Geomancer makes me sick :(

[Demon6324236]

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.

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

[Yinnyth]

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

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

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?

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.

[Infidi]

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?

[Jem]

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.

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.

[Arkista]

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

[Okipuit]

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

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.

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.

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.

[Alhanelem]

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

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.

[Zirael]

Sometimes the simplest of solutions work the best.

[Kojo]

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.

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

[Kaisha]

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.

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.