Geomancer makes me sick :(

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Originally Posted by Yinnyth

I'm no expert on the topic, but I'm pretty sure a visible ring rendered at ground level around the caster would eat up as much processing power as a sphere around its center. Yes, a circle is simpler in nature than a sphere, but ground is uneven, so that's a calculation which must be made based on the current terrain. A sphere, however, is always a sphere.

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Its not about lowering processing power, but making the effect not hurt peoples eyes or head.

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Originally Posted by Demon6324236

Its not about lowering processing power, but making the effect not hurt peoples eyes or head.

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I was responding more to this post, but was too lazy to quote:

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Originally Posted by Kaisha

Any longer-term plans like offering an optional simplified version of the spherical effect for both performance reasons, and being able to see what you're doing?

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As for the motion sickness issues... I'm no doctor, I don't understand the mechanics of how motion sickness works in detail, and I don't get motion sickness from these spheres so regrettably there's nothing I can really add to the conversation.

Wonder how they do the Sphere: effects from armour that has it without having the effects GEO has? Meaning... Wonder if could do it like them in some regards?

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Sorry for the delay! Due to the special nature of geomancy spells’ effects, it took some time to check up on this.

We are currently working on making it so can toggle the effect of the Indi- geomancy spells ON/OFF. As long as there are no major issues, we are aiming to implement this feature during the version update, which is scheduled for the end of this month.

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It's a start! I might be able to level GEO now if I don't use Geo-spells. But until Geo-spells are also filtered or long term fixes are in place Geomancers might still be asked to come other jobs to do content.

Couldn't they do something along the lines of how they do Sphere Effect bodies?

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Originally Posted by Harle

What about geo- spells ... The luopan aura is just as sickening as the geomancer's ...

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The Geo- spells are somewhat tricky due to the fact that they are treated as pets, so we would have to take a different approach to make graphical adjustments due to this special characteristic.

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Originally Posted by Delvish

What about a half sphere, essentially cutting off the animation at ankle or knee height. This would give you the circle effect on the ground regardless of terrain, and give off the vision that the effects are being drawn from the earth.

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While we can't promise anything, we will continue to look into ways to improve the geomancer's spell graphics and let you know once we have an update.

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Originally Posted by Arkista

Couldn't they do something along the lines of how they do Sphere Effect bodies?

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That's essentially how they work. That has nothing to do with graphics- Sphere bodies have no graphic indicating their area of effect.

Anyway, they should have been able to optimize these effects better. While every kind of spell effect should have a toggle for various reasons, they should have tested this more thoroughly so that they could give us an indication of effect radius without hurting FPS on low end machines (I've had no issues with this personally and my machine isn't exactly top of the line, but if you're playing on a PC made for the game when it was new, I can see that)

Hopefully they can do something without making drastic alterations, because I like the current spell effects. It's just a shame there were some unintended consequences.

Sometimes the simplest of solutions work the best.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4420/spellaoe.jpg

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...isheriff/W.jpg

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

The Geo- spells are somewhat tricky due to the fact that they are treated as pets, so we would have to take a different approach to make graphical adjustments due to this special characteristic.

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I had assumed Luopans were simply a stationary graphic that gives off the same aura graphic as a GEO PC.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

The Geo- spells are somewhat tricky due to the fact that they are treated as pets, so we would have to take a different approach to make graphical adjustments due to this special characteristic.

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Possible for the devs to make it apply for the avatar 'glow' effect also since it's all under Pets to begin with? Would be win-win for a lot of folks in terms of areas where the framerate on FFXI's engine struggles on modern hardware.

I think the less graceful on/off solution won't show its full potential until they also finish up making all the buff icons unique as they said they would like to do. Since I imagine at that point one would simply have to look at the icon displayed to know that they are still within range. Granted even at that point I can still see the need for a simpler graphical representation.

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Originally Posted by Zirael

Sometimes the simplest of solutions work the best.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4420/spellaoe.jpg

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/a...isheriff/W.jpg

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These would be nice to be done for those of us who do get quezzy from the aura effect. Mainly if we can do /geoaura off and these be the only remaining effects it would be nice.

I'm not sure why the current geo effect was ever approved. Some of them look cool, but for the most part they are really annoying to see in combat.

If the only options are on and off, can we at least get a log message when an indi aura wears off? Unlike buffing indis, where you can look for a status bar icon, debuff indis give no visual clue that the effect is active, other than the aura. With no log message either, we'll be stuck just watching the game clock for these.

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Originally Posted by Kari

I'm not sure why the current geo effect was ever approved. Some of them look cool, but for the most part they are really annoying to see in combat.

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I think they look fine. Obviously there is the health & safety issue presented in this thread, but ignoring that I think they look good.

Did someone say low-end PCs and lag? I've got the perfect solution:

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Originally Posted by Matsui

Make your PC suck less

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Seriously, it's 2013, what computer are you running on that isn't windows 7 with at least a custom GPU/Processor already?

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Originally Posted by Quetzacoatl

Did someone say low-end PCs and lag? I've got the perfect solution:

Seriously, it's 2013, what computer are you running on that isn't windows 7 with at least a custom GPU/Processor already?

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No offense but I thought it may of been from me playing on windows xp so I spent a while uploading it onto windows 8 and guess what? Still can't play around with geo lol. So windows version is not the issue no offense intended.

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Originally Posted by Logandor

No offense but I thought it may of been from me playing on windows xp so I spent a while uploading it onto windows 8 and guess what? Still can't play around with geo lol. So windows version is not the issue no offense intended.

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Who said anything about operating system? of course it's not the OS- it's the hardware in your system....

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Originally Posted by Delvish

What about a half sphere, essentially cutting off the animation at ankle or knee height. This would give you the circle effect on the ground regardless of terrain, and give off the vision that the effects are being drawn from the earth.

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No ill explain with this reply why not:

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I'm a little puzzled what it might be about the aura effects that would trigger epeleptic events, there's nothing particularly flashy or intense about the visual effect. Motion sickness makes more sense; the game doesn't have many other visual effects that are continuous.

Regardless, good on SE for putting in the opiton, since we can toggle most other visual effects as well. I haven't really had performance issues myself but I've seen quite a few people talking about it.

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It has to do with the drastic color change. there is dence patches then all of a sudden you see no color.

cutting this off to be at knee level on a cheater might just make it worse because now you are starring at normal with the flash in flash out. It needs to be more "solid" and not moving. Like anti zone barrier in wow gave me no issues:

http://www.tentonhammer.com/image/view/41664/preview
if you do first person or angle the camera to be more behind the character you see the sphere lie ffxi.. only it does not make you sick..

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Sorry for the delay! Due to the special nature of geomancy spells’ effects, it took some time to check up on this.

We are currently working on making it so can toggle the effect of the Indi- geomancy spells ON/OFF. As long as there are no major issues, we are aiming to implement this feature during the version update, which is scheduled for the end of this month.

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can they make the filter labels not be confusing while they are at this? (well actually that is more for chat filters)

Could I ask for some clarification on where the new filter is located? I'm playing on PC and I do not see anything under Config > Effects that has to do with Indicolure spells.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

It's coupled with PC effects (player character) so if you see a Geo outside of party w/ that effect you'd want to click the "Non Party PC effect -> "w/e target they happen to target" "

I thought this was supposed to be fixed?
Still happens.....