Player Features and Ideas Discussion

At least i 'd like to look at it on test server on a mass test. maybe it'll looks weird.
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Smoke trail would be better. Instead of the silly puff of smoke when we fire missiles.

I was thinking they could also modify the missile models so that they animate around the axis of the missile object itself. If you've ever seen fighter drones, you'll understand what I'm referring to. This way missiles could do a little bit of a 'snaking' effect as they travel, and smoke trail effects would be icing on the cake

I've been asking for smoke trails, too. It'd be nice. They should stagger the launch animation like they do turrets, also.

Edit: This is something I posted a few months back:

See, this is what kinda ****es me off. CCP makes such a big deal out of giving us better animations and effects for missiles, but they keep upgrading turrets. With the new turret animations, it makes it even easier now to implement better launcher effects.

On missile ships, the launcher works just like turrets. Instead of a door opening to reveal a turret coming out, the doors open and maybe either just a "barrel" comes out just a little or the doors slide open and reveal a black hole with a ring inside that would look like a launcher inside the ship. If need be, I can draw a pic or maybe even edit a screenshot of a drake or something to show what I mean.

Now for the missile animation itself, something like this could work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTOUtXW6hV8

That effect coming from each launcher located in different positions on the ship. They all launch outward, away from the ship, then fly into a group towards their intended target. Keeping in mind that this animation would have to happen fast enough not to create a flight time issue. And the smoke trails on the missiles should stay for a little bit before dispersing.

This would not be THAT damn hard to implement...

How you figure?

You've clearly never learned how to read. You also assume too much.

Trails disappear. Not just stay there till everyone has left.

The server wouldn't be doing anything to begin with. These are client side effects.

These effects aren't very taxing on video cards either. Depends on if they're volumetric or not.

The video is an example of the trails and what not. Not how long the trails should last.
Now are you done making an ass of yourself?

Edit:
Just thought about this, but it'd also be pretty cool to see some kind of smoke trail left behind by turrets too. Dissipating fairly quickly though.

1) Arkham Asylum has more smoke than 100 drakes could produce. As with any effect, it would not appear on lower settings. Those whose computers could not deal with it, wouldn't have to.

2) my graphing calculator can draw 150 lines in less than a second. I'm pretty sure a semi-state of the art server will have no trouble calculating the trails right along with the flight path of the missile like it already does.

Here's the thing. 400 drakes spitting out missiles will melt graphics cards, and slow fights down to utterly unplayable levels. Why do you think this is a good idea?

400 drakes isn't exactly uncommon either.

Where did I say anything about server side lag? Learn to read before you call me dense. If they're just going to be disabled all the time, why even bother making them? Waste of dev time.