Make me a billboard...

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Does anyone know if there's a way to have an emitter just hang a texture in mid-air?  Think of an 'electronic billboard' sort of thing, where the emitter puts up a texture which fades away, then the emitter puts it back up again...

I suck at effects and haven't had any luck figuring out if this can be done...

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[bigbadbogie]

um - do you mean like - say a holograpic projector???

[Steeveeo]

draw_sprite?

Make the texture fade out at X seconds, then hook it to an emitter with an emitdelay of X+N (N being the delay in between total fadeout and replacement)

Unless you're having trouble with the ODF itself, then I can give you a hand.

[bigbadbogie]

wouldnt it just be better to make it never fade out??

[Steeveeo]

multiple boards or flashing signs...duh

[Red Devil]

What will it say?  Maulers 'R Us?

[bigbadbogie]

steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeo - shutup

[Steeveeo]

steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeo - shutup

And the thing that crawled up your ass is.....what again?

[Avatar]

Guns guns guns....  gentlemen, calm down...  please.

Yes, like a flashing billboard in a futuristic city...

And yes, I'm totally clueless about how the odf would read.  Based on the FE damage odfs I see you can have an a render call an emitter sort of thing, but my fumbling about hasn't gotten it working yet.

I used to have a flashing red light someone posted, and I thought if I found that I could get this working, but I can't find that either...

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[General BlackDragon]

give me the picture, i'll make it.

suggest 2 pictures if u want it to fluctuate or flash or be staticy or anything. Make a base picture, and a pic of static i can make flash a tiney bit.

make them same size btw, and email them to me. rebelion2@rock.com

i'll come up with an odf for you.

[Avatar]

Thanks, that'd be cool...

I'm pretty tied up tonight but I'll try to get to it tomorrow.  Otherwise just grab any couple of images off the net and I'll make up specific ones later.

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[Steeveeo]

I'll make up an ODF after school, but I warn you, the best you can do with an ODF (AFAIK) is a sprite which turns with the view, for a flashing texture you may need DLLs.

[mrtwosheds]

I think draw_geom does not rotate with the view, but you would need a simple 1 frame rectangular .xsi

This is from my harpoon ground explosion

[Poon]
simulateBase = "sim_null"
lifeTime = 10.0
renderBase = "draw_geom"
geomName = "harpoog.xsi"
textureName = "dsnipr00.pic"
textureBlend = "srcalpha invsrcalpha modulatealpha"
startColor = "96 96 96 255"
finishColor = "96 96 96 255"
startRadius = 1.0
finishRadius = 1.0
animateTime = 10.0

It creates a harpoon sticking out of the ground.

[Red Devil]

DR2 has billboards, so maybe that is a good place to find some.

ZTV has flashing red lights as well as most of the innovative and advanced stuff people are trying to recreate now-a-days.

[General BlackDragon]

flashy ness is easy to make in odf.

and yes i was thinking of maybe using a model, but a flashyness/holoscreen like static on a model can only be done if it's computer class...wich shouldnt be too hard to make a model for.

like the shields the scion base used, with a glowing texture that moves up/down across screen with kinda lines in it, it should look pretty good.