Dust Trails...

[Grega]

I think dust and flight trails would be awesome and I can't see any reason why we shouldn't have 'em.

Because they eat up resources, drop your FPS this making you lag.

 

[Jkun]

Because they eat up resources, drop your FPS this making you lag.

Then commit more than $50 dollars to the video card.

 

[KarrdeKNR]

Then commit more than $50 dollars to the video card.

They were known to cause FPS crash even on cards that should have had no problems. HL Engine was not happy with the way they were doing it.

 

[Fire Phoenix]

Then commit more than $50 dollars to the video card.

When you have a gig of ram, and a 6800GT swoop trails shouldn't eat ANY fps what-so-ever. And it did. It has nothing to do with video cards, if you had 8 gigs of ram and 2 7900's you'd still see a major drop in frame rates.

 

[FreeDoM]

....everyone had an fps drop. If you don't believe me, swoop near the ground or any flat surface. If your fps doesn't drop, you're in the minority.

I'm lucky if my FPS drops to 98...

 

[Zeonix]

Oh, how nice.

Since I'm not going to install 1.1 again, theres no way for me to test dusttrails in 1.2. How unfortunate.

 

[dan_esf_fanatic]

WRONG, you can test them on esf 1.2. Some guy actually thought of making a plugin for the dust trails for 1.2. You can find it on ESF-World.

 

[Zeonix]

Go ahead and show me the dusttrails.

 

[KilledWithStyle]

WRONG, you can test them on esf 1.2. Some guy actually thought of making a plugin for the dust trails for 1.2. You can find it on ESF-World.

Didnt that have dust trails on the ground even if you weren't anywhere near the ground?

 

[.Maze]

Yes i believe so.
I think it only checked for Swooping animations or so and then started the PowerupMSG with non seeable charge colors.