Rocket Boots without the trail

[Starhammer]

I wish in the FX option on the Rocket Boots we could also have a "tintable, no trail" option. When you're flying forward, it just turns the middle of your screen into a massive blur of particles. It doesn't make anything look better. Of course, we can disable the effect with /NoParticles, but that disables the primary jet effects as well, leaving the whole thing gone... all or nothing.

We should be able to do better

[Snarky]

38 minutes ago, Starhammer said:

I wish in the FX option on the Rocket Boots we could also have a "tintable, no trail" option. When you're flying forward, it just turns the middle of your screen into a massive blur of particles. It doesn't make anything look better. Of course, we can disable the effect with /NoParticles, but that disables the primary jet effects as well, leaving the whole thing gone... all or nothing.

We should be able to do better

Have you tried zooming out while flying?

[srmalloy]

4 hours ago, Starhammer said:

When you're flying forward, it just turns the middle of your screen into a massive blur of particles.

Try flying through Echo:DA with any of the Ice armors active, or the Fire armors. Rocket Boots are such a piddling part of the "blocks your vision while flying" collection of power visuals. With many of them, I've found that the way to address the issue is to point your line of flight down and hold down the "up" key (i.e., spacebar) so the net effect is your flying horizontally with the power effects trailing below your line of sight.

[Starhammer]

On 11/13/2024 at 11:36 AM, srmalloy said:

Try flying through Echo:DA with any of the Ice armors active, or the Fire armors. Rocket Boots are such a piddling part of the "blocks your vision while flying" collection of power visuals. With many of them, I've found that the way to address the issue is to point your line of flight down and hold down the "up" key (i.e., spacebar) so the net effect is your flying horizontally with the power effects trailing below your line of sight.

Yup, all issues it would be nice to improve on... and yet, nothing about other problems being as bad or worse is a good reason not to improve this. And yeah, I'm familiar with looking down and pressing "up" but that is also suboptimal.
 

On 11/13/2024 at 7:43 AM, Snarky said:

Have you tried zooming out while flying?

yes, generally at max zoom.  (wish that could be set to zoom out further too, but that's a different technical issue they seem intent to ignore till the end of time)

[Luminara]

I didn't even notice that these boots had a trail until I saw this thread, but that's because I fly in the Hover stance (Hover's pose overrides Fly's pose), which places the FX at the bottom of the screen.

 

Might be a workaround for you.

Edited December 9 by Luminara