[Bobboau]

Sticks! why havn't you started work on the over-exposure feature yet?
hu, get to work! now! minion
and while we're on the subject, what ever happened to shadowing and bumpmaps? though that was something RT expressed intrest in.
who thinks it would be fun to experement in volumetrics? would be good for the nebula and thruster glows.
how's the point sprite thingy working out, I looked over the d3d particle module and I've played around with it though what I did mostly whent around RT's batching code (I used a totaly diferent batching system)
isn't anyone going to try implementing a scripted animation system?
hell last few days I've been thinking of ways to implement geo-mod.

k'mon, it's post 3.6, why don't we get back to the fun stuf

[WMCoolmon]

Yeah, I have a dumb (or brilliant) question about geo-mod.

Now, for the decals code you have to figure out where on a ship a shot impacted, right...

So why can't FS2 find the nearest vertex on the model and then modify its position towards the model center? Aren't they just vector coordinates? Or are models automatically loaded into VRAM (and therefore unaccessible except through API funcs) or something?

[Bobboau]

biggest problem currently is; one model for all ships of a class

any geometry changes we do to a ship will show up in all other ships

aside from that, rebuilding an index buffer is quite expensive currently (it basicly runs through a compileing sequence, pof geometry is not optomised for index buffers). but the thing you describe is not geo-mod, geo-mod would require boolien subtraction of one object from another, and we'd need to keep a colision system that can handle it, I was thinking a model format were you could swap out a polygon for a list of polygons might be good for this, that way you just tack onto the end of the geometry some more polygons derived from another one and in that poly you give a redirection to the bunch you just made at the end, and those polys each could also be swaped out for a list, some sort of optomiser would need to go through and prune orphened polygons though.

[Goober5000]

I'm working on integrating persistent variables into the loadout and other pre-mission stuff.

I'm also doing the multiple IFF mod conversion.

I'm going to try working on multiple ship docking too... don't tell anyone, but I think I thought of something that might work.

I don't know what order I'll code these in, so I'll just announce them as they come.

[Sticks]

Sorry, I've been insanely busy lately, not to mention an HD crash that basically set my work back a couple months.

I am hoping to get back into the swing of things this week though, as things are starting to cool off work-wise.

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Goober5000
I'm going to try working on multiple ship docking too... don't tell anyone, but I think I thought of something that might work.

*goes to tell everyone* j/k

I really hopes your idea will result in success - this has been one of the most-wanted things

I think someone should really fix that glow/hull intersection problem.