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CCP Sledgehammer
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2016.06.08 13:13:20 -
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Greetings, space travellers!
We've got a few new graphical features and iterations coming to you in our June 28th release hitting Singularity today!
First up, an assortment of new and reworked visual effects:
Triage mode overlay effect - We've updated triage mode to provide an overlay effect (similar to Armor Hardener effects) as well as an animation state.
Discrete VFX for certain modules - Previously, Tracking Disruptors and Sensor Dampeners used the same effect and Remote Sensor Boosters used the Tracking Computer effect. These have all been updated so that Disruptors and Dampeners have their own distinct effect and Sensor boosters now draw a stretch effect to your target instead of the Tracking Computer's "swirl" on your own ship.
Black Ops Cyno - Has its own portal effect now instead of sharing the standard Cyno's portal.
Armor Repair Drones - These guys now have an effect more fitting of their size instead of using the standard Remote Armor Rep effect.
More Secondary Lighting iterations: We have updated Hangar scenes under DX11, High Shader Quality to include point lighting instead of the global lighting that was present before. Best described with a before/after pic (use the scrollbar at the bottom of this post):
As well as new lighting in hangars, we have also introduced secondary lighting from boosters! This lighting scales in brightness and illumination range when you gotta go fast:
Stargate V5++ Renovations Alll stargates have now been updated to our V5++ Shader standard.
Tactical Overlay Iterations: We have added the following to the Tactical Overlay:
- Cyno portal range has been added as a translucent red sphere, indicating the radius at which the cyno portal will spawn from your ship.
- Action lines (such as for fighters) are now tied to the presence of the overlay.
- Module hover indication time has been increased.
- Ship and fighter orbits are now represented (WIP)**.
- Velocity/Chance-to-hit information for locked targets (WIP)**.
- Click command confirmations**.
**These features are not considered complete and may not be present on Singularity as of this post.
We are looking forwards to hearing from you, especially regarding any ideas you guys have for the WIP features of the Tactical Overlay.
Much love,
CCP Sledgehammer.
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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Vincent Athena
V.I.C.E.
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Posted - 2016.06.08 13:30:13 -
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I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing?
Know a Frozen fan? Check this out
Frozen fanfiction
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CCP BlueScreen
C C P C C P Alliance
302
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Posted - 2016.06.08 13:33:36 -
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Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing?
You are missing the scroolbar in the bottom of the initial post, yeah, not the best of mechanics I would agree.
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CCP Sledgehammer
C C P C C P Alliance
461
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Posted - 2016.06.08 13:34:21 -
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CCP BlueScreen wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing? You are missing the scroolbar in the bottom of the initial post, yeah, not the best of mechanics I would agree.
Aye, not the best.
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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CCP Claymore
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2016.06.08 13:38:35 -
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Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing?
Using Chrome Browser -> Right-click image -> Open image in new tab
Quality Assurance Analyst
Team Psycho Sisters
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CCP Sledgehammer
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2016.06.08 13:52:28 -
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Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing?
Fixed the images to tile vertically. Should be more viewable now.
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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KhanidLady
White Knight Social Club Play Hard Pray Harder
7
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Posted - 2016.06.08 14:03:48 -
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will we ever see a fix for "the faster you go, the more intense the booster effects are"? ... i mean i would expect full power throttle during acceleration e.g. as well and actually a cool down on the engine in cruise mode. |
Darrien
Ouroboros Logistics
1
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Posted - 2016.06.08 14:04:45 -
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Kinda glad my old GFX Card recently died, forcing me to upgrade to a DX11/12 compliant card, now I get to see all this eye candy. |
Manssell
OmiHyperMultiNationalDrunksConglomerate Together We Solo
301
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Posted - 2016.06.08 14:07:04 -
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Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing?
It really doesn't matter Vincent since these updates are all DX11 so even if you see them in the blog we'll never see them in game since yet again CCP is going to release new features that aren't available to their mac customers. |
Galaxxis
Unicorn Rampage
131
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Posted - 2016.06.08 14:26:52 -
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Darrien wrote:Kinda glad my old GFX Card recently died, forcing me to upgrade to a DX11/12 compliant card, now I get to see all this eye candy.
I can't seem to kill my old HD 5870! I've been running BOINC projects on it for years, so it's pretty much constantly processing stuff whenever the computer is on. And it won't die. I may have to buy a new video card while this one still works. |
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Nyalnara
The Unchained Club No Handlebars.
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Posted - 2016.06.08 14:35:18 -
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Meh. Will need to upgrade hardware soon if i want to drool because of all the eye-candy... :/
French half-noob.
[.TUC.], corpo PvP LS franco, cherche des joueurs motivés pour venir perdre leurs gros jouets dans le fun et la bonne humeur.
