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Odd cylinders in Ironforge's inner core #105

Open timkurvers opened 8 years ago

timkurvers commented 8 years ago

Location: this.player.worldport(0, -4981.25, -881.542, 502.66)

screen shot 2016-01-18 at 19 37 56

fallenoak commented 8 years ago

I'm pretty sure those are using transparency and uv animations to replicate steam. I had transparencies kind of working a while ago, but junked it when I refactored M2s.

See here for what I mean by steam: The Great Forge

timkurvers commented 8 years ago

Ah, great reference, that has to be it :+1: Tracked by #97 and #98 in that case.

fallenoak commented 8 years ago

I'd keep this one open, just in case there's more than that at play.

fallenoak commented 8 years ago

Looks like this also involves particle emitters!

timkurvers commented 8 years ago

Is it the steam?

fallenoak commented 8 years ago

Yeah, it's definitely the steam. The model is World\\KHAZMODAN\\IRONFORGE\\PASSIVEDOODADS\\LavaSteam\\LavaSteam.m2. It turns out the transparency is 0.0 for the entire relevant animation block, and it has several particle emitters.

My theory is that the cylinders are geometry meant to aid in the positioning of the particles (and probably aren't meant to be visible at all), and the steam from my screenshot reference above is actually particle emitters.