shields

[1v0ry_k1ng]

would it be easy to allow shields to be textured?

also,

is anyone close to finding a way of making shields work in a way that they dont have to be excessively large so the engine detects them before they go through and touch the units hitsphere? this is really irritating.

[Kloot]

Shields can already be given textures, since they are treated as weapons
internally (meaning the "projectiles" they fire utilize texture1 if the shield's
weapon definition references it). Ex:



As regards your other question: projectile <--> shield coldet is based on
a simple radial check, so for mini-radii shields the same tunneling issues
apply as for unit hit detection (although the latter can now enlist the aid
of raytracing to prevent them).

[sombriks]

nice shield, hope see it in some mod soon,

[smoth]

I wish I had a place to use that in gundam.

[AF]

Label it the char effect and put pink things in miniskirts inside the field

[Argh]

Hmm, texture1, and it's projected flat, eh... okies...

[REVENGE]

How about attaching some shield texture animation effects, similar to the scroll texture / scroll speed options for largebeamlaser?

[Warlord Zsinj]

I still want to see someone stick the dynamic water code onto shields >_>

[jK]

very old, i am just too lazy to create a nice fx with it

[REVENGE]

Interesting, looks like a modification of the lua shockwaves. It's pleasing, but lacks some depth. ^_^

[Warlord Zsinj]

It needs to ripple when weapons hit it though, like the dynamic water

For extra win, it should ripple when units pass through it...

[Kloot]

I still want to see someone stick the dynamic water code onto shields >_>

Did that once, actually:

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Like jk I got lazy though.

[Argh]

That's gotta eat GPU for breakfast, heh.

[Hoi]

this is interesting for things like units in stealth/dropping out of stealth

[Warlord Zsinj]

Does it ripple when things hit it? Because that'd be teh sex.

I would never actually use it in-game, but it'd be awesome to take some screenshots of...

And maybe sometime in the future when we're using quantum computers we can all play with dynamic shields

[REVENGE]

We have a caek mix.

We just need someone to baek the caek.

[Hoi]

Does it ripple when things hit it? Because that'd be teh sex.

i think so, its the water shader and the water also ripples when its hit

[REVENGE]

Could we get those water shields implemented?

[trepan]

I've added the ShieldCollision() call-in to my local source code,
along with a number of useful projectile call-outs. This should
make custom shield effects possible with lua (once committed).

[Warlord Zsinj]

Sounds like those will also be helpful when we finally get around to implementing jedi...