not SHINY enough

 [pikts]wolas funny thing is that ZK nuke doesnt use spring SHYNY lightining

 [I]burp its good?

 [pikts]wolas watch BA nuke

 [I]burp is it better?

 [pikts]wolas just watch man

 [I]burp >_>

 [pikts]wolas it is engine thing



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 [pikts]wolas I say BA nukes are a bit more SHINY

before that BA nukes was AWFUL

 [TROLOLO]sfireman looks not bad, [pikts]wolas

but its too bright and unrealistic

imo

 [I]burp lol yea its unrealistic

 [pikts]wolas but SHINY

 [I]burp rofl

but shiny

:D

 [TROLOLO]sfireman SHINY

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 [I]burp and that is all that matters

:D

He means the light emitter on nuke that is imo cool to have

XTA, not BA.

The entire thing is the engine lighting. You can tell because the light effects the nearby models also, and not just the map.

Note that even if it's added ingame, players need to have "MaxDynamicMapLights > 0" and/or "MaxDynamicModelLights > 0" in their spring settings.

Currently it is 0 by default because it is performance expensive, or so I last heard.

Unless Spring handles dynamic lights in a grossly inefficient way compared to other game engines, I'd guess 2 on medium, 4 on high, 8 on ultra would work fine.

The glow at the start looks silly, and the glow at the end looks makes it look like the shiny initial explosion particle shouldn't rise much at all. If anything, it should stay on the ground and expand, and fade as the cloud appears. Otherwise the white light washing out all colour seems to come out of nowhere.

That or make the white light last only as long as the initial big particle does.

I've been toying with an abridged version of XTA gadget that does this during the night. I'm still unhappy with the results, the bloody thing is so finnicky and underfeatured.

(For instance, the reason that light of explosion stays in one place is because that gadget can't move it!)

Considering commit as-is or rewriting it anew.

Committed. Join your closest Oxygen host for a sneak preview (and some testing, for which developers will be thankful).

It should be at least twice longer for singu, maybe not as long as mushroom cloud is, but just little longer.

On performance side I didint notice any noticeable performance drop when things get nuked SHINY wont make lag but gadgets and all other sorta calculations anyway.

Also it could be used on more weapons like bertha(BA config has many examples), at least for me zk is absolutely cpu bound anyway.

EDIT


pillager is too spam able unit, but bertha atomic bomber, simple fusion and maybe something else can afford it.

what i eventually added was the xta gadget, but i also modified iit enroute. The light source for both nuke and singu climbs at set sped, so you could see "shadows" crawl on sufficiently uneven terrain at right vantage.

I'll see about adjusting the values for singu, but if i get enough compulsion to work more on this, i'd also add possibility for uneven decay of color components - dynamically changing hue, if you willl :p

Right, the projectile light widget appears to just draw a colored texture on the ground, which fakes the light effect.

Neat, although to be honest, it is something that could already be done with the cegtag + groundflash effect.



I.E. one of these bandits is using the existing but unused "redlaser_ak" cegtag.

I suppose the advantage is that is 'just works', and you don't need to hand-config all your cegtags.