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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => Topic started by: Arkangel on October 11, 2008, 06:05:45 pm

Title: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Arkangel on October 11, 2008, 06:05:45 pm

Where can I find those white trails by Bobboau?

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Bobboau on October 11, 2008, 06:13:40 pm

what?

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Solatar on October 11, 2008, 06:44:49 pm

Screenshots might be helpful.

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Bob-san on October 11, 2008, 06:55:24 pm

Missile trails, I assume?

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Arkangel on October 11, 2008, 08:20:58 pm

http://www.geocities.com/cek_83/happytrails.txt

Nope, ship trails

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Bobboau on October 11, 2008, 11:42:59 pm

ok, so I get garbage text when I try to open that.

but in any event I don't know what you are talking about. if you want to add contrails you do so in the sips.tbl, unless you are talking about afterburner trails, which I did have something to do with, in which case you also need to modify the table as all I did was added the code for it, I never actualy released any mod useing it. if that's not it then I realy have no idea what you are looking for

sorry if I'm not being helpful but I have a bit of a headache right now

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Mongoose on October 12, 2008, 01:43:28 am

It's a renamed .jpg.  Geo****ties never did take too kindly to image hotlinking.

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Arkangel on October 12, 2008, 01:53:22 am

Quote from: Maeglamor on July 20, 2004, 12:06:08 pm

Bobboau introduces much improved thruster trails.
(http://www.geocities.com/cek_83/happytrails.txt)

Ahh sorry about that, the link worked for me...

Quote from: Bobboau on October 11, 2008, 11:42:59 pm

sorry if I'm not being helpful but I have a bit of a headache right now

Dont worry about it, im grateful :)

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Bobboau on October 12, 2008, 01:28:12 pm

Oh, THAT, those are actually secondary thruster glows, you should already have them if you have just about any of the media vp packs. they aren't quite as long as that anymore by default, but you can add a scaleing factor, check the wiki for the exact syntax.

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Arkangel on October 13, 2008, 02:35:58 am

any recommendation on where to look on the wiki? or just how to unlock them without goin into scripts....?

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: BlackDove on October 13, 2008, 11:06:43 am

Question being, WHY THE **** ARE THEY NOT IN RETAIL LIKE THEY ARE IN THAT SCREENSHOT.

Wat.

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Wanderer on October 13, 2008, 11:15:12 am

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Ships.tbl#Customized_Thruster_Effects
$Thruster02 Length factor:

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: Topgun on October 31, 2008, 10:24:11 am

is any way to make the trails get longer/shorter depending on the speed they are going at?

Title: Re: Bobboau's Trails
Post by: DaBrain on October 31, 2008, 01:29:22 pm

Quote from: BlackDove on October 13, 2008, 11:06:43 am

Question being, WHY THE **** ARE THEY NOT IN RETAIL LIKE THEY ARE IN THAT SCREENSHOT.

Wat.

Because they look bad once the ship is doing anything else but flying straight forward.
More iterations in the flame would fix that, but it's not that easy. I'd really like to see an improvement on the thruster flames though.

Quote from: Topgun on October 31, 2008, 10:24:11 am

is any way to make the trails get longer/shorter depending on the speed they are going at?

It should already be scaled depending on your speed. (Actually on the thrust.)