Oolite Bulletins

Strange ships behind the ice moon in the Ateslete system.

A fleet gathers in orbit around the water world of Nemean.

chance encounter of a deployed himsn battlefleet

Nice shader effect A_C!! Any plans for it or just experimenting with code?
Looks awesome, could maybe get triggered when an ECM goes off nearby, make it look like the ship viewport cameras are bugging out

Griff wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 8:50 pm

Nice shader effect A_C!! Any plans for it or just experimenting with code?
Looks awesome, could maybe get triggered when an ECM goes off nearby, make it look like the ship viewport cameras are bugging out

It's actually already in, just dormant. And it looks better when you see it animated. From the debug console run postFX=7 and that should activate the CRT effect.

Griff wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 8:50 pm

could maybe get triggered when an ECM goes off nearby, make it look like the ship viewport cameras are bugging out

Ooh, yeah

Challenge accepted. Have a look: https://youtu.be/fQq0Fun1Ty8

Note that the low-res image appearing for a few frames at the end of the effect is a compression artifact and it looks fine in-game.
Also, this is a new effect - not the one shown in the previous screenshot.

another_commander wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 12:55 pm

Challenge accepted. Have a look: https://youtu.be/fQq0Fun1Ty8

Note that the low-res image appearing for a few frames at the end of the effect is a compression artifact and it looks fine in-game.
Also, this is a new effect - not the one shown in the previous screenshot.

Nice work!

Could it be done without scrambling the instruments, so only the 'camera' is garbled?

It should be possible, but I'll have to confirm tomorrow - I do not have access to the computer carrying the new code right now.

another_commander wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 12:55 pm

Also, this is a new effect - not the one shown in the previous screenshot.

I think I prefer the previous one for the ECM; the one in the video better suits the Q-bomb (IMHO of course...)

MrFlibble wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:33 pm

Could it be done without scrambling the instruments, so only the 'camera' is garbled?

Yup, it can be done and pretty easily too. Thanks for that, applied.

I will open a new branch on github to upload the code changes so far and give people the chance to test.

Redspear wrote: ↑

I think I prefer the previous one for the ECM; the one in the video better suits the Q-bomb (IMHO of course...)

I can see your point and am open to thinking about it, but that would imply some more intrusive code changes. Let's go with what we have as a first step and take it from there. The original effect is just a CRT simulation, while the new one tries to simulate EM disruption. Another option could be using the same EM disruption effect for both, with ECM being a very mild version of the effect and the Q-bomb being the full blown-up version.