Nebula shield impacts

posted on February 19th, 2011, 8:41 pm

Could the shields be made to show an impact flare when inside a damaging Nebula? Especially the Tetryon Nebula.

posted on February 20th, 2011, 2:26 am

I don't think we ever saw that in the show, but it might work for nebulae with random dangerous bits attacking (how static are FO nebulae? I can't remember whether they had moving pieces atm.)

posted on February 20th, 2011, 2:35 am

A Nebula doesn't make it flare up when nothing impacts the ship, but they always show when hit by something.

Nucleons directly damage the ship instead of interfering with systems, which implies something invisible is likely hitting it. Tetryons have very large 'lighting bolts' show inside them, which would hit a shield the same way as a weapon.

posted on February 20th, 2011, 11:37 am

yep some kind of visual effect if affected by a nebula is on todo for the environment redo