Shield effects

Firekiss

Hi. How is it possible to allow more than 3 effects to be drawn as shield hit effects? I’ve seen it in one of the early Freelancer videos, they look really cool, it would be good to implement them. Any ideas?

Mindhunter

How about making overlaping frames?
I’ve not worked with shield effects yet, I simply use vanilla shield effects.

Firekiss

I think that won’t work, after further research I’ve discovered that the number of overall hit effects (shield and/or hull) cannot be larger than 3. So any OTHER ideas?

StarTrader

Is there any way to make one effect to produce 2-3 others?

Just brainstorming and throwing in a red herring or two.