Setting asteroid group to randomize on the Y plane
Is it possible to randomize the asteroids (or anything for that matter) on the Y plane for more realism?
My code is:
<create count="50" type="asteroids" startX="28949.0" startY="0.0" startZ="2740.0" endX="70688.0" endY="0.0" endZ="96410.0" randomRange="6600" />
But that randomRange doesn't seem to do anything for the y plane.
My code is:
<create count="50" type="asteroids" startX="28949.0" startY="0.0" startZ="2740.0" endX="70688.0" endY="0.0" endZ="96410.0" randomRange="6600" />
But that randomRange doesn't seem to do anything for the y plane.
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You could split it into three (or more) <create> tags at three (or more) different Y values. That way you would still get the random distribution in the plane but also have slightly varying heights.
Wouldn't that just cause you to fly over or under the displaced asteroids?
Which reminds me: has anyone thought of a way to make the asteroids move?
Which reminds me: has anyone thought of a way to make the asteroids move?
[Last edited Oct 02, 2012 22:10:49]
Eric is right. Don't put them too far from Y=0 or the players won't see them. Also, if the helmsperson is used to avoiding asteroids by looking at his/her console display, then he/she will be dodging asteroids that are above or below the ship.
This is even more hilarious with mines. I used it in "The Pegasus Passage." Unfortunately that mission script relied so heavily on the old DIRECT block that it no longer works.
This is even more hilarious with mines. I used it in "The Pegasus Passage." Unfortunately that mission script relied so heavily on the old DIRECT block that it no longer works.
"Damn the torpedoes! Four bells, Captain Drayton!"
(Likely actual words of Admiral David Farragut, USN, at the battle of Mobile Bay. Four bells was the signal for the engine room to make full steam ahead).
(Likely actual words of Admiral David Farragut, USN, at the battle of Mobile Bay. Four bells was the signal for the engine room to make full steam ahead).
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