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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => Topic started by: eicca on November 08, 2015, 07:00:51 pm

Title: What is this crazy cool glow effect?
Post by: eicca on November 08, 2015, 07:00:51 pm
Saw it in this youtube video, where the glow from the stars is affected by ship silhouettes. Looks incredible sick. How do I get it?

Title: Re: What is this crazy cool glow effect?
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on November 08, 2015, 07:16:55 pm
Are you referring to lightshafts, or...?
Title: Re: What is this crazy cool glow effect?
Post by: eicca on November 08, 2015, 07:20:18 pm
Are you referring to lightshafts, or...?

Watch at 1:30 you can see the shadows of the ships in the glow of the star. So yeah I guess those are lightshafts.
Title: Re: What is this crazy cool glow effect?
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on November 08, 2015, 07:25:22 pm
They should be enabled by default, although mission designers can disable it with a SEXP.

If you share your command-line options, we can tell you if one of them would turn it off (I think -no_glsl might stop them from showing up, but I'd have to double-check that).
Title: Re: What is this crazy cool glow effect?
Post by: eicca on November 08, 2015, 07:26:39 pm
They should be enabled by default, although mission designers can disable it with a SEXP.

If you share your command-line options, we can tell you if one of them would turn it off (I think -no_glsl might stop them from showing up, but I'd have to double-check that).

Here's what I've got so far. Are they only for Freespace 1, and do I need the MediaVPs for that?

-3dshockwave -fb_explosions -rearm_timer -3dwarp -warp_flash -stretch_menu
Title: Re: What is this crazy cool glow effect?
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on November 08, 2015, 07:29:13 pm
I don't think they require the MediaVPs, but maybe they do (or post_processing.tbl at least). Regardless, none of those flags should turn them off.
Title: Re: What is this crazy cool glow effect?
Post by: eicca on November 08, 2015, 07:32:05 pm
I don't think they require the MediaVPs, but maybe they do (or post_processing.tbl at least). Regardless, none of those flags should turn them off.

Post-processing is now enabled but still not seeing the effect. The glow just goes away whenever a ship passes in front of it.
Title: Re: What is this crazy cool glow effect?
Post by: eicca on November 08, 2015, 07:49:13 pm
Never mind, I got it to work. Must require the MVPs, which I only have for Freespace 2. Tell you what, my MacBook could handle everything I threw at it until now. No lightshafts for me  :rolleyes: