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Title: Any development on thruster effects ?
Post by: starfox on March 01, 2005, 07:17:39 am

Are there any recent development/innovations on Fighter/Capship
thruster effects ? Don't get me wrong, current effects are outstanding and really massive improvement over the old retail-ones.

Still, it's been little quiet in thruster-development for some time. I understand that that the current ones are still very very nice looking, and they would require only little bugfixing there and here.

And now, (please hold your laughs) last and least.
How can I post screenies ?
Any tips and hints on good quality screenshots.

Title: Any development on thruster effects ?
Post by: aldo_14 on March 01, 2005, 07:46:03 am

not much point fixing something that isn't broken, though - I'm not sure there's any way you could tangibly improve the current effect.  Unless you have a suggestion / request, of course.

Title: Any development on thruster effects ?
Post by: Primus on March 01, 2005, 07:48:31 am

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Originally posted by starfox
And now, (please hold your laughs) last and least. How can I post screenies ?
Any tips and hints on good quality screenshots.

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*starts laughing* ;)

And now I'm laughing at myself for editing this post four times :lol:

Title: Any development on thruster effects ?
Post by: starfox on March 01, 2005, 08:06:03 am

Damn...Told you all not to laugh.
Well now that I know the trick, rest assured I will never ask such embarrassing question ever again.  But one does not know until he asks. Thanks

Title: Any development on thruster effects ?
Post by: Solatar on March 01, 2005, 08:32:37 am

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Originally posted by Primus


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*starts laughing* ;)

And now I'm laughing at myself for editing this post four times :lol:

*laughs*

use (lvlshot)(/lvlshot) tags. (use [ and ] in place of ( and )).

Title: Any development on thruster effects ?
Post by: Woolie Wool on March 01, 2005, 01:25:20 pm

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Originally posted by aldo_14
not much point fixing something that isn't broken, though - I'm not sure there's any way you could tangibly improve the current effect.  Unless you have a suggestion / request, of course.

You could just use the old ones from the 3.5.5 mediaVP, which were better. Besides, the differences between Terran, Vasudan, and Shivan thrusters are WAY too pronounced. The retail version makes it obvious that they're supposed to be similar. And it makes sense--most Shivan technologies in FS2 are simply more powerful or effective versions of Terran and Vasudan technologies.

Title: Any development on thruster effects ?
Post by: Deepblue on March 01, 2005, 04:22:24 pm

Can we please make it that thrusters shut off when a ship decelerates? And when it hits its max speed?

Title: Any development on thruster effects ?
Post by: starfox on March 01, 2005, 05:02:33 pm

Right, Deepblue. When fighter or capship remains still, its thrusters remain completely frozen. I don't know much about coding, but what about a feature that would automatically add more engine "flames" as the more ship accelerates. And again when the ship deccelerates, "flames would drop slowly to nothing. Sort of like analogue thrusters.

Pretty bad for an explanation, but I hope you understood....

Title: Any development on thruster effects ?
Post by: Goober5000 on March 01, 2005, 05:59:07 pm

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Originally posted by Deepblue
Can we please make it that thrusters shut off when a ship decelerates? And when it hits its max speed?

No.