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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Fariz on July 20, 2003, 04:10:26 AM

Title: Kill markings
Post by: Fariz on July 20, 2003, 04:10:26 AM

How, when we getting custom skins, may be it is a good idea to make also a visible kill markings. Though they will be hardly visible in game during fight, they shall look amazing at the planes for screenshots and films, and will be a very nice immersion moment for AH2: TOD.

Just put correct signs ( stars, crosses, vertical columns ) at correct places ( side of plane, tail of plane ). When there are too many of kills, add 50, 100, 150, 200, 250 etc. and markings.

Shall be one dinamicly pre-flight generated texture, I am sure it is not hard to code, and one textured poly will not put much more stress to the video card.

Title: Kill markings
Post by: type_char on July 20, 2003, 04:57:23 AM

Kill makrings? I refer to them as victory markings.

Title: Kill markings
Post by: ramzey on July 20, 2003, 08:50:20 AM

@Fariz

 Pyro say  "no chance"

Title: Kill markings
Post by: Fariz on July 20, 2003, 09:02:59 AM

I remember some time ago Pyro also said no chance for a custom skins... :)

Title: Kill markings
Post by: ramzey on July 20, 2003, 09:08:03 AM

well, this one what we get is not "custom" but multiply choices

Title: Re: Kill markings
Post by: Arlo on July 20, 2003, 09:41:33 AM

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Originally posted by Fariz
How, when we getting custom skins, may be it is a good idea to make also a visible kill markings. Though they will be hardly visible in game during fight, they shall look amazing at the planes for screenshots and films, and will be a very nice immersion moment for AH2: TOD.

Just put correct signs ( stars, crosses, vertical columns ) at correct places ( side of plane, tail of plane ). When there are too many of kills, add 50, 100, 150, 200, 250 etc. and markings.

Shall be one dinamicly pre-flight generated texture, I am sure it is not hard to code, and one textured poly will not put much more stress to the video card.

Even though I doubt this would ever be an option HT allows, it would probably make more sense to make the kill markings historically correct for each plane (the correct adversary markings for the theater the plane flies in - perhaps you were alluding to that). And much more practical to limit the kill/victory markings to the highest number in one sortie (buffer text brag message). No need for the 50, 100, 250, 1000 mark (unless, of course, someone manages to get 1000 kills ... in that type of plane ... without dying.

But ... I'd also like to see it as an offline viewing option only. There's no need for that tidbit of data to be added to the bits running on my front end while online.

Title: Kill markings
Post by: Sakai on July 24, 2003, 03:48:53 PM

What, like some fat beer guzzling guy's profile on my nice plane?  Thanks no.

"Yeah, check out the plumber cleavage on that kill . . . ."

Sakai