What happened to the way the Squads and Viral units look?

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What happened to the way the Squads and Viral units look?

Postby St!gar » Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:17 pm

I just recieved my first Squad as a powerup, and I noticed that the shimmering, pixellated effect from Darwinia is gone! Now they just look like grey, blocky 3D models, the way they "really" looked when you'd accidentally view them from too close in Darwinia. Same with the Virii. They now simply look like the textureless models they are underneath all the shimmering. Why is that? I loved that effect in Darwinia! It looked more VR/primitive, and made them easier to see, too. Did the devs suddenly find it to be to taxing for most computers, or something? Then at least they could have added it as an on/off toggle-option.

Or is this a some kind of error with my game alone? :?

*EDIT* And by the way, the air -distortion/shockwave-y effect from explotions seems to be gone as well...
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Postby Xocrates » Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:43 pm

All that stuff was probably considered unnecessary visual clutter and was removed (not to mention they made the game even heavier than what it currently is). Frankly, I'm thankful for it as I never quite liked them.
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Postby RabidZombie » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:07 pm

I thought it was broken. :S
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Postby St!gar » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:39 pm

Hmmm... I can't seem to find the folder anywhere... could it be because I downloaded it from Steam...?
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Postby RabidZombie » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:46 pm

The steam version would be Steam\SteamApps\common\Multiwinia\preferences.txt
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Postby St!gar » Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:56 pm

Hmmm. Apparently, my preferences.txt already has RenderPixelShader set to =1. Weird, because they still don't show up in the game. :?
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Postby St!gar » Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:10 pm

Maybe it's fixed in the patch? I have the Steam version, so I'm not going to find out just yet.

Oh, and could anyone please move this thread into "General"? I mistakenly posted it in the wrong subforum. :oops: This has got nothing to do with gameplay, after all...
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Postby frenchfrog » Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:46 pm

Shader are disable in Multiwinia.
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Postby Jazz Ad » Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:27 pm

What a shame, I like the pixel effect.
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Postby RabidZombie » Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:42 pm

Ditto.
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Postby DoubleFelix » Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:21 am

I liked it. :(
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Postby Doncommie » Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:16 pm

Me too.
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Postby TomCat39 » Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:49 am

However Shaders cost. And Multiwinia tends to have WAY more stuff going on that cost is a BIG factor.

In Darwinia, it rarely got even half as crazy so you could afford to spend on shaders and extra hoopla.

I think they wanted to allow Multiwinia to run on more machines than just the top dual or triple sli machines with top notch cards in them etc etc.
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Postby RabidZombie » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:58 am

Except, it could have been, and always has been, an option.
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Postby TomCat39 » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:02 am

RabidZombie wrote:Except, it could have been, and always has been, an option.

True, very very true.

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