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Offline Lightspeed

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Yes, and the burner trails are so amazingly ugly I refuse to cooperate on that point :)
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Offline Turambar

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ill mod them if its that much of an issue
i like the trails
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Offline Setekh

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Whoa. These animated glowmaps, I must see. ;)
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Offline DaBrain

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Nice work :yes:

But what's up with the Anuket Ani?

It's supposed to be gas in there.

http://www.8ung.at/dabrain/miner02vtile04a-glow.rar
Consider to use this one. The two stripes are supposed to be some glass reflection or soemthing like that. (256² but only 20 frames, so almost the same size as 128², 53 Frames.)


I had no time to test it in-game yet.
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Offline Lightspeed

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Nah, don't like that version too much, DaB. The two stripes are a bit freaky, and it's too obviously overlaid. It's also a bit "stuttery" moving downward.

IMHO we don't see the gas itself.
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Offline DaBrain

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But why should it pulsate? Looks freaky and wrong in my eyes.

20 frames are enough, I think. 53 frames are way too much.

The "stripes" should look ok in-game.
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Shinemaps development thread [updated weakly!]
@Turambar

I like these trails very very much.  In fact i´ve modded almost every ship.tbl from custom campaigns that i played to have them in there. Set also the lifetime to 2. The longer trails are amazing in chases. I didn´t know that they are from you.:yes:

I thinkt there is no need in modding them.

 

Offline Lightspeed

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DaB: It does not pulsate. It runs VERY slow in-game, which is also the reason for the number of frames.
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Offline Taristin

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I miss the particle trails we used to have. Like in Flipside's myrmidon. I wish i still had the files, or the ability to make a frizzy particle animation oto use.
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Offline Lightspeed

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particle trails are still in the code IIRC.

None of the cool extra features (dependant on hull/engine strength, etc.) were implemented though.
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Offline DaBrain

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Quote
Originally posted by Raa
I miss the particle trails we used to have. Like in Flipside's myrmidon. I wish i still had the files, or the ability to make a frizzy particle animation oto use.



Yeah, they were fun. But they were still ugly. You can probably pull of a really nice effect. But it's pretty hard I think.

A long time ago I tried it, with only disapointing results :(

The particles should be no problem, but I'm not that good with tables :p After a few tries the tables got usually messed up. :sigh:
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Offline Taristin

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They didn't work in the taylor build I was using.  Shame, that.
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Shinemaps development thread [updated weakly!]
Using 5.0 LT with light glow 5.0

Am TOO amazed. This isn't Freespace 2, it is something else entirely...

And I think my 64 MB ti4200 is EVEN FASTER than before enabling glows. Weird or what? (512 RDRAM-2.4GhzP4 on ASUS P4-T)
If you want to be ready for Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn, then download and play the prologue first.

Here,

http://www.wcsaga.com/downloads/files/download/releases-prologue-setup-exe.html

Then, while waiting for the Darkest dawn, Download Starshatter 4.02

http://www.starshattermods.com/infusions/pro_download_panel/download.php?did=214

You 'll understand why once you have.

 

Offline Lightspeed

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Because I truly love the ship - a completely high-resified Satis:



The DXT unfortunately kills off quite a bit of the beauty :doubt:

Ah well, it's still good enough, and saves more than 5 MB for the textures :)
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Offline Taristin

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I wouldn't mind having a TGA version of it. ;7

Because it was a cool looking ship. I can certainly see how it'd be mistaken for a cruiser.
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Offline DaBrain

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Yeah looks pretty cool. It one of my favourite ships too. Although you can't fly it (...yet). :)
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Offline Lightspeed

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Raa: I can send you TGA versions if you want :)

Once i've finished the complete zip, i'll probably build together a zip with TGA versions of the "highres highres" maps, so the reference images do not get lost, and people can base their work on the originals rather than already compressed files.

As for the Satis, V's original map was a complete disaster. The bottom texture had like two colours, and the rest of the map wasn't much better :doubt:
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Offline Flaser

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WOW, great work as usual! - which is an unusual trait for a human, but I never said you were...;)

I wonder when will you give the FS1 ships a facelift - BR's Shroud really makes me wish you were interested as well :D.

I also wonder wheter Bob's HTL Deimos had an UW-map or it used tiles like the old one.
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Offline Lightspeed

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It still uses tiled textures.

Oh, and I am interested ;7 It's merely the fact I want to fix the most-often used stuff first.
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Offline Admiral Nelson

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Very Satis-factory....
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