[Romanmolf]

I found the 3.6.7 in the FS Wiki, but it doesen't have what I want.

[Droid803]

What exactly are you looking for?
As in, what do you want from the old MVPs?

[eliex]

Yeah, probably all the good things from those have already been incorporated into the newer mediavps.

[Romanmolf]

What exactly are you looking for?
As in, what do you want from the old MVPs?

This shockwave.

[Aardwolf]

While on the topic of shockwaves, I liked the red/orange shockwave that came with whatever mediavps I first got... I don't remember which, but I know that they were red/orange normally but with glowmaps on they were blue... which was strange.

[Romanmolf]

You mean this?

EDIT: And yes, these ARE 3.6.6

[Droid803]

Ok. You spiked my interest. I want those shockwaves too

[Romanmolf]

We could all have them, IF we ever find them...


ANYBODY HAVE THEM?

[tinfoil]

YAAAARGH - they're all gone 

[Romanmolf]

NOOOOOOOO!!

[pecenipicek]

lol, i didnt really even notice that the shockwaves changed colour 

[Mobius]

They are far more realistic than the new ones. I mean, why would an shockwave be blue? Aren't explosions red/orange?

[pecenipicek]

blue ones are far prettier. and tell me, since when is freespace realistic? at all?

Also, regarding the 3D shockwaves, they replaced the 2D ones cause everyone went pretty much "OOH SHINYYYY!!!"


tis a pity oh well.

[Mobius]

Wait a second, I think I have them on my aunt's computer. I'll use it tomorrow and let you know...I'm taking my pendrive with me so that I can retrieve the files and eventually bring them on FSMods...

[Aardwolf]

Well the original 2D shockwaves looked like garbage compared to the FS1 shockwave.

What's this about real explosions? The explosions you see in movies (and the non-shockwave ones in FS) aren't normal explosions. They're slow-motion videos of atomized gasoline igniting (read: they got a bunch of gasoline in really tiny droplets suspended in the air and made a spark in the middle of it, while filming with a camera taking more pictures per second than are later used during playback). These are explosions, yes, but they're not 'realistic' for the types of things they are used for in the game--weapon hits and ships going boom (unless your ship has lots of loose fuel pre-mixed with the oxidizer on exposed parts of the hull). Really, they should probably look like small, quick, bright flashes of light.

And shockwaves, realistically, would not be big glowy expanding things and would probably expand a lot faster than they do in the game.

As for the color of the shockwave, if there were a glowy thing (which could maybe be explained away as the ionized/vaporized remnants of the warhead or ship), the color would really depend on what material it was and how hot it was (probably going from white to blue to yellow to red to black as it cooled down).

But blue is cool and supported by canon (and in FS1 it actually looks good too)

[Droid803]

I use different color/types of shockwaves for different weapons...to symbolize different warheads.
Realism will be chucked out of the window for what looks more epic.

Who wants to see wimpy flashes of light? We want pyrotechnics.

[Mars]

A BSG style flash of light would be awesome, but not consistent with the original effects.

FSU doesn't want to replace the old effects, it wants to make them better

[Jeff Vader]

It is also good to note again that if we wanted realism, we should make beams invisible.

[Droid803]

It is also good to note again that if we wanted realism, we should make beams invisible.

And make everything silent.

[pecenipicek]

can you give a link to fs1 shockwaves? a screengrab perhaps, its been ages since i played it