Custom FX object

#1 Thanx Gabriel... Will test this tonight.

This is Client-side only right?

#2 There is no motion in the object (it doesn't try and track the camera or anything), it is simply a render method to keep its translation relative to the camera. Its based on staticShape with some changes to the render function, and there is no additional net code added.

Gabe

#3 Sweet... Thanx for your great efforts... I have one problem though. Have you tried receiveSunLight=1? It doesn't seem to effect it.

I've also tried adding it to the cs file:

function fxShapeData::create()
{
   %obj = new fxShape() {
      datablock = fxShape;
      rotation = "0 0 1 90";
      scale = "300 300 300";
      receiveSunLight = "1";
      receiveLMLighting = "1";
      useCustomAmbientLighting = "0";
      customAmbientLighting = "0.1 0.1 0.1 1";
   };
   
   return %obj;
}

But still have these results in which you can see it does not have the correct effect:
Pic 1
Pic 2

Otherwise it works great!

#4 Yeah the directional lighting doesn't seem to work correctly. I'm not sure how to solve this though, I've tried a few things but haven't been successful.

Gabe

#5 I've updated this resource to address the problems with the lighting as discussed in
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=63890

Current known limitations are:

Object scale is limited to 0< .. <=70
Seems to cause problems with water blocks (flickering). This resource was developed for a space style setting so this shouldn't really be an issue.

Gabe

#6 Look so great. ;-)

#7 TGEA v1.7.0 download