Cornflakes_91 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:26 am
CSE, something confuses me in your latest image:
The rightmost of the three firing turrets at the front has a weird perspective
The muzzle flash suggests that the barrel is raised until about pointing at the viewer, but the trace goes way below the viewer.
What is it supposed to do?
Yes, it is a good question. It is also disturbing me, and I do not really understand (thesleeve - may it be linked with the geometrical distortion due to the field of view?)
Let's gather the facts:
In the top of the image, we see that the cannon at the right is seemingly pointing straight at the camera. The muzzle light (see real image) is actually positioned correctly. The other two canons are definitely not pointing at the camera!
In the second line, we see that the laser beam (dark red line) is really well aligned with the cannon in two plans (-> in space); the last shot is the 3D view from the camera.
In the 3rd line, we see that this canon is actually shooting below the camera and slightly to the left. The second and third canon are shooting at the same height, but more to the right (in the perspective of the last screenshot on the bottom-right).
If anything, the only mistake in the muzzle light (added in post processing) is that the second canon should have a muzzle-light a bit higher.
The perspective make it tough - keep in mind that the three pink laser shots are parallel lines! I think very slight mistakes in alignments can due to the distortion make large apparent discrepancies.
Here an improved muzzle flash positioning (slightly larger and the middle one higher - the position of the others including our rightmost canon is constant):