Aegis / Aspis - Color / Alfa value - forum thread

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NeonSturm 13 years ago Ageis and Aspis are "light" shield devices. But some player tend to belive that one shield is very powerfull. Also it hurts the eyes if you cluster like 9 of it and have a blue fog instead of your and enemy units. My Suggestion is to change the color to a more discreetly one or lower the alfa value - like: RGBA( 255, 0, 0, 0.1 ) to RGBA( 0, 255, 0, 0.3 ) while charging. +0 / -0
Skasi 13 years ago First things first. It's ALPHA, not alfa. Shields are not meant to be stacked in groups of 9. Not at all. No, not even to block out 100 tacnukes from your stupid moho geo! It's the same like building half a dozen singularities next to each other and complaining about the big hole, or eye-hurting effects when they blow up. +0 / -0
luckywaldo7 13 years ago Shield alpha should probably be decreased. Ideally shields would be done with opengl, and there would be a nice-bubble like effect where shields join together. But it requires someone to make it. ;) +0 / -0
Skasi 13 years ago Shields joining together like a bubble would make it hard to tell whether your units have to get closer when shooting from inside one of the shields to hit the target directly. Else I would have already told everybody to change that! Ha! +0 / -0
GoogleFrog 13 years ago > Shields joining together like a bubble would make it hard to tell whether your units have to get closer when shooting from inside one of the shields to hit the target directly. Else I would have already told everybody to change that! Ha! Exactly. +0 / -0
luckywaldo7 13 years ago Perhaps you could show the shield outline but greatly increased alpha compared to the outside. The current problem is balancing between making one shield easy to see but making a cluster of shields possible to see through. Skasi, shields shouldn't be balanced by how frustrating they are to use. +0 / -0
GoogleFrog 13 years ago If we could dynamically change the effect I think the best solution would be an increase in transparency when a certain number of shields are nearby. +0 / -0
o_o 13 years ago why do you keep spamming the most random threads on the most random shit? +0 / -0
force_renamed 13 years ago meh this is a valid point, when u get lots of shields u cant see for shit wats inside them I kind of like it though because the enemy has no idea whats coming at them :) big fat wad of shields just makes them shit themselves +0 / -0
Skasi 13 years ago luckywaldo7, spamming shields is bad simply because they will drain all the teams energy. 10 shields will drain three fusions dry when charging. When there's something that two shields can't block, you'll want to destroy it as fast as possible and not build another ten shields. Seriously. Anyway shield effects should and probably will be redone one day anyway I guess. I wouldn't want them to be less eye-hurting when stacked this heavy. They could still be eye-hurting in a cool looking way though; I wouldn't mind that. :) +0 / -0
o_o 13 years ago hmmm i actually had a really cool shield texture and corresponding lups effect i worked on with i dont remember who. its on some backup dvd somewhere, i will have to find it +0 / -0
NeonSturm 13 years ago Maybe we can make it lime green like in many other mods - it looks better there. A large area shield with equal costs but higher energy need would be a very nice anti tacnuke unit. But there is a shield topic how to join shields together in the offtopic forum. I only need to know how to overwrite the engine shield and I make joining sields. Maybe if I can see a example file who makes a single triangle and collision dedection for this triangle and I would extend this file to a serious one. +0 / -0
Licho 13 years ago YOU DONT NEED TO OVERWRITE ANYTHING, GOT IT? Stop using it as excuse. Code visualisation/joining and I can put it in. "Overwriting" consists of setting visualisation to 0 or putting empty texture to engine. +0 / -0
NeonSturm 13 years ago thx Licho - sometimes someone else got other ideas how to solve promblems. +0 / -0

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