EVE General Discussion

I"ve been seeing threads pop up here and there about the new hull animations coming to us in Rhea, and opinion seems to vary wildly. We have quite a few news ones heading our way, and some of them are subtle while others are fairly radical compared to what we have seen so far.

The list of new animations includes:

Rook
Blackbird and all of it's variants
All Incursus variants
Confessor
and the Bowhead.

All of these ships (as well as the Eagle) have new hulls also, or are new designs.

How do you think CCP has done with them, both the "traditional" animations and the more intricate animations we are seeing on the Blackbird hulls and especially the Confessor... which will likely prove to be typical of all of the Tech 3 Tactical Cruisers coming into game.

I had been waiting until the animations were pretty much complete and functional to get into this, and judging by whats on Sisi they are just about there.

So what do you think?
Is CCP doing a good job in the animation department?
Are they heading in the right direction with this, or is it pointless... or simply too much?

Obviously, if you don't have access to the test server I wouldn't leave you hanging... you can get a close look at ALL of the new animations coming in Rhea here

I'd trade them all for visual shield hit effects dependable on damage type. Or even better - localized damage model (if EVE had localized damage instead of hitpoints grind).

I just hope they don't prevent me from locking and shooting ASAP. That would suck.

E: To answer the question, I really don't care. I play on the lowest settings anyway.

I can see the box around me when I undock. Why didn't they do a sphere?

For me that ~10% of the time I'm zoomed in or looking at ships waiting in fleet etc it's 100% worth the eye candy.

Wouldn't be the same game without the pretties. But that's me.

Worth it, especially if they are doing warp animations for any/all (hopefully all) ships. The ships that are getting warp animations, and even the ones that have any animation at all, feel a lot more alive and credible compared to the ones that don't. I feel like the animations make them seem more dynamic and, if I may sound geeky for the moment, real.

Now, I think the real question should be how far should the animations go; should Art stop at merely special functions (bastion, triage/siege, warp, T3 modes, etc.) or should there be more general case animations (like the mechanically scanning array on the Scorpion line and the Stratios)? Should they do both, or one or the other, or neither? My vote is that Art be allowed to expand on ship animations as much as they can, in any direction be it a small moving doodad here or a full-blown "transformers" style animation there.

Yes, CCP is doing a pretty damn good job on the animations. Yes, it's a good direction, no it's not pointless...and I honestly hope there is more...much more!

Well, so far they've been adding an animation of one sort or another every time they have updated a hull. I think that trend will continue.

cos DirectX

(OpenGL works the same though)

As usual though, he cuts to the heart of the matter.

Personally I love the eye candy, but I understand why some consider it irrelevant, or even distracting.

I guess I just place a high value on the little touches that have a "cool factor", and help maintain the vague sense of immersion in EVE that I always feel when I fire up the game.

What's the animation on the Bowhead? I played around with it some, but I didn't see anything that jumped out at me. Of course the ship is flipping huge, I may have just missed it.

Edit: Just saw you linked a vid, R1. Off to watch.