[Luis Dias]

Yeah, I thought the stark contrasts, aggressively paired diagonals on the Kent wings and horizon line, and the intimacy of the two pilots as patches of light in the space between their practically full-dark war machines all worked super well. I wish I could do something about the moon texture but c'est la vie.

You could change the sun's position a little bit further to the upper-left quadrant (related to the pic) so as to give slight specular shine on the fighters. Having them 100% pitch black is somewhat off-putting. There's nothing to be done regarding the texture, unless Valathil or some other genius brings motion blur to the renderer.

[General Battuta]

The sun's position is kinda locked in by the Earth bitmap, and again, the choreography was a spectacular PITA, I'm not planning to reshoot.

[rscaper1070]

Yeah, I thought the stark contrasts, aggressively paired diagonals on the Kent wings and horizon line, and the intimacy of the two pilots as patches of light in the space between their practically full-dark war machines all worked super well. I wish I could do something about the moon texture but c'est la vie.

The problem is all of those angles cram the viewer's eyes into the upper left hand side. You have to fight the image to see any of the details. If you rotate the image the angles draw the viewers eyes up the image.

[General Battuta]

I think the takeaway here is 'leave screenshots to others'

[AdmiralRalwood]

Yeah, I thought the stark contrasts, aggressively paired diagonals on the Kent wings and horizon line, and the intimacy of the two pilots as patches of light in the space between their practically full-dark war machines all worked super well. I wish I could do something about the moon texture but c'est la vie.

The problem is all of those angles cram the viewer's eyes into the upper left hand side. You have to fight the image to see any of the details. If you rotate the image the angles draw the viewers eyes up the image.

I really like how the visual flows in that version.

[General Battuta]

LOOK AT THIS **** MOTHER****ERS



KOBRAR MADE GRAVITY. THAT'S SOME ****ING GRAVITY PULLING ALL THOSE BIGASS BULLETS INTO THE MOON

Spoiler:

it turns out gravity is really subtle, i had to cut the projectile velocity by 2/3 and raise the gravity to 3G to get that shot

[An4ximandros]

 

Now someone make the engine support translations so we can have mechs in ground battles dang it.

[General Battuta]

By the way, you can click on the screenshot to get an instructional video on how to handle this.

[Mpez]

That gravity is so great it made my jaw drop.

[Wobble73]

Cool but it can't be our moon with its weak ass gravity!

[0rph3u5]

Can the AI handle it?

[fightermedic]

that's the single one important question here, indeed

[Luis Dias]

it would be really cool to see enemy AI just trying to shoot you and you'll be all like "Why the hell are they all aiming slightly under me?"

Also, bring down that specular a notch. Pretty sure Earthshine isn't so shiny when you have the SUN lighting the dirt.

[0rph3u5]

that's the single one important question here, indeed

"Will the lead indicator be updated accordingly?" might just take its place

[The E]

No, the AI can not handle this.

[An4ximandros]

The general raised my hopes and you dashed them quite expertly E, bravo!

[Luis Dias]

gravity is just a theory anyway.

[Dragon]

that's the single one important question here, indeed

"Will the lead indicator be updated accordingly?" might just take its place

Even if the AI can't at present handle this, maybe updating the lead calculation so that it works correctly would fix it. I don't know how hard would that be, but something tells me it'd be easier than the usual ventures into the AI code...

[The E]

Even if the AI can't at present handle this, maybe updating the lead calculation so that it works correctly would fix it. I don't know how hard would that be, but something tells me it'd be easier than the usual ventures into the AI code...

Point 1: Gravity is not an FSO feature, it's a script.
Point 2: The engine can defer lead calculations to scripts (via the hud override hooks)
Point 3: Updating the engine to handle gravity internally must include updates to the AI. There is no way to do it halfheartedly

[0rph3u5]

Can the AI handle it?

No, the AI can not handle this.

*Achivement Bing*
Achievement unlocked - Rained on Boastutta's parade