[Ace]

Valathil can the "god rays" (I hate that stupid religio-centric name for them, but I'll avoid pulling a Kazan... *christofacists!* crap I just did  ) be done on a per sun setting?

[Valathil]

The "Crepuscular Rays" take the color of the sun in question if thats what you mean per sun setting. Also theres a Bailout coded in if the sun has disabled glare.

[Jellyfish]

I think he means if there will be mutiple lightrays if there are multiple suns.

[Rga_Noris]

What I'm looking forward to is seeing a big ship explode, and watching the rays morph around chunks of debris and other ships... With the exposion being the light source, of course.

[Jellyfish]

And, by extension, exploding bombs.

[Valathil]

I think he means if there will be mutiple lightrays if there are multiple suns.

I tried that and it results in massive slowdown cause the shader runs multiple times. Im currently thinking about a way to make it so theres no big jump when 1 sun leaves the screen and it switches to the next sun.

What I'm looking forward to is seeing a big ship explode, and watching the rays morph around chunks of debris and other ships... With the exposion being the light source, of course.

Yeah thats the next thing im working on.

And heres a screen with a cockpit:

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[Trivial Psychic]

Cool thought:
Disable outside shot when player warps out
Have jumpnode generate similar cockpit effects, giving visual impression of space-time distortion during subspace entry.

[Ace]

I think he means if there will be mutiple lightrays if there are multiple suns.

No, I meant exactly what I said to have this as a per-sun setting and not tied to things like explosions, bombs, etc. all having this same effect.

I'd like to use it for some very specific situations (dusty nebulae, etc.) and not for everything.

That's not to say I'm against having the option for capship explosions to have a similar effect, but it is something that I'd like to have clear control over for mods or missions where that isn't the look that we're going for.

[Crybertrance]

Cool thought:
Disable outside shot when player warps out
Have jumpnode generate similar cockpit effects, giving visual impression of space-time distortion during subspace entry.

Now that's a pretty sight... But there's still the problem of the cockpit clipping through the subspace vortex while the rest of the ship is passing through it.

So it'll be like this:

Activate jump drive -> see the wonderful jumpnode effects -> clip through the node (not to mention the cockpit might also dissapear, while the camera is still moving). So unless this problem is solved (is it?) it'll look kinda weird 

[Herra Tohtori]

Hmm. Something doesn't look quite right.

The ray effect is a result of light hitting particles in space. Particles that happen to be in the shadow of solid opaque objects don't get hit by light, so they appear as darker areas.

There's no dust in the cockpit (hopefully the pilots aren't allowed to smoke during sorties) except maybe when ship is heavily damaged and there's an electronics fire onboard or something. In which case they would probably seal their flight suit and vent atmosphere.

So, the cockpit frame should cover the ray effect to give an impression that the effect happens outside the ship rather than being something else... Is it possible to get the cockpit to cover the effect, or will cockpit be part of it by virtue of being a 3d object?

[Black Wolf]

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.

Quoting this for Ace. Seems like a pretty elegant solution to me. I will say, though, that once stuff like this and shadows and whatnot finally make it to trunk, we should probably consider some kind of standard issue readme, or link to a wiki page or whatever with advice for newbies about the quickest and most efficient wsys of improving performance wnile sacrificing as little as possible graphically. But that's an issue for the future.

Any chance we could get a screenie or video of the effect in a nebula? 

[Spoon]

(I hate that stupid religio-centric name for them, but I'll avoid pulling a Kazan... *christofacists!* crap I just did  )

 

I tried that and it results in massive slowdown cause the shader runs multiple times. Im currently thinking about a way to make it so theres no big jump when 1 sun leaves the screen and it switches to the next sun.

What happens when you've got two suns on opposite sides?

[The E]

Given that you probably won't be able to see them at the same time, not much. This whole godray thing is basically running as a replacement for the whiteout effect you normally get when looking at a sun.

[Cobra]

Off topic, but... I want that cockpit.

[Woolie Wool]

It's Wings material that I let Valathil use for cockpit testing, you can't have it.

[Thaeris]

Is that an F-14 pit, by the way?

[Luis Dias]

Some moderator should rename the thread. "Something I have been working on" is anything but descriptive, specially considering the author who is apparently trolling the entire engine to work under 6 fps...

[Crybertrance]

Some moderator should rename the thread. "Something I have been working on" is anything but descriptive, specially considering the author who is apparently trolling the entire engine to work under 6 fps...

It should be renamed to "The Crepuscular Rays of DOOM that will kill your Comp."

[jr2]

Some moderator should rename the thread. "Something I have been working on" is anything but descriptive, specially considering the author who is apparently trolling the entire engine to work under 6 fps...

It should be renamed to "The Crepuscular Rays of DOOM that will kill your Comp."

Hmm, does anyone here play Descent / Descent II via D2X-XL?  You ever try putting all the settings to the max??  That thing can make a system crawl... Anyone ever get it working @ max settings with their rig?

[Commander Zane]

Smoke effects and debris alone will asplode the thing.
If those are off / as low as possible I can put just about everything else at the highest setting.
Advanced Trails + Helix = crispy card too.