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very interesting flexman...

I was reminded of your blog post when I saw in the news today an example of ground resonance...

 

 

are you planning on incorporating destruction aspects of the helicopter into combat helo as well?

Not in this case Mac. There's enough going on in the flight-model. Mast separation and structural damage is difficult to achieve, indeed visual representation of damage modelling was quite difficult, we have some 4 stage GREAT textures showing progressive damage but decals are not viable for this. Helicopter mesh detail requires non-instanced meshes and I WISH that I had built the helicopter not as a complete vehicle but as an assembly of common parts that could be instanced however LOD issues would have caused problems with that. Especially as some parts need animation (skinning).

 

So that whole subject was a bag of worms that only with the recent Leadwerks 2.5 update would have been possible but too late to do anything about. So a feature best left for "the future".

 

The damaged skin textures (covered in small bullet holes and scratches) do need to be used somehow and I'm hoping I can add those in later with some shader to blend them onto the aircraft. It needs to be progressive, that is, the greater the damage, the more of the damage texture has to show.

 

Does that make any sense at all?

have you looked at http://kickstarter.com ?

In the UK crowdfunding is not legal. Use of such funding sources carries a risk of prosecution.

In the UK crowdfunding is not legal. Use of such funding sources carries a risk of prosecution.

 

wow... that's a shame...

 

--Mike