Playing surface ships

polyfiller · 10-05-15, 06:13 PM

it is indeed possible to have playable ships with working damage models. If I ever get around to releasing the TSWSM, you'll experience what happens when you take damage from either other surface ships or from AI subs torps. Actually getting the damage to work as in causing you to sink and / or ship subsystems to stop working has been quite a challenge, but even worse, getting the effects of repairing things to take effect even more so. I've also discovered a myriad of ways to upset the game engine with a custom damage zone model .. including "ghost ships" where your ship is functional, but completely transparent in game, and also, my favourite so far, where the visual model of your ship lies at the bottom of the sea in two halves, while a transparent functional version happily sails away. My least favourite is a CTD caused by erroneous damage sphere numbering.

10-05-15, 06:13 PM	#5
polyfiller Weps Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 359 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	it is indeed possible to have playable ships with working damage models. If I ever get around to releasing the TSWSM, you'll experience what happens when you take damage from either other surface ships or from AI subs torps. Actually getting the damage to work as in causing you to sink and / or ship subsystems to stop working has been quite a challenge, but even worse, getting the effects of repairing things to take effect even more so. I've also discovered a myriad of ways to upset the game engine with a custom damage zone model .. including "ghost ships" where your ship is functional, but completely transparent in game, and also, my favourite so far, where the visual model of your ship lies at the bottom of the sea in two halves, while a transparent functional version happily sails away. My least favourite is a CTD caused by erroneous damage sphere numbering.