Yet another Features thread.

[SkyNET]

1>Changable music. Maybe have the Music.odf control music.

2>Spawners. Something that spawns a unit for a certain side like in FE, without all the hack.

3>Weapon colors. Why not have weapons that use startcolor>middlecolor>finishcolor like the shields do? It could be useful for a weapon that fires, flares up, and fizzles out again.

4>Weapons that do less damage for distance traveled. See #3 above.

5>Charge glows. Have MAG cannon weapons use a charge up glow for each weapon level.

And 1 more question, does anyone else notice that planar animations are broken?

[Commando]

Good suggestions.  Music in the shell can be changed with a little cfg editing, but your suggestion is good.  What are planar animations?  I haven't noticed any issues, but I don't know what to look for, since I don't know what you mean by planar animations.

[SkyNET]

Flat on the ground animations.

[Avatar]

Can you give an example?

[SkyNET]

I can't get pics, since my bz2 cd is missing.

Instead of a ring, it shows a screwed up square with broken lines coming from it.

I'm thinking bad texture.

[Commando]

You mean like explosions?  I noticed that too.  They only seem to work well if you set mipmap to 1 in gameprefs.  If you have it set to the default value, set the ingame mip map value to 1 and it will work too.  I personally wish you could set an object's mipmap value through an odf parameter, and that the parameter would overide the player's setting for these effects.  Ground explosions look aweful due to the defaul mip map level and if you adjust it for explosions, everything else looks grainy.

[Tempest Storm]

The problem may be card specific though, as I had that problem when I was on my GeForce 2 MX but when I switched to the FX 5200 I didn't get it, despite my settings.

[Fishbone]

same here, card specific.
I even have a pilot cockpit model of a gun that looks great on my GF FX5200 but has missing faces on my GF2 MX (hey TS, do we have the same video cards?)

[Tempest Storm]

Seems so Fish. :p

What cards are you using Commando, Sky?

[BZ FeebleEffort]

with all of 1.3s problems, I think adding "Feature Requests" is the last thing it needs.

[Commando]

I have an ATI Radeon 9600 SE.  I had the same thing with my Geforce 4 TI 4200 when I had it.

[SkyNET]

NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model64 PRO

[Bull Dog]

with my Gforce4 Ti4400  The planar effects looked fine.  With my X800se Ati card they where messed up.   Unfortunately my system is suffering from either a bad mobo and/or CPU and/or ram.  So until I get my computer figured out I'm totally screwed

[technoid]

Sounds (or looks) like a videodriver issue. Either that or low memory or incompatible implementation of DirectX (or OGL).  My first experiences with these "blank" textures were with the 3DLabs Permedia2 chipset long ago (ok... years ago) because of incomplete OpenGL translation. This looks familiar.

[Bull Dog]

The texture was still there.  It just didn't look right.  I remember having the same problems with the FE performance textures.  Once I remove them and used the stock ones the problem went away. I've forgotten what computer I had that problem with.