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Title: pretty puffy ack
Post by: des506 on December 04, 2010, 12:30:20 AM
i know i am a dumb when it comes down to comp programming... but wouldn't it be nice to have colourd puffy acks? only on cvs? like each 5" gun on CV will be assigned a colour... then all back destroyers a colour... front a colour.. wouldn't AH be a much beautiful place? would it be a programming nitemare?
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: Banshee7 on December 04, 2010, 12:38:19 AM
CV ack = pink
Strat flak = neon green
and base ack = star wars laser red?


Wonderful idea...

Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: MarineUS on December 04, 2010, 01:33:56 AM
offline mission anyone :D  :airplane:
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: ImADot on December 04, 2010, 10:50:56 AM
Sure, and purple clouds, and orange water, and whatever else you can find in a bad acid trip or stupid preschool video game.

-1,000,000
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: The Fugitive on December 04, 2010, 10:52:37 AM
Sure, and purple clouds, and orange water, and whatever else you can find in a bad acid trip or stupid preschool video game.

-1,000,000

....ya and power ups, heart containers, and don't forget the secret chests containing the extra cannon rounds !!!   :rolleyes:
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: Max on December 04, 2010, 11:20:32 AM
It would create a further strain on older video cards.

Now why don't you revisit your earlier thread and post an apology to 800nate.
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: Molsman on December 04, 2010, 11:30:31 AM
Sure, and purple clouds, and orange water, and whatever else you can find in a bad acid trip or stupid preschool video game.

-1,000,000


Bummer Dot you beat me to it I was going to ask whats Next Disco Balls with the Background Music Playing Staying Alive
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: Jayhawk on December 04, 2010, 11:45:26 AM
Purple Rain.  :aok
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: Dichotomy on December 04, 2010, 11:57:47 AM
oh thanks a lot man now I'm going to have that frigging song on my mind all day  :furious

while we're re modeling can we get a bullet bob nook?
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: Jayhawk on December 04, 2010, 12:00:24 PM
Sorry Dichotomy,

maybe some fog... a little Purple Haze maybe?

 :rock
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: Dichotomy on December 04, 2010, 12:02:03 PM
NOW yer talkin sir  :rock
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: AWwrgwy on December 04, 2010, 03:02:21 PM
Actually, wouldn't the easy thing to do be make it a different color only you can see?

You can track your own shots that way, it would only add one additional color, and it wouldn't affect anyone else.


wrongway
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: ImADot on December 04, 2010, 03:21:37 PM
Actually, we need the shell trails to be different colors so we can be shooting rainbows across the sky.
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: USRanger on December 04, 2010, 03:26:36 PM
I made a terrain once with smiley face puffy ack & red tracers.  Some of the things y'all are joking about are possible, including the orange water.
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: jolly22 on December 04, 2010, 03:31:04 PM
OH!!! and dont forget unlimited lives!!!!! oh..wait........
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: Chilli on December 05, 2010, 04:09:22 AM
Hey Ranger,  I think I've seen the smiley face tracers you made  :aok

The idea of different color 5 inch tracers came up before and had positive feedback.  Don't quote me but I recall that they were used to track rounds with many being fired during historical fleet battles.  This is much in the way they would probably be used here.

Wrgwy offers a suggestion that if possible would probably solve the rainbow tracers as some of you have described.  The option there is for only the gunners ability to view his tracers in a different color.  So, to everyone else all tracers would look the same.   Maybe even allow the player to customize it somewhat like the gunsights.
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: stealth on December 05, 2010, 07:59:42 AM
Yeah and lets fill bullets with paint so we can make pretty pictures and scare the hell of the Germans. We all know Des is not American and saw Kellys Heroes for the first time this week.
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: BiPoLaR on December 05, 2010, 08:40:09 AM
All this trying to be funny. But the funny thing is, most of you need that "rainbow" colored paint on your planes. At least you can proudly stand up for the way most of you fly  :aok
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: Jayhawk on December 05, 2010, 12:05:37 PM
The idea of different color 5 inch tracers came up before and had positive feedback.  Don't quote me but I recall that they were used to track rounds with many being fired during historical fleet battles.  This is much in the way they would probably be used here.

HiTech added the tracers to the rounds so you could follow yours to impact.
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: Chilli on December 06, 2010, 04:56:48 AM
The way that most folks gun, you are so zoomed in that you are not able to follow the round.  You only see when it falls into your zoomed view.  Adding a color tracer, that only you (the gunner) will be able to see will differentiate your round hitting the ground versus others. 

+ 1
Title: Re: pretty puffy ack
Post by: ariansworld on December 06, 2010, 08:17:09 AM
Sorry Dichotomy,

maybe some fog... a little Purple Haze maybe?

 :rock

Here is your purple haze.......  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFSaqFzSO8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFSaqFzSO8)