Bubble shield? in halo ce? how original...

So I was looking at CAD's old take on the bubble shield and felt that it's look was sub-par. I had this idea to simulate the halo 3 bubble shields light refraction for awhile now, since I was tired of seeing the same old glass shaders on all the bubbleshield's out there, I decided to try it.

The result:



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How it's done:
The distortion is a spawned actor_variant with active camo obviously. Due to the "passes through other bipeds" flag, the shield isn't collidable with bipeds, but it still collides with bullets. So using a biped tag I killed two birds with one stone pretty much.

The down sides:
The distortion is actually a high-poly sphere with each hexagon modeled in. Any hardware issues I can probably fix with lod's, but it runs fine (on my machine).

You sir deserve a B+

Always great to see some new intuition come up like this :)

I'd say you could use some more "noise" in the shield - perhaps a shader_transparent unaffected by camo would do the trick.

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Originally Posted by teh lag

Always great to see some new intuition come up like this :)

I'd say you could use some more "noise" in the shield - perhaps a shader_transparent unaffected by camo would do the trick.

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Ah, ill play around with it. I had one earlier but it kinda made it too cloudy. I've also been working with CAD to use the refraction effect in some of his explosions and whatnot, from what I've seen, it's looking awesome.

I love it- but don't bipeds have a problem synching online?

Uh, whats with the BR? :o

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Originally Posted by itszutak

I love it- but don't bipeds have a problem synching online?

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I don't believe so, but I've never really used bipeds for anymore than player controlled characters/ai. I haven't tried it online yet, in this stage i'm just working on it's graphical representation. Once I get it as a deployable piece of equipment, we'll see.

Fear: If you're talking about the reflection of the br on the bubble shield, halo 1's light refraction has a tendency of reflecting anything in front of it onto itself, so your seeing the br's reflection. If your just talking in general about the br, idk, you tell me.

I was talking about what you said. Ty. :)

What is the yellow arc effect?

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Originally Posted by Inferno

What is the yellow arc effect?

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A massive lens flare with a custom bitmap.