[FireCrack]

Yeah, that'd be good.

[Goober5000]

Not hard at all.  I've seen the code where it could be done.

[phreak]

I just coded it between finals at school.  I'll test it tonight

[phreak]

Build forthcoming

[Singh]

Nice - really looks like it's being cored all the way through.

One step away from....*shuts mouth before he says the GM word*

[Goober5000]

I just coded it between finals at school.  I'll test it tonight

Nice.

Keep in mind, though, that in retail the beam stops at the first object it collides with (unless that object is going to explode in 1 or 2 seconds).  Having the weapon go through every object it collides with will necessitate a flag in weapons.tbl.

Nice - really looks like it's being cored all the way through.

One step away from....*shuts mouth before he says the GM word*

Ah, but combining this feature with dynamic decals, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference, would you?

[phreak]

I just coded it between finals at school. I'll test it tonight

Nice.

Keep in mind, though, that in retail the beam stops at the first object it collides with (unless that object is going to explode in 1 or 2 seconds). Having the weapon go through every object it collides with will necessitate a flag in weapons.tbl.

Yea I just threw a do-while loop around the collision handling function and drew down the points until no more collisions could be found.  It also stopped if the ship wasn't about to be "tooled" (see beam_will_tool_target()).  I want to do a bit more testing first though to see if it handles cases like:



Right now, 1&4 are definately handled, need to test 2&3 on the arms of the sath or ravana.

[Sandwich]

Hmm. Although it's a major improvement, there's still ironically the clipping problem, just this time it's with the explosion ANI. Can anyone think of any way to address this issue? Ideally, there'd be an actual 3D (volumetric?) explosion, which would naturally obstruct parts of the hull in a gradual manner...

Right now, 1&4 are definately handled, need to test 2&3 on the arms of the sath or ravana.

Try on a Hecate - a heck of a lot easier to set up.

[phreak]

meh, it just looks that way since i didn't really line up for a good shot in game.  It looks better when you're moving. 

Also, the way i have things handled, explosions 1&3 in the picture above will cause damage.  So that X is receiving twice the damage it would usually get.  This shouldn't mess with the balance really since this case will occur only when the ship was going to be destroyed from that beam anyway.  Perhaps i can have 2&4 cause damage as well.  It would be fun watching the numbers go down in the escort list, and plummet once the beam goes through.

Edit:  Its now in CVS,  bother redmenace now.  I need to sleep - its 315 am

[Flaser]

I just coded it between finals at school.  I'll test it tonight

Nice.

Keep in mind, though, that in retail the beam stops at the first object it collides with (unless that object is going to explode in 1 or 2 seconds).  Having the weapon go through every object it collides with will necessitate a flag in weapons.tbl.

Nice - really looks like it's being cored all the way through.

One step away from....*shuts mouth before he says the GM word*

Ah, but combining this feature with dynamic decals, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference, would you?

Could this burn through be based on underlying subsystem strenght? The idea would be that if the underlying systems are shot, then there's not much to chew for the beam anymore.
(With damage modelling / destroyable subsystem models this could lead to ships imitating a cheese cake.)

[StratComm]

Sweet.  I'll try to retake that shot in a couple of days and see if I can't get what I was after originally.

Right now, 1&4 are definately handled, need to test 2&3 on the arms of the sath or ravana.

I've got a Vasudan corvette that would be really easy to test that with, if you're so inclined.  It was supposed to be in Inferno R2, though I don't know what Woo decided to name it there.

[BlackDove]

More bigass screenshots damnit.

[phreak]

Sweet. I'll try to retake that shot in a couple of days and see if I can't get what I was after originally.

Right now, 1&4 are definately handled, need to test 2&3 on the arms of the sath or ravana.

I've got a Vasudan corvette that would be really easy to test that with, if you're so inclined. It was supposed to be in Inferno R2, though I don't know what Woo decided to name it there.

I've since tested it and fixed any problems.  so now it is working.  The code is in CVS so get a better version of your screencap and we have a winner.

[BlackDove]

StratComm.

Screenshot.

Quick.

[Jetmech Jr.]

...It looks like it's coming to eat me...

[Pnakotus]

Since we're talking about that beam penetration explosion, can someone fix it?  The edges of the square, where the orange 'debris' disappear, is extremely evident: at some points in the animation, it is clear that it's a postage-stamp recording of an explosion.  Can't DaBrain just reproduce the effect and make the animation large enough to include the 'debris' fading instead of suddenly disappearing at a hard, square outline?

[StratComm]

Oh yeah.  I need to re-take that picture.  Yet another thing to do before I go home for christmas. 

[Murderous Species]

I got a screenshot showing good background, a lot of stars (I think the proper name is starmaps),a beam, and some flak.

The problems:
Don't know how to upload it HERE.
Don't know how to make backgrounds brighter
Don't know how to make the pilot apper in the pilot cockpit.

[Murderous Species]

[Black Wolf]

First, convert it from bmp to jpeg or png or something less space intensive than bmp. Then ypu need somewhere to upload it. Imageshack is free, easy to use and it even provides you with the correct formatting for forums. Try that'n for now.