Ships....Boats

Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:38 pm Post subject: Ships....Boats

When creating a ship or boat is there limit how much you should make as far as body design is concerned? Meaning.....It is a water vehicle and some of the body won't be seen, but do you still make the part that wont be seen because the game adjusts for this. Never made a ship before so figure I would ask this question so when I get to planing stage I know what to do.

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Orac · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:03 pm Post subject:

The voxel you see in the game is the same as the one you see in vxlse3. No adjustments are made by the engine.

RP · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:18 pm Post subject:

If you are talking about what you will see ingame of the voxel, and what not, I'd suggest you just make a complete voxel.

Some ships sink, which exposes their 'belly', maybe someone has a weapon that makes voxels spin within their own cell, like Libra does in Mental Omega 3.0.

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Regulus · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:29 pm Post subject:

Like Orac said, the bow is usually not modeled as the terrain that the boat voxels move on isn't anything more than a picture of water.

However, I have been thinking about the waterimage= tag that Ares gives us. I've thought about the idea that it would maybe cause weapons that throw the ship up in the air to use the "land version" and thus "expose" the hull, but in this case, they are two different voxel images and not an adjustment made by the game engine.

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Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

Yep WaterImage'd Units would look odd when being rocked about so its usually a good idea to make units like those to be unrockable.

Personally I like to cover up the underneath areas as well as it also sometimes plugs up unnecessary dot syndromes that usually happens to voxels.

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Team Black · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:30 am Post subject:

There's a small experiment I did some years back, that might help you on your quest. Simply adding a layer or two of blue on the bottom can give it a good improvement:

Nuke Atty · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:54 am Post subject:

Looks Kute~

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Team Black · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:01 am Post subject:

...the eff?

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Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

Same effect, only this one has about 4-5 rows I think.

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Regulus · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:34 am Post subject:

I think having the "water line" only one or two voxels in height would suffice. Given the allied color scheme it looks like the keel area is painted blue as opposed to looking as if it is in the water.

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