Invisible vehicle

Ar7ific1al · Post by **Ar7ific1al** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:11 pm

Agent ME wrote:The sword doesn't take the cloaking because that's how its shader is programmed. Some shaders aren't set up for cloaking.

hmm.. looking back at that...... would shader swaps do anything for that? I mean... if that works, might it be possible to do the same with a vehicle?? another thing, couldn't you edit the active camo bump maps to make the object less visible, with less distortion? in my opinion, it's very easy to spot someone with active camo... that's just me... cuz I look around with a sniper and I see a distortion in the lighting of the area, and there he is lol I personally would like to be a bit less visible with active camo; it's supposed to be for stealth... and with it, you still appear on enemy radar, so that's even worse! lol

happykillmore · Post by **happykillmore** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:23 pm

Rockymods wrote:Then you'll never find the warthog, it would be absolutely invisible unlike how camouflage leaves distortions.

I found that one out when I nulled the bitmaps on the warthog. I'd lose it for like a minute unless it was partly destroyed and smoking.

However I will look into this some more tomorrow. It would be cool but those camo bumps need to be on otherwise you'll just see dirt flying everywhere.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:16 pm

ya and on the ghost u would need to null the contrail or else u would see two purple glows

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:34 pm

For the warthog you'd have to go into the foot, and null out the effe's that are associated with it...Unfortunatly, it'd make a pretty unrealistic and kinda crappy looking hog that leaves no drit trails.
For things like the ghost youd have to null out the cont's and the lens's

Turk, the thing you said is absolutley awesome, I shall look into using that in future

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:24 am

odd part is that its been found for a while between TLM but i think we just forgot to update the plugins with it. I will post a sample mod of it soon and put it up in the downloads for the creator and others to play with. Here is a link though to a vid dan made a while ago showing off the invisible vehicles. I will also update the plugin when i upload the mod.

link

happykillmore · Post by **happykillmore** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:05 pm

Yeah if you wanted the hog to look more realistic you would have to create a camo bump for it. PAIN IN THE ASS! so yeah, a good looking camo hog is kinda outta the question here.

Ar7ific1al · Post by **Ar7ific1al** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:15 am

yeah, I would imagine making active camo bump maps is a pain in the ass xD so Turk you said it's already possible to have a vehicle be invisible and then get in it, and become invisible as well, didn't you? you should make a tut lol =P I wanna try that out, see if it's okay for my mod lol

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:17 am

actually a camo bump isnt hard, Ive done it before. Its just a matter of reusing the normal bump

And like i said before its easy cause its only one value. It will be updated once i get it labled again.

happykillmore · Post by **happykillmore** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:57 am

I've never screwed with bumps before... I just figured

Rockymods · Post by **Rockymods** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:57 am

If you go to a vehicles HLMT it has a nulled spot for active camo shader. Anyone know if we can do something with that?

Ar7ific1al · Post by **Ar7ific1al** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:11 pm

=o yeah, that's an idea lol never noticed, really... I never open the HLMT of a vehicle, so yeah lol there's not really anything there for me =P but that sounds like a good idea, maybe we should take a look at that

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:12 pm

I got the value pin pointed and the plugin will be updated in a minute. The way it works is that if you set it to a negative it will make vehicles or people it hits invisilbe. In order to make a gun make you invisible you have to use the weapon tag, wich might be the way needed for the hog to camo itself. Anyway here is a pic of the ghost and hog with bump while in camo.

Unfortunatly the glass of the hog in uneffected.

Rockymods · Post by **Rockymods** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:55 pm

Where's the hog?

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:05 pm

... is that sarcasm? If not did you wait for the second pic to load?

Thrasher Alpha · Post by **Thrasher Alpha** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:10 pm

is that while your in the vehicle with the camo or is it just like that? or did it go over a camo thing, lol.

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:18 pm

i shot it with a shotgun. I turnned invislbe once i entered it.

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:21 pm

is it possible to make things pickupable from vehicles? if so then we could probably do something with that

Thrasher Alpha · Post by **Thrasher Alpha** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:26 pm

no turk, i ment did you have camo when you went in it. and that sucks that it doesnt go not invisable when you get out.

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:29 pm

no i didnt have camo when i went in.

Thrasher Alpha · Post by **Thrasher Alpha** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:33 pm

That sucks, you still have some work to do on it