Cores for R5

Lykourgos · Post by **Lykourgos** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:01 pm

Is ship orientation really defined as a matrix and not a 2-vector? If so, why?

terrenblade · Post by **terrenblade** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:53 pm

Did I mention escape pods per ship class?
Or Pods based on an item in cargo on death?
Both of these are my ideas and are awsome (note they may not actualy be my Ideas)

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:40 am

ability to upgrade pods like you can upgrade ships, i don't think it works right now.

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interesting thing to do, in a ships information, add a "on death eject into" field where you can set what the player ejects into when their ship dies.
now, this could actually be something which doesn't have the "lifepod" flag set, so you kill their ship, they eject into another ship [with no o2 limit] (or a general faction lifepod, or a lifepod specific to that ship), so you could simulate blowing off part of the ship [system damage], say start off with a ship with 3 guns, it gets killed, you eject into a ship with 2 guns, and a similar model to the previous ship but with wings missing (this is just as an example), then when that gets killed, you eject into a pod, which could also eject into a pod when killed which would then die when killed.

would also need a flag to say whether to do the launch player spinning when ship is destroyed [like what happens now if your ship gets killed], or whether they stay where they are, maybe parameter to define how much force is in the sending you flying, i.e. how much spin and speed you get launched at (or whatever it is in code, force / speed etc)

SF_Adam4 · Post by **SF_Adam4** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:58 am

madpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Oct 26 2007, 12:40 PM) ability to upgrade pods like you can upgrade ships, i don't think it works right now.

Overriden by.....

Pod is a ship, like any other /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> , it just has the lifepod flag.

Andon · Post by **Andon** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:36 pm

you can't upgrade them though. Because it doesn't actually get overridden.

Adaven · Post by **Adaven** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:32 pm

Lykourgos wrote:QUOTE (Lykourgos @ Oct 25 2007, 04:01 PM) Is ship orientation really defined as a matrix and not a 2-vector? If so, why?

It can't be a 2 vector as it is supposed to represent pitch, yaw, and roll. I think the matrix is composed of 3 position vectors, effectively defining a plane the normal of which is the ship's perspective.

maybe.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:19 am

Lykourgos wrote:QUOTE (Lykourgos @ Oct 28 2007, 06:08 AM) Yaw and pitch are the 2-vector, aren't they? Phi and theta respectively in spherical coordinates? You're definitely right in that roll needs to be a third entry in the vector.

A single matrix can hold yaw, pitch, roll, position and scale of a 3d object.

Lykourgos · Post by **Lykourgos** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:08 am

Yaw and pitch are the 2-vector, aren't they? Phi and theta respectively in spherical coordinates? You're definitely right in that roll needs to be a third entry in the vector.

Adam4 · Post by **Adam4** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:10 pm

Andon wrote:QUOTE (Andon @ Oct 26 2007, 12:36 PM) you can't upgrade them though. Because it doesn't actually get overridden.

Strange, it should do. I will test this.

Andon · Post by **Andon** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:47 pm

i've tried.

The faction 'Pod ID' overrides the 'Ship ID' and what overrides that ship.