Laser color

Post by **Cmdr James** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:57 pm

I'm not sure that we know for sure that they are true lasers. It is possible that they just have the name for historical reasons.

For example what we now call torches (flashlights) are hardly torches in the traditional sense, nor is a caravan much like a caravan of old.

BlackKnight · Post by **BlackKnight** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:19 pm

JazHaz wrote:
BlackKnight wrote:

Laserbait wrote:
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Laserbait?

What, you know another use for Thargoids? Bookends, maybe? Or getting boy scouts out of horses' hooves?

(Apologies to the "real" Thargoid - my mind was elsewhere and my fingers just did a sort of "global 'search-and-replace" on my second-favourite quarry...

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Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:05 am

Apology accepted, at least once I stopped laughing

Zbond-Zbond · Post by **Zbond-Zbond** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:14 am

I have noticed that when I choose some of the more interesting laser colours, such as clear or black they seem to come out grey anyway.

Purple beam looks nice.

Cyan fizzes up the target well.

JeffBTX · Post by **JeffBTX** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:23 am

... Maybe they ARE lasers, but what we are seeing is an indicator / projection on our HUDs. For OUR lasers.

... but basically we have the same problem for OTHER ships lasers.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:24 am

Zbond-Zbond wrote:
I have noticed that when I choose some of the more interesting laser colours, such as clear or black they seem to come out grey anyway.

The wiki wrote:
In Oolite 1.69 and later, this is any colour specifier. In earlier versions, it must be a named colour. Also as of 1.69, the game requires laser colours to be reasonably bright; if the brightest colour component is less than 0.5, the colour will be brightened.