Author Topic: How random is the damage lightning ?  (Read 1267 times)

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Offline Col. Fishguts

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How random is the damage lightning ?
Something I noticed while working on some high-poly WIP models. Ships with polycounts nearing 10'000 and more tend to have the damage lightning effect cluttered in one specific part of the model, meaning it isn't randomly flashing along the whole model.

Now, I guess that the lightning effect randomly chooses some vertices along which the lightning bolts are drawn. Could it be that there's a hard-coded upper limit for the vertice set from which it chooses, resulting in such a localized effect ?

Or could this behavior have its roots in some POF error ?
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