No-Emitter "Zone"

[Randomness]

This is a bit of a suggestion related to visuals and not functionality, but it is something I wanted to see.

You know how a generic weather script makes a rain emitter all over the map but the rain still shows underneath a brick as if inside a house or similar structure?

Well I was thinking of an easy way so that emitters are cancelled so that they stop in relation to their origin point.

Let me make this easy to understand: You have an emitter brick or origin point, (say the skybox just for simplicity...) but we'll go with a brick for this example.

              ||[ NO-ZONE ]
              ||[ NO-ZONE ]
X ------> ||[ NO-ZONE ]

In relation to the brick's emitter direction and position, a brick in its path would act as an invisible no-emitter zone ceiling. The No-zone is as long as the emitter is originally and is not obstructed by any other brick. Perhaps its an "emitter" itself, but an anti-emitter.

For a brick's no-zone to be generated it must:

1] Be in the brick's emitter direction
2] Be in range of the emitter effect (hopefully with the way emitters work, "infinite" emitters are patched to prevent infinite no-zones)
3] Be completely "solid"

The criteria for rule 3 is only supposed to prevent bricks or other such custom bricks like a grill (which has holes, hurr) from stopping the emitter with a no-zone.

ADDENDUM: The no-zone only cancels emitters that hit the brick it is in relation too. This prevents situations such as:

              ||[ NO-ZONE ]
              ||[ NO-ZONE ]    <------- X
X ------> ||[ NO-ZONE ]

Also, it is entirely dependent on the brick's raycasting.



Discuss. Hopefully, I didn't leave anything out.

[Ad Bot]

[Extrude]

You could of summed this up in two words.

Projectile Emitters.

[Randomness]

Good point. Didnt think of that.

[GEN.Fire Bird]

but projectiles in mass numbers can be rather spammy.

[Sami2ss]

but projectiles in mass numbers can be rather spammy.

isn't everything is large numbers "spammy"?

the word is more like laggy. :p

[Extrude]

but projectiles in mass numbers can be rather spammy.

Interesting. As soon as you have moving xyz and collision, it's either a projectile or similar moving entity.

[Randomness]

The point of "no-zones" was to allow rain-free houses or other such visual effects so it would add to the overall appeal of a build.

Its not essential, and its not like Kompressor would ever pay attention to this forum, so I guess these are dead dreams.

[phflack]

so, more like if it's in an area it wouldn't be rendered, but would pass on to the other side and be seen?

[Sami2ss]

he said he would think about something like this in the v21 thread

[zmaster]

I smell an occlusion request