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Soldarius
O C C U P Y Test Alliance Please Ignore
1500
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Posted - 2016.06.08 14:41:33 -
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"Velocity/Chance-to-hit information for locked targets (WIP)**."
Eye-candy is always sweet. But I find the above feature most Interesting. How will this be represented?
http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY
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Darrien
Ouroboros Logistics
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Posted - 2016.06.08 15:03:16 -
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Galaxxis wrote:Darrien wrote:Kinda glad my old GFX Card recently died, forcing me to upgrade to a DX11/12 compliant card, now I get to see all this eye candy. I can't seem to kill my old HD 5870! I've been running BOINC projects on it for years, so it's pretty much constantly processing stuff whenever the computer is on. And it won't die. I may have to buy a new video card while this one still works.
Funnily enough it was a old ( 2008 ) stock HD4870 which finally gave up the ghost, they were notorious for running too hot and power hungry, I think it finally had a heat stroke at the end of last summer, and it's been on it's last legs since. |
Aebe Amraen
Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore
189
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Posted - 2016.06.08 15:35:18 -
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CCP Sledgehammer wrote:
- Ship and fighter orbits are now represented (WIP)**.
Any chance this will eventually evolve into something where I can choose my orbit path (i.e. choose the axis around which I want to orbit)?
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Morrigan LeSante
Black Omega Security The OSS
1431
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Posted - 2016.06.08 15:38:38 -
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That cyno tool. I love you guys. |
Jose Zampano
Stay Frosty. A Band Apart.
12
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Posted - 2016.06.08 15:57:35 -
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"Velocity/Chance-to-hit information for locked targets (WIP)**."
I can only get so erect!
Could you please consider adding the same information along with distance below the locked target icons? |
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
6015
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Posted - 2016.06.08 16:05:45 -
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Wheee!
Woo! CSM XI!
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter
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Kismeteer
The Scope Gallente Federation
883
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Posted - 2016.06.08 16:17:24 -
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Looking forward to example pictures of all these WIP items! |
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CCP Sledgehammer
C C P C C P Alliance
465
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Posted - 2016.06.08 16:50:14 -
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We're also especially interested in the new lighting in Hangars. Please ping me if you feel that performance is sub-par!
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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Tristan Agion
Viziam Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2016.06.08 17:19:15 -
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CCP Sledgehammer wrote: More Secondary Lighting iterations: We have updated Hangar scenes under DX11, High Shader Quality to include point lighting instead of the global lighting that was present before.
I'm confused. To me, the "Before Secondary Lighting" picture looks way nicer than the "With Secondary Lighting" one. The second picture looks like the station owner has trouble paying the electricity bill... |
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Lion Drome
Der Wehrmacht
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Posted - 2016.06.08 17:27:19 -
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Station Lighting
Some stations, particularly the ones with Amarr Hangars do look way too dark and could do with a fair amount more of lighting. It does succeed in showing off the different hangar effects on the background but it does make the recent hangar texture overhaul basically redundant. So the one on TQ currently is superior to the Singularity one. It does also make the ship seems a bit more shiny and rightly so (since there are lights at the where the ship is) but the focus on the ship & surrounding enviroment effects takes away from the whole hangar. So please, preferably stick with the current TQ one and alter it with different SISI releases until it seems to be fine. Since if you asked me what I thought of the ownership of the station I'd say that they should get ready to put "For sale" sign ready on their undock since they can't even pay the electricity bills. And if the new empress/emperor comes to visit the station manager will be straight up shot out of the airlock due to the horrid condition of the station (also outside seems rusty/unpolished as a small note)
tl;dr Interior is too dark and less preferable to the one at TQ. +1 Since it shows more detail in lightened up sections which have dark surroundings but in general -2 just depresses and is less interesting to see.
Station camera
Noticed that with the new lighting we also have the introductory camera thing from one of the trailers. One thing missing is the station UI turning on (Imagine basically darkness. Then view coming online to the ship coming to the "dock" (or whatever its called) and the UI flashing each window as the layout comes slowly but in time to be there when the ship has finished its procedure.
Problem! The camera cannot be controlled and if we're playing station games (which are pretty bad but still point remains valid) it takes away from the whole thing since the camera is not controllable while the ship moves to the platform. So +1 cinematic wise but -5 productivity/usability wise.
tl;dr Neat effect but isn't practical in its current iteration and should probably be a toggle able effect (If you want it, yes, if not, no) |
Eli Stan
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
510
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Posted - 2016.06.08 17:30:10 -
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CCP Sledgehammer wrote:Velocity/Chance-to-hit information for locked targets (WIP)**. I look forward to seeing how this is implemented - it's never a good idea to mix guns on a ship, but it does happen, meaning there could be multiple simultaneous chance-to-hit numbers. Perhaps simply introduce a Ship Evasion Score overview item that is calculated exactly like how the new Weapon Accuracy Score is calculated (that is, 40000 * sig_radius / angular_velocity). Or, present the lowest probability chance-to-hit number if there are multiple weapon systems fitted? Or provide both and let the user decide which number they best like working with?
