Plasma Trails

posted on January 6th, 2009, 4:30 am

Not sure if it's not implemented due to performance issues or whatever, but I miss the plasma trails from Armada 1 and stock Armada 2 that would emanate from your ship when it's engines were offline (red flame) or it's life support was offline (blue flame).

It also made it easy to tell when a ship needed to get repaired without necessarily having to mouse over/click the ship.

It also made good screenshots


Along the same lines (I believe this has been mentioned) I'd like to see the damage decals on ships again, which I believe was dependant on how much crew was left on the ship.

posted on January 6th, 2009, 5:33 am

would look good. Dunno if it would be possible to include the effects with as little load on the cpu as possible..

posted on January 6th, 2009, 9:27 am

i never liked the emitter plasma trails that much. a new damage visualization is planned that will look more realistic then the vanilla armada2 one

posted on January 6th, 2009, 11:28 am

Will it include hull burns as well as hull breaches?

posted on January 7th, 2009, 9:21 am

yep but better looking ones then the orignal Armada2 engine can handle. But i cant tell you much at the moment as its still on the "todo board"