[WMCoolmon]

Which should be in the mediaVPs? (Explosion thread for more screenies + info + downloads)

Red:


Blue:


Compromise:
Or I can compromise, and use the red shockwave for low-end systems (mv_effects), and the blue shockwave for high-end ones (mv_adveffects) (there is no low-end version for the blue one, so I'd have to use the old one or something).

[Mefustae]

The Blue one not only rocks, but it's more in tune with the roots of FS Shockwaves...

[Fineus]

Blue

[Azrael15]

Red

[Roanoke]

Originally posted by Mefustae
The Blue one not only rocks, but it's more in tune with the roots of FS Shockwaves...

[Singh]

When i saw this thread I thought something along the lines of RedvsBlue based in Fs2

But still....how about an option for both? The red shockwave is perfect for Shivan vessels, not to mention does not have the slight amount of pixellation in the brightest regions as the blue (probably the image quality though) and simply looks cooler. However, having the blue for GTVA vessels (maybe a gold for Vasudans?) would make the entire deal simply sw33t!

[Black Wolf]

Compromise. Make the very lowest setting stuff available by default, but maintain the ability to upgrade to higher quality stuff through adveffects.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Black Wolf
Compromise. Make the very lowest setting stuff available by default, but maintain the ability to upgrade to higher quality stuff through adveffects.

That goes without saying. The question is which colour to do that in

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
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(there is no low-end version for the blue one, so I'd have to use the old one or something).

Working on it... Just had to work on some mod stuff before this.

You should also use Psychonaut's torpedo shockwave, if you use the red shockwave.



I prefer the red shockwave. This is what I had in mind when I designed the effect. It enhances the explosions too, because of the similar colors. They fade into each other.

Like this:

[Facty]

I prefer the red one too. The blue shockwave contrasts far too much with the actual explosion in my opinion.

Perhaps if the shockwaves were blended into something utilizing both colors (red front trailing blue. Sorta like with a gasflame)...

[Mefustae]

Originally posted by Singh
But still....how about an option for both? The red shockwave is perfect for Shivan vessels, not to mention does not have the slight amount of pixellation in the brightest regions as the blue (probably the image quality though) and simply looks cooler. However, having the blue for GTVA vessels (maybe a gold for Vasudans?) would make the entire deal simply sw33t!

That would a really sweet addition, and while the colourcoding is already pretty distinct, it'd be great to see different coloured shockwaves for each race...except, the guise i'm under, is that a different Core Reactor type would ellicit a different colour shockwave and explosion; Red for Shivan craft, and Blue for GTVA Vessels (they'd all be pretty much using the same reactors - Vasudan - as the TechDatabase states numerous times of the Vasudans holding better reactor technology)...i'm just wondering if it would be possible to alter the colour of the explosion (tieing into DaBrains' point of the explosion merging into the shockwave) to match a given Shockwave colour, and then match them to different ships...?

[eiszo]

The red one.

[BlackDove]

This isn't a question.

Blue is cannon. It has been blue in FS1, it has been a modified blue in FS2.

Red is optional at best.

[DarthWang]

Green!

[karajorma]

Purple!

Sorry channelling the ghost of Babylon 5 for a moment there.

[Depth_Charge]

I like those shochwaves, but in between them, could it be easy to make one for each of the race.............like for an example, blue for terran, green or golden for vas, red or purple for shivans..........just a suggestion.......

[eiszo]

Yehh....that would be logical because each race uses different cores in their reactor which powers their ship. Excellent idea!

[Flaser]

Red, so far it looks better (blends in better with the rest of the effects).

Retain, the blue for antimatter bombs (though the later should be more  OOMMPHHH! white atomic flash of destruction than mere shockwaves).

(IMHO the best would be a violet-blue shockwave that fades into the orange and red end of the spectrum).

[CP5670]

Okay, the first one isn't red by any stretch of the imagination; it's so obviously orange. Anyway, I think orange looks better but blue is after all the official FS2 color. I would vote for a compromise, either with different colors for the bombs and ship explosions or different colors for different species' ships (although in this case, this orange one should probably be made more yellowish for Vasudans and an additional red one added in for Shivans; either that or have blue for all GTVA ships).

[BlackDove]

They'd color them differently in FS2 if it was meant to be a different color.

I'm going to assume that any type of propellant they might be using for the bombs/ships/whatver is blue, remniscent of the fact that FreeSpace (SubSpace) is blue.

It's Blue.