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- - da shield! (https://simplymaya.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9343)

For all the guys on #simplymaya who wanted to see it ( and for everyone else who has a cool idea for it ) here's my shield! I wanted to test in what ways I could create an 'absorbing shield' and came up with this. Anyone have any suggestions on how to improve the concept ( I can perfectise the thing later when I play around with it a bit ).

PS: I've made the normally invisible sphere on wich the beam collides a little bit blue, to make the effect more ... .... you know! :P. The rock in the middle (if you can see it) is just to illustrate that an object could summon such a shield and be in the center. The yellow beam is a direct. beam wich's direction shifts over 100 frames, therefore the bent beam :). :D any tips?

Here's the anim. D'oh, I had to cut the size twice, because of a few lowsy bytes :(. So pardon the low quality

Just because Dirack is too f***ing lazy to log the IRC chat, here are my comments. ;)

Code:

12:10:22:<Dirack> so, what ya think? :(

12:10:36:<danny> looks ok

12:10:45:<danny> might be nice to see more effect on the shield

12:11:07:<danny> maybe have some fluctuations in the shield's surface or something

12:11:16:<danny> color distortions, waves, etcs

12:11:21:<danny> etc*

12:11:25:<danny> damn, can't type :P

12:12:11:<Dirack> :)

12:12:14:<Dirack> ok

12:12:16:<Dirack> post that :)

12:12:24:<Dirack> it will make my thread look more active ;p

12:12:28:<danny> why? you just read it

12:16:17:<Dirack> no I didn't!

12:16:31:<danny> too bad

12:16:35:<Dirack> :(

12:16:37:<danny> log this conversation and read it later

12:17:23:<Dirack> already cleared it

12:17:25:<Dirack> post it