Engineer Bug?

The engineer module does not allow lasers to cross. This is totally necessary. Unfortunately, it is not totally true.

If the laser sources are very close on a 90 degree (or similar) corner, then they can in fact cross. The second is in fact protected by the first one. Here is a screenshot.



Maybe this can be fixed.

[sam686]

This crossing forcefield problem need to be fixed. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki9sYrXNPuc

[watusimoto]

Judging from the screen shot, the problem is that the forcefields do not in fact cross; instead one intersects the projector of another.

This does need to be fixed, and should be relatively easy to do.

[karamazovapy]

This crossing forcefield problem need to be fixed. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki9sYrXNPuc

That's intense.

I think these might be 2 different bugs. The situation I took a screenshot of will happen every time if the beams are close enough. The situation in Sam686's video looks more like something occasionally occurring by accident.

[ZoombeR]

1. These are two completely different bugs. Qui's bug existed with zapX too, but that didn't seem to be a big problem, nor did people do that much. That there, takes patience, and theres only so much range you can intersect the projector within.

2. Rick's engineer fix should have let you place force field projectors where they would normal have intersecting beams. His fix, just like on gibbed, forced the newest force field to stop at the first beam it comes to, basically resulting the same way it should with native force fields.

3. Sam, perhaps you got this bug because you've tried to place the forcefield in the same place too many times? Wouldn't asking the server to place a forcefield in one location 5 times per second create some lag?

4. Projectors do not have to be placed 90* apart to intersect, as long as one beam, will cross paths with the other projector. This can happen, for example, from a 45* beam that skins the side of the projector triangle \ in /_\

someone, from the old forums, boobookitten or someone knew everything about this told me about it way back then when. I just dont have a clue to who that was, or when.

[watusimoto]

Wouldn't asking the server to place a forcefield in one location 5 times per second create some lag?

No, because the client doesn't send the request until it has determined the placement is good. The server checks this, of course, but spurious requests aren't transmitted.

That said, the bandwidth required to send the request is pretty small, and I doubt any resulting lag would even be detectable.

[karamazovapy]

Fixed long ago! More engineer improvements have been made, and it's actually working pretty well now.