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Offline Nuclear1

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #80 on: January 24, 2010, 12:42:06 am
Holy crap.  This is amazing. 

I love you guys.
Spoon - I stand in awe by your flawless fredding. Truely, never before have I witnessed such magnificant display of beamz.
Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
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Offline Ypoknons

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #81 on: January 24, 2010, 03:00:10 am
I think the idea is to remind us that the beam is blowing a hole in the ship and superheated fragments are coming out the other side, right?
Long time ago, you see, there was this thing called the VBB and... oh, nevermind.
 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #82 on: January 24, 2010, 03:01:10 am
Quite so.
 

Offline Wanderer

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #83 on: January 24, 2010, 03:16:27 pm
Quote from: Thaeris on January 23, 2010, 11:00:18 am
Speaking of other fun effects, Komet's Japanese localization mod was supposed to have hull sparking upon weapons impact as well as a few shield-hit affects as well. Will these similarly get into the MediaVPs? Damage effects are fun...  :nod:

Yes - but at least i wont start porting over other features unless requested to (and possibly not even then).
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Offline Thaeris

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #84 on: January 24, 2010, 05:04:32 pm
EPIC WIN!!!
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Offline redsniper

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #85 on: January 24, 2010, 05:46:53 pm
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[17:44] <redsniper> I like how whenever we get a new feature implemented in FSO, at first it's WAY overdone
[17:45] <@Battuta> heheh yeah
[17:45] <redsniper> then toned down later

This is pretty amazing guys. I love long time. :yes:
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Offline Kolgena

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #86 on: January 24, 2010, 08:34:03 pm
Few things to say:

1. Wow.
2. Wow.
3. Wow.
4. I agree that the effect needs to be toned down a fair bit. Kilometer long trails that seem to show more debris coming out of the ship than it seemed to contain in the hole that got blown through it looks odd.
5. Wow.
6. Wow.
 

Offline Cobra

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #87 on: January 24, 2010, 08:44:16 pm
Oh God. This is making me break down and download the nightlies before two weeks later. This is ****ing epic. Can't wait to see it work on railguns.
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Offline Aardwolf

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #88 on: January 25, 2010, 06:40:47 am
I think the effect might look better if instead of a standard explosion effect, it used something that just expands and fades... of course, in the actual fs2 intro cutscene there was some debris, but it was slow moving and entirely at the site of impact...

Also, too chunky.

But I like the idea. Especially the slash trail thing... but it could use some work.
 

Offline Fury

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Reply #89 on: January 25, 2010, 08:55:00 am
I take you're volunteering to create those new effects then? If so, head here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=67716.0
 

Offline jr2

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #90 on: January 25, 2010, 09:07:13 am
Quote from: Fury on January 25, 2010, 08:55:00 am
I take you're volunteering to create those new effects then? If so, head here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=67716.0

QFT
 

Offline Maverick

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #91 on: January 25, 2010, 11:24:10 am
I must say this has become so impressive and that it was surprising that it wasnt made anytime sooner.... playing through some campaigns now and seeing ships in the distance battling with beams and seeing at least the glowing impacts on their hulls in the distance really gives it a more dynamic visual effect....
 

Offline The E

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #92 on: January 25, 2010, 11:34:02 am
This wasn't done sooner because it wasn't really possible to do it. The code with the necessary features was only committed a rather short time ago.
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Offline Nuclear1

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Reply #93 on: January 27, 2010, 12:26:12 am
Alright, here's my 2 cents:

This effect is awesome.  As in, this is easily one of the most awesome visual effects of FSO, next to glowmaps and ambient_factor.  You guys should very much be commended for everything BP has so far contributed to FSO gameplay--and you haven't even forced us to wait for the release to give it to us. :)

That said, here's what I think can be improved on:

1.  Like everyone's said, shorter trails.  Blah blah blah ad naseum.
2.  I think this was mentioned a while back, but different effects for different ships and beams.  I think the original effect looks a little silly on an Aeolus--but the effect Fury showed in the second pic of his most recent upload looks perfect for cruisers.  Corvettes and up--fire away with the original.  It looks amazing.
3.  The slash effect looks great--if you're not using the original effect (the "burst with debris flying everywhere" effect--it just looks too crowded and messy).  The same effect I mentioned above though, would look great on it too.

I honestly haven't played around with the table, and since it's midnight right now, I probably won't till tomorrow.  But I'll look around at it and play around.  I'll upload some screenshots too. :)

Wonderful job guys! :yes:
Spoon - I stand in awe by your flawless fredding. Truely, never before have I witnessed such magnificant display of beamz.
Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
Nuclear1 - I want a duet.
AndrewofDoom - Make it a trio!
 

Offline Stormkeeper

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #94 on: January 27, 2010, 01:03:21 am
THIS IS SO FAPPABLE!
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Offline AlphaZero

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #95 on: January 27, 2010, 02:22:31 am
Holy **** ORGASM.
 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: oh man this is so cool
Reply #96 on: January 27, 2010, 02:24:28 am
I can confirm the effect is working brilliantly on railguns, too.

I just saw a gauss cannon round go through a cruiser lengthwise. Cored the ship and it peeled apart like an apple.

Ugly stuff.
 

Offline -Norbert-

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Reply #97 on: January 27, 2010, 03:25:50 am
Did the projectile come out the other side or was it just explosions?
 

Offline Fury

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Reply #98 on: January 27, 2010, 03:31:43 am
It's just explosions.
 

Offline Fury

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Reply #99 on: January 27, 2010, 04:37:23 am
Note that the tbm's I posted in the first page of this topic do not work as advertised because behavior of piercing feature was changed in build 5832. If you want to tweak them, you need to read this topic for examples. http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=67706.0
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