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Shield Graphical Effects!
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Valid Point
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#21 - 2013-06-27 19:23:08 UTC
Can someone please show me this "sweep" effect of the cloak on the link to a video or something?
Cekle Skyscales
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2013-06-27 20:33:14 UTC
Valid Point wrote:
Can someone please show me this "sweep" effect of the cloak on the link to a video or something?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so39WA12hfE

It caused some issues with engines displaying upon decloaking. Basically engines wouldn't show up on exiting cloak if your ship entered warp too fast.
Siobhan MacLeary
Doomheim
#23 - 2013-06-27 22:15:04 UTC
Cekle Skyscales wrote:
Valid Point wrote:
Can someone please show me this "sweep" effect of the cloak on the link to a video or something?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so39WA12hfE

It caused some issues with engines displaying upon decloaking. Basically engines wouldn't show up on exiting cloak if your ship entered warp too fast.


Oooh, that's nice. Why did we lose that? I'd love to see that effect reintroduced, maybe in a different way - the sweep starts from the physical location the cloak generator is in (IE, the hardpoint you've attached the cloak to) and covers the rest of the ship from there. Simply placing a cloak in your first slot would then look completely different from placing it in your last slot.

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Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#24 - 2013-06-28 07:35:55 UTC
Cekle Skyscales wrote:
Valid Point wrote:
Can someone please show me this "sweep" effect of the cloak on the link to a video or something?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so39WA12hfE

It caused some issues with engines displaying upon decloaking. Basically engines wouldn't show up on exiting cloak if your ship entered warp too fast.


Wow, that looks ossum! So you say they got rid of that kickass effect because they couldn't fix frakkin bug with rendering parts of model? WTF?

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raawe
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#25 - 2013-06-28 08:15:35 UTC  |  Edited by: raawe
More stuff to come i hope. (shields are around 1:20)

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Feledain
Elmsfeuer
#26 - 2013-06-28 11:51:04 UTC
I guess we all can agree that shields are freaking awesome.

But what effects should they have when they break down?
I prefer a color change to dark red and random flame like "lightning" in the last 20% and a flash of the whole shield as it disappears. http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/9/8387/Maelstrom.jpg or http://images.wikia.com/masseffect/images/f/fd/Codex_CBT_Shields.png kinda like this

And in the pririor 80%
Light blue for caldari, with this stargate impact animation http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111030174805/stargate/images/e/e4/Daedalus_vs_Wraith.JPG
Greenish for gallente and these circles like in the fanfest pic of the cane
For Minmatar http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3mVQQB39oMg/hqdefault.jpg
Amarr? No idea, they have shields too?

Animation size tied to the signature resolution / size of the weapon. So a drone hit is barely visible on a BS but on a frig it would be relative big.
Markku Laaksonen
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#27 - 2013-06-28 15:15:50 UTC
sabre906 wrote:
Jerick Ludhowe wrote:
kerradeph wrote:
Jerick Ludhowe wrote:
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
It's already planned.


Just another 2+ years till eve catches up with the graphical fidelity of games 3+ years old...

that's the thing with comparing eve to games that are being launched. it's like comparing a car that has just been built vs a car that had its engine replaced without coming to a stop for more than 30 minutes.


The problem with your post is that we are not comparing eve with games that "have been launched"

We are instead comparing it with games that have been out for like 4 years...


Actually, Eve used to have Oval shield. Then we got a graphical downgrade. Same as cloaking. Same as gating before they implemented the new one in Odyssey. Graphical downgrade happened to a lot of things, don't ask me why...Roll


I knew I remembered something like that!

I had a trial account back in 2008-ish, and I swore I remembered something like that. Can you post some kind of video or image that shows it?

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Benny Ohu
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#28 - 2013-06-28 15:32:28 UTC
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
It's already planned.

i don't want to be a downer, but i don't think it's exactly planned, just an idea, a mockup, until they have an expansion meeting and prioritise or something :(

threads like this one can let them know how many players might want it too
GeneralXCypher
The Eminence Front
#29 - 2013-06-30 16:54:11 UTC
Benny Ohu wrote:
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
It's already planned.

i don't want to be a downer, but i don't think it's exactly planned, just an idea, a mockup, until they have an expansion meeting and prioritise or something :(

threads like this one can let them know how many players might want it too


Exactly, and it appears everyone is for getting new shiny stuffs. Obviously gameplay should take priority over graphics, but surely CCP can dedicate a team or two to graphic shinies :P pwease?
Swiftstrike1
Swiftstrike Incorporated
#30 - 2013-06-30 18:46:53 UTC
GeneralXCypher wrote:

A question I also ask you people: Bubble shields? or model hugging as they are now? Personally I think weapons fire hitting a shield bubble and then once depleted, passing through to the hull would be way cooler.


Shields that stand off a little ways from the hull would be cool, but I don't want to see spherical "bubble shaped" shields. Would still need some sort of active hardener and shield booster effects. Looking at the animations on ships is an important way to gain info on them.

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Maximus Aerelius
PROPHET OF ENIGMA
#31 - 2013-06-30 23:44:34 UTC
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
It's already planned.


Sexy!!! As an historical point we used to have(tm) a shield bubble around our ships but then we just had skin one day.

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