[-Norbert-]

What? We still have some great war era fighters and bombers lying around? Bah... use them as ammunition for our artillary ships.

[Dragon]

The best explaination for muzzleflash would be what I'm using for my coilguns, a projectile fired in conventional way, then accelerated even more by railguns.
That way, expanding gases would still be visible at the end of a muzzle.
Of course, the look of explosion isn't too realistic, but then, neither are the visuals of other explosions.
Realistic explosions would look like short, bright flashes, which won't fit a campaign made in FS universe.

[Colonol Dekker]

Wincabledom fligadoodle.
 
 

[NGTM-1R]

Realistic explosions would look like short, bright flashes, which won't fit a campaign made in FS universe.

INFR1 came very close to realistic explosion effects, particularly when a ship was destroyed, and they were fairly good.

[General Battuta]

At least the thermonuclear weapons look like thermonuclear weapons now.

Though it makes bomb intercept something hellish.

[SpardaSon21]

So, epic-huge Nexus-style explosions?

At least players won't have to deal with any Cataclysm missiles.

[Madcat]

At least the thermonuclear weapons look like thermonuclear weapons now.

Though it makes bomb intercept something hellish.

And it should be!

I mean when I think about it, if I saw a nuke flying somewhere I sure as hell wouldn't haul ass in its direction and then fire on it with guns. 

[NGTM-1R]

Hey, it's space. No EMP, barely any shockwave...

I gather we've gone back to FS1-style "intercept verrrrry carefullllly".

[General Battuta]

Hey, it's space. No EMP, barely any shockwave...

I gather we've gone back to FS1-style "intercept verrrrry carefullllly".

Not more so than AoA was. Remember, War in Heaven is actually totally compatible with FS2 retail, so weapons like the Cyclops won't have any values changed.

What has changed is the scripting hooks we added to the engine so we can trigger blinding flares when bombs go off. So while you won't be in any more danger doing bomb intercept, it'll be a lot harder to see what's going on, since that first bomb detonation will go KAWOOOSH and everything will be fiery.

[Droid803]

Extra flashiness? I'm up for that.

[General Battuta]

Extra flashiness? I'm up for that.

Look at the ModDB page; latest update, first shot you can see one of the flares, except it's actually been toned down in Photoshop so it doesn't wash out the whole image.

[Droid803]

Looks awesome, though there's some funny things going on like the Bellerophon's beam turrets being pure white (probably due to the photoshopping or bloom).

[General Battuta]

Looks awesome, though there's some funny things going on like the Bellerophon's beam turrets being pure white (probably due to the photoshopping or bloom).

Bloom, probably.

[Droid803]

Gah Fury. You had two perfectly good screenshots in the internal which could have been used.

I'm going to ba-bump this to ask. "Where'd this guy go?"

[General Battuta]

Huh? It's explained pretty conclusively earlier in the thread. That model is imported from an X3 mod, and while the mod team leaders were happy to give us permission to use it, they couldn't secure permission from the original modelers to give it out. So we cut it; it wouldn't have been ethical.

[Droid803]

Argh, I completely missed it.
Oh, also, the Vexor.

Is it ok to share it now? (Not that its very useful in its current HURK I RAPE UR COMPUTER state)

[The E]

Yes, you can share the Vexor.

Also, just as an aside, that model for the AWACS, while beautiful, was also quite the resource drain.

[Colonol Dekker]

Vexor?

[General Battuta]

Vexor?

Vexor = old Solaris. It's an awesome design, but we need to fix it before we can use it.

[Colonol Dekker]

Having not seen the new one yet am i right in thinkig it was the one from that youtube vid where it was engaging a Raynor?
Reminiscent of a Coalition carrier from starlancer?