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Offline Bobboau

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Reply #160 on: February 28, 2004, 03:08:03 pm
we could have them rendered as point sprites and have a trail left behind them (like beams and thruster glows)
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Reply #161 on: February 28, 2004, 03:26:17 pm
Would that be hard? (You're talking to the manager figure of Dilbert here - the clueless one).
 

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Reply #162 on: February 28, 2004, 04:17:00 pm
I'm not convinced that'd look any better... really, I don't think the stars are so bad, they just think less randomness in their... randomness :p ( star clusters, rather than one star there, then one there, then one there, etc ). and maybe being blurred when you rotate your ship.
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Reply #163 on: February 28, 2004, 04:23:24 pm
Look at the IW2 starfields, they kick the ass of the FS starfields out of the house, down the road, up a skyscraper and...
We need more stars, with different brightness grades. The FS stars have all almost the same brightness and color, some variation would be nice; and it looks better if a star is just one pixel, insted of the FS ways where a star is a few pixels wide with darker edges to make them look smoother.
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Reply #164 on: February 28, 2004, 04:34:56 pm
guess I just can't remember. Haven't played to both games for quite a long time now... ( tho I could play FS2 again now, it seems to work fine on my laptop ).
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Reply #165 on: March 02, 2004, 05:10:12 am
Wow... kudos all around.

Stars should be an inverse relationship of brightness related to amount... a few bright stars, more dimmer ones, and a ton of barely visible ones.

IMO for colorizing, the center should always remain unsaturated (white or grey), with the coloring coming from the "glow" pixels around it.

And Venom is right on - they need to be clustered in areas, nearly absent in others, but never to extremes. Also, the clustering should be only in the brightest stars, not in any of the dimmer ones.
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Reply #166 on: March 02, 2004, 06:22:48 am
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What Mike said. :)
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Reply #167 on: March 03, 2004, 12:53:11 pm
Ok, seperated-at-birth thing getting REALLY freaky. :nervous:
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Reply #168 on: March 04, 2004, 07:06:47 am
You think it's freaky for you? Here I am, opening up the nebula thread, thinking, "what suggestions can I make to refine these products visually?". And so I go to the quick reply box... and then I see I've already posted everything I've wanted to say - except you're the one who said it.

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Reply #169 on: March 05, 2004, 02:20:14 am
Ok, stop it. :p
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Reply #170 on: March 06, 2004, 05:15:58 pm
great backgrounds lightspeed. :)

tried to do proper background image heres a link.
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/jlippone/nebula.html
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Reply #171 on: April 02, 2004, 12:13:32 pm
bump
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Reply #172 on: April 02, 2004, 04:36:23 pm
Bump what for?

The influx in this thread died, and i'll have to wait with further releases till I have a bumped FREDopen.

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Reply #173 on: April 02, 2004, 05:15:17 pm
Clean out your PM box lightspeed:)
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Reply #174 on: April 02, 2004, 07:01:07 pm
d0ne.
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Reply #175 on: April 02, 2004, 09:01:18 pm
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Bump what for?


Quite possibly because nobody seems to have noticed Nakki's stuff? Which is rather cool. Screenies perchance Nak?
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Reply #176 on: April 03, 2004, 01:31:17 am
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Quite possibly because nobody seems to have noticed Nakki's stuff? Which is rather cool. Screenies perchance Nak?


Then it was a good bump. Those nebs do look good :)
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Reply #177 on: April 03, 2004, 02:10:17 am
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Originally posted by nakki
great backgrounds lightspeed. :)

tried to do proper background image heres a link.
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/jlippone/nebula.html


that does indeed look good. could you get that ingame?
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Reply #178 on: April 03, 2004, 10:58:18 am
Probally, but you should see what lightspeeds nebula did to the regular Fs2 missions.;)
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