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Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: joek on October 31, 2001, 01:43:00 pm

Opinions... is this a good looking weapon?

 (http://www.joek.com/i/freespace/newweap01.jpg)

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Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Thorn on October 31, 2001, 01:58:00 pm

A better view might help, kinda hard to tell what it is..

Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Jabu on October 31, 2001, 03:00:00 pm

Pretty interesting.

Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Sandwich on October 31, 2001, 03:24:00 pm

Hmmm, glowing sunglasses. Cool!  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/lol.gif)

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Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Fozzy on November 01, 2001, 03:54:00 am

 

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Originally posted by Thorn:
A better view might help, kinda hard to tell what it is..

hehe, no-matter where you are the immage will be the same but distorted

Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Nico on November 01, 2001, 06:19:00 am

bigger pic then  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Fulgrymm on November 01, 2001, 06:53:00 am

"This is the voice of the Mysterons. We know you can hear us, Earthmen!"  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

Try seeing what they look like if you put trails on them.
Maybe something like this might work better as a capship big gun projectile, rather than launched from a fighter.
Still, interesting weapon; makes a change from the normal sphere/teardrop shape.

Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Raven2001 on November 01, 2001, 09:53:00 am

Yeah, it looks allright! Although it seems a little like a flying disk, if you know what I mean.... can't explain that though....

Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: joek on November 01, 2001, 10:27:00 am

Well, this is what I was using for the bitmap:
 (http://www.joek.com/i/freespace/newweap01a.jpg)

But I wasn't liking it that much so I tried again with this:
 (http://www.joek.com/i/freespace/newweap02a.jpg)

Which created this look (without any laser glow):
 (http://www.joek.com/i/freespace/newweap02.jpg)

This is it with itself as a laser glow:
 (http://www.joek.com/i/freespace/newweap02b.jpg)

And it with the regular laser glow:
 (http://www.joek.com/i/freespace/newweap02c.jpg)

The regular glow adds that FS2 glow that all weapons have, but it washes out the colors.

And here's what it looks like being fired (zoomed in):
 (http://www.joek.com/i/freespace/newweap02d.jpg)

Well, after all this I think I still to Volition's graphics for weapons rather than trying to make them on my own (especially since it takes so long to keep reloading FS2 to try different techniques).

... Or maybe I will just use this for a capship weapon.

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Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Shrike on November 01, 2001, 02:20:00 pm

Go with the bottom one.

Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Alikchi on November 01, 2001, 03:11:00 pm

Yeah, the bottom one looks best.

Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Anaz on November 01, 2001, 05:22:00 pm

Hmm, interesting idea (don't everybody shoot me at once now...) use it as the warmup glow for a beam (the one with itself as the glow. I'm not quite sure how to do this because I haven't been moding for a while.

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Title: Good weapon graphic?
Post by: Setekh on November 02, 2001, 02:10:00 am

I imagine that thing travelling very slowly - any faster, and it would elongate and become a bolt rather than spherical. Looks pretty cool.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)