Lightning Weapons

Fanger · Post by **Fanger** » 01 Aug 2006, 06:22

Ive seen recently that Laser weapons have been getting a update in appearance and some othe effects for them.. What I want to know is where is my lightning effect loving.. currently none of the tags for lasers work on lightning.. I cant resize it, I cant make more bolt things, and it could definately use a ball burst thing at the beginning like the lasers are getting..

Also it seems to not use groundflashes or stuff generated in the explosion generator currently.. basically I want some lightning weapon loving cause lightning is a weapon too and it deserves to be damn cool looking..

unpossible · Post by **unpossible** » 01 Aug 2006, 09:23

+10,000,000

AF · Post by AF » 01 Aug 2006, 09:39

This si the work of evil bannnaas! If it where upto cookeis we would have lots of flashy lightning weapons!!!!

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 01 Aug 2006, 11:16

A slow bolt of lightning would be insane-o cool. As in when you fire it, it would send out a lightning bolt that will fork out and create that nice ripping effect.
Maybe that could be defined with a fractal?

unpossible · Post by **unpossible** » 01 Aug 2006, 11:56

Comp1337 wrote:A slow bolt of lightning would be insane-o cool. As in when you fire it, it would send out a lightning bolt that will fork out and create that nice ripping effect.
Maybe that could be defined with a fractal?

*cough cough* lag

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 01 Aug 2006, 12:04

... and not even necessary. The new weapons code coming will allow us to use animated bitmaps... we can do really fancy stuff then

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 01 Aug 2006, 13:29

really?

EDIT: Hang on, since when was it possible to add animations to bitmaps?

FireCrack · Post by **FireCrack** » 01 Aug 2006, 13:46

^By bitmaps he means any bitfeild generated image, rather than the *.bmp format.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 01 Aug 2006, 20:56

You mean we could have the good ole' OTA plasma effects?!?

Caydr, I demand you implement them this minute!

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 01 Aug 2006, 22:45

OK, heres my two cents. Effects don't need to be syncronised. At all. So fractal defined lightning would work. Just separate the visual from the gameplay and there you go.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 02 Aug 2006, 12:54

A problem with that would be that you'd still have hardcoded "this is lightning" behaviour instead of "this is a beam weapon that does its damage on the impact frame". A railgun would behave the same as lightning but you couldn't make the lightning look like a railgun shot.

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