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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: IPAndrews on April 14, 2005, 03:46:19 am

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: IPAndrews on April 14, 2005, 03:46:19 am

Anyone got a fixed build? Babylon 5 is 8km long and has 150 odd glowpoints, so the drift is kind of an issue :D

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: phreak on April 14, 2005, 09:40:16 am

was there a problem? I didn't see it in mantis.

Try the newest builds.

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: Skullar on April 15, 2005, 11:21:34 am

similar effect can be seen with background nebulae shifting relative to starfield when turning around.

The glowpoint bug was :

Glowpoint is at its correct position when in the center of the screen, but if you move around the glowpoint seems to leave its fixed position on the hull. If you center it , i is again in the right place.

Seems to be a matter of perspective ?

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: Flipside on April 15, 2005, 01:15:43 pm

Sounds similar to the Skybox problem which was fixed ages ago. It rendered the skybox centred on your target instead of your ship, so it sort of wobbled around a lot and ended up 'falling off' ;)

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: Inquisitor on April 15, 2005, 01:55:15 pm

if it's not in mantis, we're not fixing it, reference a bug id so we can bug the appropriate person about the bug :)

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: Nuke on April 15, 2005, 09:11:11 pm

ive seen this too on ssj dante's mass driver cannon projectile. it does seem to be a perspective issue.

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: Skullar on April 17, 2005, 05:12:39 pm

it is. occurs even if your ship is at speed ZERO

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 17, 2005, 07:23:11 pm

Sounds like a g3_rotate_vertex() or g3_project_vertex() problem.

They have issues if you change the perspective as well.

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: Nuke on April 18, 2005, 02:43:55 am

the displacement effect also grows more profound with the size of the glowpoint.

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: IPAndrews on April 20, 2005, 09:39:43 am

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Originally posted by Nuke
the displacement effect also grows more profound with the size of the glowpoint.

Might be true, can't say for sure. B5 does have big glowpoints though and the effect is rather pronounced.

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: Bobboau on April 20, 2005, 09:42:27 am

does anyone notice a similar problem with thrusters, because they should be useing the exact same code...

Title: Did the glowpoint drift get fixed?
Post by: Nuke on April 21, 2005, 02:51:45 am

the glowpoint on the mass driver projectile should be 500 meters wide and it really goes way off center at times.