Author Topic: Which shockwave is better? (Read 7147 times)

CP5670 · **on:** March 04, 2002, 02:02:55 am

I am trying to decide whether or not to replace the FS2 default shockwave animations with the FS1 ones in my campaign, so I thought it might be nice to know what everyone likes.

Fineus · **Reply #1 on:** March 04, 2002, 02:28:14 am

I always liked the originals slightly more... but perhaps a comprimise might be better.. a little editing?

CP5670 · **Reply #2 on:** March 04, 2002, 09:41:50 am

I thought that the FS2 one looked nicer when I first saw it, but over the years I have begun to lean towards FS1. Looks like everyone here likes the FS1 version...

CP5670 · **Reply #3 on:** March 04, 2002, 11:26:14 am

Just did a bit of tweaking to the FS1 shockwave color and gave it a bit of a fiery look; I am fairly satisfied with the result so I think I will use that.

Grey Wolf · **Reply #4 on:** March 04, 2002, 11:27:23 am

I have a MOD with all the shockwaves and explosions from FS1 on my site. It was made by someone called Xerxes a while back. Here it is: http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/gtdwolf/misc/fs2explo-pack.zip

Admiral LSD · **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2002, 01:56:59 pm

To be perfectly honest I found the FS1 shockwaves to be rather corny compared with their FS1 counterparts... But then again I did play FS2 (albeit the OEM version) before I ever saw shockwaves in FS1 so I'm kind of biased in that regard...

Nico · **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2002, 02:02:23 pm

I can't remember how the fs1 ones look like, and can'tbother opening the VP file

man i'm lazzy... :thepimp:

Thorn · **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2002, 02:13:04 pm

Its darker blue, and its perfectly round...

Galemp · **Reply #8 on:** March 04, 2002, 02:43:25 pm

Whoa, freaky! I was going to post the same poll for my FS1 port. Well, I intended to post the FS1 shockwave as a download on the Extras page, but I think I'll ask permission to use that shockwave/explosion pack instead. I wish you could use the FS1 shockwaves for bombs and FS2 ones for large capship explosions.

Zeronet · **Reply #9 on:** March 04, 2002, 03:24:09 pm

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Originally posted by CP5670
I thought that the FS2 one looked nicer when I first saw it, but over the years I have begun to lean towards FS1. Looks like everyone here likes the FS1 version...

Not anymore, us FS2 are winning, because our shockwave is more evolved.

Dr.Zer0 · **Reply #10 on:** March 04, 2002, 03:42:51 pm

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Originally posted by Zeronet

Not anymore, us FS2 are winning, because our shockwave is more evolved.

Looks like I supported the FS1 side

Vertigo1 · **Reply #11 on:** March 04, 2002, 04:33:57 pm

The FS1 explosion looks best because it actually looks 3D. The FS2 one looks too damn flat.

CP5670 · **Reply #12 on:** March 04, 2002, 09:40:51 pm

I like the "shear" effect of the FS2 one but the FS1 one looks much sharper; the FS2 one is kind of blurry IMHO.

I was fooling around with the colors for the FS1 shockwave a bit more and came up with this one; looks fairly good to me in the game.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cp5670/shock.zip

Ulala · **Reply #13 on:** March 04, 2002, 09:48:21 pm

Could ya post some screens?

CP5670 · **Reply #14 on:** March 04, 2002, 10:03:51 pm

Here are a few I collected:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cp5670/screen00.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cp5670/screen02.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cp5670/screen05.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cp5670/screen06.jpg

vadar_1 · **Reply #15 on:** March 04, 2002, 10:30:10 pm

The FS1 ones are just expanding circles, the fs2 ones actually have some sort of energy disturbance going on, and multiple layers. The Fs1 ones sounded cooler thou, same with the bigship subspace node in fs1, that was cool as hell.

Galemp · **Reply #16 on:** March 04, 2002, 10:59:27 pm

Actually, from what I've heard, Hell isn't cool at all. It's actually quite warm.

ZylonBane · **Reply #17 on:** March 04, 2002, 11:49:54 pm

The perfectly circular FS1 shockwave just looked silly. Any big explosion emanating from a large complex object like a capship will be disrupted and uneven.

Kamikaze · **Reply #18 on:** March 05, 2002, 12:53:07 am

I kinda liked the FS1 shockwaves, don't ask me why

But I'll admit the FS2 ones are better eye candy, and are more realistic (?) than those circular things...

Nico · **Reply #19 on:** March 05, 2002, 01:05:54 am

actually, perfect circles for shockwave are much more realistic.

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Which shockwave is better?