What Are Bounding Boxes and How Do I edit them?

[Captain Kwok]

You need hit detection for at least seeking weapons and collision avoidance.

[Slick]

I disagree that it should involve models. Every object has a position, from which its range to other objects can be determined. That can be used for all weapons:

beams & PD (Range determines hit %, which is instantataneous)

seekers & warhead (Range = 0 = hit)


If there is a hit or miss, then the graphics engine should THEN be directed to draw it that way. The tail is wagging the dog here if graphics determine collisions in any way; and it can lead to it affecting hit percentages.

[Phoenix-D]

It doesn't, Slick. Check to 1.25 patch notes.

The idea is when the projectile hits you don't have it drawn on the other side of the screen from the target ship..

[Slick]

ah. Now that makes sense. Just drawing it so that the player sees it. I knew there was something I didn't get. Thanks.

[se5a]

it's being done server side though, so PBW HAS to have all the shipsets installed, this is going to be a PITA for PBW admin.

it should have been set up so it was worked out on replay.
but aaron doesnt see it as enough of a problem to recode it.

[President_Elect_Shang]

I don't see why they have to have them installed. If a shipset is missing it is replaced by a generic one. How does that effect the person sitting at home processing their turn using Atrocities Klingon set. I don't get it are you saying the players are playing on the server itself? Otherwise combat will take place with generic sets which won't effect the combat results at all.

[Suicide Junkie]

The problem is that that generic shipset change is permanent. The player at home will see the new randomly chosen shipset.

We really need to get Aaron to make the hosting process shipset-agnostic.
The more people who email him about this, the better.