[Taristin]

*snickers*

[Knight Templar]

Had the same idea, but didn't want to say it outloud.

Figured if I kept it to myself, I could use it in one of my own projects and not have it seem like a rip. Alas.

[Lightspeed]

"Command!!! This is... this is a..... millionary sun system!"

[Black Wolf]

Isn't there a limit of 10 suns per mission? moreover, some of those aren't perfectly circular.

[TopAce]

Even suns don't have to be circular. If you scale them at 1:3 and use a 2:4 division, you will get something similiar. The only thing I do no understand is why isn't the screen completely white while you are facing the sun?

[Singh]

unless........those are new explosion effects? O_O

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by TopAce
Even suns don't have to be circular. If you scale them at 1:3 and use a 2:4 division, you will get something similiar.  

No... you can't. The suns only have 1 scale input, they have to be round. Plus that doesn;t address the 10 sunds per mission limit.

They could be BG images, but they're more likely some kind of weapon using the sun image.

[Taristin]

Pesky Shivans...

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Black Wolf


No... you can't. The suns only have 1 scale input, they have to be round. Plus that doesn;t address the 10 sunds per mission limit.

They could be BG images, but they're more likely some kind of weapon using the sun image.

You may be right. I never tried modifying the division of suns. It was just an idea. It apparently petered out.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by FreeTerran in the SCP forum.
i detect a weird bug if i have any background in the mission they all look like suns


 

You guys consider a bug a mystery picture? What does that tell us about the likely quality of the final project?

[jdjtcagle]

Well, it's still was a mystery...

....
*runs, again*

[Eishtmo]

Actually, the mystery is where the damn thing came from.  Thanks for solving Black Wolf, you win a cookie.

Made with pot.

[Lightspeed]

The thing about suns not being circular is people using bad FOV values. If you set the FOV to anything other than ~0.39 you WILL definately have perspective distortion at your screen edges, leading to ugly, ugly "melonized" suns, planets, ships, whatever.

This was quite bad an issue with FS2 retail - i'm so glad I don't have to suffer from it anymore with SCP

[TopAce]

I tried this FOV and it disappointed me.

[Lightspeed]

Well, my eyes cant take any FOV with perspective distortion.

That's also one of the reasons why I passionately hate the X² engine.