[KARMA]

I guess that if they are better or not depends on how they work in game. Just judging the aesthetic of the images alone, the older look better

[Nico]

Then again, you have to think "nebula" before judging, I think. The old one looks too much like a ball of lightnings. To be accurate, looks like those close up shots of cancerous formations. I think it'd help if the new one was thiner... hmm, darker, technically.

[DaBrain]

Be careful with that idea.

If it's too dark, you'll be able to see how the ships just disapear (they do) in nebulas.

Almost like only lod 0 is loaded.



BTW this is not really your kind of taste, right?

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by Nico
Then again, you have to think "nebula" before judging, I think. The old one looks too much like a ball of lightnings. To be accurate, looks like those close up shots of cancerous formations. I think it'd help if the new one was thiner... hmm, darker, technically.

But that's just it, the old ones look more like nebulas.

[Lightspeed]

Better, but if anything, I'd go straight to animated poofs.

[Turambar]

again, i did it mostly to get rid of those stringy things coming off the sides, to make the nebula smoother, more gaseous, and have no more annoying color artifacts. these do all three.

i have a feeling that animation would make it too busy, and no, the explosive looking one isnt quite to my taste for a poof, its cool looking for its own thing though

meh, i'll rework that purple one and hell, i'll put up jpegs of all of the poofs

[Nico]

Originally posted by ngtm1r


But that's just it, the old ones look more like nebulas.

I disagree, but we can't argue about that, right?

daBrain, actually, I think that new one is the best of the lot, but I wonder how good it does combinated with other poofs, with it being a bright spot with dark surroundings. I'm afraid it'd look like a series of spots in space, no?

[Deepblue]

We need Freelancer-esque nebulas

[Turambar]

all high quality .jpg's, you could save them to disk and put them in your effects folder if you want, just rename them to the name above the nebula
poofgreen01

poofgreen02

poofpurp01


poofpurp02


poofred01


poofred02


and after all that, i feel i ought to put this here

Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting

[KARMA]

actually my idea of a neb is different from both the new and the old versions (the closer one is probably the first of the new set), so I was just considering that the older look more detailed (except the last one) althought the increased size.
But again, this means almost nothing, since what is important is just the in game result

edit->I posted just before turambar...
 thanks to him for the efforts, anyway. Aesthetically speaking, my preferred is porbably purp02

[DaBrain]

@ Turambar feel free to use the radial blur.

As the player will fly always through the center of the poof, using radial to simulate nebula size is a good idea.

BTW This will also increase the feeling of speed.

[Ransom]

I like the new purple ones. They seem to have more texture than the others, especially the first one. The others are just... blurry. Not blurry in a nebula kinda way, but blurry as in a low detail kinda way.

[Turambar]

actually, youre not always flying through the center, otherwise flying through the nebula would be very repetitive and tiresome

actually, you fly through any randomly selected part of them, which is why you dont see the exact same thing every poof.  Or at least, thats what I noticed

anyway, im gonna hijack my own thread and use it as WIP for my Ptah,  I'll post my pic when i get home

Edit: screw it, new thread