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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: deep_eyes on December 25, 2001, 09:47:00 pm

Title: What beams look better?
Post by: deep_eyes on December 25, 2001, 09:47:00 pm
I was browsing diffrent pics of beam weapons and i saw the blkwater op's golgotha main beam cannon and iwas like, nice nice nice, dark and that team is holding it down. well which ships beam weapons look nicer?

I still think my nexus beam cannon is best!

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Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Thorn on December 25, 2001, 10:34:00 pm
The trippy lookin one is better...
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Bobboau on December 25, 2001, 11:12:00 pm
oh man, you havn't seen (or heard) anything yet  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
I would say the SOL beams are cool too but you wouldn't know anything about them,

MT has some VERY cool beams though, they have a totaly diferent look to them than any other beams made so far.

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Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Fineus on December 26, 2001, 04:49:00 am
I agree - MT has some really sweet looking beams in there that just haven't been beaten yet IMO.
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Setekh on December 27, 2001, 10:14:00 pm
Nothing takes on the Electrobeams™.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: deep_eyes on December 28, 2001, 05:16:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by Setekh:
Nothing takes on the Electrobeams™.   (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)


electrobeams?

man anyone remember Super Metroid and Samus's Hyperbeam? NOW THAT WAS A BEAM!

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Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Fineus on December 28, 2001, 05:20:00 pm
Electrobeams:

 (http://terra.sourceforge.net/featured/fp-large002.jpg)


Hella Cool™
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Night Hammer on December 28, 2001, 06:05:00 pm
WoW  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Shrike on December 28, 2001, 06:06:00 pm
Except....... they look flat in game.  Because they're only one layer.  It doesn't sound like much, but you can tell.  Too bad we can't make animated beams, more's the shame.
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: CP5670 on December 28, 2001, 06:32:00 pm
It looks quite neat in screenshots though. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Zeronet on December 28, 2001, 07:35:00 pm
SOL Beams?! I was under the impression that they didnt have beams.
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Bobboau on December 28, 2001, 11:20:00 pm
they developed there own beams resently and they arn't as good as the GTVA beams but they do have beams

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Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Ace on December 29, 2001, 03:50:00 pm
Hrmm... maybe I should post up pics of the Shivan beam weapons sometime soon...  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/devil.gif)

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Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Nico on December 29, 2001, 07:00:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by Ace:
Hrmm... maybe I should post up pics of the Shivan beam weapons sometime soon...   (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/devil.gif)


yes, then I could shamelessly steal them  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/evil.gif)
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Setekh on December 29, 2001, 08:51:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by Shrike:
Except....... they look flat in game.  Because they're only one layer.  It doesn't sound like much, but you can tell.  Too bad we can't make animated beams, more's the shame.

Yeah... but you know where they look sw33t? Renders...  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/devil.gif)
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: deep_eyes on December 30, 2001, 02:30:00 am
 
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Originally posted by Thunder:
Electrobeams:

  (http://terra.sourceforge.net/featured/fp-large002.jpg)  


Hella Cool™


yea but if u think bout it, anyone with some artistical talent in 2-d can make beams look like those. if any has seen the texture for that beam, it is probrably like drawn like lighting across the field rotating in a swirl close togeather and when seen in the game it is stretched giving it this pulsing electro look. other then that its nice.


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Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Nico on December 30, 2001, 07:57:00 am
 
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Originally posted by deep_eyes:

yea but if u think bout it, anyone with some artistical talent in 2-d can make beams look like those. if any has seen the texture for that beam, it is probrably like drawn like lighting across the field rotating in a swirl close togeather and when seen in the game it is stretched giving it this pulsing electro look. other then that its nice.



yes, and so what? nobody else did it. So they look cool, and they're unique. n'ah!
Title: What beams look better?
Post by: deep_eyes on December 30, 2001, 11:58:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by venom2506:
yes, and so what? nobody else did it. So they look cool, and they're unique. n'ah!

they do look cool. it be hot to add a electrical ANI around the beam like the ones that zapp around a damaged ship. that would add a nice effect!



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Title: What beams look better?
Post by: Nico on December 31, 2001, 04:37:00 am
 
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Originally posted by deep_eyes:
they do look cool. it be hot to add a electrical ANI around the beam like the ones that zapp around a damaged ship. that would add a nice effect!


that would be cool to use an ani for the beam itself  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
btw, the zapp as you say isn't an ani, it's a 3d wireframe thinguy (tm)