This is a thread for a couple shield ideas that had um... "popped up" in the wrong forum.
Anyhow, what I meant for the visible shield is that you would have a tranluecent bubble around the ship, that would flicker or something when hit with weapons fire.
Something kind of like this:
Another idea I came up with, that depending on how it is aproached could be very hard or reletively simple: The ability to shield another object by extending your own shield to it. The simple method would be to have a usable object that would add a shield to the other object. That would be simple, but wouldn't have the right effect. The hard way that would look a lot cooler would be to have an energy beam between your ship and the object.
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Haven't you ever seen the greenish flashy thing whenever you got hit?bluesaberist wrote:Anyhow, what I meant for the visible shield is that you would have a tranluecent bubble around the ship, that would flicker or something when hit with weapons fire.
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I will be very happy to add some eye candy to shields, or any <Effect> ingame, as soon as George add modding of <Effects> into extensions.
I'm really looking for it !
Think about timed effects, semi persistent halos, smoke trails when a ship is severly damaged, electric sparks, fluctuating shields effects during cyber attacks... drool
I'm really looking for it !
Think about timed effects, semi persistent halos, smoke trails when a ship is severly damaged, electric sparks, fluctuating shields effects during cyber attacks... drool
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you might be able to use the visual effect from the domina survive power... it looks like that (press "I" then press "A" ingame to see what i mean)digdug wrote:I will be very happy to add some eye candy to shields, or any <Effect> ingame, as soon as George add modding of <Effects> into extensions.
I'm really looking for it !
Think about timed effects, semi persistent halos, smoke trails when a ship is severly damaged, electric sparks, fluctuating shields effects during cyber attacks... drool
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I actualy meant a shield that you could see all the time. Like the effect in the picture, except the being hit part, and the shield's coloration would be smooth. Like wolfy's suggection of the Domina sustain power. Then when you are hit the shield would look even more like the pic, with the flares and everything.
I think that the shield effects definetly need to be more modifyable. The only thing you can do now is change the image (I am guilty as charged. My shields fade from dark purple to very dark grey. It actualy has a really cool effect.) You can't even have the shield be directional.
This is a great game, but I do seam to be tearing it apart. So to lighten this up, I wish to point out that the game has shields and armor. SW Battlefront 2 doesn't even have that for space battle!
I think that the shield effects definetly need to be more modifyable. The only thing you can do now is change the image (I am guilty as charged. My shields fade from dark purple to very dark grey. It actualy has a really cool effect.) You can't even have the shield be directional.
This is a great game, but I do seam to be tearing it apart. So to lighten this up, I wish to point out that the game has shields and armor. SW Battlefront 2 doesn't even have that for space battle!
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I'd sa ythat would be cool, and make more realism in the game.digdug wrote:I will be very happy to add some eye candy to shields, or any <Effect> ingame, as soon as George add modding of <Effects> into extensions.
I'm really looking for it !
Think about timed effects, semi persistent halos, smoke trails when a ship is severly damaged, electric sparks, fluctuating shields effects during cyber attacks... drool
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sorry I don't mean to go off topic but you can't say anything is realistic on shields. You can say its consistent. You can even make new rules for it to be consistent with.
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Im with all fingers for new shield graphic effects.
Im graphic fanatic...ech I mean shields geek. Ooops, forget on it.
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I like shields as they are now. Right now it looks like shields are a bunch of Ions that are directly *on* the armor. It is actually conceivably possible that you could hold ions to your hull and then use them to intercept incoming particles. Of course, you wouldn't be able to make an actual physical barrier in this way, but it makes more sense than say, star-trek style shields.
Of course, the monopole shield is a bit of an inconsistency then, but still.
Of course, the monopole shield is a bit of an inconsistency then, but still.
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Maybe to satisfy everbody, shields should just have an Effect modifier. All it would do would make it so that you could select effects. Then the only other thing you should need is a directional modifier to tell the game weither or not the shield would be directional. By directional I mean when it gets hit, instead of a round shield effect, it might conform to the shape of the ship, or travel around the shield, or even blast out portions of the shield, the way ejectas are now.
If you drop a bar of soap on the ground, is it dirty?
If a person is legally blind, and can suddenly see, is he breaking the law?
If a friend says he's going outside to get some air, what was he breathing before?
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If a person is legally blind, and can suddenly see, is he breaking the law?
If a friend says he's going outside to get some air, what was he breathing before?
-Brad Stein