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Something like that would look really good with EVE me thinks.

I also hope we'll get engine trails during warp too, it's a bit jarring to go from engine trails, no engine trails and engine trails again... plus it would look extremely cool.

I'm thinking though that the trails we see now are very much WIP.

So much this. (Switches trails off and does a happy dance)

They are kinda flat. CCP thanks for bringing back ship trails (what took you so long, seriously.) What needs to be done in my opinion to these trails is a simple bit of distortion. Don't make them super clean, make them spread out a bit over time. Add little bits of exhaust flares to the trails occasionally and make the gas or whatever it is spread out after being pushed into space. I promise it'll look better.

Less flat shaded. Add volume!

edit: Also, I think I figured out what it is. The trails encompass the entire engine cone. Have them just come from the tip, and scale them down considerably.

+1

Is that true ?! I didn't yet have a chance to go and look at them. If that is the case, then it's HORRIBLE.

Bumping because the current engine trails are bad. I will be disabling them on the release of the patch if they are released in their current state.

They do look wierd-- more like the engine trails from the highly-stylized alliance tournament intro graphics than something that belongs next to all these new, cinematic-quality graphics we have in EVE now.

Personally I'd either revise the effect completely. I think they look really plastic-y and goofy-- they're way too opaque and I don't like the way you can see the polygons wrap around the ends of spaceship engines. If they were some cool, translucent/semi-transparent effect that looked awesome (see your own loginscreen maller or pictures of ion thrusters IRL) they'd be great but as is they just kind of look silly and out of place.

e: I updated my client again and took another look today. The trails seem to look weirder on some ships than on others-- sometimes they seem to be too bright and opaque. On other ships full speed leaves them with a nice level of transparency.

Also, the new engine effects on some ships (with the heat-shimmer + glow) looks fantastic-- please, please continue to apply this to all ships.

Also also, I really liked your concept art for the Talos with its hall-thruster-esque ring engines. They could look really good on TQ :3

I love the new engine trails. They look good and seem to be very light on gpu resources.

Though that doesn't mean they can't stand a few improvements, like better 'physics' with respect to ship movement and attitude, better scaling to hull size, and maybe a little roughness added in like some mach disks or something. Also, the trails need better antialiesing (this is especially apparent when a ship is turning).

Edit: one other thing - the trails need to be visible from much farther since their only practical function is to indicate the other ship's speed and heading.


That's way too fuzzy; looks like cotton coming out of the engines.

I thought all engines will now have that 'nozzle glow' that we saw on the Incarna login Maller and the winter expansion web page background image. I wonder if that's still coming?

From the YouTube footage of the new trails, I will certainly be turning them off. They're ugly, and completely immersion breaking. The only place that they might look appropriate is in warp, which is the only place that they don't appear.

I hope CCP has put as much effort into reworking the thruster effects on V3'd ships as they have into their Tron beams. There are horrific clipping issues on the thrusters on several TQ models/skins.