Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: titanic3 on March 18, 2012, 07:59:45 PM
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Many moons ago, AH water looked like someone splashed blue paint everywhere, now it reflects, it has ripples, and looks pretty good. A few years later, the terrain went from green tiles to actual detailed terrain with different shades and colors, and recently, we also got bump mapping, which makes the colors even richer.
So where's the fire? Our explosions are 2D popups of gray, orange and black. Sometimes, they don't even show and the plane just disappears. The only "explosion" that looks cool is the two pieces of burning debris followed by thick black smoke and the plane itself on fire spiraling to the ground.
Can we get an actual 3D explosion? Fire? Flames? Smoke? Debris bouncing along the ground if they're close enough? It's the most anti climatic thing ever. Watching the awesome burning plane about to die then *poof*, "Here's your 2D block of orange and gray." When a plane impact the ground, let us see the shockwave, a plume of dirt, or a fireball.
And yes, this would probably make combat impossible for guys flying with a 1.6Ghz processor with 512MB of RAM and an onboard chip. But seriously, if you were playing with a set up like that in the first place, you probably also had to hand crank your monitor. It's 2012 and we have 1999 explosions.
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See rule #4
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See rule #4 quote
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Optional graphical overhaul is never bad to anyone, it will still be optional.
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The fights are fun, the history is interesting, the comradery is great, so I'll still keep playing. The graphics are continuing to evolve, and I have no place asking them to hurry it up because I am ignorant of what it really takes to really cram all the complexities of this game into a computer. They will get there. If you are that concerned about asthetics, there are still other choices out there, or you can wait.
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You came here to troll. You can leave now.
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+1 for the fire/ explosions upgrade! :aok
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Reworking graphic effects has been on our list for a while. Other things just are above it.
HiTech
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Reworking graphic effects has been on our list for a while. Other things just are above it.
HiTech
:aok
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Reworking graphic effects has been on our list for a while. Other things just are above it.
HiTech
I can't imagine that is was not.
The problem is that some can't imagine the amount of resources (man-hours) involved to make this happen...
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Argh .... ok .... $300.00 video card will apparently be on my list. Unfortuantely it'll have to be on the bottom of mine. :huh
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Reworking graphic effects has been on our list for a while. Other things just are above it.
HiTech
That's good to hear, thanks for the update. I can't imagine that is was not.
The problem is that some can't imagine the amount of resources (man-hours) involved to make this happen...
I have never said that it wouldn't. I'm fully aware of that, (hell, look how long the ME410 is being worked on) I'm just letting HTC know that there are thoughts and wishes for a newer graphics explosions.