New material - ForceField (v2.0)

[TheRings0fSaturn (SaturianNightmare)]

This makes 0 sense.

If anything, they should perform the same.

[nooneisback]

That’s because double-sided faces are actually faces with culling disabled.

Drawing extra geometry doesn’t have a considerable direct impact on performance, it’s more of an issue regarding anything that has to access the vertex data such as collision detection (which is pre-computed in Roblox so yay!).

It can cause issues with lighting as the 2 sides share the same lighting data. This can be fixed with expensive calculations, thus making 2 faces a better approach. I do know that some high-level graphics APIs automatically clone the entire mesh if culling is disabled to avoid this issue.

[sciville]

I made some turrets using the holo material texture.

turrets

I think they turned out pretty well, I really love the new texture.

[IuaNerd]

That is a really cool feature! I think they are going to be seen in many games soon!

[yordannovian2 (Alan_Builder)]

The bottom is like glitched for whatever reason, this can be a problem for me if I want to put ForceField.

[dantheprogram]

Here’s a great tutorial.

Documentation regarding the new force field material?

The twitter threads were right - the key is the R channel of the texture. I did some experimentation of my own after seeing CloneTrooper’s tweet and texture, and ended up with the following results. I guess I’ll start at the beginning. Adding a specialmesh to a basepart, setting it’s material to forcefield and it’s texture to a valid id, creates a shimmering effect, based on the textures red channel. It does work on any texture, you just need to use a specialmesh with any meshid for the effect …

[K1ng_Phant0m (King)]

This is so cool. Thank you for this!

[GuestCapone]

Loving the new material, really makes a forcefield look like a forcefield. And what’s a better way to show off a forcefield then to make a bubble shield?

[TheFortex]

This is PERFECT!! Thanks to everyone who contributed in making this!

[nooneisback]

Maybe also make a shock effect by adding dome like meshes when hit? Give them a concentric circle effect as well.

[FaultyScript]

How do you get the hexagon effect? I just have the one with the glow effect.

[treeclimer7575]

Wow! This is truly amazing I love to see how much work Is done on Roblox just for the developers.

[StompyDonut426 (Twenter_Dev)]

This is awesome. I’m gonna use this in some of my games. Thank you.

[MaximussDev]

hey! Thanks for the feature! Question, though, how can I get that hexagon-effect? thanks!

[nooneisback]

Texturing. Haven’t really tried so far, but the red channel is what is used for the animations.

[DevAppeared (Arcos)]

This is a great material to add! Will be very useful.

[Wally_Surlaw]

Reminds me of Halo’s Bubble Shield.

[SuperKirbylover (SKL)]

glad there is a post about this now! was always curious about how this material worked.

[PMGDesigns (Liam)]

It looks cool but as other people brought up, it was pretty pixelated.
Either way, looks cool.

[CodexJosh (Goober)]

Pretty excited to use this in my game. Can already imagine the stuff I can do with this