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Tydus Akash
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Posted - 2010.05.21 17:04:00 -
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Illinfrik sun
Old Sun
New Sun
I haven't looked at many more but here's my feedback for the ones i saw:
positive:
the old effect had the disadvantage, that it usually filled up the whole screen and you kinda lost orientation when flying around there. The sharp edges of the new sun resolve that issue.
negative:
it looks a little boring. The old suns have a much nicer color and are much more interresting to look at.
all in all i dont think that change was necessary. But better than no suns at all right? *remembers*
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Captain Mastiff
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Posted - 2010.05.21 19:50:00 -
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Quite boring actually, I like the original picture as the sun looks like its giving off solar flares and makes it look a lot more active than a overly bright inactive sphere that the second one looks like.
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Jacque Cruix
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Posted - 2010.05.21 20:46:00 -
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To be honest, the old effect looks like a star that is loosing mass.
The new effect looks more realistic to me.
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Simeon Tor
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Posted - 2010.05.21 21:12:00 -
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 Originally by: Tydus Akash
But better than no suns at all right? *remembers*
Are you saying that at one point in Eve histroy there were no suns? 0_o
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Receg
Caldari Navy Runners
OWN Alliance
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Posted - 2010.05.21 22:11:00 -
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Originally by: Jacque Cruix
To be honest, the old effect looks like a star that is loosing mass.
The new effect looks more realistic to me.
This.
I felt as though the old suns were just a bunch of fluids/gas barely held together, as if there was almost no gravity. Where as these new suns actually look to have mass and a more realistic feel to them.
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Tydus Akash
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Posted - 2010.05.22 00:23:00 -
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Originally by: Simeon Tor
Are you saying that at one point in Eve histroy there were no suns? 0_o
Yeah suns were gone for about a year or so (can't remember exactly) after a patch. They were just the light effect back then without a model or anything. CCP put them back in later. I'm sure some vets around here can remember better why that happened. I honestly can't. I was happy when they were back. Suns are a nice place to stay if you get fed up from station spinning ^^
And about the realism, i agree. They do look more realistic now. I't kind of a trade-off to me. There is more realism and less of the "wtfwhereami"-feeling with the new suns. But the old colors were nicer. And let's be honest: EVE and realism..? 
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Jade Kitana
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Posted - 2010.05.22 01:31:00 -
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Originally by: Tydus Akash
*Sees himself tanking the sun in a bs and watching the probing cov-ops pop around him*
Any self-respecting Eve player should know that a cloak actually "bends" light, in all wavelengths, around the ship so a cloaked ship would be immune to any radiation the star puts out. 
The minimal amount that is allowed through, so you can actually see, would have little effect.
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Captain Mastiff
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Posted - 2010.05.22 09:06:00 -
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Originally by: Receg
Originally by: Jacque Cruix
To be honest, the old effect looks like a star that is loosing mass.
The new effect looks more realistic to me.
This.
I felt as though the old suns were just a bunch of fluids/gas barely held together, as if there was almost no gravity. Where as these new suns actually look to have mass and a more realistic feel to them.
I thought they looked more like it had an actual active corona will disturbances all over considering the distance you are to the sun it would be completely impossible to see with our eyes anyway. To then have the sun appear as spherical as that isn't quite as impressive, its a ball of plasma not a vanilla ice cream scoop that it looks like now.
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el Sabor
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Posted - 2010.05.22 15:43:00 -
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Can you get some screenshots of the new sun from a distance? In every screenshot people seem to be right next to the thing.
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Jacque Cruix
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Posted - 2010.05.22 17:45:00 -
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Originally by: Captain Mastiff
...I thought they looked more like it had an actual active corona will disturbances all over considering the distance you are to the sun it would be completely impossible to see with our eyes anyway. To then have the sun appear as spherical as that isn't quite as impressive, its a ball of plasma not a vanilla ice cream scoop that it looks like now.
You should probably take a closer look at some of the images or videos from SOHO, SDO, or STEREO.
To me, the orginal graphic shows the entire surface of the star moving around to such an extent, it would be like the earths oceans having waves thousands of miles high.
The only time you should see something like that would be on a red giant, where the surface gravity is so low, that it actually is loosing mass. But it probably wouldn't be to the scale the orginal graphic showed. Ten percent of the movement maybe, but not the star growing and contracting like a giant amoeba.
If the older graphic was more transparent, and much slower, that would be more realistic for an active solar corona.
The new graphic isn't perfect either, but does look more realistic to me.
Maybe a combination of a more transparent slower old, with the new would be better.
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