We want 3D polygonal battle effects [dev1037]

[Alhanelem]

We don't want SNES graphics again now!

Frankly, I think the SNES was the greatest age of gaming.

[Jinko]

Oh you are saying you prefer a 2D photoshop overlay for your fire effect? Why don't you go make a thread called 2D Photoshop overlay fire effects then?

I didn't say that I wanted 2D effects idiot, I said that fire and air are very hard to make look 3D, water, stone, ice and lightning are all relatively easy to make in 3D, but fire and air both act like or are gases how do you render that without it looking solid or 2D.

The only way is to have an advance physics engine and that's would just be eating resources on already unoptimised code.

[Neptune]

Frankly, I think the SNES was the greatest age of gaming.

I agree!

I didn't say that I wanted 2D effects idiot, I said that fire and air are very hard to make look 3D, water, stone, ice and lightning are all relatively easy to make in 3D, but fire and air both act like or are gases how do you render that without it looking solid or 2D.

The only way is to have an advance physics engine and that's would just be eating resources on already unoptimised code.

Fire is plasma. You posted in opposition to my thread, I assumed you supported the crappy 2D effects we have now. If you support better graphics why didn't you say so?

[Mudd]

I'd like to see them add more battle animations first, but this is a second thing to do.

[Gilgamesh_VII]

Battle Effects like in final fantasy X. Something that whats use to cast that magic again. or add more then one battle animations for each magic that.

[Aytri]

Mmm I agree that there is a lack of visuals for spells ^^; Everything in the game looks so good then bam... I like the visuals for things like Protect, Shell, Shock Spikes, Stone Skin, but all the elemental spells look dull. I want to see things like Lightening coming down when I use Thunder, and more of a burst when I use fire, etc... I realize some things are quite difficult to make all 3D, but having a mix of the two would be nice ^^. Not sure how hard this would be, but by the looks of the rest of the games visual quality, should be attainable.

[gifthorse]

The proposed change to increase size is good for right now. But we want to see 3D polygonal battle effects. All the buffs in FFXIV look great:

-Protect
-Shell
-Stoneskin
-Rampart
-Effect of getting hit through protect

Great effects!

All offensive magic effects look flat and 2D.. resize isn't going to fix it. Please redesign it to look like great 3D elemental magic.. this is 2011 for Christ's sake! We don't want SNES graphics again now! We've been imagining great spell effects since the 1980's.. come on! Look at this stuff right here:

http://www.syaoran.net/blog/wp-conte...ppaiceball.jpg
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IPm60Khr9wo/hqdefault.jpg
http://nerdreactor.com/wp-content/up...0_848475_n.jpg

That's what we want! Fire up your imaginations!

I know! All the resize did was draw even more attention to how heinous the original effects were.