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Any clue as to when anything on JTL will be patched or is it an "After the CU" Job?

Slightly off-topic, and certainly does not answer your question (I have no clue at all to be honest) but, do you get glow effects on, say, the YT-1300? I've been told it only shows up with the gloom, or bloom, or whatever that option is called, which is beyond the possibilities of my video card. Am I doomed with no glow effects for medium-to-big ships until I update my video card?

Not had the YT but my old nova courier definatly had it without bloom.

See, that's where I think the problem is. Since I cannot test the bloom effect I cannot confirm it, but I'd swear that big ships like cargo transports are supposed to show glowy engines only if that option is enabled. This would also apply to the YT-1300 and the VT-49 I guess. Why they made it like that, I have no clue, but I guess it's because the engines are too big to simply throw a couple of "sprites" on them. So we are grounded until we get a flashy GeForce 6 series or the ATI equivalent, since I've been told the double pass (bloom effect) eats a bunch of performance (ahh, the gossip...).

On the other hand, what exactly are the plasma alarm graphics problems you are experiencing? They are not resetting?

Message Edited by Fortune120 on 04-07-2005 01:40 PM

The huge mario style default appearance cubes like everyone else.

As for bloom i definatly had it switched off when i had engine flare from my nova courier because it does seriously eat into your FPS.

No engines on all 3??

I have a picture of my nova with the engines lit with no bloom on

Nova courier with engines

Geforce 5900 btw.

Message Edited by Oblox on 04-07-2005 03:08 PM

How do u add clicky's?

Message Edited by Jisrael on 04-07-2005 07:22 AM

Just wondering maybe its the engine being used in the ship? Im using a different one to what i had in the nova ill test the old on in my decimator and see if that changes.

Yeah but those flares look like regular sprites to me. The difference with the bloom effect is that these are supposed to have a certain volume I believe (or give that effect at least). But if with bloom turned on these still don't show up then indeed something is screwed. As for the warning boxes, I haven't seen them yet in my ship, because it hasn't seen any action yet

The plasma alarm default appearance boxes are there whenever not just in combat. You cant really miss em.

Correct. In fact I haven't logged in a few weeks so... I'll pay attention next time I do