Shield Impact WIP + Let's Play image - Sins of a Galactic Empire mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
SoGE is a Star Wars Total Conversion for SoaSE: Rebellion with it's roots in the Homeworld 2 mod Star Wars: Warlords which features the two primarily sides of the Galactic Civil War, the Clone Wars, and the Yuuzhan Vong War. The current public version works for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion 1.90 and, with or without, all DLC. Rated #6 players choice in MOTY 2014. An editors choice in MOTY 2015.
Shield Impact WIP + Let's Play
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Picture showing the WIP shield impact effect. Credit to Max and RC_1290 for the effect!
One of our beta testers, Eckharts Ladder, recently did a Let's Play of the mod. It's a pretty nice series, and shows some of the new particles in action!
Ep1: Youtube.com
Ep2: Youtube.com
nice >:D
Very nice job, I couldn't imagine getting the shields to hug the ship like that.
Looks glorious!
if I remember my modding days... shields and shadows require a separate mesh on the model... won't that like... triple the polies? :s
Shields do but only a rough outline of the model. Shadows do not in Sins.
Actually, if you don't mind the exe throwing you errors, you can use the ship's own mesh as your shield mesh, as I've done here. Also saves slightly on RAM, assuming the error messages don't eat RAM.
Awesome, good to know! :)
beautiful! can't wait for the new release, will you guys have it updated for 1.82 soon?
The public build is compatible with 1.82.
Thanks for shouting out my videos :). I'm loving the game and have been playing the beta pretty much non-stop.
I hear you want to change the scale of the shield impacts. I'm not sure if I remember correctly, but I believe you can change the noiseScale value in the GetPixelColor function.
I tweaked the values given to the lerp (linear interpolation) function to work relatively well for large ships and medium sized ships.
Just tweak the 2.f in
float noiseScale = 2.f / g_ExternalHitRadius;
I think... it's been a while ^_^