Contest 4 Fun: Best Nuke Effect

because everything is all white. you cant see the city or anything (except smoke and light sources). have you seen it?

is your brightness too high? I can see the city fine xept for the .25 second where the nuke hits with the yellow flash. Neways mines fine yours is cool.

this is my theory on the left hand in real life is that... most people used to use wield sword with right hand and shield on left i guess... so to counter that they were trained in using left hand so it makes people using sword with right hand and shield on left hand vurnerable to attacks.

or... if ur in a war or something and everyone had sword and shield wouldnt want to focus on trying to not die instead of trying to kill everyone?

hay i see all white too except for the smoke. sounds cool but :( . tried changing cam distince but same thing happens

Why is it flashing white? Mines fine! I made a 2 second yellow fade out and back in fade filter but thats all. It is your moniter or resolusion?

maybe it has something to do with video cards or detail settings? It works fine for me, and looks damned kewl too!

glad to hear that! Thx :ggani:

My guess would be either spell detail or the particles detail settings.

I haven't taken a look yet but I will tommorow =)

Heres my Nuke effect, have fun with it :)

~Talila

I added a town to it for you to blow up. I liked how it turned out :)

~Talila

PS: Now you can either look at the base effect or the base effect plus mass destruction, heehee.

My version i like better that works for multiplayer lag-free! (litterally seperates players from the game to make minimal lag.) Plz grade this one its not the nuke thats effected its the other shuff

It's noon know where I am. No more entries =)

The winners will be posted tonight, should be up by 8PM (GMT -7).

These are just my personal thoughts after seeing them all many times over. Damn they were fun just to watch!

Best Initial Explosion: Revenant (the quick, small radius explosion)
Best Secondary Explosion: Talila (the slowly expanding mushroom cloud)
Best Shockwave: Talila (the slowly expanding visual)
Best Terrain Deformation: Yoda_24 (though half as many ripples would have sufficed, it looked soo good)
Best After Effects: Revenant

What I didn't like: The lasting swirl on some of them. The radiation ideas were good, but should be more subtle.

Large holes in the ground aren't realistic; the shockwaves and casual indent of Yoda's was done perfectly.

What else could have been done: Nukes do very little damage after the initial shockwave, so although fire is pretty, it shouldn't be anything more than that. If we could see the buildings collapsing as a shockwave expanded over them though... ^^

And lastly, nukes are generally set off 200 to 2000 feet from the ground, depending on the mass rating.

And the winner is: Dark revenant =)

I liked Yoda_24's, and the starcraft functionality was cool (although the reason people playing online probably can't tell the nuke is falling isn't because they're stupid but because there's no visual cue -- you don't have the little red paint dot, nor does the rifleman hold his rifle up like the ghost does).

Talila's was especially cool because I didn't think to use mini mortars polar projected as well as one in the center, and the slow mo was very good, along with the burning afterwards.

Dark's was, in my opinion, the most visually cool. So he wins =)

Everyone did a really good job though, and they ALL look better than the nuke effect I made in the past. Later on I'll make a little site/area to post the result and have all the final maps listed and stuff for people to download.

Cool, congrats Dark, it was loads of fun to make :ggani:, i also made my effect really esay to incorporate into a spell

~Talila