projectile visibility and dodging

[fronten]

From playing Quake3 i am used to have an overview of all the projectiles flying.
with Nexuiz i especially have a problem with the rockets' visibility.

On Quake3 i see a nicely drawn Rocket actually riding on a ball of Light with a nice dense smoke trail.
With Nexuiz.. i only see a small sparse smokey trail, which clearly does NOT say 'Hey, here comes a big hitter'! (this makes actually dodging rockets a no-go..)



So the question is: how to improve the weapon shots' visibility?
i am thinking of settings for trail width, color, length and time, or such..

[Pyromace]

i don't know as far as console commands go, but try increasing the particle quality in the effects menu to get more visible RL trails

[fronten]

gl_flashblend 1 did help a lot, as told by some friendly guy named div-Verent.
thank you mate, now i see at least the rockets coming in on me


maybe i should have mentioned that my hardware is quite low end for Nexuiz, being an Athlon XP 2000 with an PCI-Radeon 9200..

[k0jak]

gl_flashblend 1 did help a lot, as told by some friendly guy named div-Verent.
thank you mate, now i see at least the rockets coming in on me


maybe i should have mentioned that my hardware is quite low end for Nexuiz, being an Athlon XP 2000 with an PCI-Radeon 9200..

just about the same specs as me, so i can feel for you

[divVerent]

Ah, now I see why your system possibly is slower than the Mac mini I had tested Nexuiz on... the 9200 in the Mac mini is onboard (and probably AGP), while your 9200 is PCI. As bandwidth is a big problem there, maybe you can try to increase gl_picmip higher than the menu allows (like, to 10).

To make it take effect, do a r_restart. And make sure r_picmipworld is 1.

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

I don't think the rocket should be "dodge-able". It should be faster and deadlier!

[Psychcf]

I don't think the rocket should be "dodge-able". It should be faster and deadlier!

And then people spam with rockets, just like they do with the crylink.

[fronten]

whilest it was/is my favourite weapon in Quake3, i personally dislike the rocket launcher of Nexuiz.. sort of slow moving rockets, odd looking and hard to predict its flight vector when coming in..

anyway: ist there a way to change the projectile trails - its color, density, width, persistence?

like as such: cg_railtrailtime XXXX(ms) to define the longevity of the Nexuiz rail trail (if it would actually work, hahaha)

[divVerent]

No, there is no way to change that other than changing effectinfo.txt, and that's considered cheating and will e.g. get you banned from the ladder.

[fronten]

okay, thanks..
i have not yet played ladder or such; but i will align with its rules in favour of fairness anyway.