[FireCrack]

Been working on some beam effects, tell me whatyou think of these..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/FireCrack/OMGJPG.jpg

the little blobs in the green beam are moving towards the sath, at high speeds

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/FireCrack/screen01.jpg

Lines on the side move inwards then more come from the other side and so on

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/FireCrack/bVas.jpg

white glow removed, looks better animated ingame

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/FireCrack/BFRED.jpg

[MatthewPapa]

I will have to say I am pretty impressed. Good job.

[Taristin]

And I would have to request better photos, before making any judgements...

[FireCrack]

Yeah this one is preety ****ty, can someone tell me the screenshot key to make it easier to take a bunch of screens, wait it's probably in the f1 help ingame, i'l go.

[Bobboau]

print screen.

and it pleases me

[Liberator]

As long as the small white bits actually travel the length of the beam great, otherwise

[FireCrack]

Ok i updated the first post with another screen and put them in links incase i'm breaking the table format of the forum.

And yes the whites do travel the length of the beam.

The vasudan beam has little white lines that span the length of the beam that move into the main core, hard to describe. but the vasudan one isn't done yet.

I'l try to get a better shot of a shivan one.

oh and i'd like to know the statust of using decals with beams, will it kill freespace?

[Taristin]

Ok. A little overtiled on the second image, but a nice start...

Are you using EFF files? Or is it a still image being moved along the beam axis?

[Night Hammer]

i kinda like those

[FireCrack]

image along beam axis, would the eff heolp solve my tiling woes?

[redmenace]

hey, if you want,
We are working looking for new extras for the media VPs. Could you post a link to your effect so some people can take a look at it?

[Bobboau]

decals don't work at all with beams, it's going to take some major codeing to get them working properly.

[FireCrack]

Top screenshots updated

I'l pt up the files tommorow as it's late tonight and this includes a table file, is that ok for media VP's or would i have to work around that?

As for the decals thing, umm, i acknowledge your reply.

[Eviscerator]

Just my opinion, but I think it maybe a good idea to make the BFReds look more menacing. Bigger, redder, meaner. Something that gives the "OMFG!!!" reaction.

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by Eviscerator
Just my opinion, but I think it maybe a good idea to make the BFReds look more menacing. Bigger, redder, meaner. Something that gives the "OMFG!!!" reaction.

What he said. They just don't have the "HOLY CRUD! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, IT'S A HUGE FRICKING BEAM CANNON!" look anymore.

[DaBrain]

I have to complain a bit about the shivan beams.
The glows have seams and the gradients are less than optimal.


I like the other beams. But AFAIK animated beams should be possible soon, which will probably look even better.

[Getter Robo G]

I've been trying to make animated looking beams since I was able to make tri-beams but I haven't succeeded yet. Close to what I was trying to do was that Bvas you posted up top Firecrack... If you don't mind I want to take a look at the image you're using to see what I am doing wrong. There are several effect looking images (like lightning, rings, waves, shadow speckled, ect) that I have been wanting to use but they all turn into lined normal beams (like the last two posted above)... Don't mean to highjack, but I asked this like last year and didn't get much of a response.

[Jetmech Jr.]

OMG I WANT THOSE!

The Terran beam in particular looks simply fantastic. The vasudan beam is kinda hard to make out details in that pic. The shivan one could use a little bit of work.

[taylor]

I made a special build for Lighspeed earlier but beams were messed up in that build.  It did have animated beam support though.  No other build has it yet but the code is in CVS.  The only problem is that I have no idea whether or not it actually works.  I never had the art to test with.  If you want a build to test with FireCrack then PM me but I'm not posting anything for public use yet.  Just do it *quickly*.

[Getter Robo G]

I'd say yes but I don't think my system could handle it, (see the problem I had with your last build in DaBrain's EFF thread. It made the game totaly unplayable for me.

specs:

p4 1.8gig
 512mb
card ATI 7200 all in wonder tv in/out 32mb
[no chance of upgrading next 2-3years]

Well it least it's better than the p2 400 I had for the first 6 months when I joined HLP in 2002!!!!