Could I get some help with a DM?

Jaheckelsafar · 21st March 2003, 07:25

I'm wonding why my trench gets shalower the closer it is to the camera. Anyone got any ideas?

Or am I going about this absolutely wrong?

shreyas_potnis · 21st March 2003, 09:43

uh..um..huh?!@A#$

Same problem with me too! so I stopped bothering about it...anyway, nice preset.

Raz · 21st March 2003, 15:50

it does it when you set the xa value to pi divide by something, the divide dosent just slant the textures veiw, it slants the movement on the trench downward asit goes out instead of keeping it in a straight line. Ill take a closer look and see if i can fix it.

UnConeD · 21st March 2003, 19:13

The problem is that you still think of DM's in SSC terms. At point (x,y), you're defining the texture at THAT point, nowhere else.

So offsetting the intersection x,y,z coordinates simply doesn't work because you can only move the point along the ray it's being traced on.

I suggest you raytrace a half cylinder and a plane for this.

Oh and you should get rid of the jumpy camera rotations and replace them with something smooth.

Phaze1987 · 21st March 2003, 21:06

Nice movement.Add ti=10 to onbeat to make it a bit more dynamic.Needs to be smoothen out a bit.

Jaheckelsafar · 22nd March 2003, 06:35

I haven't gotten the hang of the whole ray-tracing thing. I'm thinking of the DM as a flat mesh that I can deform. I know, I should read that thread where you described it all to nixa. (link here for anyone that missed it)

Was just messing with the movement.

Pixelcraft · 22nd March 2003, 21:40

I can't change the shape or anything, but I think it would be better if it were faster. I changed the first code in the frame box to a=a+0.3, which makes the camera zoom down the trench instead of just kind of sitting there.

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22nd March 2003, 06:35	#6
Jaheckelsafar Major Dude Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: home Posts: 1,318	I haven't gotten the hang of the whole ray-tracing thing. I'm thinking of the DM as a flat mesh that I can deform. I know, I should read that thread where you described it all to nixa. (link here for anyone that missed it) Was just messing with the movement. Stoke me a clipper. I'll be back for Christmas. - Arnold Rimmer Red Dwarf

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Pixelcraft Wildly Confused (Major Dude) Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,204	I can't change the shape or anything, but I think it would be better if it were faster. I changed the first code in the frame box to a=a+0.3, which makes the camera zoom down the trench instead of just kind of sitting there. "It's like saying give a man a Les Paul guitar and he becomes Eric Clapton, and of course that's not true, give a man an amplifier and a synthesizer and he doesn't become...whoever; he doesn't become us." - Roger Waters

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21st March 2003, 15:50	#3
Raz Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester Posts: 6,470	it does it when you set the xa value to pi divide by something, the divide dosent just slant the textures veiw, it slants the movement on the trench downward asit goes out instead of keeping it in a straight line. Ill take a closer look and see if i can fix it.

21st March 2003, 19:13	#4
UnConeD Whacked Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,104	The problem is that you still think of DM's in SSC terms. At point (x,y), you're defining the texture at THAT point, nowhere else. So offsetting the intersection x,y,z coordinates simply doesn't work because you can only move the point along the ray it's being traced on. I suggest you raytrace a half cylinder and a plane for this. Oh and you should get rid of the jumpy camera rotations and replace them with something smooth.