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Visualize boosted creep parts
it's hard to see when a creep is boosted, especially because creep parts are not shown on the side panel.
Assorted comments from slack, will have to refine the issue more. I do like the idea of making boosted parts higher, though it is a very subtle indication. I also like the idea of the effects being enhanced. depending on the action.
SixPairsOfFeet 20:01 bling on the creeps Yoner 20:02 Oh like make them sparkly? SixPairsOfFeet 20:03 that'd be one way gold chains and such would be another :stuck_out_tongue: Yoner 20:03 They should be sparkly And have special effects for their related actions
Rivaryn:smile_cat: 17:59 bolts a gun on top of ranged creeps, and makes it glow when boosted :tonguecat: Given the color ring on normal creeps (in the official client) I'd say making the colors much brighter would be one way. Would suggest making heal parts a darker green then. Each tier of boost could be a different lightness, with T3 being the brightest of each color. That way you still can color only part if only part is boosted. But I don't know how that translates to the 3D client.
Robalian 01:44 The boosted parts could be thicker on height axis. We have that advantage over vanilla client after all
had a look into having some visualization of boosted bodypart. since we use texture, we would need to generate yet another overlay (with just boosted parts)
for having them glow - it's not exactly working since it's making the bodypart white (since it's emiting light...) for having it being thicker - that's also tricky - it would require another ringlike object that would cause issues of looking 'inside' the creep when looking from the side (since unboosted bodyparts would be transparent)
@Gadjung could we not use a heightmap for some sort of bump visualization effect? and that heightmap could be how boosted the part is 🤔
height-map gives proper specular layer (so reflections) and could not be used as bump-intensity
in theory one could make the normal-map, plain, with circles/diamonds/whatever-shaped to show boost level (i.e T1 is plain, T2 has circle-shaped bumps, T3 has diamond-shaped bumps) but still it would be not that much visible since it would be small and would require another mesh /if there is no now/ since creep-body already has bump-map