[Rodo]

why, too much awesome for a single thread he?

On the new vid.. I was expecting to see the Orion exploding, but that will do for now

[Bobboau]

randomly generated distortion texture

this I don't like, how much of an effort would it be to base this effect off of an ANI instead?

[Zacam]

Thrusters and explosion effects are in trunk as of rev 7498. Thrusters are enabled by default but explosions fall under the cmdline -fb_explosions in the experimental section

And then it was just as promptly reverted in 7503. Check PM.

Needs a bit more testing, sorry folks.


For anybody that want's to see WHY, I have a link. HOWEVER. If you are prone to seizures, or think you MIGHT be, DO. NOT. WATCH. especially not in a dark room. And even though both Fraps and YouTube did crap on converting it, and it killed my FPS somewhat, it runs at about twice per frame. And when at 60 frames per second...that's damn fast.

You have been warned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olcaj8HjiAU&hq=1

[Mongoose]

Yeesh...yeah, we don't want a Pokemon incident on our hands.

[Nuke]

What happens if you fly through a capship's distortion plume?  Any clipping or ill effects?

didnt try it

AND NOW WATCH THIS: WHEN YOULL SEE IT YOULL **** BRICKS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiBUtatIwus&hd=1

awesome

[Some14U]

Maybe an AMD issue?

I noticed weird video behavior while doing a quick playtest of the distortion effects on rev 7499. Not like yours, more of a nontransparent black box on the 5650m, 6850/4890 driver version 11.8 WHQL.

No issues  on the Nvidia 540m/220m on 280.26 WHQL.

[Fury]

What happens if you fly through a capship's distortion plume?  Any clipping or ill effects?

didnt try it

AND NOW WATCH THIS: WHEN YOULL SEE IT YOULL **** BRICKS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiBUtatIwus&hd=1

Now that is what I call a shockwave. I think it could use more distortion to make it look like it'll damage you too if caught within. Cool stuff.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

- A while back I was working on a Warp Effect shader that squeezes the ship into a small tube and stretches it to infinity (well, a long way) as it warps. It looked really cool, but couldn't be used as there was no way for the shader to know that the ship was warping.
Equally, all the Star Trek warp effects (TOS, Next Gen and the reboot) can be done quite easily with shaders.

First off, I'd like to say...

Christ on a cracker, Valathil, that cloak looks effing fantastic. A couple more crazy advancements like this and FSO will be taking a crack at the CryTek engine.

In regards to the post that I quoted, the warp effect from the ST reboot movie would be wicked.

[BlasterNT]

Or a warp effect like this, with a distortion trail:  http://www.box.net/shared/7btkoaf1vbe87k8923b9

(video isn't mine, I found it on my hd a couple days ago)

[Valathil]

Or a warp effect like this, with a distortion trail:  http://www.box.net/shared/7btkoaf1vbe87k8923b9

(video isn't mine, I found it on my hd a couple days ago)

if the movement would work which iirc it doesnt there are threads about this i read this would be fairly easy i would need an animated texture for displacement mapping though. it would look exactly like the normal map of a grid of polys that would refract the light as desired so if anyone is keen on this effect they gonna have to provide this as im not a good artist

[mjn.mixael]

A quick fix would be to just make the thruster distortion much, much larger for the Hyperspace type warpout....

[MatthTheGeek]

as im not a good artist

But coding is an art, my friend

[MetalDestroyer]

Could you do this kind of hyperspace effect ? I would love to see that effect in FSO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Jql9Qsj_8&feature=player_detailpage#t=13s

Watch the scene between 13s and 20 s.

[Valathil]

That is not a framebuffer effect. This is vertex deformation with vertex shader. Easily doable. But guys you do realize even though all those effects are doable i dont have the time to implement every single one in 1 day right.

[MatthTheGeek]

What's interesting is whether it's doable or not. Being actually done afterwards is just a matter of coder time and whether it is actually wanted/needed/worth it or not.

[MetalDestroyer]

Personnaly, I really like to see that hyperspace jump for one of my mods

[pecenipicek]

That is not a framebuffer effect. This is vertex deformation with vertex shader. Easily doable. But guys you do realize even though all those effects are doable i dont have the time to implement every single one in 1 day right.

Dont bother with it unless a concrete mod team actually asks you to do something. If you continue working like this, you'll create tons of effects that are maybe going to get used by someone when he/she/it notices they even exist.
Seriously. Yeah, oohs and aaahs from the general populace are always oh so very rewarding, but on the overall, if it isnt going to get used in a concrete manner, you've wasted your time and effort.

[Valathil]

That is not a framebuffer effect. This is vertex deformation with vertex shader. Easily doable. But guys you do realize even though all those effects are doable i dont have the time to implement every single one in 1 day right.

Dont bother with it unless a concrete mod team actually asks you to do something. If you continue working like this, you'll create tons of effects that are maybe going to get used by someone when he/she/it notices they even exist.
Seriously. Yeah, oohs and aaahs from the general populace are always oh so very rewarding, but on the overall, if it isnt going to get used in a concrete manner, you've wasted your time and effort.

THIS

oh and btw Thrusters and explosions are in trunk again with rev 7513

[chief1983]

Still, if a mod team sees that it's possible, they might ask for it

[rscaper1070]

Dont bother with it unless a concrete mod team actually asks you to do something. If you continue working like this, you'll create tons of effects that are maybe going to get used by someone when he/she/it notices they even exist.
Seriously. Yeah, oohs and aaahs from the general populace are always oh so very rewarding, but on the overall, if it isnt going to get used in a concrete manner, you've wasted your time and effort.

Well part of the problem is that the only effects that are listed in the wiki are Lightspeed's nebulae. We need a better index so that when these effects are created the documentation gets in the wiki.