nano-laser

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 24 Jan 2007, 03:22

A while back AF wrote a patch that allowed mods to change their nanolathe effect to a laser.

Could it be considered for the next version of spring?

AF · Post by AF » 24 Jan 2007, 03:27

I attempted it but gave up due to time and the more pressing matter of fixing an NTai bug

However it should be that nanospray should be bound to an explosion generater, using the direction of the nanospray/beam it would usually take as the direction vector of the explosion.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 24 Jan 2007, 03:41

For that matter, I'd like to vote that all FX called from within Spring refer back to customExplosionGenerators. That would be very nice, and not terribly hard to do, codewise.

1v0ry_k1ng · Post by **1v0ry_k1ng** » 24 Jan 2007, 10:36

supcom has laser nano beams

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 24 Jan 2007, 10:44

I am not worried about supcom, I want nano-beams because they will be better then the particles we have now. Right now those particles are... a bit on the laggy side.

clericvash · Post by **clericvash** » 24 Jan 2007, 12:54

Yor right smoth, imagine all your conbots spamming out loads of it, that is what probably makes a lot of games lag...

Post by **Kloot** » 24 Jan 2007, 12:58

e: obsolete

clericvash · Post by **clericvash** » 24 Jan 2007, 13:15

Who cares what type of lag it makes, its still lag.

Post by **Kloot** » 24 Jan 2007, 13:53

Because the fact that they are synced means the maxParticles setting does not affect them, nor would any replacement particle effect be (so it'd have to emit almost none to produce a noticeable improvement).

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 24 Jan 2007, 14:58

Set shownanoparticles to 0, aim the laser part during StartBuilding and fire the laser with emit-sfx in QueryNanoParticle? Hm, okay, that probably won't get called if shownanoparticles is 0 so you have to use a continuous effect that doesn't reflect if you actually have the ressources for building.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 24 Jan 2007, 16:38

Not gonna work because emit-sfx and beamlaser weapons (I assume this is what smoth wants) are no good.
Dunno if spring still crashes when the laser weapon wasn't aimed before the first shot but it will target the very same last target location instead of firing straight ahead in the direction of the piece rotation. Also the beamtime is (or was) limited to 0.0666 which is rather short...

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 24 Jan 2007, 18:05

I've been using force-fired laser beams in Dozerz quite successfully. Sure you should only have your beam live for one or two frames but you can emit it every frame without trouble.

Fanger · Post by **Fanger** » 24 Jan 2007, 18:09

hackish work arounds FAIL HARD!!!!!!

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 24 Jan 2007, 18:51

Does that mean they (beamlasers!) now use piece rotation?

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 24 Jan 2007, 20:10

Yep. Absolutely certain of that (worked since 74b1 or even earlier I think, I do know it worked fine already when I got the idea to make the dozers have sweeping beams). Try setting a dozer to on and firing at the landscape. A quick test suggests it works even if the weapon has never received an AimWeapon call.

BTW I'd have used one-frame lasers even if I could have them last longer because a beam cannot rotate after it has been fired so I have to fire a new beam when I want to rotate it anyway

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 24 Jan 2007, 21:15

Fanger wrote:hackish work arounds FAIL HARD!!!!!!

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 24 Jan 2007, 21:37

This workaround lets you use more effects than just lasers.

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » 24 Jan 2007, 21:43

smoth wrote:
Fanger wrote:hackish work arounds FAIL HARD!!!!!!

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 24 Jan 2007, 21:48

Build flamer > YUO!

AF · Post by AF » 24 Jan 2007, 22:27

Synced particles not obeying maxparticles is imo a bug, and a rather big one imo.

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