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Should gas giants have the impact visual effect?
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unjashfan
 Post subject: Should gas giants have the impact visual effect?
PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:27 am 
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Recent versions have the occasional impact crater-like visual effect on planets, which I think is pretty awesome. But I think gas giants deserve to be exempted from this effect because it just doesn't make sense.
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Geoff the Medio
 Post subject: Re: Should gas giants have the impact visual effect?
PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:33 am 
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The current overlay textures are for testing purposes only.
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eleazar
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:56 pm 
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What's the status? Is the overlay feature done, or is there still a need for these testing images?

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Geoff the Medio
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eleazar wrote:
What's the status? Is the overlay feature done, or is there still a need for these testing images?
The planet and system overlay texture features appears to be functional, but I'd like content creators to try using them a bit to make sure (that they works). The existing tests / examples in BLD_CULTURE_ARCHIVES hopefully make it clear how it's used.
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Bigjoe5
 Post subject: Re: Should gas giants have the impact visual effect?
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:39 pm 
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Geoff the Medio wrote:
eleazar wrote:
What's the status? Is the overlay feature done, or is there still a need for these testing images?
The planet and system overlay texture features appears to be functional, but I'd like content creators to try using them a bit to make sure (that they works). The existing tests / examples in BLD_CULTURE_ARCHIVES hopefully make it clear how it's used.

I've noticed that the system overlays disappear during turn processing.

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Geoff the Medio
 Post subject: Re: Should gas giants have the impact visual effect?
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Bigjoe5 wrote:
I've noticed that the system overlays disappear during turn processing.
As have I, but they come back, so I'm not super concerned.
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