Mr President; the aliens? We’re being attacked.

What kind of Skimpy Souce is this?!

No orbiting objects pls

It happens. I know people have found workarounds to get fake-3D looking effects, but no idea how hard it is to do

*ontop

Nooo no. The 3D model was made but source engine doesn’t support 3D particles in a traditional way. It’s a sprite of a 3D model I made in Blender. I purposefully angled it slightly to grant it a more 3D look but it will look funny when you’re onto of someone or below someone. Luckily everything renders behind the UFO to mitigate some of the quirks. Just not all of it unfortunately.

Is it actually a 3D effect? The UFO looks so good I can't tell if it's a 3D particle or a flat image. Looks really good though, I'm just wondering how it would look from above/below since that's where the illusion might break

I’d also check out my previous ufo effect since it is basically what you said at the end. Just stands and hovers and beams.

Your concern is heard ^^ the particle actively brings itself to the center every time. Similar to how the bat effects work. The easiest test you can do is- alt tabbing in a full screen borderless and seeing it lag for yourself. The ufo does indeed “bounce and displace” but once it decides to move in the middle it just smooths out.

Lots of these ‘rotate around so and so axis’ effects are very broken by default. Lots of them also don’t have pull force towards centers or oscillators to help them recenter. This one does. All effects have a degree of breaking but this one I genuinely did try to think of everything to fix it up.

I hate circling effect they always buggs out in team fortress 2 exept for circling heart and tf2 logo and piece sign/ whould have been better if it was a hovering UFO above the head instead Beaming up a Cow or something

Thanks y’all ^^

this looks so awesome

Ahhh aliens!