[phreak]

pic #1

[SKYNET-011]

Oops. Scrolled down to fast.

[Edwin]

That'd be a cool weapon.

Captain: "Helm, aim for that planet.  Full afterburners NOW!"....

[Goober5000]

It happens with beam charge-ups, too.

[Sesquipedalian]

And shield hit anis. (See bugzilla entry #52)

[Woomeister]

First time I've seen those pics. I think the Asarte is doing that as someone set it's normals to -50

I'll change that now...

[Sesquipedalian]

No, I'm getting it with my models' thrusters too, and they didn't do it formerly.

[phreak]

anyone: find where this is and put a vm_vec_normalize() in there.

[Goober5000]

Been looking; I think this might have been introduced when Bobboau added the new glowpoint stuff, but I can't find where that is.

[DTP]

same thought Goober5000, same thought.

/code/physics/physics.cpp

pi->side_thrust = 0.0f;   //to glow broighter when the ship is moveing in the right direction -Bobboau


hmm. .


this might be it. but really, i havent checked. if so.

[LtNarol]

I ran into the same problems testing the capital ships for Exposition, the engine glows on an Evangelist light carrier took up the entire screen when i was 500 meters away until i zoomed out for a full 2 minutes.  That was with FS2_open 3.3

[Sesquipedalian]

By repeated tests, I've found that the oversized thruster glows appear to be situationally dependent.  Depending on what the ship is doing, the thrusters get larger or not.  E.g. I had a corvette sitting idle, and its glows were bugger than ususal, but not too big.  Then when it started moving around to jump out, they got huge.  The description attached to that line from bobbaou's code seems to fit in with my situation.  Maybe.

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
By repeated tests, I've found that the oversized thruster glows appear to be situationally dependent.  Depending on what the ship is doing, the thrusters get larger or not.  E.g. I had a corvette sitting idle, and its glows were bugger than ususal, but not too big.  Then when it started moving around to jump out, they got huge.  The description attached to that line from bobbaou's code seems to fit in with my situation.  Maybe.

Well...that probably has something to do with scaling.  FS2 normally changes the size of the thruster based on what the ship is doing.  Its just far less pronounced (small glow, medium small glow VS big glow, big freaking huge giant massive behemoth of a glow wiping out the entire screen in white glowness!)

[Sesquipedalian]

Mm.  Sounds reasonable.

[Bobboau]

the changes made were to the thruster glow rendering code, wich is directly below the glow point code, there was a bit done when adding the sliding code too, but the only thing that would affect the glows would be in the rendering code.
someone see if you can get this to happen on a player ship, player ships have debug text generated for the thrusters for just such a bug.

[Goober5000]

Hmm... flyable Orions, anyone?

[Nico]

so, what's up with that? I'm just back from a "whoa, space is all white!!!" mission ( what you get whe you have a few capships scattered on the mission field )

[Goober5000]

Yeah, someone please fix this. I posted a debug build in the 3.4 thread for testing if necessary.

[Goober5000]

*crickets chirp*

[Goober5000]

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