I am so gonna get in trouble for this. Yet another idea: Damage Maps.

[Furyofaseraph]

Would it be possible to have starshatter support Damage maps.
That being another set of textures that go "underneath" the normal textures, complete with their own Illumination maps.
As damage is dealt to the ship, the damage textures slowly get revealed, thus if a ship gets pounded enough, the underlaying structure shows through, and glowing from melted metal and what not.

[Pheagey]

you know, I like the idea myself too. But I think its a matter of man power. It's an idea thought.

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: Pheagey

you know, I like the idea myself too. But I think its a matter of man power.

And what is DamoclesX doing now? [:'(]

[Dragonlead]

It is a good idea, but I can imagine it would be a total nightmare to program. Of course, in my mind, the damage map conforms to the areas that are actually being hit. It seems kind of weird if your rear facing engines look all trashed when it is your front end getting all the punches.

V/R

[Furyofaseraph]

They did it in SFC3. I don't know how hard it would be, i know nothing of gaming shaders or what not.
Perhaps Milo could enlighten us ^_^..

speaking of which, i havent seen him in a while, where is he?

[Kuokkanen]

Probably busy with something called Gathering Storm.