Wish list Item: Gaurdian shield bubble graphic

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This is one of my wish list items.  Please please please change the gaurdians shield bubble so that it doesnt end up looking like a giant blob of white on my screen.  When several gaurdians fire this off not only can I NOT see (at all) any of the units in the cloud but it lags out my machine.  I absolutely love this game but have very little desire to play advent because I would like to be able to see my own units.  So can we please change it so that the graphic doesnt stack when more than one of them fires it up?  With just one its alright.  The problem is when more than one does.

thanks for considering.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
ahaha yeah..

A shader with a fresnel alpha please?

The fresnel alpha would be 100% transparent near the center, and the same opaqueness on the edges. So you'd only see the effect on the edges of the bubble no matter how you turn the camera.

Example on the middle and bottom.
One part of the fresnel is the reflection, the other part just a diffuse.
But instead imagine the reflection part is the current shield effect and the grey diffuse part is completely transparent.

The fresnel measures the angle of the camera. More dead on(the center of a sphere) and you get channel 1, steeper angle and get channel 2.

It would be perfect imo and help the stacking a lot!
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Sounds Perfect! Would allows us to still see the range of the effect by without the nasty side affects of not being able to see......anything else. :)
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