Does it have to blow up...

posted on May 22nd, 2009, 11:11 am

i was just wondering with 3.0.5 and 3.0.6 the sod used whilst building a the borg ship always blows up once completed, is there anyway it could just say disappear...

i know in 3.0.6 you use a new classlabel called buildyard... but in 3.0.5 it was just a replaceweapon yet still blew up?

posted on May 26th, 2009, 7:47 am

i am not quite sure what you want. the replaceweapon command for having chunks fly around is replacementFractionSOD

posted on May 26th, 2009, 3:45 pm

the thing you use to build them he just wants it to disappear rather than being destroyed.

posted on May 26th, 2009, 4:39 pm

oh, i see. there is no way to disable the chunk-blow up on the buildyard, that is hardcoded

posted on June 8th, 2009, 9:04 pm

What about having it replace itself with an invisible SOD the moment building has finnished?
After it's invisible it can blow up and there will be no fragments.

To be honest though I'm not that bothered about them blowing up though it does seem very unborgish to waste the materials.

posted on June 8th, 2009, 9:09 pm

Nooo, Don't listen to them Doca!   The exploding parts are very realistic.

posted on June 9th, 2009, 5:57 am

Nooo, Don't listen to them Doca!   The exploding parts are very realistic.

I would have to disagree with you there, the way I see it is the structure which eventually becomes the ship is actually a part of the insides of ship... it's backbone, skeleton or whatever, and since the ship is built by transporters and nanites and stuff, there wouldn't be any scaffolding or left over parts to 'explode' or break off as the ship is completed.  That's my opinion anyway.

posted on June 9th, 2009, 6:00 am

Yah, that is cool too.  I actualy like both Ideas.  I wonder if you could do both, or have it act differentially with different ships.

posted on June 9th, 2009, 8:09 am

actually i dont want it for the borg 

i speak to Optec a while back and he said it is something you could add pretty easily?

as "buildyard" is your own classlabel surely its quite customisable...

i still want it to be produced from the build yard, i just dont want the scaffolding sod to blow up but just vanish...

posted on June 12th, 2009, 9:52 am

yea, we *could* do it. what i wanted to say is, that we have hardcoded that and there is no odf command to disable the break-up

posted on June 15th, 2009, 3:51 pm

next version (3.0. will add a new odf command for the buildyard label that allows changing the effect:

vanishEffect = 0

0 for fragmentation effect
1 for disassemble effect
2 for nothing