Contrails changing...

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:30 pm

I was wondering how to (if it's even possible) give a contrail the actve camo effect so you see a tube of distortion-ness. (Anyone who's seen screens of F.E.A.R will know what I mean.)

Swapping would just screw it up, wouldn't it?

SunnySharma · Post by **SunnySharma** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:47 pm

Impossible. Active Camo uses a special refraction-effect that use used in certain rasterizer codes.

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Fri May 13, 2005 8:26 pm

as far as i know, there is a contrail bitmap and something in the contrail tag section in hmt that tells it how to behave and alter the bitmap in real-time.

SunnySharma · Post by **SunnySharma** » Fri May 13, 2005 10:22 pm

He is trying to achieve refraction, which is not "just" a bitmap. It is a Pixel Shader effect in the Engine, and cannot be "applied" to anything. The only thing it works for is models, not single-textures.

Tack122 · Post by **Tack122** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:05 pm

from what i know contrails work as non colision polys rendered in a stream coming out of the back of a banshee or bullet

Phenomena · Post by **Phenomena** » Sat May 14, 2005 9:20 am

he could imitate the effect... he could create a new effect, that makes everything fuzzy... like the heat coming off of a road on a hot day

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Sat May 14, 2005 2:13 pm

sounds like a good idea phenomena, it sounds like it would work...