[Herra Tohtori]

Actually I made them... They are related to that topic, that's where I got the inspiration. Originally I just made a picture of how I would imagine the beams should look like, and it kinda got out of hand...

You can download them from here if you want to give them a shot:

High resolution
Medium resolution

Installation instructions included. The VP replaces all beams with my textures, and should be used as own mod activated before mediaVPs. Oh, and the beams are animated, which naturally doesn't show on screenshots.



As I said, some beams still look a bit strange (too much tiling factor most likely), but they work, and many of them actually look very good most of the time. High resolution slowdowns are negligible on my rig (AMD64 3200+, GeForce 6600, 1024 MB DDR-SDRAM), so I use them, but medium-resolution ones don't look too shabby either.

I personally like the AF-beams the most of the bunch, and the Vasudan yellow beam is the second best in my books. But most other beams work fine too.

[Kie99]

In a few days that'll be the new welcome beam.

[S-99]

Was anything done to those beams to make them not look flat?
I guess i'm asking for more screenshots of those beams before i download them.

[Herra Tohtori]

Well, I tried but different $Zadd textures didn't really work very well... the beams became over-bright, and increasing the $Flicker factor didn't help either.


Anyway, in my opinion all the beams look flat anyway - retail and current MediaVP beams included. I'll take and post some screenies tonight, now I gotta get to school... Mondays...

[ShivanSpS]

ANd here their hare, 2 pics taken from the SOC mission intro the knossos.

[Herra Tohtori]

Uhm... It seems I forgot to take/post those modified beam shots I promised... Meh.


Shivan, those are pretty pics there, if you don't count the horrible compression artefacts. Could you upload better quality pics in, say, ImageShack?

[ShivanSpS]

yeah, but a 1.5MB image will eat out the bandwich limit of imageshack very fast
EDIT: and their keeps changing the resolution because the image its larger than 1.5MB, so I look in google and i found a page called Tinypics.com, who have no limits.








BTW, that something that i didt noticed in-game... but both the shockwave and explocions looks like to be having shader effect... like HDR or Bloom xd, but that is not posible.

[Dark Hunter]

Ah, exploding Shivan CommNodes. Is there any more satisfying virtual pyrotechnic display to watch? 

[S-99]

I know the medium and high end shockwaves have a bloom and glow affect to them. But with the way things are looking from those screenshots, it's as if that bloom and glow got enhanced. So wtf is up?

[Charismatic]

Wow, i have never seen anything that pritty in my whole time here. I cant wait to get it working.

[Taristin]

[ShivanSpS]

A Lilith shooting it LRed.

[ShivanSpS]

a Asteroid belt in my campaign

[Sarafan]

Back with new images :

[Sarafan]

More images and a question, could we change the thread name? I mean, several people didnt post here with 3.6.8 (if I'm wrong, disregard this please) and now we have 3.6.9, why not change this to something more overall? Somewhat like a image gallery. And stick it too?



A Leviathan raining fire:












A classic fight, the Sobek vs Deimos:







ShivanSpS, wich campaign is that?

[ShivanSpS]

is one of the missions of the Dragon awakes demo

[Taristin]

would be great shots if your ambient lighting werent up so damned high :/

[Sarafan]

is one of the missions of the Dragon awakes demo

If you can post more.

would be great shots if your ambient lighting werent up so damned high :/

Risking to sound like a noob but my what? And how do I lower them?

[karajorma]

-ambient_factor xx

Enter that into your custom flags box in the launcher and change the xx into a number. Start at 70 or so and work your way down (or up) until things look suitably cool

[KappaWing]

Most of the shots are awesome.

I say most because if you look back a few pages, you'll see some absolute crap I posted. 
I have gotten better at taking pics though (thank god).

Here's my most recent (from my WIP campaign!):


I think I may have been pointing a little too close to the sun, but its hard to see the debris otherwise.

I'm sorry, but this ship looks disturbingly like something that just shot out of my ass about half an hour ago.