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Offline aldo_14

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Has anyone figured out what the calculations are for getting the proper value for this?  IIRC it was some sort of multiplicatory settings for xyz motion (3 sets of xyz co-ordinates)... basically, if it isn't set properly you get nasty 'judder' on capital ships (in particular) when they get hit.

 

Offline IceFire

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Fighters too...they don't get bounced around by anti-fighter beams.  Which causes them more damage.
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Offline aldo_14

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Er... very nice, but AFAIK that can;t tell me how to get the right values into me pofs.

 

Offline DTP

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take a ship or a figther from the Volition Packs, that is similar in size or better, mass, and copy paste the values from modelview.

for instance, if you got a fighter like the ulysses, you open that model in modelview and copy paste it.

that way your models will get the bounce effect.
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Offline aldo_14

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Originally posted by DTP
take a ship or a figther from the Volition Packs, that is similar in size or better, mass, and copy paste the values from modelview.

for instance, if you got a fighter like the ulysses, you open that model in modelview and copy paste it.

that way your models will get the bounce effect.


Doesn't seem to work unfortunately... I used it for the CoW models, and the error persists. :(

 

Offline DTP

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Originally posted by aldo_14


Doesn't seem to work unfortunately... I used it for the CoW models, and the error persists. :(


Did you remember to change the mass info aswell.

sounds to me like you ship may have to large a mass.

PCS will (i think) let you edit the mass of your ship. use the same procedure for this as for moment of inertia.

for instance the mass of the GTF Apollo is 334.076416
while the mass for the SSD lucifer is 1798917.125000
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Offline aldo_14

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Originally posted by DTP


Did you remember to change the mass info aswell.

sounds to me like you ship may have to large a mass.

PCS will (i think) let you edit the mass of your ship. use the same procedure for this as for moment of inertia.

for instance the mass of the GTF Apollo is 334.076416
while the mass for the SSD lucifer is 1798917.125000


I believe so... although it may be that I only guessed the mass.  I'll check, regardless, and hopefully it is just that.  How doe the same use M.O.I. values, anyway?  I asusmed they were used to divide the mass values in some way (too low for multiplicaiton, I thought), and using 0 caused FS2 to skip and use an alternate value.

 

Offline Nico

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Originally posted by aldo_14


Doesn't seem to work unfortunately... I used it for the CoW models, and the error persists. :(


quite odd, that always worked for me, it even fixes the usual fly through/ invisible wall bug on capships...
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Offline IceFire

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It doesn't work perfectly...I tried it...copied the Perseus values onto Venom's Banshee.  The Banshee now gets beat around....but even more so than the Perseus now.  We need a way to figure that out...
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Offline aldo_14

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Maybe the bounding box has an impact on this whole thing (dimensions of ship, i guess).