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Submitted by Dulac on Thu, 2014-03-13 17:12

KillerGremal wrote:

The Lava Dragon looks very impressive!

Also the tree is interesting, since many trees don't have named bones for every branch it could be tricky to make a tree glow this way with common glow effects.

And it's well possible that custom 'gas effect code' consumes more resources than realizing it via a special texture.

Thanks for the comment on the Lava Dragon.I can foresee an interesting quest with a magical tree using a glow shader. I think it'd also be interesting on light fixtures and lava from ds1. I think it would cost less because DS2 uses a lot of cpu with its SFX. The shaders are underused, so the gpu would take some of the load off. I don't experience any lag, but it's good to be efficient, especially if the effect looks good :).

Edit: The only workaround would probably be attaching SFX to the weapon. SFXs can have glow. All tracers that are attached to weapons use glow too. It's not really a big deal, but I think it'll cost more resources and more work (messing with SFX can be irritating).

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[quote=Dulac]<p><div class="bb-quote"><b>KillerGremal wrote:</b><blockquote class="bb-quote-body">The Lava Dragon looks very impressive! <img src="https://siegetheday.org/sites/all/modules/contrib/smiley/packs/Roving/smile.png" alt="Smile" /></p>

<p>Also the tree is interesting, since many trees don't have named bones for every branch it could be tricky to make a tree glow this way with common glow effects.</p>

<p>And it's well possible that custom 'gas effect code' consumes more resources than realizing it via a special texture.<br />
</blockquote></div></p>

<p>Thanks for the comment on the Lava Dragon.I can foresee an interesting quest with a magical tree using a glow shader. I think it'd also be interesting on light fixtures and lava from ds1. I think it would cost less because DS2 uses a lot of cpu with its SFX. The shaders are underused, so the gpu would take some of the load off. I don't experience any lag, but it's good to be efficient, especially if the effect looks good :).</p>

<p>Edit: The only workaround would probably be attaching SFX to the weapon. SFXs can have glow. All tracers that are attached to weapons use glow too. It's not really a big deal, but I think it'll cost more resources and more work (messing with SFX can be irritating).</p>[/quote]

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