Shields approach

[psieg]

Currently thinking about shields and I'm not sure how to proceed. We can have

• a shield-property of a WO that simply reduces taken damage, much like it is in the shields branch with the visual shields being merely a visual property. This means collisiondetection happens against the actual ship which can (in case of collisions rather than bullets) look wrong
• a shield-object with own collisiondetection lying around the ship. This requires hacking into WO-moving (the shields have to move with the ship and don't have their own acceleration etc) as well as DamageForwarding (between different WOs)
• ... or allow different-sized Voxels in the same WO. There still is a problem about forwarding damage from destroyed shield voxels to those that would actually have been hit

Do you guys have any preferences / ideas?

[mrzzzrm]

I strongly prefer the first one. Because it will help great deals in evaluating the concept of transparent shields in general with the least work of all three approaches. we can integrate varying sized voxels or 2 VoxelClusters per WO later, if needed.

[psieg]

going for the first