[Deadly in a Shadow]

what mod is that?  i want to play it.

That's MD's costum mod he made for creating awesome pics'n'vid and playing high velocity battles.

[Firstdragon34]

OMG! I have no words! 

[Hades]

[Kobrar44]

Reminds me of...

And, from what I can see, that FWOOSH following beam after piercing through Belisarius was... better?

[Retsof]

High speed capships in nebula.  I think I just passed out from awesomeness overdose.

[Hades]

Reminds me of...
And, from what I can see, that FWOOSH following beam after piercing through Belisarius was... better?

Yeah, it looks better to me too. Mentioned in the FSU channel.

[Charismatic]

Is that blow through beam effect in 3.6.12?
Also a while back i heard they were working on beams to actually cut up parts of Cap ship models in game so that you can see the cuts and scars in game -- that out yet?

[headdie]

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Is that blow through beam effect in 3.6.12?
Also a while back i heard they were working on beams to actually cut up parts of Cap ship models in game so that you can see the cuts and scars in game -- that out yet?

not sure about 12 but penetrating beams in 13/14 dev cycle and i believe in the 3.6.13 patch for mediavps. cant remember about the beam scaring though.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Also a while back i heard they were working on beams to actually cut up parts of Cap ship models in game so that you can see the cuts and scars in game -- that out yet?

It's called Geomod. You are recommended not to mention it in the presence of SCP coders AFAIK, the idea has been toyed with, but implementation causes all sorts of issues, so - if ever - it's not gonna be anywhere in the near future.

[Charismatic]

Dam that sounded cool -- but hey ill settle for the beam blow through though!
Thanks for the responses.

[Fury]

Any weapons can make visible damage on any ship as long as it has been modelled that way using destroyable subobjects. This however increases complexity of models significantly and in turn lowers performance of the game. This has already been done in some advanced models such as those made for Diaspora.

Another method is to use materials system to simulate this effect, it cannot blast off parts of ships but can add visible damage. This is still in very much concept stage with actual implementation still far away.

[chief1983]

I just saw a blow-through effect in Transcend last night.  It was pretty cool.  I'm not sure about the glowing balls that get drawn from a beam slice though.  And pspew from the fighter you're lighting up makes them a bit tricker to keep in your reticule.

[Charismatic]

I did see a quick YouTube video of the beam "glowing balls" a while back. It was amazing.

[Trivial Psychic]

I think that there is potential if/when damage decals ever gets implemented, it could use the perceived surface depression ability of normal maps to give the appearance of surface damage.  I have also suggested periodically that damage decals be paired with continuous but slowly diminishing explosion effects at impact points to simulate surface fires fed by internal oxygen.  It could go a long way towards simulating heavy damage to a ship than existing effects... though I suspect that something LUA based could be simulated by now.

[shiv]

Coudl you tell me how did you get such beautiful looking nebulas?

[Charismatic]

Read up, someone posted a link to the nebula topic with a download link.

[shiv]

Thanks.

[joelever]

My first FreeSpace 2 model i have never used  3D software  before I was just trying something new.

[Deadly in a Shadow]

My first FreeSpace 2 model i have never used  3D software  before I was just trying something new.
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I don't like it pink, but that ship looks reeeeaaly good.

EDIT: uhh, that kind if purple. Derpiness.

[CommanderDJ]

For a first model, that's really good!