[Nighteyes]

is there a good reason why its not a flat disc shape? right now it has some depth to it, and it creates a duble image of the shockwave animation that is projected on it... dosn't look good with the shockwave I created...

By gbtf67 at 2010-01-02

[Titan]

That actually looks kindof cool...

[Nighteyes]

well if I wanted it to look like that I would have made it that way but I don't want it like that, it looks from afar like its not sharp, like its a bit fuzzy because of the duplicate rings...

[Rodo]

is there a good reason why its not a flat disc shape? right now it has some depth to it, and it creates a duble image of the shockwave animation that is projected on it... dosn't look good with the shockwave I created...

By gbtf67 at 2010-01-02

I sence you did a texture for an spherical explotion... you trying to get that?

[Commander Zane]

If you can somehow get that to be spherical I'm totally going to use that shockwave.

[General Battuta]

Good question. Why is it doubled?

[Rodo]

If you can somehow get that to be spherical I'm totally going to use that shockwave.

same here, though.... if it wasn't done so far,then it must be because that's too hard or impossible.

[Commander Zane]

Good question. Why is it doubled?

Every 3D shockwave I've seen is double-layered.

[General Battuta]

Because they all use the same .pof. Now, the question is, why?

[Zacam]

Ask DaBrain or search out posts by him on the 3D Shockwave. Very OLD posts I might ad.

Somewhere around here, I have a non-double surfaced shockwave.pof. I'll see if I can find it.

[Nighteyes]

the original was a 3d sphere, but as of now, it can't be done as a sphere in FS...
the 2d version I made looks also really good, as it always faces the camera
the duble layers is because the pof model is "fat" as in has depth and not ccompletly flat, its real simple to fix, can someone please edit that pof and upload the new one for me to test?
as for why, I assume because it looks good with the current one? that is also why when the shockwave is facing the player we always get that ugly 2 lines... instead of 1 ugly thin line

[Nighteyes]

I'll also add, the 3d shockwaves are a simple animated texture on a spherical model, we can even save some memory and use a plane for it... the model dosn't expand for all I know, it just generates at the spot at lets the animated texture run its course...

[Commander Zane]

the original was a 3d sphere, but as of now, it can't be done as a sphere in FS...
the 2d version I made looks also really good, as it always faces the camera

Is this your own version or the MediaVPs one?

[General Battuta]

Nighteyes.

[Commander Zane]

The 2D shockwave.

[Nighteyes]

mine, I made 2 new shockwaves, roughly the same, one is to be used as a 2D shockwave, and one as a 3D, so people can choose what they like the best, IMO a combination of both is the best, as HUGE shockwaves are nicer in 3D as its higher rez, and the 2D ones are nicer for smaller and faster shockwaves...
now, back to topic, can I have a pof model of the shockwave.pof just squeezed on the Y axis so its paper thin?

[General Battuta]

The 2D shockwave.

Dude.

the 2d version I made

 

mine, I made 2 new shockwaves, roughly the same, one is to be used as a 2D shockwave, and one as a 3D, so people can choose what they like the best, IMO a combination of both is the best, as HUGE shockwaves are nicer in 3D as its higher rez, and the 2D ones are nicer for smaller and faster shockwaves...
now, back to topic, can I have a pof model of the shockwave.pof just squeezed on the Y axis so its paper thin?

Zacam is looking.

[Commander Zane]

The 2D shockwave.

Dude.

the 2d version I made

 

For all I know he could've made the MediaVP version, hence why I asked if was either that or a personal one.

[General Battuta]

Nope, that was DaBrain's (or at least the 3D one was; can check the credits for the 2D one.)

I am currently trying to dig up old posts to figure out why the .pof is doubled like that.

[Aardwolf]

So what would an actual spherical shockwave be like? Why can't that be done?

I mean, it might look kind of funny, like it was 1997 again and we were playing Star Fox 64... but if it were done right...