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landscape object bounding boxes

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:38:48 GMT

Rather than automaticly expand a landscape bounding box by .3 meters in all directions, I have made exceptions that will allow the use of custom bounding boxes. The beta 15 custom bunding boxes for the non 'stick tree' foliage obviously never worked like we thought.

if(landScapeObject) // first 2 letters a&b name combination
{  
    // Lets make this so that custom bounding boxes can be used
    // if our box...

Creating landscape artwork that is seamless between landscape levels of detail

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:04:33 GMT

Slomo.pedg :
I have been trying to get the railroads set up at their higest elevation to better represent the ones in the Caen area.

Brit44 Aldo.u says:
The graphics of the the SE make...

Rules for scenerio specific infantry sprites

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:21:54 GMT

With PE-X 16.2 and later, it is possable to use unique infantry bmp files.
This is an on going and active thread to document how to:

Rule #1
The unique file must reside in the same folder as the default. If the uniqe file is not found, the default file will be used.

Rule #2
The default tlb #10 will be used.
You are changing the bmp only.

Rule #3
8 bit and 24 bit bmps are valid. The engine reads the bmp file to determine...

Engine sound

feeds@yuku.com (henny124) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:30:41 GMT

Is there a way to get the real tiger engine sound in ostpak?

Henny

Rules for scenerio specific particle effects

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:27:14 GMT

With PE-X 16.2 and later, it is possable to use unique tank.pss and particle.tga files.
This is an on going and active thread to document how to:

Rule #1
The unique files must reside in the same folder as the default. If the uniqe file is not found, the default file will be used.

Rule #2
The scenerio scriptor may chose to use a unique pss file, a unique tga file, or both unique.
If you do not change the tga file or the pss file, you...

Rules for 3D bridges

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:22:48 GMT
With PE-X versions 16.11 and greater, 3D bridges may be used.

This is an on going and active thread to document who to make and place them in the PE SE (scenerio editor, not special edition)
This development is ongoing and may change. This first post will be edited as things change. Later in life the rule "Read The First Post" will be expected. For now, this is a place holder of notes, so all postings are valid.

Rule #1
The SE will place the...

Spammer banned

feeds@yuku.com (uyrhgf) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:26:42 GMT
And so is his content

Weather scripting

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:51:09 GMT
At 0 seconds of the scenerio, the scenerio cloud and wind setting become the default setting. This is the 6th weather entry. Only 5 entries can be set with the scenerio editor.

With PE-X 16.10aa and later, if there is no scripted weather changes all checks for changes in the weather are skipped, saving CPU time for other things like rendering on those clear days that have the largest view range.

At 1 second into the scenerio the weather engine checks to see if any...

translucent textures

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:28:28 GMT
I've been painting on the M3A1 scout car again, and decided to add a translucent color for 24 bit bmps only. In 8 bit the first color of the palette is clear. With 24 bit we made RGB (255,255,255) and RGB (255,0,255) as clear. I have decided to make RBG (255,255,255) as 50% clear. RGB ( 255,0,255) will remain clear.
If anyone want to discuss opacity without an alpha chanel, speak up.

Interesting information

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:49:45 GMT
While working on the damage to landscape objects outside the rendered field, I have been learning the way Wings test objects outside of the rendered area for damage. They use the memory they use to add units to the rendered map. They gave this a 100 object limit. Since most scenerios use the maximum 64 units, this leaves only 36 objects that can be tested. A number of potential situations that could cause this limit to be exceeded while ran through my head when I realized this. To make...

Object placement and damage modeling

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:46:11 GMT

Lets discuss multiple object placement within a grid. It's being a real pain to make new damage modeling realistic when 5 different objects are in the same RRF.
I want to use Ostpack's AAwreackage as the example, but this should not be misread as an attack.

AAwreckage consists of 6 objects in one. The PE engine can handle up to 7 objects in a grid. For damage modeling it would be best if the 6 objects were seperate rrfs. As one object, any damage to one of the 6...

The immortal infantry.

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:47:41 GMT
I'm playing through pe3, using the setup Staff Sergent is having problems and thought I would post a picture of a bug. The infantry has taken cover behind the destroyed AT gun. For the last week I have been cursing the AT gun that will not die.

It is a bug with the HE radius of impact. Only a perpect shot to the infantry polygon (assuming no invisable polys of the AT...

PEX AI clear file line check

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:12:43 GMT
I've noticed a problem with AI trying to shoot through destroyed tanks. The problem is a static angle given to the AI for clearance, and the assumption that destroyed units are not blocking a fireline.

To fix the problem:
We need to continue to exclude infantry units that are not UNS_USED (active)
We need to exclude other units that are not rendered in the game world (UNS_REINFORCEMENT, UNS_RESPAWN, UNS_CHANGEPLAYERUNIT), but always include destoyed...

Rain effect

feeds@yuku.com (mad2physicist) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:17:23 GMT
Playing through a rainy scenario today I noted that the rain effect is pretty poor. The droplets are nice, but they fall very slowly. It is as if one is watching a video of rain at 1/25 speed. Has anyone else noticed this?

Pre DirectX 8.0 rendering compared to modern

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:39:29 GMT
I'm sure ChuckD would have liked to have known about this paper way back when. I know I wish I had . I thought it might be helpful for anyone dealing with upgrading a DirectX 7.0 or older rendering code to 8.0 or higher standards.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms810497.aspx

I need a translation to laymans terms please

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:03:14 GMT

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_ballistics

The deceleration due to drag that a projectile with mass m, velocity v, and diameter d will experience is proportional to BC, 1/m, v² and d². The BC gives the ratio of ballistic efficiency compared to the standard G1 projectile,...

multiple iterations of one tank for wingman paint purposes

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:16:07 GMT
Can we agree on naming rules for rrfs, for paint jobs that are indentical except for wing number?

I can easily add a check for wingman # at the time the secenerio is loaded. This would eliminate 12 panthers in the csv, etc and allow for even more vairients in paint.

We would need a base name, example PantherG.
PantherG.rrf would be used for the platoon commander and as the load screen menu tank (default).
The code would then add the...

Illumination of optics in PE-X

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:17:38 GMT

Illumination works opposite of what you would think. When the light is off, we darken the texture.

Units without illumination should use a dark texture. All others should have the look you want when the illumination is on.

...

Releasing PE code to continue it's development

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:45:05 GMT
The rule is that PE must always be a profitiable entity of JoWooD (the current owner). That means no mailing of disks that are discontinued(A practic when the original publisher was sold), no uploading of the original PE 1.5 disk, no uploading PESE disk #1.

What could be released was a milky vision back then. It is even worse now that 2 companies have original content that is superior to PE.

After the demise of the PE-X project, I am happy to share any of the code project...

3D wheels in PE

feeds@yuku.com (Brit44 Aldo) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:44:33 GMT
the "rules"
The rules for 3D rotating wheels are as follows:

There are 3 types of wheels:
#1 I call it a typical wheel A "typical" wheel will follow the ground, rotate in the direction of movement and can turn left and right.

#2 I call it a simple idler wheel A "simple" wheel only rotates in the direction of movement.
...