It’s hard to create complex cell structures, for example, you can’t create insides of your cells cause the game fills it in automatically, external organelles (pilus, flagellum, etc) are placed outside of your cell, instead fill these areas with a darker toned cytoplasm that has no collision.
For weaker membrane types, this feature is discarded and inside areas are filled in, stronger membrane types will have this feature as an alternative to engulfing.
I think i have seen single cell using a wip like extention, not sure of that’s what you are tallking about, but as cells do not have muscles. The deformity doesn’t stay and the whole cell is pulled back into some circular shape.
The basic issue is that the membrane generation code doesn’t support concave shapes, it can currently only make convex blobs. As such the pili and flagella get moved to the nearest point on the membrane.
As mentioned before Nunz is working on a new membrane system that will allow more complex cell shapes to have more accurate membranes.
A pilus on a soft cell and a shooting toxin from a rigid cell doesn’t look very realistic.
Like just because a bird has features, doesn’t mean it can fly, as bone density is also a factor.
I think having too soft cell should reduce the effectiveness of pilus and having a rigid cell should stop the (shoot) of toxin ( it can just make toxin cloud instead)
in case that code is too complicated for anyone, it is an implementation of what’s called a ‘Convex Hull’ algorithm. As the name suggests, it creates a hull around a set of points that is always convex because it essentially shrink wraps a loop of edges around a bunch of points by using the outermost points. It’s fairly simple and fast but the mesh is a completely flat plane making shading not easy, and concavity is not possible. I’m using a new algorithm that will basically make it so that however you arrange your hexagons, that’s what you’re basically going to get, but actually 3D.
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