[Kazan]

the autoinsignia code bug that caused crashingin PCS1.x (that nobody reported!) has already been solved in the port to the 2.x codebase

[Bobboau]

BTW school will be out soonish, and I can get this done, I had editors for everything but insignia, path, shields, turrets, subobjects, and glow points, and some of those might not even get an editor (insignia, shield)

[takashi]

individual point editing/auto shield without need of making one in truespace?

[Scooby_Doo]

individual point editing/auto shield without need of making one in truespace?

"surface shields" does that 
besides auto-generating shields may not look very good.

[takashi]

unless it just scales up the model for the shield model. then you have tight wrapped shields!

[Bobboau]

no, then you have horable looking shields

[takashi]

look at the AF kato shields...or the ursa shields.

[WMCoolmon]

individual point editing/auto shield without need of making one in truespace?

"surface shields" does that 
besides auto-generating shields may not look very good.

No, surface shields just applies damage to the shields of a ship rather than the hull, when a shot strikes a part of the hull (as opposed to the part of the shield mesh). Unless somebody's fixed decals and I don't know about it, surface shields doesn't show any shield effect right now. It also doesn't (nor, to my knowledge, ever will) generate a shield mesh for you.

[Scooby_Doo]

Ok minus the special effects.  I'd sooner have the decals working than auto-generate shield skins.

[Kazan]

i've been trying to come up with an algorithm for autogenerating shield meshes in my head...... not likely to happen

[Flipside]

Shields are probably the easiest part of the model to make in the first place, they don't need texturing or even UV Mapping, so I really don't see the purpose to a generator. The algorithm for it would probably involve creating bounding boxes and then subdividing and smoothing them, doing a collision check at each subdivide, basically, it'd be far more effort for you to code than it would take to manually make the shield.

[Kazan]

yup... but you just solved part of what i was thinking about... bounding boxes get generated anyway.. so i could generate the BSP then make a point list out of the bounding box edges...

hmm... interesting

not slated for 2.0 .. but interesting

[takashi]

what about ships without shields?

[Kazan]

what about them

[redsniper]

they don't need shield meshes, taka.

[takashi]

my point.

[Kazan]

doesn't make sense

please explain what you are asking

[Raven2001]

Kaz... leave it...

[takashi]

im asking for an ability to make shields for .pofs that never had shields before. individual point editing/creation.

[Raven2001]

Thats the job of a modelling program, not an exporter