I want my shields with fudge ripple.  This shader mod is spectacular. 

Right before you posted this I was playing with a "fractal shield effect" to sort of simulate it.  A shield in hundreds of scattered pieces.

This is a lot more towards what I actually wanted.

Oh it completely sucks.  I suspect in my case it's duE to lack of proper tangents.

I know an irregular, assymetrical shield canwork as I used the Vasari minelayer shiel on a Nantes sized model with great effect--except under heavy fire the entire shield becomes visible as a ghostly Vasari minelayer.

I think using layered geodesic shapes, hexagons, polygons, bubbles, triangles or even extruded and connected blobs can work but the effect here surpasses my efforts due tolack of skills on my part.

I could be wrong, but assuming he only changed particle effects and/or shaders it should be fine for multiplayer.

its only a Shader/Pipeline effect modification

I plan to release a few versions of the shield shader in October, or shortly after the release of a first version of Max's mod, whichever is sooner. I don't want to release it right now, to give Max a chance to release something first. But perhaps setting a timeframe might also encourage him to release something sooner

Looking forward to it guys.

That would work.

Chances are anyone who is going to use custom .fx files knows how to make the basics of a mod.  You should definitely include a line about not overwriting anything in your main Sins folder, though, just to be safe.

Please release, that's superb!

It would be nice actually

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Exactly.