[Goober5000]

After observing frustration on the part of GalacticEmperor and skepticism on the part of everyone else, I felt compassion for the board and decided to post screenshots...

http://www.geocities.com/ipw47/afterburner.html



(btw, how can I enable attachments?)



EDIT: changed address

[Solatar]

Funny, I don't seem to remember them being THAT obvious, or that long. And one other thing. The afterburner trails were orangish/tan colored, not blue. My conclusion is that those aren't real.

EDIT: But, if you'd like to prove me wrong, go ahead. I don't mind at all being corrected.

EDIT2: Then again, those look slightly familiar. Maybe they aren't fakes. But still, I don't remember them being that long. Maybe we could have those in fs2? Source code people!! Have trails like that even when afterburners aren't angaged.

[Kitsune]

Heh, it'd make combat in nebulas a lot easier.  
Especially in the eval mission where you're testing the Pegasus fighters when the Aquataine gets ambushed by that moloch.

[Fury]

Originally posted by Hades
Have trails like that even when afterburners aren't angaged.

Good God NO!

You don't want to do that, they may be nice looking for starters but will begin to be more annoying that usefull. Trails just for afterburners is much more better idea.

[Razor]

Originally posted by Goober5000
After observing frustration on the part of GalacticEmperor and skepticism on the part of everyone else, I felt compassion for the board and decided to post screenshots...







(btw, how can I enable attachments?)

That's Freespace 1 isn't it?

[Nico]

mmh, post a pic of that trail when the ship is turning

[Fury]

Originally posted by Razor


That's Freespace 1 isn't it?

Yes, a DVD version of FS1.
It's been discussed in this thread in case you haven't noticed.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,9898.0.html

[CP5670]

That looks pretty nice. Is the rendering code for that still in FS1 or FS2?

[Solatar]

Actaually, I think the code was just in that version o fs1. It's not in fs2 I don't think.

Well, lots of games have engine trails like that, why shouldn't fs2?

[vyper]

Can I just say:

THEY SUCK!

[aldo_14]

Look bloody awful IMHO.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by venom2506
mmh, post a pic of that trail when the ship is turning

You hit the nail right on the head, as usual. How do they curve?

And thanks, Goober - thanks, and Welcome to the HLPBB!

[Solatar]

The trails could use some work (Okay, a lot of work) but they could be made to look good in FS2_Open.

[Unknown Target]

If The Beast Project is still running, talk to them. They might want to know how to do that (and touch it up;))

[Goober5000]

Two more afterburner pictures, with the ship turning.  The coolest shot of this is when you get killed by a shockwave while your afterburners are engaged.  Your ship spins around really fast and the afterburner effects are neat.  It's incredibly hard to get a screenshot of this, though, so I tried to approximate it in a test mission.  The result can be seen in picture 4.

Note: I had problems with direct image linking, so I moved all the pictures to a page on GeoCities.  They are all on this page:

http://www.geocities.com/ipw47/afterburner.html

[Kamikaze]

that's interesting... only problem being they look pretty ugly. If they could be spiced up I'd appreciate that in the game

[Solatar]

Yeah, if anybody is going to even think about using them for fs2, they need to be helped along a little. Maybe using 3d particles, smoke crap, it would look cool.

[Sheepy]

you swear far too much

[Solatar]

I don't consider "Crap" and stuff like that swearing. not very many people do. I do swear, but other thatn ****, I don't say very many dirty words, and $hit isn't very bad anywho.

[DragonClaw]

Originally posted by Unkown Target
If The Beast Project is still running, talk to them. They might want to know how to do that (and touch it up;))

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