What do you rate this smoke?

ConMan

Scale on 1 to 5, five being the highest rating #Onfire

Thanks for you input!

Dark Templar X · Commander **Joined**: 26 Feb 2009

A 4. Good but not great.

Also, do want. XD

m7 · Commander **Joined**: 17 Apr 2009

5. I'd use the hell out of that. :p

Orac · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:14 am Post subject:

It looks more like fire than smoke... but good anyway.

MT · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:40 am Post subject:

2 out of 5. It looks strange, unrealistic. It needs a lot of work, or just use something else.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

A gif animation of it would be nice.
Right now it looks like one cloud that uses the translucent key of the game to become transparent. I can't see any changes on the shape or the size of the cloud.

So from me 1 point for the anim and 2-3 points for the texture and shape of the cloud.

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inzane krazy · General **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006 **Location**: Sketchpad

It's alright, I have to agree with what Orac said though.

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AltomareXD · General **Joined**: 22 May 2008

I give it a 3.

ArvinCool · Tiberian Beast **Joined**: 01 Jun 2008

I give it 3, becuse transparent create major lagg

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freedom fighter · General **Joined**: 14 May 2009

4. It looks pretty good Wink

About it looking like fire, may be suitable for a flamethrower.

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Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

Four. Clouds are too far apart #Tongue

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ConMan · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject:

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

A gif animation of it would be nice.
Right now it looks like one cloud that uses the translucent key of the game to become transparent. I can't see any changes on the shape or the size of the cloud.

So from me 1 point for the anim and 2-3 points for the texture and shape of the cloud.

Here ya go:

Well, I should also mention the art tags:

Translucent=yes
Rate=300

Somehow it doesn't look the same ingame... Neutral

EDIT: This better? This time I've just increased the rate to 900 (default) and set translucency to 25%. The smoke puff seen closest to the shifter tank is the start of another shot

Deformat · Defense Minister **Joined**: 17 Sep 2007

Hm,looks pretty...nice,I guess.

Dny · Energy Commando **Joined**: 28 May 2008

Pretty nise, i guive it a 3 , good animation but looks moar like a fire than a smoke #Tongue

OmegaBolt · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:26 pm Post subject:

In that last screenshot it looks loads better.

ConMan · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject:

Hmm, good to hear that. Smile

I'll just give this away now for you all

Art entry:

Translucency=25

Make sure it's the right palette (anim.pal)

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Feillyne · Grenadier **Joined**: 01 Jul 2008

"5 - Excellent", it's very good anyway.

Dny wrote:

Pretty nise, i guive it a 3 , good animation but looks moar like a fire than a smoke #Tongue

This is just a matter of recolouring/desaturating. Wink

You can even make it yourself.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

It should alter its shape much more during the anim. You know, smoke starts as a thick cloud and then spreads to become less thick.
So instead of becoming smaller it should become bigger but with more and more holes until it finally vanishes in several small pixel clouds.

The last one is indeed really good but it's not suitable for a smoke anim.
being a fire anim i would give it a 4
being a smoke anim i would give it a 3 (with a tendency to 2)

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ConMan · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject:

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

It should alter its shape much more during the anim. You know, smoke starts as a thick cloud and then spreads to become less thick.
So instead of becoming smaller it should become bigger but with more and more holes until it finally vanishes in several small pixel clouds.

The last one is indeed really good but it's not suitable for a smoke anim.
being a fire anim i would give it a 4
being a smoke anim i would give it a 3 (with a tendency to 2)

Alright, I'll see what I can alter with this Smile

Dny · Energy Commando **Joined**: 28 May 2008

Feillyne wrote:

"5 - Excellent", it's very good anyway.

Dny wrote:

Pretty nise, i guive it a 3 , good animation but looks moar like a fire than a smoke #Tongue

yes..

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

being a fire anim i would give it a 4
being a smoke anim i would give it a 3

This

ConMan · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject:

Alright, this is what I have

It's actually giving me a seizure ingame Neutral

Roadwarrior · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject:

It's to spread out, between animations I mean.

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Dny · Energy Commando **Joined**: 28 May 2008

yeah and besides that, i kinda liked the first version IMO

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

make it scatter more so it doesn't ends in such a circular shape.
Also make it start in black and end in grey, maybe even white.

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ConMan · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject:

Well right now it's starting at white, and ends in blackish-red. I really don't know why it shows as yellow in the screenshot, but believe me it does start as white, exactly the way shown in the gif #Tongue

In case you're all wondering what I'm using to make these, it's this Currently I'm playing around with the settings.

*Considers what LKO and others said*

Allied General · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:50 pm Post subject:

Since this is ra2 you can use SpawnDelay= to increase/reduce the distance of the spawn anim.

Oh translucency also lags the game hard online, but you can control it with that detail tag thing.

I think the anim before was fine tbh.

Its gonna be playing so fast anway.

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Lt Albrecht · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:07 pm Post subject:

I just want huge epic smoke plumes for heavy SAMs XD, but that isn't gonna happen #Tongue

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