Blink And Glow Effects

posted on November 18th, 2005, 2:05 pm

I would appreciate it if blinking lights ( e.g. Borg turrents) would be seen better. You cant see it very well on full-out-zoom.
Or a race (Noxies??) which would glow caused of bio-chemical reactions like a "Glühwürmchen" (<---Optec know what im talking about ). That would bring more life and color into gameplay.

posted on November 18th, 2005, 4:04 pm

Well if you look at the screenshots of V3 they have enhanced the glows on warp nacelles and such dramatically so it would look out of place if the borg didn't get they're eery green glow. Theres probbably a few topics about this aswell

But yeah I love lights and i think the more the better (within reason).
So yeah, and that idea for the noxter is pretty good for V4.

posted on November 18th, 2005, 5:31 pm

No idea what that says because I don't know any german...or dutch...what ever that is I'm assuming you mean the bio-chemical glow in some marine organisms? I'd like it if some of the assimilated ships took on the borgs eerie green glow...It's a good idea though, the borg need to waste more power on lights then on weapons

posted on November 18th, 2005, 7:41 pm

well from the screenshots of v3 that weve seen, the glows look cool. on a side note, the only German i know is what i've picked up while playingg WWII shooters lol.

[Ozymandias]

posted on November 18th, 2005, 9:58 pm

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German???? did I miss summat??? did you mean me or jan?

Ok stupid me didn't see that, I assume it says glow worm or summat tho.

posted on November 18th, 2005, 10:57 pm

Ah, well...that's uhm...eh, can you say that without spitting on someone? That's why I always loved French...

J'aime Français est très belle, oui?

posted on November 18th, 2005, 11:59 pm

Right. Marine Life is such an example, but in the biological way a bit different (thats causes by electricity i guess).
What i ment is a little bug that is flying around in warm summer nights and glowing around so that the masculines of those bugs can find them to have sex. For that the feminin individuals produce a light out of some chemical elements that begin to glow if they are mixed together. that happens in the lower *** of those bugs.... It would be good for Noxter cos they are a kind of bug.
Interesting information: that light is nearly perfect. There is 99 % light energy and 1 % gets lost as warmth energy.
Our light out of a light bulb produce 3 % light energy and 97 % warmth energy that gets lost. Good for the cold space, isn´t it? &nsbp; &nsbp;^_^

posted on November 19th, 2005, 12:07 am

Indeed, The underwater reaction is caused by the electrochemical properties in salt water. That's an odd way of putting it, "bugs" However they do resemble them to a point...Perhaps the point of the light would rather then be solely decorative, They could be used to regenerate the larger Noxter organisms...

[ewm90]

posted on November 19th, 2005, 1:22 am

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Well if you look at the screenshots of V3 they have enhanced the glows on warp nacelles and such dramatically so it would look out of place if the borg didn't get they're eery green glow. Theres probbably a few topics about this aswell

But yeah I love lights and i think the more the better (within reason).
So yeah, and that idea for the noxter is pretty good for V4.

in spase thare is no glowe. for a glow lite needs to reflect off some thing. if thay habind to be in a nebula or dust cloud the glow whood make sens.

posted on November 19th, 2005, 11:29 am

Well, I guess the plasma used to power the Warp engines goes somewhere after loosing its energy. Thus there must be an amount of gas around the nacelles which can glow.

Also, impulse engines have an exhaust as they work somewhat like ion or rocket engines (recoil propulsion or whatever it's called in English).

So most ships in Star Trek have some kind of exhaust which can cause glow around a light source.

I don't know though how it's with the Noxter, but I presume any organic being has some kind of exhaust, too.

posted on November 19th, 2005, 12:45 pm

i havent got a clue. bio-chemical reactions never was my strong suit.

posted on November 19th, 2005, 9:05 pm

wait, no glow in space? who said? If there is light, there can be ambient light...if plasma was escaping the nacelles then any phaser/disruptor fire near the engine would cause a massive explosion with the violent reactivation of drive plasma The ship would be a flying bomb!

The borg ships don't have to "glow" persay, they have light sources randomly placed around there ships, for what purpose...who knows, perhaps whatever machinerey is there emminates light?

There are three types of glow, each of which require a source that can be found in space, not naturally mind you, but still found, even more so in the startrek universe. Incandescence is the emission of light due to heat. Fluorescence and phosphorescence is the emission of light in response to radiation energy such as the light that comes off a Computer Monitor, or a Flurencent light bulb. Laser generation is the concentrated emission of light using stimulated emission, which could be a phaser or cutting beam , I'm not going to explain how lasers work, that would take ages.

If some outside source "excited" the atoms in an area around a borg cube, such as a machine or weapon, it would release particals of light called "photons"...Which in general (i'm not going to get reaaalllly deep into physics) releases a "glow" effect.

[Lt.Cdr.White]

posted on November 19th, 2005, 11:02 pm

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As you said, there is a need for atoms that can be excited (or simply reflect or refract light, which is the usual kind of halo or glow we know).

And I doubt that gases, that could be superheated to transport energy (which then, after their energy has been used to create a warp field, are cold again), can be ignited easily (and without any reactant like oxygen).

And the impulse engines most certainly use mass recoil as propulsion, so there has to be some exhaust.

By the way, plasma exhaust has been mentioned explicitely in Star Trek VI, where a gas sensor was used to let a torpedo find the cloaked Bird of Prey.

posted on November 20th, 2005, 12:36 pm

this is getting a little over my head here.

posted on November 20th, 2005, 12:55 pm

What on earth is he talkin about ...???