[Getter Robo G]

Yeah when a miss occurs it gets stretched to infinty (or max range) and distorts the image into mush.

I did not use your tables yet Firecrack (I will try themshortly, wanted to learn a bit more myself), but at least now I know WHERE to correctly put those those two values! I edited them in to my Test Cannon. There's a lot of room between ($Beam info) and ($section). and with 12 values between them I figured it would take me a while to figure out WHY FS2 was crashing (it said weapons table parsing). When I saw it the way you did, right above ($Zadd) it started to work again Unfortunately even messing with those values (35, then 70) I saw no difference. (I will look into this and other factors of my set up more later on)

However using my 512 x32 (or 64) trick I managed to make some interesting results (just wish I could make them move... Here are a few examples (some are racial beams for B5 and other projects) However the FIRST one is YOUR white-beam2 texture (I love the lightning look!).

Fire Crack's Texture I Lenghtened:
 


Vorlon test:



Unassigned Red Plasma:



B5 SHADOW beams! yay!!:



Lastly, improved my Shock Cannons a little: the 3 part version suffers, but single beams look a LOT better:


Now to make these suckers move! I'll keep trying, I have all settings OFF except for glowmaps and shine so maybe that's a problem. I need to make it as vanilla as possible so my system runs. L8tr!

[adwight]

That last picture looks like homeworld beams.

[Getter Robo G]

I've been raiding every game I own from HW to BC (I even reinstalled StarFleet Academy!). Leave no stone unturned!!! Images, models, sounds, the works (there are some jewels buried in those old programs)...

[mitac]

Ah, now I got those new vasudan beams as well. Look nice, though they don't appear every time. I guess that depends on the type of turret that's firing.

[FireCrack]

I'm only done with

BFred
Lred

BFgreen
LRBGreen

Bvas
Svas

so the other ones arent done in the tables, yet...

now they are,
http://members.shaw.ca/firecrack/beamz.zip
All beams are now set up and a few effects tweaks.

anyways, providing feedback is good and there are no major problems this version may be final unless i decide the BFred's arent beefy enough yet

[Eviscerator]

Mmmmmm BEEFY...... though I agree it may not be enough.

And just for the record: Yes, it was a joke.

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by FireCrack
I'm only done with

BFred
Lred

BFgreen
LRBGreen

Bvas
Svas

so the other ones arent done in the tables, yet...

now they are,
http://members.shaw.ca/firecrack/beamz.zip
All beams are now set up and a few effects tweaks.

anyways, providing feedback is good and there are no major problems this version may be final unless i decide the BFred's arent beefy enough yet

Please take a look at beamglow4 and 8. They have some heavy seams. I'll look ugly in-game. The glows need to fade out to black on the edges of the effect.

[FireCrack]

Ok,

1) i have no idea why i said this was final, disregard that
2) new build, seams are gone and vasudan beam is rounder
http://members.shaw.ca/firecrack/beamz.zip

3) is there any way to get a muzzle flash like the one on the flak to work on beams, firing at a continus rate while the beam fires

4) is there a way to set the orientation of the beamglow to be at a random angle to the viewer, and possibly fade through different angles.

[FireCrack]

hello....


is there anybody in there...


I'd also like to say that i comply with any integration into the media VP's, if that has to be formaly stated

[Liberator]

Is the TBL file synched up with the particle effects that Lightspeed put out?  What I mean is if I use this tbl will I still have my particlized primaries?

[FireCrack]

http://members.shaw.ca/firecrack/weapons.tbl

That one is merged with LightSpeed's

[Liberator]

Thanks.

[Turambar]

i need to release all the beamglows i have on my harddrive, theyve just been rotting there