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Offline Mstenger404

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fancy light effects you see on your cockpit
« on: August 26, 2008, 12:50:37 AM »
I was just thinking about this and I was curious.

Lets say in RL your driving your car at night and you pass under a street light. You see the light pass over your dashboard, and even a slight reflection of your dashboard on the windshield.

now I hope you know what I'm talking about, now lets say ingame, its night time and someone shoots off a few rockets and it zips past in front of your cockpit, are we going to see a fancy light show? even from the lasers like If someone shoots a PPC in front of your cockpit will we see the blue glow and even the shadows coming off of the struts. (struts? or whatever you call those vertical bars holding up your windshield)
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Re: fancy light effects you see on your cockpit
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2008, 01:42:35 AM »
Well yeah, the game has shadows doesn't it? You just need to get lucky enough for the rocket to pass over you and not into you. :p

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Re: fancy light effects you see on your cockpit
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2008, 08:17:53 PM »
Yes many of our particle effects are also light emitters. Its one of the most powerful features of cryengine is the dynamic and real time lighting.

You will see effects like when firing a handheld weapon the light emits from the barrell flash. Also our lasers emit light throughout their entire lifetime so if you were standing in a dark forest it would light up as the laser passes through. Rockets also have emitters, PPC has one, Gauss has one hell most of them do :)

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Re: fancy light effects you see on your cockpit
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2008, 12:42:55 AM »
Yes many of our particle effects are also light emitters. Its one of the most powerful features of cryengine is the dynamic and real time lighting.

You will see effects like when firing a handheld weapon the light emits from the barrell flash. Also our lasers emit light throughout their entire lifetime so if you were standing in a dark forest it would light up as the laser passes through. Rockets also have emitters, PPC has one, Gauss has one hell most of them do :)

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