[Solatar]

If somebody is really worried about it. They can asign a .pcx file to be the "edge" of the shockwave. Making the whole thing look three dimensional from any angle.

[RandomTiger]

Originally posted by Hades
If somebody is really worried about it. They can asign a .pcx file to be the "edge" of the shockwave. Making the whole thing look three dimensional from any angle.

I've thought about that put it would be very tricky to get right. Cant just shove it in when it becomes parallel.

Perhaps a <>-------------------center------------------<> shape would work.

Might as well see how it looks first I guess, if venom2506 is right perhaps its not that bad.

Just out of interest what would determine which way it is oriented?

[Bobboau]

maybe you could have a poly aligned along the perpondicular axis of the shockwave that renders like a beam, and add to it's z value ass the shockwave expands

[aldo_14]

What would be really cool would be rendering it as a torus object........ of course, that could be poly-rific.

[Bobboau]

and we could set the alpha based on the angle you are looking at it so it only comes into view as the shockwave comes in on edge

[##UnknownPlayer##]

Actually I've been thinking about this torus path now. With Bobbaou using the warp hole model to project that, I'm wondering if perhaps this is how it should go instead. Basically, we'd stretch the ani over the model, so when you were parrallel with the front, it would look like the blue 'front' was approaching you.

[Fury]

Gah, replied to wrong topic.

[Nico]

find the laser code, and give the shockwave a glow. voila!

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by ##UnknownPlayer##
Actually I've been thinking about this torus path now. With Bobbaou using the warp hole model to project that, I'm wondering if perhaps this is how it should go instead. Basically, we'd stretch the ani over the model, so when you were parrallel with the front, it would look like the blue 'front' was approaching you.

Maybe it would be more efficient to use a flattened cylinder than a torus?

(i.e. take a cylinder, and make the outermost ends 'sharp' to help the effect.... also weld together the centre polies on the top/ bottom 'caps' of the cylinder to create a depression in the centre, and use transparency to get a torus-like appearance, but without as many polys to be rendered....)

[Stunaep]

to prevent the shockwave no-seeing thing from happening, you could just code in something in the flavour of the perspective shockwave never being shown on certain angles (somewhere from 0-20 degrees) if you know what I mean. That way, the shockwave would always show.

[Bobboau]

my code is designed to be able to do that sort of thing

[ZylonBane]

Umm... are you guys also planning on altering FS2's shockwave collision code? Because if what's onscreen doesn't match what happens to the player's ship, people are going to get pissed off.

FS2's nice spherical shockwaves may be somewhat improbable, but flat-disc shockwaves under these conditions are physically impossible, and exist only because of lazy or technically constrained animators.