Author Topic: Age old request, shield hit effect for surface shields  (Read 2770 times)

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Offline Fury

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Age old request, shield hit effect for surface shields
Pretty please? :) Could we also have a flag which disables shield meshes on a ship but doesn't disable surface shields, please?

 

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Re: Age old request, shield hit effect for surface shields
Pretty please? :) Could we also have a flag which disables shield meshes on a ship but doesn't disable surface shields, please?
For the latter option, couldn't you just delete the shield mesh of the model?

 

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Re: Age old request, shield hit effect for surface shields
I wouldn't want to alter retail or mvps models, then package altered models with a mod and repeat the process if mvps models are updated.

 

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Re: Age old request, shield hit effect for surface shields
Surface shields are actually supposed to come with shield hit effects.  Unfortunately, the shield hit code is very tangled and obscure.  I spent a weekend trying to get shield hits to work on a model without a shield mesh, to no success.  I suspect that code will have to be entirely rewritten.

 

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Re: Age old request, shield hit effect for surface shields
Wanderer wrote a script for Saga to do just that - it's just that the effect looks very crappy.

When you add "surface shields" flag, normal shields are probably disabled, aren't they?
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Re: Age old request, shield hit effect for surface shields
When you add "surface shields" flag, normal shields are probably disabled, aren't they?
No they are not. In fact, I wish you guys had added surface flags for the thunderbolt in the WCS wc4 techdemo. There are some angles at which shots will pass through your shields, surface shield flag will fix this.
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Re: Age old request, shield hit effect for surface shields
An interesting point - I've been playing with that idea for some time now. ;)
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Re: Age old request, shield hit effect for surface shields
Is it compatible with "intrinsic no shields"? And no, I have no idea where I might be going with that, I've been up for past 24hrs now.
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Re: Age old request, shield hit effect for surface shields
I don't believe the type of shield effect will interfere with 'intrinsic no shields' as long as there _are_ shields.  If shields aren't there then intrinsic no shields does nothing as there can't be shields anyway.
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