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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.
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:
--- Quote from: GEN.Fire Bird on June 03, 2012, 03:11:32 AM ---but projectiles in mass numbers can be rather spammy.
--- End quote ---
isn't everything is large numbers "spammy"?
the word is more like laggy. :p