[DaBrain]

The time thing didn't change.
Before it was a 25 frame animation with 25 fps.
Now it's a 28 frame animation with 28 fps.


@MetalDestroyer I cannot change the size of the effect by resizing it. I'd have to change tbl values AFAIK.
I'll break mutliplayer support and game balance whith this change. I think it's better to keep their size. BTW, resizing the effect would only make it (potentially) more detailed. But it will also cost more performance and take up more memory. I think double size is enough for now.


@StratComm I agree. The flak exposion was one of the best looking effects in FS2. But it looks rather outdated by now. It's far too pixelated on closeups. And the ANI has a few bugs (cut-off edge, double frames...).

I think I'll completely redo it when I get the time. For this effect should be good enough  to 'cover' some of the stock effect's flaws.

[StratComm]

The overall length didn't change, but a steadily-expanding shockwave has been replaced with a wave with two much faster waves.  They look ok (though I would prefer something truely pseudo-spherical (circular) to the praxis wave that's there now) but the expansion of the shockwave hitzone and the wave no longer coincide.

[Grug]

Awsome stuff!

How'd you make the shockwave effects? In Max?

[DaBrain]

Nope, all in PS. But I've used a large part of the old effect.

I think ANIs with less than 30 frames can be easily created in PS.
(Well, you can do everything in PS, but sometimes it's easier to use another program.   )

I'm going to redo it from the scratch later.   I hope I can outclass both the old and the new effect.

[Grug]

Nice.
I'm actually begining work on a flak animation myself.

It will be a mix of a quick explosion followed by black clouds and debris.
I too will be attempting to do it in Photoshop. Luckily I have some pre-made images that I can play around with.

Good luck doing a shockwave from scratch. That will be hard work, glad its not me.

[DaBrain]

Oh, looks like I misunderstood you.

I thought you ment the small shockwave in the flak animation.

The 'real' shockwaves were created in MAX, though I tweaked a few things in PS.


I think the shockwave is pretty good already, so I won't redo it.

The flak ANI was the one I wanted to recreate from the scratch.

[Grug]

Ahh k.

Still impressive though. Takes a bit of the awe out of making a 100+ frame animation in Photoshop though.

Long live flak though!

[DaBrain]

If you try to add debris, keep in mind black and dark parts will be transparent or invisible!

You'll need to place them infront of a bright part, like the explosions center to make it visible.


I just thought that might help you...

[Grug]

Aye, already thought of that. But thanks anyways.

Idea was to have the debris shimmering in the light of the explosion. So they look like tiny little metal specs etc.

[DaBrain]

Hm?

New expMissileHit1...









I have to tweak it a bit. It looks a bit too colorful for non-slashing beams...

[DaBrain]

Does the beam hit look too big?

[Psychonaut]

Thats hard to say just looking at the screenshots. Would you mind to post it, so we can try this ingame?

BTW: in your mod starting package there is a cool explosion (i think it´s hit.ani) which looks really great with the TBP missiles.

[DaBrain]

I decided to increase the res, but I didn't tweak the frame count up till now. So it takes up more memory than it should.

Also I'm going to cut of the first frame. (For slashing beams.)

I toned down the saturation. So it looks less red.
And it looks like I'll have to tweak the animation speed a bit..

Well, ok, I'll release the wip effect.

http://www.8ung.at/dabrain/expmisslehit_EFF.rar

[Psychonaut]

Hmm, in comparison with your other (and IMHO really excellent) stuff i don´t like this one very much. The animation itself is quite nice looking, but it´s stuttering, which make it look not recent.

[DaBrain]

Stuttering?

Well, you can try to increase the fps rate. 20 is quite a low rate. Try 24.

I'm going to tweak the effect a bit more though, so you can also wait for the final release.

[Psychonaut]

I set the framerate to 26. It works better now. What i really like is the smoke poof, after the explosion. The colors could be a bit brighter, more glowing-like. But thats a matter of taste (and i don´t have it, that´s for sure ;-)). I just tested it with the missiles. Maybe you should make this explosion in blue?  Keep it on. Your releases most often mean a step forward to the game.

[DaBrain]

Thanks

I'd love to make it more colorful for missile hit animations, but it looks too intense for non-moving beam hits...

It works already very well for fighter beams though.





Spinning.

[WMCoolmon]

Oh teh clipping

[Taristin]

Looks...... funny.

These'll be ones that I don't DL. Sorry DaB.

[FireCrack]

Where's that read beam from? Inferno?