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[MoffKalast]

@zissis

@MoffKalast can you please share your warp field mesh? That looks so cool!

But of course, here you go The zip file contains the mesh and a texture I used with higher opacity so it’s more visible. The one I actually use is so transparent you almost can’t see it with an image editor. I’d suggest you adjust it to your preference.

Also see here for more info:

(April 2016) Monthly WIP screenshot thread

So I’m on a streak today, added warp effects. Alternative link in case embedding fails miserably. Seems like a fur shader doesn’t it? Well it’s not, sadly, actually as shaderless as possible using only unshaded.j3md and the translucent bucket. The way it works is by rotating two of these models at breakneck speed in different directions with slightly different colors. Also the faster you go, the more elongated the warp bubble gets. [image] IIRC @Kecon was working on something…

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@Ali_RS

Interested to know how did you create these light rays ?

Check here and tell me if you still have any questions:

(February 2016) Monthly WIP screenshot thread

These ones? [image] Well they are two alpha (not additively) blended quads arranged 90 deg to each other in a + fashion that have repeating textures in the y direction adjusted with texture coords. It was slightly tricky to make since the beam needs to stay the same but become shorter if it hits anything, so I have to modify the texture coords according to the beam’s length. Finally I wrote a very simple shader that moves the texture along the y axis as fast…

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@Apollo

I have noticed, that in “special relativity” you can reach almost light speed. (As a consequence, the mass in the inertial frame should increase. I noticed, that it does not, which I don’t care, as it is a game and it looks really fun to play! However, how do you determine “fuel consumption” to reach 0.99 c? I think that this should be much more fuel mass than the spaceship’s mass.)

@pspeed

I guess maybe it’s a super-efficient vidyagaym fuel made on the planet Gamelogic.

I thought this might interest you! Yes the mass should indeed increase, but I read somewhere that changing an object’s mass in Bullet isn’t quite possible so I figured I’d need to reattach the physicscontrol to the physics space to do it and I didn’t even try it out. What I did was override the applyCentralForce method and made it calculate added forces with the lorentz factor. So the engine “fuel consumption” stays the same, they only produce less thrust.

Thank you for reminding me about it though, I’ll test if one can increase object mass in a simple way right now.

Also all engines in the game run on electricity produced by the ship reactors and don’t actually use any propellant. At first I thought about having them be some sort of fusion rockets or a vasimr, but now they appear to all be the phantom microwave engines pushing onto the quantum vacuum. Or something. [insert technobable here]

Note that you are asking about fuel consumption in a game where ships have no rcs thrusters and rear facing engines make the ship go backward if needed .

@Apollo

This kind of realism is a lack that many, or all, games have. I don’t know if it would be that much fun to play, if you would design all the physics realistically. You’d probably only be able to do a few orbital maneuvers circling the planets before you run out of fuel. This would make space combat very difficult. Maybe you can give me your opinion on realistic physics vs. fun to play. I thought about it a couple of times too and I will give my opinion on this, but I don’t want to induce an opinion in your mind.

Yeah well it’s always a trade of between realism and gameplay which is why no planets actually have gravity here, only the black holes currently attract ships as the trope requires it. I like to be as realistic as possible while the gameplay stays good, but often I have to sacrifice realism in order to make things play better. I just wanted to add relativity since it’s something I haven’t seen in any space game yet and was interested how it’d look and work.

I had some idea to implement red/blueshift too but I’m not competent enough in filters yet to attempt it.

@Apollo

There are some orange spots on the cubes that make up the ship. I assume that this is the damage in that section. I think it would be cool if you could make the cubes look as if they were cracked. You could also use 3D Perlin noise to lign up the cracks from neighboring cubes, but that would possibly be overkill. Don’t know if you like this idea.

They are damage textures overlayed over the diffuse map using mix in shaders. The problem of using any seamless effects is that almost all modules reuse their main texture a ton of times for higher resolution so everything would display on all sides of a cube for example. Otherwise I’d be using something like that one guy’s texture painting thing.