Spaceship shield

By Michael Hazlett (Imagine 2.9 and higher)

What it will do is simulate a phaser hitting the front and that portion of the shield will show nothing else, this uses standard Imagine 2.9 textures without any Essence ones.

Create a primitive sphere, scale it to envelop your Starship.
Give it a color of 0,0,0 and click on Bright.
Make it a fog object ie: with a length of 50.00.
Add the Bandturb texture.
Edit the texture as follows:

Column One     Two
      ____    ____
       0       0.4          Axis position: 81, 0, -0.9
      20       0.4
      30       0
      20       0
      10     255
       5       0
       4       0
       0.4     0

(The main difference with Charles Blaquiere tip is that the colour you put on the texture is the colour of the shield, usually green :)

States/Create START, click Textures/Brushes on.
Change the texture:
- Time to 1
- Fade to 1
- Axis Position: 67, 0 -0.9
States/Create END.
In the Action editor morph from START to END over how many frames you like; you have to reverse the states to dissipate the shield.

You'll see an energy blast hit the front (or wherever) of the shield flare up (and if you want) dissipate; you can change how transparent the shield is by changing the fog length :)

Last Update: July 13, 1995
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