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Title: new sheild impact code
Post by: Bobboau on April 17, 2004, 02:31:15 am: http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/fs2_open_r_sheildtest.zip

sheild impacts are now made better, they are relitive to the size of the weapon hitting the sheilds, not the ship being hit, big improvement with this will be sheilded capships will no longer look supper dupper ugly. I think the fighters look better now to, I'm going to add a table definable sheild impact size, wich defalts to 4xhead radius (what it's currently useing).
enjoy :)
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Post by: redmenace on April 17, 2004, 04:44:19 am: hey while we are on shields, whats going on with the shield bug(not showing up when there is a hit), was that ever fixed?
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Post by: Bobboau on April 17, 2004, 05:03:35 am: uh, DL the EXE and see
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Post by: DaBrain on April 17, 2004, 08:36:55 am: Downloading now.

Should be a big improvment.
But that IS a feature ... Or not ?

Edit:
1. Bug: The exe is named fs2_open_r_sheildtest.exe :)
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Post by: DaBrain on April 17, 2004, 09:30:03 am: I think 4xradius is too small.
Personaly I would like to see almost the whole shield to be animated if hit...

Custom ani´s seem to cause problems with it.
(http://www.ystart.net/upload/20040417/1082211934.jpg)

I know it is propably caused bey this:
(http://www.ystart.net/upload/20040417/1082212184.jpg)

But if I understood what you did to the code, this should not happen.
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Post by: Bobboau on April 17, 2004, 08:23:12 pm: 4x radius works best becase of the huge turret weapons, they do light up the whole mesh.
now, what's the problem, from the screen it looks like it's working perfictly, and thhat second one is just a still from the animaion with one of the rays circled :wtf:

[edit]oh, wait I see it, yeah you'r gona want to make sure the outer most pixels on your animation are all totaly black.
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Post by: Goober5000 on April 17, 2004, 08:37:47 pm: Quote
Originally posted by DaBrain
Should be a big improvment.
But that IS a feature ... Or not ?
Title: new sheild impact code
Post by: Bobboau on April 17, 2004, 09:18:11 pm: is it?
it fixes the problems many people trying to put shields on capships are faceing, I thought I had authoriseation to do this

I guess the go ahead, wasn't as clear as I thought
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,22537.0.html
but still
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Post by: Goober5000 on April 17, 2004, 09:30:29 pm: Hm. It isn't terribly clear, but I guess that's okay. Just look it over carefully and make sure it doesn't have any bugs.
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Post by: Bobboau on April 17, 2004, 09:42:17 pm: well it doesn't seem to have any bugs, the thing I'm more worried about is that it changes the way things look, most fighter weapons leave a rather small sheild impact effect capship turret weapons on the other hand make relitively huge effects (and this does cause something of a problem were you can see the edges of triangles sometimes, trying to think of a way to get around that currently)
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Post by: Turambar on April 18, 2004, 06:29:24 am: Is this based on another build?
Yours?
Taylor's?
and i know i'm probably committing blasphemy by saying this, but can i get an estimate as to when 3.6 will come out?
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Post by: kasperl on April 18, 2004, 06:47:57 am: Quote
Originally posted by Turambar
and i know i'm probably committing blasphemy by saying this, but can i get an estimate as to when 3.6 will come out?

WHEN IT'S DONE!
:lol:
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on April 18, 2004, 12:08:54 pm: Bob, would an inverse exponential increase in shield impact radius size relative to the weapon radius (instead of a geometric increase) help in keeping the shield impacts looking close to correct?
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Post by: Mav on April 18, 2004, 01:01:45 pm: Would it be possible to make the effect's size to be related to the (shield) damage of the weapon? Or, if not, making it a tbl value?
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Post by: kasperl on April 18, 2004, 01:03:23 pm: tbl value with defaulting to size seems best to me.
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Post by: Lightspeed on April 20, 2004, 05:46:55 am: Can anyone upload the build for me? I didn't get it in time. :)
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Post by: Taristin on April 20, 2004, 07:40:25 am: Sorry, I lost my TVWP FTP info... And my email account info as well, but that's more something I have to tell Goober than anything else...

