[DaBrain]

UPDATE:
Release 1.1

Includes:
All Release 1 effects (tweak)
New (not really) missile trails
New beamglows (The zPack glows are ugly)
New afterburner trails
New shivan thruster

Release 1.1

Mirror part1 part2

Pre Release1(old) (Includes my other shockwave)




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I had some time and finished some stuff. I hope you like it.


This is what it contains:

-New shockwave (I posted some preview shots a while ago. Now it's fixed. (256 color optimised)
-New flak explosion (I think this is the best one )
-Particle smoke (The stock one was just crappy)
-New Particle EXP (Hard to notice, but I got close to the old one... it's ugly)
-New missile trails (Slightly better than the stock one.)
-New shieldhit (I think it's in the mediaVP, but I want my stuff to be complete)

Just put everything in your /effects folder.

Here some shots (Keep in mind this stuff is animated):

New flak


New particle smoke


New shockwave


New particle












http://www.8ung.at/dabrain/dab_effects_1.rar
http://www.8ung.at/dabrain/dab_effects_2.part1.rar
http://www.8ung.at/dabrain/dab_effects_2.part2.rar

Edit: Click (Full package) Thanks to wolfdog

[TIMMAY]

Curious... with your new particle effects do you still get a slowdown when right behind a ship spewing out particles?

[DaBrain]

I had no slowdowns at all, but I only made some screens.
No intensive testing.

[jdjtcagle]

I would be happier if someone would do beams without a HUGE glow around it. Could someone try that out.

Oh and I'm not sure I like your particle spew there, looks like the prometheus struck a gas tank or something

[TIMMAY]

Just tested them out.. they all look really good, but now that i've got them in there I got my first Out of Memory error

[jdjtcagle]

It does no harm to your computer...

[Unknown Target]

Very nice! As soon as I can, I'll download them!

[TIMMAY]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle
It does no harm to your computer...

Yeh, but having never gotten the problem before and especially getting it after 1 mission.

[Ransom]

Great work DaBrain, huge improvements over the originals, especially the shockwave. I think the particle effects could be a little smaller though, closer to the size of the originals. (well, they seem bigger anyway)

[Bri_Dog]

Would it be too much to ask if somebody could take fraps and make some short vids showing off the new effects?

[jdjtcagle]

How do you take VIDs?

[Bri_Dog]

Use fraps to capture screenshots then compile them into a .gif or .avi

[Singh]

Originally posted by Bri_Dog
Use fraps to capture screenshots then compile them into a .gif or .avi

*is sorely tempted to run through that mission again*

Umm....nm.
Good work Dabrain, from the shots, it looks like this is gonna rock!

[DaBrain]

I took some clips. Sorry, but after mpg conversion, they got a bit dark... I don't know why, or how to fix it.
Also Fraps cuts down my fps by a huge ammount, as soon as I start the avi capture. You might notice some stuttering.

http://www.geocities.com/dabrain2005/flak.zip

http://www.geocities.com/dabrain2005/boom2.zip

http://www.geocities.com/dabrain2005/smoke.zip


For everybody who liked the stock effect, I made a new shockwave (I still think the other shockwave is way better)

http://www.geocities.com/dabrain2005/shockwave01.zip

[Bri_Dog]

Cool stuff!  The flak looks great

[DaBrain]

A better clip of the flak.
http://mitglied.lycos.de/da56brain/flak2.rar

[Psychonaut]

Right, the flak looks nice,...........but (i know ) in my opinion, the ani is too long (maybe 1 or 1.5 sec). e.g. flying between two flak-mounted vessels and you got completely blinded. Yeah, it looks cool, but it´s not really playable.

Just a thought: maybe a different colour would look nice, too. Bright-blue for example (´caused by a strange type of ammunnition with blue thingies in it   ). Hey, you can watch yellow-orange explosions all the time. It would be a different look.

BTW: the smoke effect looks brilliant,............but (i know again ) the particle_smoke anis could be a bit longer (and maybe ?red?)

[Zarax]

DaBrain, would you mind making an effect or two for a campaign i'm working on?
They might be useful elsewhere too...

[DaBrain]

Sure, if it won't have much frames...
I can't stand the conversion work, it takes ages.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by DaBrain
Sure, if it won't have much frames...
I can't stand the conversion work, it takes ages.

How come?