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Nick119
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Posted - 2006.07.22 21:30:00 -
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I think it would be cool to add different designs and colors on your ship
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Ellaine TashMurkon
Em Pack
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2006.07.22 22:21:00 -
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It wuld be realy nice if people were reading few previos topics and realise this was proposed 5 times alreay in this week :)
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Reggie Stoneloader
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Posted - 2006.07.23 02:58:00 -
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Zing!
Yeah, it's come up in numerous forms. I doubt we'll see it in my lifetime. Of course, since I can't seem to go a month without dying, that doesn't mean much.
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codepic
Mithril Inc
Antigo Dominion
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Posted - 2006.07.23 09:29:00 -
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I don't see a problem here. Every ship would have hard-coded color areas into which the alliance can determine primary/secondary colors with a hexadecimal color value.
There would also be stripes etc other minor areas on ships that could be determined in the corp with just hexadecimal color value. Again primary/secondary/teriary color.
Then there would be a hardcoded location on each ship where the corp logo would show up. Which I think consists of only a few values.
I mean skinning the ships with bitmaps would be a bad idea but playing with color values and corp logos that are already implemented in the game would hardly lead to any lag in any situation.
Good idea and it gets my vote. I know, someone in CCP would need to configure the color areas and overlays but honestly, you're already working on the graphic engine so why not give it a little boost that would make eve so much more interesting in many sense.
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M Mother
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Posted - 2006.08.01 21:34:00 -
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hope ccp is reading this one...
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Matilde20
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Posted - 2006.08.02 08:27:00 -
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 Originally by: M Mother
hope ccp is reading this one...
hehe me too ^_^
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Sovereign533
Caldari
133rd Ghost Wing
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Posted - 2006.08.02 09:07:00 -
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i do agree, this idea is very cool.
but even better : have your corp & Alliance logo on your ship.
because every ship in rl has a flag so you can see where it's from. who it's working for. and i think you should have this ingame. and the corp logo's are build from ccp templates. so could be on the ships as a decal. the alliance logo's are custom build. but could also go on the ship, although this would be more difficult.
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Ellaine TashMurkon
Em Pack
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2006.08.02 10:59:00 -
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I suppose its a matter of lag (ohno, a blob is now even harder to render) and work for graphics people (on each ship model, corp logo has to placed somewhere, and colorable areas too, they cant be whole ship because coloring makes diffrent between diffrent ships with same hull).
First thing seems easy to me - its a client side lag mainly, logos and colorings can be downloaded in bulk when entering system, simply jump will take seconds longer to high traffic areas. Just add option to lower graphics options just like effects, to;
-high resolution texture colored ships (yeee, shuld be in new graphics engine)
-low res colored ships
-high res uncolored
-low res uncolored
-no texture at all (ust base racial collor/diffrent for t2)
-no rendering ships at all - and THIS wuld be used in battles. Only icons, maybe somewhat upgraded, but not nerceserily. A swarm of rectangles. People zoom out to max anyway, to see swarm or rectangles, because it reduces their lag :)
Last option deserves separate thread even, but there are too many now ;)
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Tomas Anderson
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Posted - 2006.08.02 11:51:00 -
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How can ships being diffent colors and corp logos cuase lag? One they dont need to be downloaded they are already "there" and Two , have the ability to "turn it off" option. It can appear as a plain ole regular ship to you unless you enable the option (yes ive thought about this idea myself).
These posts are for ideas. I see so many posts where people start shredding it , but do you really know how it "works"?
Its crazy not to have this option in the game. I worked for CapCom play testing games and presenting ideas. If CCP finds this too "Difficult" to implament , have them contact me and ill show them how it can be done (with No Extra Lag Even!).
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Ellaine TashMurkon
Em Pack
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2006.08.02 12:22:00 -
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Edited by: Ellaine TashMurkon on 02/08/2006 12:23:01
Well.
I really dont know how CCP didnt manage to make it in 3 years or so. It is strange indeed. Maybe they have so filisophy after not wanting to implement this. Maybe "nono, we dont want to have E&B 2" ;)
Lag is on 2 levels;
1.You have to download few more bytes per ship for colorings (minor issue).
2.grephics engine needs considerably more memory for texture buffer, so game is slower on client side (major issue)
Thats how it looks for me.
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ut I dont know inner workings of either client or server, just general thory of how it normally works in games.
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Skawl
GeoTech
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Posted - 2006.08.02 16:00:00 -
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Adding dcals for corp/alliance logo would be nice too. Obviously all this needs to be an option that can be switched off tho.
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