Saber Blades

[Tempust85]

Am I correct in assuming that JKA doesn't use efx for lightsaber blades? If so, why not?

[Xycaleth]

Could be one of two reasons I think:

1. EFX was added to SoF2 as well, and I believe SoF2 and JK2 were being worked on in parallel. It might have been that the code for drawing the saber blade was done before the EFX code was added.
2. They couldn't achieve the same look with EFX

 

It does kind of make sense to do the saber blade as an EFX. The code would be a lot simpler anyway

[Archangel35757]

  On 11/30/2014 at 10:04 AM, Xycaleth said:

Could be one of two reasons I think:

 

• EFX was added to SoF2 as well, and I believe SoF2 and JK2 were being worked on in parallel. It might have been that the code for drawing the saber blade was done before the EFX code was added.
• They couldn't achieve the same look with EFX

 

It does kind of make sense to do the saber blade as an EFX. The code would be a lot simpler anyway

But wouldn't be the same image/alpha?

[Xycaleth]

  On 11/30/2014 at 4:25 PM, Archangel35757 said:

But wouldn't be the same image/alpha?

What wouldn't? And in which case?

[Tempust85]

Hmm well I've seen that you can attach effects to weapon tags, would be fun to try and replicate the blade in EFX for sure.

[Archangel35757]

  On 12/1/2014 at 8:34 AM, Xycaleth said:

What wouldn't? And in which case?

The saber blade texture image/alpha.

[Tempust85]

I've managed to replicate the effect in EFX for saber on/off transitions & saber blade on with no issues.

[Archangel35757]

  On 12/2/2014 at 2:52 AM, DT85 said:

I've managed to replicate the effect in EFX for saber on/off transitions & saber blade on with no issues.

Could you create a screen capture video and post it for viewing?