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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: ShadowGorrath on November 13, 2008, 05:21:15 pm

Title: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 13, 2008, 05:21:15 pm

Hello,

The Kato fighter has an issue with it's thrusters. The thruster glow can be seen from the front, through the model. Is there any way to fix it?

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: Droid803 on November 13, 2008, 05:51:16 pm

Shrink the thruster glow size.

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 13, 2008, 10:11:37 pm

You think I haven't tried that?

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: Spicious on November 13, 2008, 10:14:04 pm

Change the normals to point backwards?

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: ShadowGorrath on November 13, 2008, 10:18:22 pm

They do face back.

Only the thruster glows appear through the hull.

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: blowfish on November 13, 2008, 10:23:33 pm

This might be a long shot but make sure the thruster normals are normalized.

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: Getter Robo G on November 15, 2008, 10:15:37 am

Please explain that? AFAIK thruster glitches are normal and have plagued different projects for years.

How do you "normalize" something that's already a normal?
 :D And pretend you're speaking to the GTD Cube so we all can understand.

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: blowfish on November 15, 2008, 11:34:51 am

The problem is caused by the thruster normal being too long (I confirmed this on another model).  In PCS2, select the thruster, and either just change the normal to 0:0:-1 or hit the normalize button.

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: Getter Robo G on November 15, 2008, 12:33:28 pm

Thanks for the tip, I'll be going back sometime to check on some of the fighters I converted in the past with such issues...

For example, You shouldn't be able to see these through the "feet".

(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Star-Dragon/rtcorg.jpg)

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: BengalTiger on November 15, 2008, 12:59:37 pm

Moving them backwards should help a bit.

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: blowfish on November 15, 2008, 01:02:00 pm

Maybe, but that's not the cause of the problem.

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: Black Wolf on November 17, 2008, 09:36:14 pm

Fairly well off topic, but the Kato is one of the few ancient mods I really like. It'd be cool to see it HTLed one day.

Title: Re: Fixing the AF Kato
Post by: Droid803 on November 18, 2008, 06:22:21 pm

Indeed. :D