Missile plume for visibility and coolness

[exotic surge]

Essentially give missiles a zoom-based extra special effect for additional visiblity.

The plume effect would get affected by zoom differently, causing it to appear bigger at further distances

Example on how far distance zoom would look like

closeup

[solar wren]

Worth noting the processing and visual noise issues that come when there's 200+ of these in the air

[exotic surge]

(sprite i used, slightly modified cannon overclock lights)

rough mod that applies it without the special zoom features

[exotic surge]

processing as in pc power or as in visual processing?

[solar wren]

I meant the previous but the latter could be an issue as well

[granite harness]

only heat missiles i think

[exotic surge]

if its a sprite like overclocked large cannon (and my example) it should'nt be too much of a issue

i was previously thinking something like resource dots, but i feel like leaning into the lens flare type of thing makes more sense

[granite harness]

i think it doesn't make too much sense for he to get this, but it would make heat missiles a lot more distinguishable

[exotic surge]

i think HE is the most needed for a visibility thing
it doesnt need to be a fancy plume it could be the resource dot idea (maybe we can have triangle missile indicators like ace combat or something)

[exotic surge]

simple test but i dont think that would be much of a problem
(ignore several pings)
(this assumes far away zoom, the plumes would be smaller if zoomed in closer)

[tepid beacon]

If there are a billion missiles coming at you they don't need extra visibiliy, you're gonna notice

[exotic surge]

zooming in closer helps you tell the shapes apart but i feel like this colorful show would be great

both for individual missile/group missile visibility and overall graphical enhancement

heres how that looks with vanilla vfx to compare

[regal path]

[granite harness]

i think orange should be for heat

[exotic surge]

true, it was mostly a proof of concept

[granite harness]

there is no blue weapon, so maybe make he thrust blue and bright?

[exotic surge]

maybe

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