[IceFire]

I'm submitting this bug to the system...but I thought I would ask here to see if anyone else noticed it.

Using FS2 Retail
Using FS2 Open3.3

This is not a model specific bug as I've seen in on a number of TBP models and as far as I can see...they do not have these problems in the retail version.  So something has changed to the thruster rendering or something to do this.  Its not a major critical error, but it doesn't look so great really.

[Bobboau]

I made changes to the rendering code that gavethrusters diferent brightness based on there direction, but if anything it sould have made them smaller than expected...

[Spicious]

It might be because the normals for the thrusters are aren't -1

[Fury]

Holy crap, the Warlock in the second picture probably hit her afterburners.
"Ramming speed!"

Back to reality, that does not look good indeed if it is not supposed to look like that.

[Star Dragon]

IF a warlock HAS afterburners then...  I'd rather not think about it... he he..

   IF that effect could be toned down a little though that would be wicked cool. Seeing a cap ship put the hammer down for some reason "dive dive dive, hit your afterburners pilot!"

BTW nice Warlock...

[diamondgeezer]

Can one adjust a cap ship's engine glows in game? Apart from being on or off, I mean - can you alter the intensity of the thruster glows?

[IceFire]

There are no afterburners.  Capital ship AI doesn't really know what to do.  That Warlock is just at maximum speed...even when its not at maximum speed and its just sitting dead the glow is still huge.  Not quite that big but big.

[Fury]

No no no, the Warlock does not have afterburners. No capships should have, unless source code modifications makes it to work.

I said afterburners because it looks like the Warlock hits her afterburners.

[phreak]

major problem for inferno.  might want to do something about this.

in picture one here, there are three ships.  no thruster glows seen



in picture two, the rearmost ship's glow starts to be seen, engulfing most of the ship




in picture three, the glow blocks the majority of the screen

[DTP]

looks to me as something with a to big glow radius maybe paired with FS2´s lesser clipping calculations. even 3dmax has its issues with light and clip, but there you can put CPU time to work to get it right, which is a choice we do not have regarding real-time rendering.

what progs do you use, PCS ?. if so scale-props ?

i´m thinking about conversion scale factor and such. I have 1 set for scale, meaning no scale. 0 will give you Zero divide error .

[Bobboau]

is this bug seen in any origonal POFs

[phreak]

only in fs2 open

[Goober5000]

Wow, the ship went supernova!

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Bobboau
is this bug seen in any origonal POFs

I think its more based on the values of the thrusters.  Whatever it is over a certain level and it makes them huge.

Another TBP ship completely whites out the entire screen.

[LAM3O]

wow what a great bug, if only you could control it and use it as an explosion effect, imagine a cap ship blowing up and seeing what phreak posted, all happening in a second.

[Deepblue]

I'm with LAM30 on this. That would make a cool explosion ani. Now to find someone with the software to do it...

[phreak]

actually i used RT's special pause.  all i did was rotate to the right a few degrees

[Fetty]

but what wouldnt hurt actualy would be variable capship thrusters if u know what i mean

[IceFire]

Love those nebulas....who did those?

No really...nice arrangement.

[SKYNET-011]

How can you SEE those nebulas through the thruster glow?