Thanks!
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Ralph King-Griffin
Devils Rejects 666 The Devil's Warrior Alliance
16220
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Posted - 2016.06.08 17:41:07 -
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CCP Sledgehammer wrote:Tactical Overlay Iterations:We have added the following to the Tactical Overlay:
- Cyno portal range has been added as a translucent red sphere, indicating the radius at which the cyno portal will spawn from your ship.
- Action lines (such as for fighters) are now tied to the presence of the overlay.
- Module hover indication time has been increased.
- Ship and fighter orbits are now represented (WIP)**.
- Velocity/Chance-to-hit information for locked targets (WIP)**.
- Click command confirmations**.
**These features are not considered complete and may not be present on Singularity as of this post. these things, these are good things, cant wait to have a look later
Better the Devil you know.
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Bandalon Ominus
Splinter Cell Operations inPanic
23
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Posted - 2016.06.08 17:45:27 -
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Please restore it so that warping doesnt give blue boosters for all races but only amarr and caldari (with their own nuances) |
Ripard Teg
Ice Fire Warriors Escalating Entropy
1258
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Posted - 2016.06.08 18:31:46 -
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No surprise coming from me, but the new secondary lighting makes the hangars (and the ships in them) appear too dark.
Players literally use the station environment to admire their ships (ship spinning, yes?) including SKINs. If players can't see their ships and can't see how nice the SKINs look, then yes, the performance of the station environment is sub-par.
aka Jester, who apparently was once Deemed Worthy To Wield The Banhammer to good effect.
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nezroy
Nice Clan
10
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Posted - 2016.06.08 19:16:56 -
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Manssell wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing? It really doesn't matter Vincent since these updates are all DX11 so even if you see them in the blog we'll never see them in game since yet again CCP is going to release new features that aren't available to their mac customers.
And thank god for that, as it would be ridiculous for CCP to bottleneck their development advancements to accommodate the players on widely unused gaming platforms. Yes, all three of you. |
Manssell
OmiHyperMultiNationalDrunksConglomerate Together We Solo
301
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Posted - 2016.06.08 19:50:48 -
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nezroy wrote:Manssell wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing? It really doesn't matter Vincent since these updates are all DX11 so even if you see them in the blog we'll never see them in game since yet again CCP is going to release new features that aren't available to their mac customers. And thank god for that, as it would be ridiculous for CCP to bottleneck their development advancements to accommodate the players on widely unused gaming platforms. Yes, all three of you.
How original of you! I have never seen a person comment to down to a player on the forums because they are on a mac |
Fenixdown Cobol
TerminalDogma Rabble Alliance
0
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Posted - 2016.06.08 20:15:41 -
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Yay! Can we get an option for heading vectors attached to ships in space now? |
Bergthora Avalhar
OEG Freedom Among the Stars
0
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Posted - 2016.06.08 20:35:22 -
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Quote:Ship and fighter orbits are now represented What? Enemy orbits or my orbit? In case of enemy orbits - I'll be able to see if the other guy clicked "Orbit" or is piloting manually? That's a crucial hidden information in combat. |
GoffyDude Davaham
Spongeworks Ltd. Snuggle Struggle.
5
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Posted - 2016.06.08 21:27:41 -
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Bergthora Avalhar wrote:Quote:Ship and fighter orbits are now represented What? Enemy orbits or my orbit? In case of enemy orbits - I'll be able to see if the other guy clicked "Orbit" or is piloting manually? That's a crucial hidden information in combat.
And should stay hidden.
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Zappity
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
2868
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Posted - 2016.06.08 21:33:11 -
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"Velocity/Chance-to-hit information for locked targets (WIP)"
Excellent, thank you.
Zappity's Adventures for a taste of lowsec and nullsec.
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Psianna Archeia
Sukebe Corporation
0
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Posted - 2016.06.08 22:14:16 -
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Manssell wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing? It really doesn't matter Vincent since these updates are all DX11 so even if you see them in the blog we'll never see them in game since yet again CCP is going to release new features that aren't available to their mac customers.
I forgot, I guess everyone is supposed to suffer in the stone ages so the minority can feel better about their choice of computer. |
Cade Windstalker
Donohue Enterprises Ad-Astra
430
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Posted - 2016.06.08 22:27:05 -
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Not 100% sure if this is related but it seems like a reasonable place to ask.
Could we get an option to change the background nebula in the ship preview window?
