[Starfighter]

Originally posted by Krackers87
added a link to download a zip of all my glows.

You forgot to post it dude...

[StratComm]

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[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by karajorma


We are. It's UT who's getting the rough handling and he's been around long enough to know better

Gimme a break, I haven't played FS1 in...what, two, three years?

[karajorma]

Yeah but we were talking about FS2

[Krackers87]

Originally posted by Black Wolf
Turambar's beams win this particular contest IMO - they look close to FS2s, but are definitely upgraded. And yes Mik, that is a good thing .

oh yeh? well im a non conformist, so  

[ChronoReverse]

I like Turambar's but DaBrain's look really good while departing from the traditional freespace look.

[Turambar]

shall I modify the tables so you can get the new glows -and- the cool particles?

[DaBrain]

I like Turambar's beamglows too.  It was not my idea to create new ones. So I only followed his idea.

But I try to make Freespace 2 feel like an new, modern game, without loosing the freespace feeling

I know some people want to have the glows look more they looked before,  but this really decreases modding possiblities.

Originally posted by Turambar
shall I modify the tables so you can get the new glows -and- the cool particles?

Sure, so everybody can use the effects he want.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by DaBrain

I know some people want to have the glows look more they looked before,  but this really decreases modding possiblities.

I disagree. I mean, there's nothing wrong with making new types of beams that use these spiky glows, but I personally don't see that as what V had in mind. These spikes could have been added relatively easily by V, perhaps in fewer colours and such like, but they could have done it, but chose not to, preferring to remain with simpler glows. I don;t see how upgrading these par ticular weapons in this particular style limits what people can do with different weapons.

[DaBrain]

I think V left the rays out, because of the colour limt.

These rays need to fade out really smooth, otherwise they look horrible.

[Sandwich]

Personally I never had any gripes with the FS2 warm-up/down beam glows. I'd think that community efforts would be better spent coming up with all sorts of beam effects themselves, with textures rippling down the beam length, etc... there's so much possibility there it's actually amazing nobody's done any (public) work in that area that I know of.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by DaBrain
I think V left the rays out, because of the colour limt.

These rays need to fade out really smooth, otherwise they look horrible.

They could have done it - same way they did it for the suns and stuff.

[AqueousShadow]

Originally posted by Sandwich
Personally I never had any gripes with the FS2 warm-up/down beam glows. I'd think that community efforts would be better spent coming up with all sorts of beam effects themselves, with textures rippling down the beam length, etc... there's so much possibility there it's actually amazing nobody's done any (public) work in that area that I know of.

Aye...the beam glows themselves were actually pretty good for what they were. I, for one, agree with this. The standard glows are good...and well, bringing something new into the FS world that doesn't fit...well doesn't quite fit. An upgraded versions of the standard glows would be nice like Turambar's a believe. But uhh, the beams themselves should be experimented with.

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Sandwich
Personally I never had any gripes with the FS2 warm-up/down beam glows. I'd think that community efforts would be better spent coming up with all sorts of beam effects themselves, with textures rippling down the beam length, etc... there's so much possibility there it's actually amazing nobody's done any (public) work in that area that I know of.

Checked Mantis lately?

If not, notice my bug reports.

[Sandwich]

Mantis? Is that the Bugzilla replacement thingy for you coder types?

[Goober5000]

Yes.  You haven't heard of it yet?  There's a sticky thread about it:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,19573.0.html

Yay 4300th post

[ChronoReverse]

From a glance at Mantis, using an ani for the beam doesn't seem to work.  Nevertheless, the tiling code and moving tiling code should still be working unless that's borked too.

[Sandwich]

Not registered there, and currently don't have time to. I'll do it later this afternoon... maybe.

(I don't like registering at places without need. )

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by ChronoReverse
From a glance at Mantis, using an ani for the beam doesn't seem to work.  Nevertheless, the tiling code and moving tiling code should still be working unless that's borked too.

But as always - I like to wait until *everything* works properly before even bothering to start to work on something.

[USS Alexander]

As i look at the beams, i wonder where my beams have gone, the ones i made for shivan swarm :'(