What is it...

merc4ulfate · 05-26-12, 10:25 AM

You are seeing deck plating. Their is a rendering error however. The plate is most likely the flashing white mast light we normally see on the ships but the rendering error made it a deck plate. You hit the mast which in rendering in the game is actually larger than the visual ship itself.

Ever just experimented in running into things? Yeah I'm bored easily sometimes. You never actually hit anything. Before the two ships or object touch it will register as a collision because in games such as this there is a bounding box around every single object rendered. You cant see the bounding box and it is larger than the object itself.

I have noticed many times the rendering error of the white light. The texture they used for it should have had a better alpha around the light ... it looks too square and not as round as it should be.

Mark

05-26-12, 10:25 AM	#8
merc4ulfate DILLIGAF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: florida Posts: 2,058 Downloads: 210 Uploads: 0	You are seeing deck plating. Their is a rendering error however. The plate is most likely the flashing white mast light we normally see on the ships but the rendering error made it a deck plate. You hit the mast which in rendering in the game is actually larger than the visual ship itself. Ever just experimented in running into things? Yeah I'm bored easily sometimes. You never actually hit anything. Before the two ships or object touch it will register as a collision because in games such as this there is a bounding box around every single object rendered. You cant see the bounding box and it is larger than the object itself. I have noticed many times the rendering error of the white light. The texture they used for it should have had a better alpha around the light ... it looks too square and not as round as it should be. Mark