[esarai]

Comrades,

I have encountered a seemingly insurmountable dilemma.  I am trying to fit modeled thrusters to several of my ships, only to encounter one major issue--finding new thruster animations is nigh impossible.  So I seek your help.  Does anyone know of any gifs or animations that could be used as a thruster animation?  And failing that, does anyone know a way thruster animations could be made?

[mjn.mixael]

Dear sir...

Why, I have made a hi-res thruster set for all 3 FS races. Lemme find that link...

EDIT: Tada!

If you are looking for something non-FSy, or totally new.. I've got nothin.

[esarai]

Holy crap man, thanks!  These look pretty sweet.  How did you make these?

[mjn.mixael]

Beer and magic.

EDIT: Actually, if you need these in EFF, I have that too. However, that shouldn't be necessary since they don't use that many colors.

[esarai]

Awwww.... I can't drink beer .  What program did you use?

Could you give me the eff form?  I need to UV the thruster model, so having at least one frame to get things positioned right would be awesome.

[mjn.mixael]

Sure, I'll post it here when I get home.

I used After Effects to make them.

BTW, they should loop and tile horizontally perfectly as well.

EDIT: EFFs NOTE: These will be in the next MediaVPs.

[esarai]

Thanks a ton!

Pity I don't have access to awesomeness like AE... I'll have to experiment.

[mjn.mixael]

If you want something more specific, make a post on my render board. I'd be glad to see what I can come up with.