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Main: Assassinat3r
Level: 2460 Joined: Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:43 am Posts: 2057 Location: Astora |
Demiser of D wrote: That doesn't make sense with the wand, since you cant MF them. At least, as far as i know. Obviously Time Warp is exploiting! _________________ Did you praise the sun today? |
Fri May 27, 2011 8:48 pm |
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Rank: Main: Copernicus Level: 895 Joined: Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:06 pm Posts: 2138 Location: Spam, Can, Low Earth Orbit |
JeffL wrote: That nebula is in the playing field, I'm just sitting south of it so you can see my ship better. Don't think we can leave wakes in it, though. Hm. I'm wondering how hard it would be to maybe just make a small, invisible sphere around a ship that the nebula particles could bounce away from in a wake. I'm not much of a coder, so I don't really know how much trouble it is to code a simple physics thing like that. Any thoughts on this from a coder? _________________ P2P (Offline): Copernicus/Tycho/Kepler/Starlight Squadron/Starlight Droners Inc. F2P: Colonel Mustang/Riza Hawkeye/Jean Havoc/Heymans Breda/Kain Fuery |
Mon May 30, 2011 4:17 pm |
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Main: Earthforce Commander
Level: 963 Joined: Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:31 pm Posts: 686 Location: hacking into your computer |
Almost anything is possible to code. The only limitations are the amount of time / work needed to code it. Coding particles to disappear in a wake might take a lot of time and effort to code, and only be a small barely noticeable thing. Then again, JeffL has shown us in the (recent) past that he will do things just because "It looks pretty".
Edit: This is assuming the nebulae are generated via particles, and not just 3-D images of smokey stuff (in which case, this would probably be impossible). _________________ HAL on 4/1/10 wrote: I bet you thought you were going to get a joke today? Well guess what? April fools! |
Mon May 30, 2011 8:42 pm |
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Rank: Director Main: Jeff_L Level: 1969 Joined: Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:21 am Posts: 3894 Location: Santa Clara, CA |
We're using the Spark particle engine, and it does support things like that, but it makes each particle more expensive, so we'd only be able to use a small fraction of the number of particles if we wanted to give them complex physics like that. Good performance is the most important consideration, and if nebulas lag people, then people will just disable them, and then there would be no point.
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Mon May 30, 2011 10:47 pm |
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