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Hollow weapons and particle effects fitting weapon size.



Asked: 2000.11.12
Name: Xai Lung-shua
Question Title: Hollow weapons and particle effects fitting weapon size.
Category: Graphics
Question: Will the particle effects for the hollow staff and sword ever be altered to where it appears across the entire blade/weapon? For the smaller weapons and weapons where the effective portion is a small part (axe, katar, dagger, spear, etc) of the whole weapon, it works. But on the staff and sword it just looks a bit, odd, just glowing at the very tip. Is this going to be improved upon later? I think the sword-people would like to have something looking similar to a lightsabre. :)


Answered: 2000.11.13
Name: Sean.
Answer: robably not.

The effect does eat CPU time, and the more of those helixes we place, the slower everything runs.

Sean.