knight Templar]

hey Darkage, check your PMs

[Bobboau]

ok I've goten the psew thing to work, DL this, it also has the warp model loading,
oops, I didn't include the warp model... crap
well I guess it's a good thing I left the old rendering code in as a failsafe
no I'll just have to reupload it
reuploaded, but I put in my warp model for TBP, oops
anyway
add this to you're table

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someone test to see if the pcx loading works as well I'm too tired to do anything else tonight,
also if anyone else gets a hard lock while starting on ocation please tell me as I am going to go insain if it's just me

[##UnknownPlayer##]

Ok I've hacked in some preliminary support for the game to arbitrarily assign perspective to each shockwave it creates. Will refine it tomorrow, because its 3.18am right now.

[RandomTiger]

What happens if the users eye level is exactly parallel with the explosion plane? They wont see anything.

Edit: Bob, check your e-mail

[Nico]

Originally posted by RandomTiger
What happens if the users eye level is exactly parallel with the explosion plane? They wont see anything.

wouldn't happen often, and as your ship moves, the odds you stay exactly on the same plan are near inexistant.

[RandomTiger]

Agreed however even if it was just close to being that situation it would be very visually obvious that its infinately thin.

[Nico]

Originally posted by RandomTiger
Agreed however even if it was just close to being that situation it would be very visually obvious that its infinately thin.

not a big deal, it happened sometimes in wing co prophecy, never shocked me.