Right now we can only look at how a ship, or a SKIN, will look in that race's nebula background, but if, for example, you fly Caldari in Minmattar space then you don't really get a good idea of how your Ship or SKIN will look from that preview.
Maybe a menu option to default all previews to one background, or even a dropdown to select a background in the preview window? :) |
Richard Knickson
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
1
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Posted - 2016.06.09 00:06:50 -
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Could use some more lights so my erec....verticalness isn't dull. http://i.imgur.com/slz61UJ.png |
Manssell
OmiHyperMultiNationalDrunksConglomerate Together We Solo
301
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Posted - 2016.06.09 01:11:44 -
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Psianna Archeia wrote:Manssell wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing? It really doesn't matter Vincent since these updates are all DX11 so even if you see them in the blog we'll never see them in game since yet again CCP is going to release new features that aren't available to their mac customers. I forgot, I guess everyone is supposed to suffer in the stone ages so the minority can feel better about their choice of computer.
How very original of you! I have never seen a person comment to down to a player on the forums because they are on a mac. Hell you're not even the first one in this thread. |
nezroy
Nice Clan
11
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Posted - 2016.06.09 02:51:12 -
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Manssell wrote:How original of you! I have never seen a person comment to down to a player on the forums because they are on a mac
Meh, you're the one who brought negativity to CCP and the thread by haranguing them. The rest of us are just pointing out the realities of trying to support a platform that represents a fraction of the player base. Or, in other words... "don't START nothing, won't BE nothing". |
marVLs
742
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Posted - 2016.06.09 09:52:37 -
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Awesome, but any news on new ship explosion effects? |
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CCP Sledgehammer
C C P C C P Alliance
473
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Posted - 2016.06.09 10:44:57 -
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marVLs wrote:Awesome, but any news on new ship explosion effects?
Not for June but we are working on them internally right now.
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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Arsine Elgan
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
7
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Posted - 2016.06.09 13:08:11 -
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So what is with the ship spinning on dock, undock, login when in station?
Did you really do that on purpose? Are you going to make us watch that crap over and over again? |
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CCP Sledgehammer
C C P C C P Alliance
473
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Posted - 2016.06.09 13:13:21 -
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Arsine Elgan wrote:So what is with the ship spinning on dock, undock, login when in station?
Did you really do that on purpose? Are you going to make us watch that crap over and over again?
Please direct any feedback on the docking camera to this thread.
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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Arsine Elgan
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
7
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Posted - 2016.06.09 13:14:35 -
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CCP Sledgehammer wrote:Arsine Elgan wrote:So what is with the ship spinning on dock, undock, login when in station?
Did you really do that on purpose? Are you going to make us watch that crap over and over again? Please direct any feedback on the docking camera to this thread.
Docking camera? Seriously? |
marVLs
742
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Posted - 2016.06.09 14:35:54 -
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CCP Sledgehammer wrote:marVLs wrote:Awesome, but any news on new ship explosion effects? Not for June but we are working on them internally right now.
Omg yes! TBH current explosions are soooo not satisfying that im unable to shoot other ships, or even want to play... yeah maybe that's stupid but i don't feel any purpose of pew pew, launching massive missiles etc just to see battleship not exploded but "fart"
Also why ship redesigning slows down? |
Soldarius
O C C U P Y Test Alliance Please Ignore
1501
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Posted - 2016.06.09 16:38:55 -
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Darrien wrote:Galaxxis wrote:Darrien wrote:Kinda glad my old GFX Card recently died, forcing me to upgrade to a DX11/12 compliant card, now I get to see all this eye candy. I can't seem to kill my old HD 5870! I've been running BOINC projects on it for years, so it's pretty much constantly processing stuff whenever the computer is on. And it won't die. I may have to buy a new video card while this one still works. Funnily enough it was a old ( 2008 ) stock HD4870 which finally gave up the ghost, they were notorious for running too hot and power hungry, I think it finally had a heat stroke at the end of last summer, and it's been on it's last legs since.
I had an HD4870! Hell, yes, they ran hot. Like 90c under a heavy load. It eventually started giving me random BSODs while playing eve. So I replaced it with an HD7970. I still have the 4870 as an emergency backup. But it sits on a shelf unused until then.
http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY
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Nalles
Volition Cult The Volition Cult
26
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Posted - 2016.06.09 18:16:30 -
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Very nice! So when are you adding distance to the watchlist? |
Berrik Radhok
Ten Dollar Bond GoonSwarm
11
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Posted - 2016.06.09 18:30:57 -
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Can you make ring-shaped shockwaves come out of engine nozzles when MWD/AB is active? |
Inomares
Tax Evasion Corporation 3
21
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Posted - 2016.06.10 17:59:36 -
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Was there an update to the Einherji's shaders? The icon is a little different, and unless I'm imagining things, lighting hits it different than it did before. |
Manssell
OmiHyperMultiNationalDrunksConglomerate Together We Solo
301
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Posted - 2016.06.10 19:01:03 -
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nezroy wrote:Manssell wrote:How original of you! I have never seen a person comment to down to a player on the forums because they are on a mac Meh, you're the one who brought negativity to CCP and the thread by haranguing them. The rest of us are just pointing out the realities of trying to support a platform that represents a fraction of the player base. Or, in other words... "don't START nothing, won't BE nothing".
