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Aliotroph?
August 12th, 2001, 01:46 AM
I just have to say this. JDoom has really cool graphics (lights and models), but why are there lens flares? I just can't figure this out. The DooM guy would never see all those lens flares through his helmet; especially since they all look the same. They also create a really heavy glare in rooms with lots of lights. I just can't see why they're there. Maybe if they appeared sometimes under certain conditions. The effect itself is neat, but they're way overused in JDoom.

Other than this, Legacy's graphics could take a lesson from JDoom. JDoom seems to have better lights in most cases.

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"Carnage killed Aliotroph?"
- obituary from Perfect Dark
The Undertaker
August 12th, 2001, 02:01 AM
The lens flares are the best thing about Jdoom. I love to max out their size and intensity than fill the screen up with them. It's called eye candy. The only thing that makes JDoom stand out from the rest. If you can't eat the candy, don't take any. Turn them off.
MythoSINe
August 12th, 2001, 07:13 PM
Just downloaded JDoom... will soon play it... weeeeee... http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/biggrin.gif

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MythoSINe
Aliotroph?
August 14th, 2001, 12:04 AM
Actually, I suppose maxing out the lens flares could add a difficulty level. It's really hard to see through them when they're really big and bright with lots of little side flares. It also kills my comp.

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"Carnage killed Aliotroph?"
- obituary from Perfect Dark
Stimpee
August 15th, 2001, 02:12 AM
It seems that there are some new commands in JDoom v1.0. Try tweaking these commands:

flares,flaresize, flareintensity and flareconfig. Jaakko used these setting to create some pretty good-looking colours and eye-candy...

flares 1
flaresize 0
flareintensity 30
flareconfig 0 tex -1

But I'm sure you can tweak the numbers to reduce it if you so wish...

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Aliotroph?
August 16th, 2001, 11:42 AM
I've seen what those commands do and they're pretty cool. I think there should be some selective lens flares or something though. They look the same on every single light, which looks a little funny when you have a hundred lights in view. Maybe we have a foggy helmet or something. That could be a plausible story.

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"Carnage killed Aliotroph?"
- obituary from Perfect Dark