Things that still look kind of 8-bit

wades · Post by **wades** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:02 pm

How about the laser pulses? They look like just a 2D monochrome filled triangle, complete with aliasing. They'd look better with some kind of diffusion effect.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:01 pm

They’re actually four triangles. :-)

I have a detailed plan to improve them, but it won’t be until after the next stable release.

ADCK · Post by **ADCK** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:32 pm

heres another thats been dicussed before:

*Suns

(surface, not corona, corona looks awesome.)

Zbond-Zbond · Post by **Zbond-Zbond** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:26 am

wades wrote:
How about the laser pulses? They look like just a 2D monochrome filled triangle, complete with aliasing

yes, cool aren't they!

Ahruman wrote:
I have a detailed plan to improve them..

availability of any colour at all would be good, instead of the machine second guessing my choice and overwriting

Captain Fullstrength · Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:52 pm

The one thing that really looks 8-bit to me, something we all come across many times each session: the concentric circles when you dock at a Station / Rock Hermit / anywhere.

Having got the planets and ships looking so good this really stands out as something from another era.

drew · Post by **drew** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:28 pm

Ahruman wrote:
I have a detailed plan to improve them, but it won’t be until after the next stable release.

I think the appropriate aphorism is 'woot'.

the concentric circles when you dock at a Station / Rock Hermit / anywhere.

Seconded.

Cheers,

Drew.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:45 am

As we all know, you can replace them with any of the other models in the game by c&p'ing the desired dat-file into your AddOns-folder (e.g. "buoy.dat"), and renaming it to "ring.dat".

Try it out, if you're not easily scared.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:53 am

so, instead of ring.dat, can the game not just gen 1 of them and we could replace it w/ a textured docking tunnel w/ a door at the end?

Sarin · Post by **Sarin** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:23 pm

Isn't the same model used for witchjump? In that case, docking doors would look even weirder.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:42 pm

Sarin wrote:
Isn't the same model used for witchjump? In that case, docking doors would look even weirder.

I think this is only true for current 1.73.4, in the trunk different dats can be defined for docking/launching and wormhole.

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