Imperial Cutter Engine color effects

NW3

NW3
MrFailfactory said:
Has anyone else noticed that these colors don't seem to be created equal? For example, the blue looks really wimpy compared to the yellow, almost like there is too much brightness in the center of some of them, and the streams themselves also appear to be less as a whole.
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Part of the issue is that the human eye is much less sensitive to blue. I think that may be part of the reason why FD avoids pure blue for our flight suits.

Green is the most visible color, then red, then blue. The standard relative brightness formula used to convert color images to grayscale is: G*59% + R*30% + B*11%, so blue is 1/3 as visible than red and only 1/5 as visible than green.

To illustrate, I took the blue engines image above and only changed the color hue, not the brightness. See how much brighter the engines are, when the blue has been shifted to green...

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I seriously considered getting the blue, because it's less visible and my ship is black. (It's like an invisibility cloak.) I'd definitely spring for black engines, which (I guess) would only be visible against a sun as a background, like black smoke. In the end, I bought purple engines, to match my weapons. I think it gives a nice "uv blacklight" vibe.
 
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Daniel Cloudsifter

Daniel Cloudsifter
Soliluna said:
Felfire Cutter. I love the look of that green.
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Yeah. I use that color on my Anaconda, which also has Raider ship kit. She also has an overcharged poweplant, which I asked the engineer to make it look it had a containment leak (while still be safe). :)


To the OP, I also own Orange (which looks good as a "normal" color) and Red (gives a dirty/overcharged look, imo). I recently picked up Blue for my Imperial Clipper. I will probably use Blue on my cutter as well.
 

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My Viper Mk IV be black with white detailing, white pulse SRV, and I'm thinking of getting the brawler nameplates. One of them is pretty metal.
 

Wobblin-Gobblin

Wobblin-Gobblin
So what's the point of the engine-colors?

I'm fine with dfferent colors for the weapons, but the engines? This looks like a candy-shop imo.

So, how are these colors produced ingame? With chemicals burned with the fuel?
 

ShimEnki

ShimEnki
These look pretty good! I'm thinking if they are easily changed I might buy the lot of them and use them for particular mission types.

Red maybe for take care of business assass missions etc
 

GG7

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FudePoof said:
I'm thinking of picking up a color. I'd prefer not to dump my wallet on the frontier store.
Does anyone have pictures of the engine color effects to help me slim down my choice?


(Matching ship color isn't a poblem for me....I already dumped my wallet once or twice)
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I bought 4 colors for my various ships, and I like the ORANGE best for my Cutter.
 

GG7

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Wobblin-Gobblin said:
So what's the point of the engine-colors?
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They have more to do with your vapor trail color than anything else, which matches the actual exhaust/thruster color coming out of the nozzles.

These trails appear brighter and thus longer lasting than the default.
 
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Amargosa

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GG7 said:
They have more to do with your vapor trail color than anything else, which matches the actual exhaust/thruster color coming out of the nozzles.

These trails appear brighter and thus longer lasting than the default.
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Aren't vapor trails in space unrealistic? They even move and dissipate as if there was wind pushing them in an atmosphere.
 

Connolly91

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I think Cyan goes really well with the Imperial Ships. Even though the 'Imperial' colour seems to be green or blue (green for Hammers and Prisma shields, blue for the capital ships' weaponry), cyan seems to just look better imho.
 

Wobblin-Gobblin

Wobblin-Gobblin
CMDR Crank Larson said:
It's all candy shop, lol. I've got purple engines/weapons with Black Friday paint on my Cutter. I can highly recommend it. I'll see if I can grab a screenshot next time I am in it.
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FD should use these colors to fight the beige plaque. I think the thargoid-motherships (?) are the right way, pls more planets with sharp mountains and fog. Come on FD, try it :)
 
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