[WIP][Client] More Pew Pew - Requesting Opinions

ps are there going to be changes for orbital units?
the vanilla laser lightning bolt is awsome on itself but i don't like it on the sattalite, and the orbital fighter and orbital defences are quite meh. and the umbrella is also not that fancy... (perhaps the umbrella would look nice with the sattalite ammo)

The laser satellite and umbrella effects are fine as they are!

I think the tail is too long and maybe too uniform in thickness. Maybe the tail should taper off in thickness?

Also, I'm not that keen on the current colour (green) for all of them. Could you try different colours for each one?

They all do 80 damage, which is in the green damage range. The tail size pulsates as it travels, is it perhaps not noticeable enough?

Umm, sorry are you talking about the sounds of the tank? The hard part about modding the sounds is that I can't actually create new ones, and a lot of the sounds have bad properties. For instance, the laser turrets have view frustum culling on the sounds, but the bolo sounds do not.

Oh I didn't realise the projectile colours represented the amount of damage they do. That's a good idea! So green it is then

Yeah I don't like the tail on this one. Can you play around with it a little bit and I'll give you feedback.

@dom314

Instead of this...




Maybe something like this?

Or this...

@Planktum
Just playing around more: (NOTE: you may have to wait for youtube to finish processing so you can see higher rez image. It should be 1080p)

I realise this one doesn't grow like you were saying, but maybe you would like that I made the accent color different for each. If I make the expansion too extreme for the tail, it starts to diverge quite a bit in feel compared to the other two effects. I will play around with it though, I think adding a bit of spread on the tail might make it look a bit better.

Anyway, I still need to add the extra pointlights to make the glowyness linelike instead of spot-like. That might add a lot more polish to these effects.

Hmmmm, and actually the effect with the blue sparks...I could probably find a blue that is a bit better looking. I will look at it again in a few hours, heading out now.

Are....Are you trying to make me do more work? You ARE aren't you! Grrrrr........... maybe that's not such a bad idea. Hmmm. It will probably be better if I make another mod for that. PewBoom? exPEWsion? More Pew Pew Bewm? Discuss!

Maybe reduce the diameter of the glowing projectile just a smidgen too...

Errr...which one? XD

All of them. Make the projectile the same diameter as the width of the start of the tail.

Hmm okay. Is it okay if I keep the blue one a bit orby though? It's the replacement for the bullet projectile so I want it to still have some of that essence.

Sure! that one looks okay as is.

Update
Update all commander projectile effect trails to have line-like lights.
Commander laser projectile weapon gets yellow green accent with a smidgen smaller head.
Commander missile projectile weapon gets a blue-pinkish accent and a slightly shorter trail.
Commander bullet projectile weapon gets an extra spark trail.

Youtube video?