Prototype's temporary and somewhat dissapointing development log

@MercurySteam
Stop bumping. I deleted the last one you did. There is literally no other activity in this section.

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

@MercurySteam
Stop bumping.  I deleted the last one you did.  There is literally no other activity in this section.

:*(

Well if you want relevant content, I did work out how to have quadrupedal mechs, and tested it using a galloping table, but it looks retarded so we aren't doing it.

fr0stbyte124 wrote:

It's a problem with the way frustum culling is handled.  It is based off the entity's axis-aligned hitbox, but I think it only checks one of the 8 points.  It might be addressable by tweaking the camera frustum settings during the culling step.

Following up with this nice article.
http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/frustumcorrect/frustumcorrect.htm

Ok, I've been trying to get stuff working with 1.6.4, and so far everything but the planes are working, I'm currently trying to get some advice from SMP.de as to what I'm doing wrong.


But while I've been waiting for that, remember I was on about making a frigate a while ago, well I drew up a potential concept:

Spoiler:

Still need to look into a few more things regarding its feasibility, size isn't a problem as Manus's 747 is already of this scale, but the complexity may call for a much larger texture size, which could cause problems.

That looks bloody amazing

don't forget to make the barrels less... round before porting to MC

Ivan2006 wrote:

don't forget to make the barrels less... round before porting to MC

Well I can't make them round anyway

Just found my original designs for the AR-12...

Wonder if I can actually make it this time? After all I need a new plane.

Well, so far this it turning out a lot better than last time:



Still not finished, need to make the landing gears and maybe have the canopy able to swing open, as well as texture and code it (with making those square winglets more wing like). So far I've built it to (hopefully) work properly with 1.6.4, and I can now make the hit boxes in Techne, but that'll be the last thing I do. Might also play around with wing and nose length.

And considering last time I did this it looked like this:

Spoiler:

That is sexy. It would be even sexier with something pointy or gunz on the canards.

MercurySteam wrote:

That is sexy. It would be even sexier with something pointy or gunz on the canards.

Canard guns... Good idea, save for the canard shapes will be done last

But I can always stick some pointy things on the main wings, maybe on the nose, and once the rest is done, it shouldn't be too hard to make a couple of canard guns.

I also appear to have upfucked the right wing, seems I missed a shape swapping from left to right, that big dip shouldn't be there.

Cools. Very cools.

And it appears the plane part of the SMP toolbox is completely broken...

Fuck.

Problem solved, carry on.

You make me feel privlledged to know you.
Although, the fins on the nose look a bit off.

Have you done anything more with mechs?

The Schmetterling wrote:

You make me feel privlledged to know you.
Although, the fins on the nose look a bit off.

The square boxes are placeholders for shapes I'll put in with the code, I just put them there so I don't have to sort out the dimensions and positions later, and if I use a shape box then I can sort their texture out while they are just squares, and it'll be the same texture for whatever shape I add in later.

And Mechs are on hold until I can get planes working, I haven't got any issues with making mechs, I have a lot of issues with planes, and this pack is mostly planes so far. I still can't work out why they are despawning, I've asked Manus if he can let me borrow some of his work so I can see how I need to set it up. My bets is it will be something rather simple and silly, it just always is.

Today is good day.

I've finally uncovered the cause of my problem.

You see my previous crashing issue was because I had a propellor defined in the config, but not in the model. As starfighters dont need a propellor, I didn't make one in the model file, and merely set the config to not use a propellor.

I have discovered that the propellor actually defines the engine of a plane, and so when I got rid of the propellor, I got rid of the engine, and it despawns without an engine.

Downside is I need to hide a propellor somewhere.

Le picture:

Why not make it a hidden motor-like thing inside the thruster?

Desdenova wrote:

Why not make it a hidden motor-like thing inside the thruster?

At the moment I'm copying the shape data for one of the connections in between the engines, and just not texturing it. It'll spin round, but there will be no texture so you won't see it.

I'm also setting up proper hit boxes for this and the Omega.

Now I know you all wanted to know this.

Yes, it will blend

Ok, set up the standard flight model for the new physics, and for the first time ever I've given stuff proper hitboxes.



oh and landing gear work

Multiple hitboxes? Explain? Does that require multiple entities?

Unless it changed at some point, an entity can override its normal collision test, but has no knowledge of what the hitbox it is testing against belongs to.
It's been a while, though. I might have that backwards.