SHP units size restriction Options

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

I want to ask, if someone else (especially the shp'er) noticed, that shp units can't be bigger than 160x160pixel?
And does someone knows a way to make bigger shp units work ingame?

Every time i make a unit bigger than 160x160 pixel, the unit is truncated at this point ingame.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Sep 14 2007, 01:45 PM

[Machine]

I'll have to check this, as I remember that I made an even bigger version of my leviathan (RO's ultimate mech), bigger than 160x160. I'll post the ressults later (as I have to find, or remake the bigger version ).
Also the Core Defender is bigger, it's 145x189, maybe your problem could be fixed by the Core Defender's specific tag , which is another thing that I'll have to check

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

the dimension of the shp can be bigger than 160x160 pixel
but if the visible part of the unit is bigger than 160 pixel, it is truncated. (this is comparable to vxl units bigger than 255 voxel)


afaik the coredefender tag only changes the selection box and makes the unit invulnerable to emp effects.
And the coredefender itself is only about 95 pixel high, so he doesn't come to the limit.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Sep 15 2007, 12:02 AM

[Crimsonum]

I'm afraid you can't make SHP units bigger than 160x160 pixels. What you can do is to make a building bigger than that. And since your ship has three main turrets, I say that you should divide the thing into three buildings, using the RA2 trick. Then each one of the three buildings can have one turret. It's a good idea if you plan to use it in single player missions.

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

Buildings aren't a problem. They can be bigger than 160x160 pixel. Only units make problems.

[Corsair]

I'll have to check this, as I remember that I made an even bigger version of my leviathan (RO's ultimate mech), bigger than 160x160.

Probably because the mechs are in two sections, legs and torso, rather than one thing like the destroyer.

[Bittah Commander]

The Core Defender is merely one section however

[Corsair]

That's just because its special

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

Probably because the mechs are in two sections, legs and torso, rather than one thing like the destroyer.

the ship has more sections too and the shp is structured like a mech shp. The floating anim is one "section" and the turret the other "section", even if i wouldn't call it section because it's one shp with different frames. So there's no physical seperation like in vxl files.

And the Coredefender is far from reaching the limit of 160x160 pixel. It's only 95 pixel high.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Sep 16 2007, 08:21 PM

[Corsair]

the ship has more sections too and the shp is structured like a mech shp. The floating anim is one "section" and the turret the other "section", even if i wouldn't call it section because it's one shp with different frames. So there's no physical seperation like in vxl files.

Well, I didn't quite mean it like that. The Torso can add a good 80 more pixels in height on already 90 pixel high legs but the turrets on the destroyer really don't add much height to it, which is all I was saying. However, I really don't know much about SHP structuring but I can try to help anyway