Aircraft propellers

Blueguard · Cyborg Specialist **Joined**: 22 Aug 2007

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Having an issue with propeller appearence in-game - when the plane is facing N, its ok, but when its facing S, the wing of the plane overwrites the propeller. I tried changeing the section order in VSE, but nothing seems to help. How to fix it?

Dubzac · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:02 pm Post subject:

It has the titan logic where when a separate and animated props will disappear because the game treats it like a barrel like the titan, some people have tried to make a separate voxel for each propeller and then just add some Art code to over-ride it from being hidden on the S.

I haven't tried it myself, but give it a go. it might or might not work. Post a screenshot if you are successful.

Also a theory i just thought you could try it on the unit it self but very skeptical if it will work.

PS: i'm pretty certain it hard coded to the game to not show S with vertical Voxels only 2-1 cell thick but can't prove it just yet.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Not sure if it helps, but check out my hexapod.

IIRC it has no clipping issues even if it has many animated sections.

This was done using 3ds2vxl, so i fear i can't tell you what exactly makes this work.

I would suggest looking at the voxel size, header and positioning in the hva.

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Dubzac · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:58 pm Post subject:

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

Not sure if it helps, but check out my hexapod.

IIRC it has no clipping issues even if it has many animated sections.

This was done using 3ds2vxl, so i fear i can't tell you what exactly makes this work.

I would suggest looking at the voxel size, header and positioning in the hva.

i think i know why propellers are the only ones that keep doing it must be normals. Thicker props should fix it. Looks ugly but you can always HVA resize. damn i love that Hva manager :3

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Team Black · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:26 am Post subject:

I do know that it works if the propeller section is placed above the others in the HVA

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

What is this doing in Media Hut?

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mevitar · Missile Trooper **Joined**: 31 Dec 2010

Try adding UseBuffer=yes to the unit's art entry (but for the results to be the best, it appears that the body has to be 1st section).

Mig Eater · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 10:15 am Post subject:

I really need to write a tutorial on making & animating multi-section vxls >.>

The order of the sections has nothing to do with how a multi-section vxl is rendered in-game. What maters is the size & position of each section in relation to each other, the screen & how they overlap etc.

The wings are covering the propellers on the south facing because the plane is simply bigger & closer to the screen at that angle. The propellers either need to be either moved forward, made bigger or you'll need to mess with offset/position in the sections header.

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Blueguard · Cyborg Specialist **Joined**: 22 Aug 2007

Thanks Mig, got it working.