So without that, and VW down, I can only use the 'attach' feature. :doubt:
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Post by: kasperl on April 20, 2004, 07:59:52 am: Raa: Email it to me.

kasper-loopstra @ nospam hetnet.nl
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Post by: Taristin on April 20, 2004, 11:57:54 am: Can't at the moment... It's on another PC... and I can't get it from there yet... Make Bob upload it to Swoosh, or fattony's...
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Post by: Omniscaper on April 20, 2004, 06:16:09 pm: the link is down. I'd like to try it out with the Trek ships.
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Post by: Bobboau on April 20, 2004, 06:33:43 pm: I don't have a swoo acount and I don't trust An0n, I'm working on getting alternative hosting.
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Post by: kasperl on April 21, 2004, 03:25:34 am: kasper-loopstra @ hetnet .nl

remove the spaces, i just got some FTP back.
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Post by: an0n on April 21, 2004, 04:49:44 am: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
I don't have a swoo acount and I don't trust An0n, I'm working on getting alternative hosting.
Cheeky mother****er.

I'm perfectly trustworthy. Of all the tards I've been pissed at, I've destroyed the lifes work of precisely none of them.
Title: new sheild impact code
Post by: kasperl on April 21, 2004, 04:59:52 am: err?

could you then do me a favour and send me the FSCZ internal's threads?
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Post by: an0n on April 21, 2004, 05:03:14 am: No.
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Post by: kasperl on April 21, 2004, 05:04:45 am: then could you make it public or unbann me?
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Post by: an0n on April 21, 2004, 05:06:11 am: Ummmm......no.
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Post by: kasperl on April 21, 2004, 05:11:06 am: in that case, could you give the contents of the internal to somebody else of the staff?

i can hardly say it is my lifes work, but it is a rather large amount of info, and it is a pity to see it go to waste because you were bored,

and it hardly is a nice advertising line for your hosting "risk pissing the boss off by not begging and loose all you're work"
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Post by: an0n on April 21, 2004, 05:15:15 am: Yes, but you're a special case.

I've actually got a reason for banning you.

Not only did you ***** and whine and get banned, you kept *****ing and whining and got uber-banned, then you KEPT *****ing and whining till I banned you through every method I could think of, then you used a proxy to try and keep reading the forums and got IP banned through that as well.

So this isn't one of those bans where I revoke it after 20 minutes. It's one of those where I send you 3Gb files in your e-mail if you keep trying to find a way around it.

And I've already given Singh access because he asked nicely.
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Post by: kasperl on April 21, 2004, 05:19:10 am: i didn't use a proxy, i aske Hippo to look, and he got someone to look.
as for *****ing, i hardly said anything, only a few remarks in the forums, but it is all water under the bridge now.

and thank you for giving Singh acces, the problem is solved then.
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Post by: an0n on April 21, 2004, 05:21:43 am: Uh......I may have banned Hippo then.
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Post by: kasperl on April 21, 2004, 05:22:14 am: yeah, he said something like that......

he actually said you banned the whole of AOL.
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Post by: an0n on April 21, 2004, 05:26:46 am: I kinda banned the entire 62.195.* block.
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Post by: kasperl on April 21, 2004, 05:30:41 am: eh?

that is kinda the largest Dutch cable provider.....

but since i am the only one using Chello on NW it doesn't matter.
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Post by: an0n on April 21, 2004, 05:31:50 am: TCO/Tiara use it too occasionally IIRC.
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Post by: kasperl on April 21, 2004, 05:35:04 am: not my problem, really. but tell me when i'm unbanned.
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Post by: an0n on April 21, 2004, 06:02:18 am: You're not getting unbanned.
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Post by: Fineus on April 21, 2004, 06:42:20 am: Take it to PM or email guys - I don't want or need to know the full story to know that this is not the place.
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Post by: kasperl on April 21, 2004, 06:44:14 am: it's closed as far as i care.

but can someone tell HIG that he ain't a mod?
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Post by: an0n on April 21, 2004, 06:48:39 am: Buh?
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Post by: kasperl on April 21, 2004, 06:52:04 am: he sent me a PM telling me to STFU and leave you alone, thinking he was the almighty god of HLP.
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Post by: an0n on April 21, 2004, 06:57:29 am: Buh?

He's a wierd one.
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Post by: Gloriano on April 21, 2004, 06:57:49 am: Bah it was just Advice!
Title: new sheild impact code
Post by: Fineus on April 21, 2004, 06:58:28 am: Enough. Bobboau please restart the topic if you want it to continue - but I'm locking this.