[Starks]

May I suggest something? The shockwave should be more of a solid white or have a color tinge to it.

[KARMA]

they look a bit ugly in screenshots, don't know in game.
if I'm not wrong the spheres used are of 16 edges, this is enough usually with the ship meshes to have a sphere looking as.. a sphere:doubt: , but used as shockwaves they look a bit low poly.
this could partially depend by smooth shadings not used (if it is this the case), but I think that the major part of the problem (if we don't want extradetailed spheres) depend by the contrast between the edges of the shockwaves and the dark background.
if only we could have the edges fading or alternatively a fading glow surrounding the sphere, this would reduce a lot the contrast and the sphere should look little better.
This problem is similar to when you add planets as ingame meshes: without a way to simulate the atmosphere fading around edges, the edges look too defined and the result is horrible

[Flipside]

Now, of course, if, instead of using the model, every vertex was represented by a particle expanding, changing colour and fading, it wouldn't take up much processor time at all Though, of course, you'd need to redesign the Pof's to have a lot more vertices

Flipside

[Unknown Target]

Bob, you should fix it so that the 3D explosions actually get influenced and go through ships, 'cause right now it still really looks like the old basic shockwave

[Taristin]

That double plane one is sweet... I want...

[mnftg64]

exactly what folder do i put these in to make em work?

[Galemp]

Place them in the models folder, then rename them (one at a time) to shockwave.pof. Make sure you have the right texture and a recent FSO build.

[Bobboau]

you can also specify them for a specific ship or weapon via a table entry, though I don't remember it off the top of my head

[Krackers87]

nice... ill try my texturing skillz at this tomorrow.

[Ulala]

More screenies showing progress?

[Nico]

there's probably no progress the thing is there, now up to modders to make a better shockwave pof if they want ( altho I'd like the forced 2 sided rendering to go )

[KARMA]

I'd also like to see a 3dshockwave with the overexposure effect:)

[Taristin]

That flattened sphere looks sweet with Venom's shockwaves.

[IceFire]

Just a thought...couldn't we combine something that Bobboau did with the D3 style shaking when hit and the shockwaves with a subtle variant of that effect to make them just a tad bit random?  Or would that eat resources like there is no tommorow?

[Galemp]

Originally posted by IceFire
Just a thought...couldn't we combine something that Bobboau did with the D3 style shaking when hit and the shockwaves with a subtle variant of that effect to make them just a tad bit random?  Or would that eat resources like there is no tommorow?

I've mentioned this three times already... so far Bob hasn't responded.

[Bobboau]

that'll have to wait, the HT&L thing makes that imposable untill we get some vertex shaders