Some good values for new laser system

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 01 Sep 2006, 04:10

The game was awesome, the community was crap. I hate that community so much...

FireCrack · Post by **FireCrack** » 01 Sep 2006, 05:07

mehere101 wrote:The game was awesome, the community was crap. I hate that community so much...

Why?

Egarwaen · Post by **Egarwaen** » 01 Sep 2006, 06:46

Caydr wrote:FINE! I CONFESS!!! I'M TRYING TO COPY FREESPACE 2 LASERS!!! HAPPY NOW!!!!?

Make them 10-20 times wider than the emitter.

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 01 Sep 2006, 23:32

The community single handedly managed to halt FS3. Because they couldn't have Volition do it. They never seemed to make a decent custom campaign - all of the ones i tried had gaping holes that led to engine failures from FS2.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 01 Sep 2006, 23:33

They stopped FS3! Those bastards!

MR.D · Post by **MR.D** » 01 Sep 2006, 23:37

Looks good to me

Colors could be a little more pronounced though, they seem a bit faded when compared to eachother.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 04 Sep 2006, 18:00

Ok, I guess this isn't a mod either. My bad. If anyone could move this to general, I'd appreciate it.

CalledGothic · Post by **CalledGothic** » 05 Sep 2006, 10:27

Could it be posible to make a beam laser that fired continuiosly, had a bright light at the point of impact, and only showed up in rout as atmosphere heating inless it went through a particle effect, than it would show up, I just think it would be cool to have flashes of blue light and units exploding instead of these big streaks

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 05 Sep 2006, 10:31

CalledGothic wrote:Could it be posible to make a beam laser that fired continuiosly, had a bright light at the point of impact, and only showed up in rout as atmosphere heating inless it went through a particle effect, than it would show up, I just think it would be cool to have flashes of blue light and units exploding instead of these big streaks

Heat ray?

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 05 Sep 2006, 14:55

It's possible to have a continuous invisible beam which is only visible at impact, but the thing about only visible in particles isn't.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 05 Sep 2006, 20:16

Caydr wrote:It's possible to have a continuous invisible beam which is only visible at impact, but the thing about only visible in particles isn't.

Maybe it's because I'm tired but I can't even parse the grammar of the bit about particles.

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 06 Sep 2006, 02:58

@KDR:Basically have the beam light the particles.

Pretty much particles is impracticle in all engines. THere are just too many particles

GrOuNd_ZeRo · Post by **GrOuNd_ZeRo** » 06 Sep 2006, 21:34

corethickness and laserflaresize were introduced WHEN?

that is cool stuff...looks awesome!

Fanger · Post by **Fanger** » 06 Sep 2006, 22:57

for the next version..!

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 09 Sep 2006, 21:13

So these arent available now...

MR.D · Post by **MR.D** » 10 Sep 2006, 15:54

Now add in some lighting auras to the beam itself so things near the beam(other units, ground, trees) also get lit up by the color of the laser.

Do that and you will earn my undying love.

REVENGE · Post by **REVENGE** » 11 Sep 2006, 07:46

There any plans to get realtime dynamic lighting incorporated into spring?

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 11 Sep 2006, 08:00

I have to say it again.

Those lasers are friggen cool.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 11 Sep 2006, 17:57

Just wait till you see an Annihilator ^^

Dynamic realtime lighting, even on a small scale, is not likely going to happen. Look at how much the engine slows down with *one* light source added. The dev team has pulled off wonders before, but this isn't a matter of skill or ingenuity (sp?), this is just the fact that even a PS3 couldn't hope to render dynamic shadows from hundreds of sources on hundreds of objects, and those objects' reflective surfaces!

The reason it's possible in other games is because you're dealing with comparatively tiny battles that are usually capped in size by the engine. Warcraft 3 for instance probably has dynamic lighting, right? But you're dealing with dozens of units and a handful of light sources.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 11 Sep 2006, 18:29

I don't think anyone would notice if those dynamic lights don't project any shadows.

Spring RTS Engine

Some good values for new laser system