New Shield Geometry

posted on February 22nd, 2005, 3:39 pm

I was just wondering, If anyone would think if the ships should have a different shield color or geometry as it recieves weapons fire? An example would be the Borg deploying flat shield walls like their personal force fields. Or simply different colors for each variouse races. It would give more flavor to the game I think.

posted on February 22nd, 2005, 3:52 pm

I think it's a great idea. except changing colour on fire - they already do.

posted on February 22nd, 2005, 6:43 pm

There's an old thread around here somewhere that had a great debate about keeping the shield colors related to strength (what the FO team ended up doing) or having different color shields for the races (much more canon). Basically the different race colors would look cooler but it would be much more difficult to figure out the health of your fleets, or so the argument went.

posted on February 22nd, 2005, 7:48 pm

I think the Borg ships should be the only ones to have different shields. The colors could stay the same but they could look different like the flat square shields the drones have on TV

posted on February 22nd, 2005, 8:11 pm

what is the purpose of flat shields, except eyecandy and more work for teh modders?

posted on February 23rd, 2005, 12:52 pm

Its purely eyecandy. But what a tasty treat it would be if the Borg did have the flat shields!

posted on February 23rd, 2005, 12:57 pm

i think things that are just eye candy should be left for fleet ops final and should not consume time of the modders in betas

[ewm90]

posted on February 23rd, 2005, 1:46 pm

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i like the idea. i think it whood be cool and make the game more real.

but not by making the sheeld hit color the same as the wepind made alital darker. that whood make it look cool. is it posabul to incoprate both the size of the wepin and color of the wepind to gether?

posted on February 24th, 2005, 7:28 pm

I like the idea, that bubble around cubes looks kind of funny now lol

posted on February 24th, 2005, 7:45 pm

ya i have all wase wonted to ess the bog shealds to go skin tite or to not be visabul and you the stats be caled hall.

posted on February 25th, 2005, 3:40 am

So now the money question, can something as fundamental to the A2 source code as the spherical shields be changed? It would be super neat to have flat shields for the Borg and skin-tight shields for the Sovereigns, but I can't imagine how the FO team could pull that off.

posted on February 25th, 2005, 3:49 am

well if thay cood just take all the hit efects awhay and make the sheald as small as posabul whood that do it.

maby evin make the sheld smaller than the ship the the wepinds whood seem to hit the hall.

posted on February 25th, 2005, 12:33 pm

If only the source codes where available...

posted on February 25th, 2005, 3:52 pm

Well I know for sure they can be done in Armada 1 engine, cause Future tense mod has it


So I guess it can be also done for A2, hopefully

posted on February 26th, 2005, 1:31 pm

I know someone from the future tense team was saying that there skin sheilds would work in A2, I think it was Achilles. Maybe the FO team could ask Phantom if he'll share his secret.