How very original of you! I have never seen a person comment to down to a player on the forums because they are on a mac. Hell you're not even the first one in this thread.
And I never 'started' anything. I never said this should come out, you know there is an option for CCP to make it work on PC AND Mac. but I'm sorry I mentioned I don't use you l33t computer system of choice. I should go hide in shame for using something you don't approve of. |
Scheulagh Santorine
The Math Department
31
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Posted - 2016.06.10 19:18:49 -
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CCP Sledgehammer wrote:Tactical Overlay Iterations:We have added the following to the Tactical Overlay:
- Cyno portal range has been added as a translucent red sphere, indicating the radius at which the cyno portal will spawn from your ship.
- Action lines (such as for fighters) are now tied to the presence of the overlay.
- Module hover indication time has been increased.
- Ship and fighter orbits are now represented (WIP)**.
- Velocity/Chance-to-hit information for locked targets (WIP)**.
- Click command confirmations**.
... CCP Sledgehammer.
CCP Sledgehammah,
It is exciting to hear that you are considering changes to the UI that will give pilots more information about combat. I had some thoughts and questions on this because it is a subject I've thought about in the past.
First, when you are considering adding 'Chance to Hit' information, not all of the information a pilot would need to determine that probability is available in the interface right now. While distance, transverse velocity, signature resolution of your turrets, falloff, are all available to you as a pilot, the signature radius of the target, however, is not dynamically available in the interface. If the target is pulsing a MWD or they are fit with shield mods, you can't know their sig radius. You can try to infer it from velocity but it is not, as far as I know, communicated with other clients on-grid. In this way, determining the hit chance and presenting this information to players will now provide us with information that was previously unknowable in the interface. This is an interesting development that I think would take some of the mystery out of combat for new players, as well as eliminate the need to explain log arithmetic when describing tracking mechanics. So, this could be positive for new players.
Second, from the discussion on reddit, as well as in this thread, it is not clear whether there will be improved support for control of automatic orbit plane? I.e. will we be able to control the plane of orbit that we establish when using the orbit command? This should be a straightforward addition because the existing orbit algorithm pilots towards a point that is a set distance away from the target. What about using the camera vector as the way to specify the orbit plane with both of those common points (I can post a full explanation in my blog next week if you are interested). This would give new pilots the opportunity to command orbits that avoided immovable objects such as 'roids and stations, which would normally require manual piloting.
Finally, Would you also be interested in considering changes that help player visualize the transverse velocity vector? I have some ideas on how this could be done. I haven't written them up in the past because I don't want to be perceived to be lobbying for changes to the game based on my writing. Maybe I'll add my notes on this when I get a chance. Glad to see you are considering giving players more geometric tools for combat.
Regards,
S. Santorine
============================== I used to shoot things. Now I do math.
S. Santorine
Writings on some formal methods in EvE-Online: EVE Math & Physics Blog
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Alstevar Eastern
Caldari State
5
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Posted - 2016.06.13 20:42:02 -
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Hangar Lighting
Only one spotlight on the ship is not a good idea, too bright on some and too less covered on others.
Proposal :
Add on each station something like the pilon in the Caldari station and choose to add some spotlights starting from it.
Your effective personal standings need to be higher to see the player's signature.
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CCP Sledgehammer
C C P C C P Alliance
474
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Posted - 2016.06.14 09:57:10 -
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The orbit plane is purely representative right now. We'd have to sit down with game design and plan out the ability to select your orbit by using the Tac Overlay representation. We're having a mass test this evening (5PM EVE time) and will be checking the tac overlay out as part of that. We hope to have the velocity indication and vectors for your ship/targets in as well, but I will update here if that is not the case. As far as the chance-to-hit information goes, it's probably not going to make it in to this release but we think that the velocity and vector indications are a solid foundation to build that information into the overlay.
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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Kabaos
Fulgur lumene
126
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Posted - 2016.06.14 17:07:46 -
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It seems good, but think Amarr dock is too dark. Apreciate your graphic add's. When will be INCARNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlSRI9uCDo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzy7DG8VR2s |
Erebus 'TheChin' Sundance
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
12
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Posted - 2016.06.14 18:33:15 -
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CCP Sledgehammer wrote:
We are looking forwards to hearing from you, especially regarding any ideas you guys have for the WIP features of the Tactical Overlay.
