Nice!

Now about that mod.... is there any info available yet?

Are you releasing the shader by itself or you just wanted to display their work?

AKA: no.

To be far, the two SW mods do entirely different things and aren't comparable outside models. For all we know this could be an Requiem version of Star Trek...

The mesh is not changed, its only a shader adjustment currently we are tweaking to see if we can get the "reflections" to work with the shield color.

it should work with any mesh and from what ive tested yesterday it DOES, so you can have hull hugging shields and this effect will still work.

as for the reflections

They works but it can make the shields way to dark or way to bright depending on the background (reg and green background makes it superbright, and the dark blue ones make it very hard to see)

Very nice, guys! Keep it up!

Impressive young Skywalker.

I wonder if he can make an option to have it with or without team colors?

I definitely like the effect.

That would be great.  I'm still impressed.  I wouldn't even have known us mere "users" could have done this.

Would be great if you could key it to the team color option in-game so it can be turned on and off--or if cinematic mode did it--either way (I'm thinking screen shots here).

Haha, thanks . Luckily for us users, the shader files are accessible and easily modifiable. If you use the dev version of the game, it reloads the necessary files automatically and you even get compilation errors if you screw up . Currently it's even faster than updating shaders in Unity3D (to be fair, Unity3d has to compile Cg into many different files, so it has a lot more work to do)

The colors are actually based on race color, not team color, which is why the ship I keep showing screenshots of is yellow (neutral planet). Max can probably tell you more about it.


New Stuff:
I studied the existing code some more, because there were some things I didn't know how to change. Turns out that directionality of the shield impacts is actually built-in, but invisible because of the way it is applied.

I modified most parts of the pixel shader to support better reflections than our first attempt, and a Cloudy noise effect.
Unfortunately, the original effect covered up some problems with the uv-mapping of the shield, and as soon as I modified the noise, the individual polygons became a bit too easy to see:

So I changed the noise texture lookup to be based on the actual position of the pixel in space.

Which gives a better result for bubble shields.
Same effect, lowered minimum shield opacity:

There are still some things I'd like to add. Max was hoping I could apply bloom to the shield so it seems to glow, and I agree that would probably look cool, but I'm not sure how to do that yet. Also, since I replaced the original ripple effect, I want to create a new one. Perhaps a band of high opacity moving across the shield.

But first, it's time to get some sleep ^^.

I hope you guys like it .


[Edit] uploaded copies of the images to my own website, because Steam did not like the hotlinking ^^

Looks even better.  Man, you guys are good.

Some really nice work going on here, well done.