shields

[lurker]

does that mean working small shields next spring rev then?

That requires:
1. A rearrangement of the shield collision detection to make it use the same as units and features.
2. A shield mode that makes it eat attacks rather than blowing them, or makes the unit whose shield is being hit immune to damage.

Unit and feature collisions are detected each frame from the projectile's point of view, using position and movement, but shield collisions are detected by the shield itself, and only use the current position. And a side effect of this change would be to allow these new shapes on the shields.

[KDR_11k]

Then again, when you use personal shields you can probably emulate the effect by cancelling the damage of the projectiles instead.

[1v0ry_k1ng]

That requires:
1. A rearrangement of the shield collision detection to make it use the same as units and features.
2. A shield mode that makes it eat attacks rather than blowing them, or makes the unit whose shield is being hit immune to damage.

can 1) be done easily?

how would 2) be done?

[lurker]

1 isn't horrible. 2 is a couple minutes of coding to add an option for shields to delete projectiles instead of exploding them.

[REVENGE]

Err sorry, one last question if I may.

So, after enabling ray-trace collision detection in my mod, would my units still be using a hitsphere by default, or just the model wireframe itself? Could I even specify an arbitrary shape (box, cone, etc. I know we had discussion for a patch that would do this)?

[lurker]

Your options for the hit surface are: ellipsoid, cylinder, rectangular prism.

[REVENGE]

Your options for the hit surface are: ellipsoid, cylinder, rectangular prism.

Too costly to do it based on model mesh?

[imbaczek]

very expensive, yes, and not simple.

[REVENGE]

Ok, but having those three alternatives to the sphere pretty much solves most problems.