Much love,
CCP Sledgehammer.
Sterling work chaps,
A few Ideas.
Logi mods range in green, not red.
Optimal and maximum range for drones when one is selected, especially sentry drones.
Less spokes, 16 looks like a wheel, 8 would suffice and still look cool.
Some colour to the line you get when you select a 'thing', yellow would make sense to me as that is the colour for gates and stations you set as your destination. Nothing to bright, something nice and subtle.
Increased overall range, 200km looks tiny when zoomed out a long way, maybe for battleships and above?
The white dots where the selected item meets the overlay are too big, or bold or something, looks a mess when you have lots of stuff bunched up together, like wrecks around a MTU for example.
The move too option you introduced by pressing Q is fantastic, but it can get a bit wonky when selecting the vertical angle from certain camera angles, perhaps a slightly slower movement speed would assist this. The distance part on the horizontal axis is fine.
You brought in a permanent icon (used to need to press alt) representing your ship when zoomed out a certain distance, could you add some effect to that icon when you are cloaked?
Lastly, some digital distortion/degradation to the whole overlay when in a warp. It looks to crisp and clean when the rest of the screen is all... er... warpy.
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Ageanal Olerie
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
16
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Posted - 2016.06.14 19:02:49 -
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Speaking of booster lighting.
The boosters on the mining barges/exhumers are pathetically weak looking. (Well at least the Mack I fly, haven't looked at the others).
Could you guys please make them more powerful.
I suspect the size/brightness of them is being based off your speed, and mining barges being very slow have small weak looking engines.
However, shouldn't the size/brightness of them take into consideration the mass of your ship?
So yeah, the engines should look much brighter and more powerful on the mining barges than they currently do, however they still go slow because they are a lot more massive.
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Kabaos
Fulgur lumene
126
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Posted - 2016.06.14 19:06:54 -
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A. OK. I came in TEST server and looked dock's. It seems fine , but they dark. I have a next idea.
You can keep 2 docks light and dark. How ? It's simple.
1. At 6~7 AM of EVE dock will be light (because everything starts to work, the pilots appear scurrying workers - need lighting(my imagination)) 2. At 12 AM of EVE dock will be dark (workers go away and ships remain, all scatter to their cabins ( my imagination)) http://i.imgur.com/qPQ8KHe.jpg?1 _______________________ B. I look engines of ship. Much realistic with reflection of fuel .
C. Good idea when ship dock, you can see how fly it on the place. You can change distance-place, like ship fly through hangars with other ships. http://i.imgur.com/nOokeBB.jpg?1 . I also had that idea to offer (as always, but I think it would not have noticed) Not like cinematic view camera, you can't spin.
I have much of ideas. You can doing 2-3 exit of docks. They can be automatic random. 1 from one side of station, and one from other. |
Eli Stan
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
510
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Posted - 2016.06.14 19:27:45 -
[55] - Quote
Erebus 'TheChin' Sundance wrote:Logi mods range in green, not red. I'd suggest blue or cyan, not green, so that ~8% of people who cannot distinguish red from green can tell the difference. |
Kon Kre8r
Konz Korp
3
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Posted - 2016.06.14 19:44:35 -
[56] - Quote
Psianna Archeia wrote:Manssell wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing? It really doesn't matter Vincent since these updates are all DX11 so even if you see them in the blog we'll never see them in game since yet again CCP is going to release new features that aren't available to their mac customers. I forgot, I guess everyone is supposed to suffer in the stone ages so the minority can feel better about their choice of computer.
supposed to suffer? does that mean that in real life a paper cut is considered suffering too? I understand what you meant to say -- > It is so much fun to anger people -- right? |
Kon Kre8r
Konz Korp
3
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Posted - 2016.06.14 20:02:29 -
[57] - Quote
Quote: Black Ops Cyno - Has its own portal effect now instead of sharing the standard Cyno's portal.
We have added the following to the Tactical Overlay: [list]
Cyno portal range has been added as a translucent red sphere, indicating the radius at which the cyno portal will spawn from your ship.
We are looking forwards to hearing from you, especially regarding any ideas you guys have for the WIP features of the Tactical Overlay.
Much love,
CCP Sledgehammer.
First everything else sounds great and we all look forward to seeing new EVE graphics of course!
Now - I would love to see this "black ops cyno" you speak of. I only use the covert cyno. and of course, if portal range can be added can we also add feature to see Light Years distances just as easily instead of using a PI skill to do so?
