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Idea for new particle effect

January 2, 2012 4:39:50 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

 New Particle Effect: Escape Pods

I just thought it would be nice to see a few escape pods appear right in the middle of an explosion when ships and structures (and of course starbases) are being destroyed. It would make watching battles even more rewarding.

I think it would be as simple as adding a particle effect, maybe similar to the ones you see when a ship uses the colonize ability. Instead, you would see tiny escape pods launching at the moment a ship or structure is destroyed. These pods will propell themselves towards the planet / asteroid of the gravity well that it is currrently in.

I don't think it would fry your system when implemented, so it might be nice to see something like this in Rebellion.

What do you guys think?

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Teun-A-Roonius
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Reply #1 January 2, 2012 4:43:21 PM
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That actually sounds like a nice idea!

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Reply #2 January 2, 2012 4:43:40 PM
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That actually sounds like a nice idea!

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Reply #3 January 3, 2012 10:40:40 AM
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It's easy to make a particle effect for; hard to implement.

It would require an ability on every single ship that triggers on death...

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Reply #4 January 3, 2012 11:34:20 AM
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Quoting KrdaxDrkrun,
reply 3
It's easy to make a particle effect for; hard to implement.

It would require an ability on every single ship that triggers on death...
Hmmm I didn't know it would require an actual ability for it to work. I hoped it would be similar to how an explosion particle effect is triggered.

Anyway, thanks a lot for telling me. It seems to be more work than I figured it would be.

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Reply #5 January 3, 2012 11:54:29 AM
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Well...

You could attach it to the explosionDef...

but it wouldn't be able to do very much, it would just have a bunch of escape pods flying out in random directions...

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Reply #6 January 3, 2012 12:30:43 PM
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That will be a cool effect, maybe limited to the Capital ships...?

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Reply #7 January 3, 2012 2:06:07 PM
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Yea, even if the pods don't fly towards the center of the gravity well, it would still be cool to see some pods propelling away from destroyed ships.

Quoting G_Bison,
reply 6
That will be a cool effect, maybe limited to the Capital ships...?
Maybe limiting it to Capital ships would increase the likelyhood of actually seeing them in Rebellion.

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Reply #8 January 3, 2012 2:11:13 PM
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What if kittens flew out of every exploding ship?  Now that would be cool!

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Reply #9 January 3, 2012 2:14:22 PM
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Kittens are fairly easy to do...

It just requires a kitten texture.

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Reply #10 January 3, 2012 4:57:31 PM
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What if space kittehs flew out of all the exploding ships and structures? That would instantly make Rebellion Game Of The Year.

They should look like this one:

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Reply #11 January 3, 2012 9:46:46 PM
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If this were possiable, and i'm not ssying it is. Pehaps the pods cound count as a new ship, like the TEC missle pods or Vasari seige platforms. but absolutly defencless (maybe mod sheild and hull)

 

How would you feel to an acheivment/boosts regarding collecting/destroying them.

If they are yours the capital ship would get a health boost if damaged and a portion of the destroyed capitals exp

If your enemy's just the exp plus an acheivment if you collect say 20 per match or something?

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Reply #12 January 8, 2012 1:41:09 AM
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Really good idea.

Preferably, we'd see them during that short period of time when the ship is just about to explode and is "listing" to one side. That'd be a nice time for an "abandon ship" moment.

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Reply #13 January 8, 2012 2:01:35 PM
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you make it part of the explosion particle itself

 

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Reply #14 January 9, 2012 1:40:16 PM
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I say make "exploding kitten escape pods" an option under effects...could be like Grunt Birthday party...

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