#Finally finished the track rendering.

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limpid shale
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@willow ermine Please use threads in this channel when commenting on something
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timid sleet
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I still need to implement all the stuff surrounding this: recipes, fuel (food?), how do you get the cows (tame them? How?)

Knowing me this will take another month or two.

But suggestions are welcome

limpid shale
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Why were you doing this via Luarendering again? engithink

timid sleet
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Trains don't support animations

limpid shale
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ah

hardy yacht
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@timid sleet You are my hero

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I've wanted to make an agriculture tamed (pun intended) mod for quite some time, and just didn't because I don't have the skills nor the time to make animations

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What is it for ?
When can I steal it ?

timid sleet
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That's the neat part, i didnt have any plans other than cow trains garlicdoggo

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I'll release it as a standalone mod when i've finished the stuff noted above with integration for vanilla nauvis and maybe the wood planet (the name escapes me currently).
After that, feel free to build on top of it

hardy yacht
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that is extremely cool.

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do cow "space" platforms

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trianglepupper pls

timid sleet
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Replacing all logistics with cows: Cow trains, cow bots, cow space platforms

hollow bane
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ngl, the sounds sold me

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idk if you can have dust kicking up where they are walking, might make the leg movement better

timid sleet
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I'm not gonna try and sync a separate dust rendering. The only viable option would be to combine it in the current rendering but that would mean that if the cow stands still the dust would freeze in mid air

hollow bane
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well trains produce smoke when they move

timid sleet
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Only when they stop, right?

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But now that I think of it, the drive_over_tie_trigger (the same thing that triggers the sounds) takes any TriggerEffect, I might be able to also add a CreateParticleTriggerEfectItem to create some dust.

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Though it still wouldn't be synced to the hoof steps but maybe some generic dust would sufice

hollow bane
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just double checked to be sure, trains default to their smoke effect when moving but nothing when idle

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customize/tone it down and reposition it around their feet

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oh, its the burner fuel effect...do you feed the cows to power them?

timid sleet
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That's the plan

hollow bane
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you could add it there!

timid sleet
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Currently they eat good ol' coal

hollow bane
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hay, genetically altered hay, radioactive hay

timid sleet
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But what burn effect do you mean, I'm currently ingame and don't see it

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This one?

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Nvm, I had smoke disabled in the graphics settings garlicdoggo

timid sleet
hollow bane
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i was thinking, maybe it starts around their knees. just to hide the choppy walking animation a bit.

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but looks good with the dust now!

hardy yacht
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I'm wondering if you couldn't make it less choppy by just adding more frames ? (I have no idea how much work this is)

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but I also assume that with more speed, the animation look smoother

timid sleet
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I decided to limit the number of frames to 8 to reduce the file size since every frame needs to be rendered in 256 different directions.

Similarly in order to make the dust start at the knees i'd have two cut the animation up in two separate layers that would hurt performance since both animations would have to be controlled separately.

In any case, i might still up the frame count just to see what it would look like. I want to rerender the cows anyway in order to center them a bit better

hardy yacht
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oof that's a lot. Is reducing resolution or increasing compression an option?

timid sleet
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I guess, wouldnt make it look any prettier though🫠

But I should start with defining what's an acceptble file size for a mod like this

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And then see what's possible with that budget

ebon bay
willow ermine
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Btw any progress update? @timid sleet

timid sleet
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Since the recording of this thread I've redone a lot of the walking animation. Especially the hind legs. I've changed the left cow so that it is more distinct from the right one. I've doubled the number of frames and increased the animation speed such that the hoofs (almost) don't slide over the ground

ebon bay
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looks great

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Can't wait to feed them nuclear feed

willow ermine
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Same xD

hardy yacht
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It's great ! So these are tracks, internally, and cows are trains, alright ? Did you make sure they cannot connect with normal tracks, or did you just not bother ?

hollow bane
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-# no bell around their neck is breaking my immersion

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real talk, they look great!

timid sleet