And last, when do we finally get your lazy asses to allow "black ops ships" to use covert cloak along with Covert Cynos?
smart people will agree and see the humor in this - the rest of you - please feel free to waste everyone's time making comments with sole purpose of being a$$holes as usual :) |
Erebus 'TheChin' Sundance
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
12
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Posted - 2016.06.14 20:12:38 -
[58] - Quote
Eli Stan wrote:Erebus 'TheChin' Sundance wrote:Logi mods range in green, not red. I'd suggest blue or cyan, not green, so that ~8% of people who cannot distinguish red from green can tell the difference.
aye, good call. I didn't think about colour blind issues. Blue though, as cyan is evil.
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helana Tsero
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
530
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Posted - 2016.06.15 03:21:06 -
[59] - Quote
Quote: Stargate V5++ Renovations Alll stargates have now been updated to our V5++ Shader standard.
This was a great opportunity to add indicators of entering/exiting low / null space. Eg Yellow lights and warning signs on gates leading to Low sec. (instead of the un immersive popup). Sadly seems you did not take advantage of the opportunity.
Bugs (or misfired change)
- The Billboards on gates are now tiny. Please increase the size back to what they are on tranquility.
- Captains Quarters main screen is currently broken will not update past ship description slide.
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elitatwo
Eve Minions O.U.Z.O. Alliance
1255
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Posted - 2016.06.15 11:28:21 -
[60] - Quote
I hope this is the right place for this, my Phantasm seems to look different on the current SiSi built. There is a silver-ish plating thing around the elliptic spikey-front.
And copyships didn't copy my TQ killmark does it have a new placement?
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Heinrich Harkkon
State War Academy Caldari State
1
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Posted - 2016.06.15 16:59:41 -
[61] - Quote
The new secondary lighting for boosters look really good. I must be in the minority that like the dock/undock camera, it adds a nice bit of immersion to docking rather than just appear in the hangar. The new hangar lighting looks good too, I like the grittier, less sterilized look it gives. |
Heinrich Harkkon
State War Academy Caldari State
1
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Posted - 2016.06.15 17:06:48 -
[62] - Quote
Manssell wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing? It really doesn't matter Vincent since these updates are all DX11 so even if you see them in the blog we'll never see them in game since yet again CCP is going to release new features that aren't available to their mac customers. CCP have gone out of their way to continue support for Mac users. Your issue is with Mac computers lagging behind and it's something you need to take up with Apple, not CCP. |
Ageanal Olerie
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
16
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Posted - 2016.06.16 00:57:27 -
[63] - Quote
Heinrich Harkkon wrote:The new secondary lighting for boosters look really good. I must be in the minority that like the dock/undock camera, it adds a nice bit of immersion to docking rather than just appear in the hangar. The new hangar lighting looks good too, I like the grittier, less sterilized look it gives.
I think this stuff is great!
It's something I might have suggested in Player Features & Ideas. Though anyone who's posted there probably knows by now that there is a very nasty cabal of nay-sayers who seem to spend all day every day crapping on people's ideas there, especially things like this.
They (and you quickly learn who those regular are) would come together to each individually mock anyone who would dare make a suggestion like this. Unsurprisingly they seem to have a VERY soft heart for the ganking lifestyle, opposing any idea that would help curtail it and lauding ideas to make ganking easier and more lucrative.
SO glad that CCP couldn't care less what those dips think as they (CCP) continually upgrade and improve on the Eve universe.
So again... Thank You CCP for regularly improving Eve like this and increasing its immersiveness. You rock!
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CCP Sledgehammer
C C P C C P Alliance
477
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Posted - 2016.06.16 09:33:35 -
[64] - Quote
elitatwo wrote:I hope this is the right place for this, my Phantasm seems to look different on the current SiSi built. There is a silver-ish plating thing around the elliptic spikey-front. And copyships didn't copy my TQ killmark does it have a new placement?
I'll check that Phantasm issue out. Kill marks won't copy over using copyships, as far as I know, but I'll double check.
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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Servanda
Liga Freier Terraner Northern Coalition.
25
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Posted - 2016.06.16 12:56:08 -
[65] - Quote
BTW could you fix the killmarks on the rag? Seems like they are somehow reversed smallest = 100 |
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
3538
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Posted - 2016.06.17 01:06:36 -
[66] - Quote
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/4oglk8/sisi_ship_velocity_vectors/
the ship velocity vectors are AMAZING.
