[sigtau]

Damn it, Valathil, this is going to be something I'm going to catch myself playing with in the middle of a dogfight.  You just cost me several deaths in FS2, pilot. 

but seriously this is awesome

[Alan Bolte]

I think it'll work out well for nebula missions, atmosphere misisons, or for replicating thin nebulas or dust clouds - basically anything where the background isn't pitch black. Godrays in space just doesn't look right to me, rule of cool or not.

[Black Wolf]

I think it'll work out well for nebula missions, atmosphere misisons, or for replicating thin nebulas or dust clouds - basically anything where the background isn't pitch black. Godrays in space just doesn't look right to me, rule of cool or not.

Yeah, I agree. If this is implemented, I'd prefer it as a checkbox in mission specs than a launcher flag. The effect is bloody awesome though.

[Valathil]

im thinking of putting the parameters and switch into post-processing.tbl where a user can enable it for all missions if he so chooses plus mission designers can enable them with the post process sexp and if you have a really bad pc i will include a cmdline to just turn it off always so the mission designer cant just bring your pc to a crawl. This is my idea for the time being but i want to talk to The E about it before fixating it.

[Alan Bolte]

Also, I don't know if it's possible or cost efficient, but I think the effect could use some blur. There's an odd striation to the present implementation, which I initially thought was color banding on Youtube but I can see it clearly in your nifty asteroid image as well.

[Valathil]

yes that is because of the reduced sample count i did so my gpu fan doesnt fly outta the case and chop my head off. if you increase that it gets better but also does a number on the performance

[Cobra]

CRAP. Now The_E needs to record a version of Sunglare with godrays.

[torc]

the idea to put thay into post processing table is very good...it gaves freedom to use that or not.

[Luis Dias]

wow.

that is all.

[esarai]

DAMMIT VALATHIL.  MY PANTS.

All of this is so flippin' awesome I'm going to run out of compliments for it sooner or later.

[Subspace Anomaly]

Well the sun effect does not do this justice, and would be cool if more spectacular flares were painted/created.
Anyway this is really cool for more distant stars where color is visible as well :d.

[mjn.mixael]

I see your lowres.. and raise you hires...

Better flare control would be frakking awesome.. but this thread is not about flares.

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[Luis Dias]

that hires pic is exciting, Mjn, but it doesn't look like godrays at all...

[Jellyfish]

Imagine atmospheric missions with this. My eyes orgasm just thinking about it.

Crank up the bloom a bit, and you got a dogfight in Heaven.

[redsniper]

Blue Planet 3:

dogfight in Heaven.

[Aardwolf]

I think it'll work out well for nebula missions, atmosphere misisons, or for replicating thin nebulas or dust clouds - basically anything where the background isn't pitch black. Godrays in space just doesn't look right to me, rule of cool or not.

You know what else would work well for nebula missions? Reviving retail's 3d-poofs using soft particles!

[Cobra]

that hires pic is exciting, Mjn, but it doesn't look like godrays at all...

And you're retarded if you can't tell hires godrays from crummy-ass lowres.

[Luis Dias]

Calm yourself down, Cobra. My job does include renderings, I know *exactly* what a godray is (mathematically / geometrically / etc), and MJN's don't appear as such (the rays do not appear to conform to the Lucifer's mesh). It may be due to a whole variety of different effects put together.

It's still nice.

[mjn.mixael]

1: They do conform to the mesh.. I suppose you just can't tell from that screen. Go watch the anim in motion in FSPort 3.3.

2: I could care a less whether or not you actually consider them godrays.

3: Who the frick cares? Stop hijacking Valathil's threads for stupid arguments.

[Subspace Anomaly]

I see your lowres.. and raise you hires...

Better flare control would be frakking awesome.. but this thread is not about flares.

That's pic from cutscene after Lucifer crushes terran installation, ofscreen. The point is, with just flashing white screen, it does not look good at all. But you are absolutely right it's not what this is about, sorry about that.