[Turambar]

I said in DaBrain's thread that I would have new thrusters this evening.  I'm not a liar!  Heres screenies

I made the glows more blue instead of teal and i changed this one odd glow file which makes the glow viewed from the front more pronounced, which gives a cool profile effect.  I made vasudan thrusters stronger (little bigger, lot brighter) and I made the AB things match









Hope you like it!:D

[Jiggyhound]

looks cool

just a shame how the glare effect seems to stick forward through and out of the model in some places. Cant the shape of the thrusters be manipulated to solve this?

[Turambar]

Its all sprites, we need coders for the heavy duty stuff, I'm just an artist

[DaBrain]

Not bad

A good alternativ to the mediaVP ones.

But you need to get rid of the edges.

They are best visible in this picture.
If you cannot see them, you propably need a color profile (icc) for your CRT, or TFT.

Otherwise try the magic wand to get rid of it.
I assume you are using photoshop...

[Turambar]

*squints really hard*

I see it, and i got it.
Fixed
Thanks DaBrain

[Flipside]

Jiggyhound, alas it's to do with the way that ships are rendered

The flare, I think, is rendered on an Alpha plane that always faces the 'camera'. Because of this, you can see the clip points where the plane meets the model as it orientates itself to you

[DaBrain]

We need volumetric flares

Should be quite easy to code...
Just replacing the thrusterglow with 50 particles...

Just a thought.

[Lightspeed]

I still think they look like the originals with messed up colour.

Except for the afterburner trail of course, which IMHO looks crappy as it's cut off and obviously flat, as can be seen in this picture:

[Turambar]

Glory Shots!


Hows this for an SCP splash screen?




Also in these pics are the WIP barely noticeable hi-res textures for Myrmidon and Serapis

[Turambar]

Except for the afterburner trail of course, which IMHO looks crappy as it's cut off and obviously flat, as can be seen in this picture:

But you fail to notice the beautiful curve and graceful fade of the Vasudan trail in the foreground.  It's all animated, and the cut off trails are barely noticeable.  Try it ingame, set the trail life to 1

[AqueousShadow]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
I still think they look like the originals with messed up colour.

Except for the afterburner trail of course, which IMHO looks crappy as it's cut off and obviously flat...

Umm...isn't the afterburner trail cut off because that herc there tapped its burners and then punched them again? Just a thought, as the picture IS taken in the heat of battle. They look nice...but I think I liked your first Homeworld like trails.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
I still think they look like the originals with messed up colour.

Except for the afterburner trail of course, which IMHO looks crappy as it's cut off and obviously flat, as can be seen in this picture:

I really LIKE those trails. Active trails is one thing I'd like to see more of in FS.

Of couse, I want "painted" tails like the one's in Iwar2, but that's because what I really want is an Iwar2 SCP.

[DaBrain]

The organge engineglows are much better. They are fading out into black really nice.

[Turambar]

So, who feels like hosting the zip?

[Turambar]

Got rid of more non-black areas (they were hiding, but i found them in the nebula missions), I think they are all gone, I'm going to start making my beamglows smaller now.  And after that, more high-resification of textures!

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Turambar


But you fail to notice the beautiful curve and graceful fade of the Vasudan trail in the foreground.  It's all animated, and the cut off trails are barely noticeable.  Try it ingame, set the trail life to 1

you mean that edgy greyish 'paper stripe' in the front?

[Deepblue]

You guys dont get along really well do you?

[Turambar]

*growls at lightspeed*

We seem to work in similar fields, so theres bound to be competition

[Lightspeed]

It seems our personal tastes are not compatible. That's all

Nothing personal against him; I like people that contribute stuff and donate their time for a better looking FS2.

It's simply the actual stuff that I dislike.

-edit:

Oh, and as he used the bob-lsd-hybrids I made as a template I have to defend my baby from edgy trails and other humiliations

[SadisticSid]

It'd be cooler if fighters were emitting trails all the time, and obviously they'd have to be the same colour in cruise and afterburner modes as well. This'd make them look much better IMO.