Well someone did a fix on the ship shader that reduced the lines of white pixels when zooming out, but I think Stardock actually incorporated that change (or something similar). I'll be dealing with Shaders in a class I'm in later so I hope to really examine them then.

That said, considering the shaders are going to be the main graphics change in Rebellion, I don't think its worth messing with them to much right now.

For real? Lol that sucks. I know someone who did an insane modification of the shield impact shader, which added little circles that rippled out from the weapon impact point.

Thats because the Cloak and phase jump effects use the same shader. So you cant tweak one without screwing up the other. We found this out the hard way with SoA 2 because we didnt want the ships to become transparent in warp.. Fixed that issue, but then cloaking didnt work :/ So we wound up reverting it. Better to have shimmering warp than no cloak.

There is some minor things you can do with the fx shaders, but yea we generally just leave it alone. If it aint broke. Dont fix it.

Is it not possible to use shaders to code animated textures?

Okay, because I hear HLSL shaders are pretty advanced stuff.