[Topgun]

How exactly do 3d shockwaves work? Is it a animated texture or a expanding model?

[Herra Tohtori]

AFAIK it's an expanding model with a static main texture and an animated glowmap effect.

[Titan]

i want 2d shockwaves though...   

[Topgun]

I mean 3d 2d shockwaves. like in the mediavps.

[Snail]

i want 2d shockwaves though...   

Too bad.

[Retsof]

Has anyone made a shockwave that is more real?  Like an expanding bubble?

[Aardwolf]

Retail FS1 had that.

[Retsof]

I mean a 3D sphere.

[Herra Tohtori]

It wouldn't look good at all.

Volumetric explosions and shockwaves would be cool as hell, but having just a partially opaque glowing sphere would not look good as a shockwave, because it would be just a hollow expanding thin crust, while a visible shockwave would have some apparent thickness.

Making it look good woud require some seriously fancy shader work OR post-processing or something else to break the clean spherical form slightly. Otherwise, it would rock.

[JGZinv]

If someone actually has a complete "sphere" explosion, it would be interesting to see.

The Corona device in Tach had that effect... except it did more damage to you, than anything else.

[Nuke]

didnt i do a porcupineball or something awhile back, i dont know what happened to that thing, its not in nukemod. its just really hard to model big transparent things.

[Snail]

didnt i do a porcupineball or something awhile back, i dont know what happened to that thing, its not in nukemod. its just really hard to model big transparent things.

I think I have something exactly like that from an old Nukemod dump. I'll check.

[Nuke]

ok, now i remember where i put it

[Topgun]

ok, I am trying to make a 3dshockwave. do I need any tbm's? what exactly do I need to name the textures? I have the texture but it doesn't seem to work. it just keeps using the mediavps one.

[Galemp]

I made a bunch of these as demos back when this feature was first programmed in. Here they are.