Friday 2010-08-20 Dev. update and Discussions

[drafting]

Originally Posted by Insuber

Bravo for the job, but your edits look cartoonish and unrealistic, especially the first one. I suggest to take a look at guncams such as the famous one here

you'll see explosions and smoke like this one, quite different from yours (and Olegs ...):

Insuber, I really think you're missing the forest for the trees here...

It sounds like you're against the heavy black smoke, but I'm not talking about types of smoke (thin/white, heavy/black, etc (even though heavy/black DID happen occasionally)); I'm only talking about a transition animation in the smoke between on and off. Also, I can't create new graphics... I'm just using photoshop to edit what's shown.

That said... your very own example screenshot sort of contradicts my first edit. I have arrows pointing to the initial puffy explosion:



Here're some other examples from your video:



If the smoke doesn't erupt violently like that, then it's usually going to build up in an increasingly thicker fashion, ala edit 2 & 3.

It's kind of hard to agree on which kind of smoke should appear when, and that's up to Oleg and company, but one thing that I'm pretty certain of is that smoke doesn't appear out of thin air in a perfect undisturbed column.