Did you ever notice?

Post by **Teancum** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:07 am

In Battlefront 1, the Hailfire's treads actually go in reverse of the way you're going.

Post by **EraOfDesann** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:15 pm

I'm not sure if I noticed it or not...Interesting.

-=Sithicalohiny=- · Post by **-=Sithicalohiny=-** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:04 pm

Maybe it is just that effect that you see, can't remember what it's called.

Exclamation · Post by **Exclamation** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:46 am

-=Sithicalohiny=- wrote:Maybe it is just that effect that you see, can't remember what it's called.

Like that illusion when you see a wheel spinning very fast, and then suddenly it (the spokes, usually) appear to be spinning the other way?

Actually, I haven't noticed that on the Hailfire, though!

sawyerdk9 · Post by **sawyerdk9** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:15 pm

Yeah I think i know what you mean. I was thinking the other day about how everyone says that battlefront dosn't support wheeled vehicles, well what about the hailfire?

Leviathan · Post by **Leviathan** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:06 pm

If SWBF can't really handle wheeled vehicles, then a texture animation may have been used on the Hailfire Droid's wheels...

Post by **Teancum** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:21 pm

Exaclty, Leviathan. Fred told me treaded (wheeled) vehicles are just hovers that allow for animated textures and suspension parts.

sawyerdk9 · Post by **sawyerdk9** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:47 pm

yes that makes really good sense. i dont understand how swbf dosnt support wheels though

WHITE_RAVEN · Post by **WHITE_RAVEN** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:03 pm

I've never seen this happen! Was it a modified hailfire droid or the regular (I'm assuming you mean the stock hailfire)?

Leviathan · Post by **Leviathan** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:09 pm

Contrary to what we could think, a rolling animation is not that easy to implement in a game. Indeed, you need to animate a wheel (Which can be considered as a disc), and so, many points are moved at the same time, on different trajectories. In that case, I think it is useless to precise that such a movement would require much resource, especially when there's not only one wheel on a vehicle, and that this one is not alone on the battle-field !...