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Triangles

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 Seryl Cann
06-09-2001, 5:45 AM
#1
I don't know if anybody else noticed, but one of the first things I saw in the screenshots was THERE ARE NO TRIANGLE SPARKS!!!!

Just thought I'd tell everyone :p
 GonkH8er
06-09-2001, 6:31 AM
#2
yes, i noticed that. they were the only thing that bugged me about obi1


xbox can have the triangles....... we have REAL effects :)
 Boba Rhett
06-09-2001, 7:23 AM
#3
Are you telling me that Obi Wan still has those crappy traingle sparks in it? :eek:
 CaptainRAVE
06-09-2001, 7:31 AM
#4
Obi Wan is gonna suck....the game developers have lost interest in it now because they couldnt get it to do what they wanted it to do!
 GonkH8er
06-09-2001, 7:56 AM
#5
BEHOLD!

http://www.lucasarts.com/e3/four/images/3.jpg)

mmmmm triangleness.........
 Archie
06-09-2001, 9:32 AM
#6
The stupid thing is that on the x-box it would take no time at all to do proper little circles... Those triangles are just laziness.
 Letalis
06-09-2001, 9:32 AM
#7
Mmmm, triangles, triangles, everywhere... :D
 CaptainRAVE
06-09-2001, 9:43 AM
#8
Wait a sec....whats wrong with triangles....a couple of years ago they were highly techincal!
 StormHammer
06-09-2001, 9:55 AM
#9
Didn't anyone tell you? Triangles are out of fashion! Bring on the trendy Hexagons! :D
 GonkH8er
06-09-2001, 10:00 AM
#10
pfffffffft, hexagons? come off it!


its hip to be SQUARE man! right on!
 Qui-GONE Jinn
06-09-2001, 12:54 PM
#11
AND LOOK AT THAT CRAPPY LIGHTSABER!!

It sucks! Kyle's is perfect, though, at least when he's not swinging it around!
 CaptainRAVE
06-09-2001, 12:56 PM
#12
Yeah, are those triangles in the pic just one pixel! lol :D
 Letalis
06-09-2001, 1:01 PM
#13
Oh, there's some serious graphic rape being done by Raven. JK2 looks so much better, typical Crap-Box. :p

[ June 09, 2001: Message edited by: Letalis ]
 matt--
06-09-2001, 2:59 PM
#14
I here by declare to one and all...men and women...people of every nation, tongue, and clan that from this day forth...the new Microsoft gaming machine...will be known as Crap-Box
 Rancor
06-09-2001, 3:02 PM
#15
Well, a triangle is certainly going to render faster than a quad, which is basically two triangles. Additionally, they don't look textured, which probably makes them even cheaper to render. If you had thousands of them on-screen at once and they're all moving in cool ways, I don't imagine you'd notice and you could probably do at least twice as many particles this way. With particle type effects, volume and quantity matter.
 Kwup
06-09-2001, 4:54 PM
#16
Rancor you're weird
 CaptainRAVE
06-09-2001, 5:34 PM
#17
Hows he weird??
 Rancor
06-09-2001, 5:46 PM
#18
The problem is that we're only seeing screenshots. If those things were in motion ( and moving very quickly ) and output to a blurry ol' tv, it would be far less likely that you'd even notice that it was a triangle.

So, as I said, it's just that it's a still shot and output to a nice crisp format for us to display on our hi-res monitors. Until we can see them in motion, I wouldn't worry too much.

Signed,
Weirdo :cool:
 Espada
06-09-2001, 6:57 PM
#19
i like circles they are facinating
 CaptainRAVE
06-09-2001, 7:01 PM
#20
Circles RULE. Actually they are quite interesting! :)
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