how to fix eve: 1) remove ECM 2) rename dampeners to ECM 3) add new anti-drone ewar for caldari 4) give offgrid boosters ongrid combat value
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Torgeir Hekard
I MYSELF AND ME
271
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Posted - 2016.06.17 06:52:36 -
[67] - Quote
While ship velocity vectors are definitely useful, I'm not sure they are a good idea in big fights. We probably need a separate easily accessible toggle somewhere in the hud settings for them. |
Eli Stan
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
510
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Posted - 2016.06.17 15:58:52 -
[68] - Quote
Things can get rather cluttered and hard to interpret when there are multiple ships in a small volume of space, especially since each object gets multiple lines. One curved line from the object to the player's plane, one red vector in the ship plane, and one blue vector originating from the ship. Then there's the red or yellow aggression boxes, the small white selection circle, and the large white active target circle. http://i.imgur.com/hxqonf1.png
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elitatwo
Eve Minions O.U.Z.O. Alliance
1256
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Posted - 2016.06.18 08:34:48 -
[69] - Quote
CCP Sledgehammer wrote:elitatwo wrote:I hope this is the right place for this, my Phantasm seems to look different on the current SiSi built. There is a silver-ish plating thing around the elliptic spikey-front. And copyships didn't copy my TQ killmark does it have a new placement? I'll check that Phantasm issue out. Kill marks won't copy over using copyships, as far as I know, but I'll double check.
Ouh okay. Thank you!
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Lugh Crow-Slave
2819
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Posted - 2016.06.19 00:24:12 -
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any chance we can get brigades to look like WHs again?... you know what they are supposed to be lore wise. The current effect looks watered down and half finished
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Ezra Endashi
LightningStrikesTwice Elemental Tide
13
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Posted - 2016.06.19 16:25:15 -
[71] - Quote
Ship's engine lights look gorgeous! |
Rivr Luzade
Kenshin. DARKNESS.
2535
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Posted - 2016.06.19 18:41:37 -
[72] - Quote
Not visual, but since you mention cyno gens: what happened to the sound when you cyno out? There used to be this noisy sound when you initiate the jump (that triggers the blue or red jump flash effect animation), followed by the noisy sound of the jump itself as well as the landing noise after a jump. The first part is completely gone and the blue/red jump flash effect is completely silent. Can we get that noise back?
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darkneko
Black Cat mining Inc. Khione's Dominion
22
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Posted - 2016.06.20 07:51:57 -
[73] - Quote
Looks great but I wish the rorqual and other actual game play changes had come out before visual stuff. |
Nana Skalski
Poseidaon
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Posted - 2016.06.21 10:33:26 -
[74] - Quote
What about giving the lights that actually fit the hangars, now they hide everything in darkness or are too bright.
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Alstevar Eastern
Caldari State
5
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Posted - 2016.06.21 12:54:21 -
[75] - Quote
Nana Skalski no, it's a spotlight position bug, i'm sure now.
Your effective personal standings need to be higher to see the player's signature.
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nezroy
Nice Clan
15
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Posted - 2016.06.24 06:59:16 -
[76] - Quote
The new tactical overlay stuff is awesome. Especially liking the circle/line that shows where I'm headed when manually piloting with double-clicks in space.
That said, the directional and transversals vector on selected ship are too small when zoomed out to normal cruiser/BS scales. If I'm zoomed out to the 50km ring or more and at typical non-prop cruiser/BS speeds, the blue arrows are completely lost in the noise of target brackets, etc. |
Lord Kalus
L0CAL SP1KE Circle-Of-Two
145
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Posted - 2016.06.26 18:52:32 -
[77] - Quote
I like how, in the "with secondary lighting" pic, there's a light shining RIGHT AT the front of the ship and it isn't lit up at all from it. That sure is some good secondary lighting right thurr.
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Lord Kalus
L0CAL SP1KE Circle-Of-Two
145
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Posted - 2016.06.26 19:04:15 -
[78] - Quote
Manssell wrote:nezroy wrote:Manssell wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:I'm confused. I see a picture labeled "Before secondary lighting", but not one labeled "After secondary lighting" or some such. What am I missing? It really doesn't matter Vincent since these updates are all DX11 so even if you see them in the blog we'll never see them in game since yet again CCP is going to release new features that aren't available to their mac customers. And thank god for that, as it would be ridiculous for CCP to bottleneck their development advancements to accommodate the players on widely unused gaming platforms. Yes, all three of you. How original of you! I have never seen a person comment to down to a player on the forums because they are on a mac How To Use A Mac For Gaming
I'm sure you've seen the meme a few times too. Here it is again for your viewing pleasure though.
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Carsten2285
State War Academy Caldari State
1
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Posted - 2016.06.28 22:21:06 -
[79] - Quote
Love the new lighting effects, especially the in station, or Citadel, under ship lighting effect. Which brings up an interesting question: Why can't I look UP? The cool video boards in the Astrahus are UP from my ship and I cannot look up at all. This means that I also cannot look under my ship to see that cool new lighting effects.
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Gostina Mishina
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
32
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Posted - 2016.07.02 19:30:09 -
[80] - Quote
Yeah, I like the animations, but the lighting in general is weird in a Minmatar hangar Gloom is great, but try a screenshot of an Astero there and see the frankly ridiculous level of contrast on the white hull.
I wish I could get that kind of contrast out in space. |
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