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[Thomas Covenant]

Soy, on 13 April 2013 - 08:46 PM, said:

Thomas Covenant, on 13 April 2013 - 08:43 PM, said:

Fractals "frighten" and "confuse" me.

[General Taskeen]

My best guess, is that it will be like digital camo:



Just search on Google, that's exactly what "fractal" camo is.

[Merky Merc]

General Taskeen, on 13 April 2013 - 09:26 PM, said:

My best guess, is that it will be like digital camo:

We already have digital camo though?

[Fabe]

Roadbeer, on 13 April 2013 - 07:47 PM, said:

Ohhhh, you said fractal. Thought you said Fraggle.

This totaly off topic but looking at that guy I suddenly though that he would not be out of place flying a spaceship and married to a Woman would could kill him with her pinky finger.

[Otto Cannon]

Maybe nobody will ever know what fractal camo looks like because when you apply it your PC will attempt to render infinite detail and implode.

Unseen camo for the unseen mechs perhaps?

[General Taskeen]

Merky Merc, on 13 April 2013 - 09:32 PM, said:

We already have digital camo though?

Then probably a modified version of it. Just guessing.

[Soy]

LOL @ the unfrozen caveman lawyer camo meme from Thomas...

General Taskeen, on 13 April 2013 - 09:26 PM, said:

My best guess, is that it will be like digital camo:



Just search on Google, that's exactly what "fractal" camo is.

See this is what I was thinking, I did the google thing for about 20 mins before I posted this thread, I searched around, and the best guess I could come up with after searching was........ exactly this....... which begs the question.................... whats the big difference between the above type of camo and digital? Just seems very very similar if that is how it is going to look.

[Roadbeer]

Fabe, on 13 April 2013 - 09:43 PM, said:

This totaly off topic but looking at that guy I suddenly though that he would not be out of place flying a spaceship and married to a Woman would could kill him with her pinky finger.

You just combined my favorite show as a kid with my favorite show as an adult, well done sir!

Back to OP.

I think it was said that there was going to be a Digital 2 as well. The difference is, it seems to me, that fractal camoflage has larger areas of consistency. Where digital has apparently randomized 'bits' splattered about everywhere, fractal has 'patters'

[Soy]

Yeah, it did say "Digital 2" so that leads me to believe we'll basically have 4 of those types of patterns come Tuesday -

Woodland, Digital, Digital 2, and Fractal.

Worrrrrrd?

[Roadbeer]

Soy, on 14 April 2013 - 06:53 AM, said:

Yeah, it did say "Digital 2" so that leads me to believe we'll basically have 4 of those types of patterns come Tuesday -

Woodland, Digital, Digital 2, and Fractal.

Worrrrrrd?

Options are good. going to another topic, I remember a few months ago when the boards were apoplectic about there not being enough content or paint options. But if these things keep pouring out, the board is going to be 'more' on fire about how there should be more fixes and less purchasable content.

Like I said, options are good, and I'm smart enough to know that the people who make the camouflage are not the same people who squash bugs, but please, PGI, keep a little of this for later until you can get some other issues resolved. Just to shut those people up. Then you can make it rain cammo patters and cockpit items

[Vassago Rain]

I hacked the game and unlocked fractal camo already. Don't tell PGI.

[Alex Warden]

Thomas Covenant, on 13 April 2013 - 08:19 PM, said:

Like this:

i did

[Soy]

Vassago Rain, on 14 April 2013 - 07:09 AM, said:

I hacked the game and unlocked fractal camo already. Don't tell PGI.

Loooooooooool

[Jetfire]

Yeah, essentially Digital Camo is a using pixelated blocks to form patches which the mind has a hand time seeing against a background.

Fractal camo doubles down on digital by including fractals to determine placement of the pixels to generate patterns which seem to disappear into the naturally fractal patterned world around them.

[Soy]

Right... so... what you're saying is... fractal camo will basically just look like a more detailed version of Digital in MWO..?

Seems kinda redundant..?

Whatever, if it's cool I'll pick it up for something.

[AlexEss]

Well seeing as it is not redundant in reality i guess people will feel it is not redundant in here.

In my mind there is no such thing as to many camo-styles

[Soy]

While I agree with the spirit of your statements Alex, what about Phranken. That's not a real life camo, is it? Yet it's in the game cuz it's pretty neat. It's a cool skin for a mech.

So if you consider through that perspective of aesthetics over function [cuz this is a game and there is very little in the realm of 'swag' for MWO], having 4 camos that all look pretty similar might be a little redundant when most people use them for vanity or individuality purposes rather than actually camouflaging... hope this makes sense.


I'm not complaining just saying; I hope that Fractal (and Digital 2?) have something about them unique enough to hit the purchase button. ^^

Edited by Soy, 14 April 2013 - 08:30 AM.

[AlexEss]

Parade camo like the phranken(ei eyecatching and not at all practical) are common in the BT universe, especially as the role of camo for mechs is greatly diminished due to size and weight among other things.

real world camo i think should be added even if it is similar due to the fact that different styles attract different people, i for one does not like digital but i might get fractal depending on how it looks. It is the subtle nuances that might push someone to or away from spending money. And let's face it there are not that many camo patterns in the world that are distinctly different.

[Soy]

Word up, thanks for your extended thoughts.

[Jetfire]

Soy, on 14 April 2013 - 08:20 AM, said:

Right... so... what you're saying is... fractal camo will basically just look like a more detailed version of Digital in MWO..?

Seems kinda redundant..?

Whatever, if it's cool I'll pick it up for something.

It should yes, essentially be Digital, but with a different color node distribution. The current version is essentially evenly set random equal nodes. Fractal should have a main set with has the majority of the surface area covered, then a smaller set, then the smallest set.

Something to this effect as far as surface area coverage % goes.

Digital 33.33/33.33/33.33
Fractal 65/25/10