[Cobra]

New rig, better screenshots.



Is this Axem's effect?

[bloated]

I have a cppl questions.

1 what files or more importantly what settings do I need to enable to get my game looking like the last 2 pages of screenshots...... my Shivan capital ships no longer are emmitting flashes at the origin of their beam fire points and the beams certainly don't look like what I've witnessed in the last cppl pages.

also while the explosion effects are improved I'm not seeing anything like what's rendered when capital ships explode.

also what hardware requirements are needed to run max settings on everything.

I have 2 computers a Conroe 6600 with an X1900 XTX and 2048mb of DDR2 800 and an old P4 1.6a with 512mb of DDR with a 9600XT video card.

I've little doubt if need the Conroe and the XTX should be able to handle the game but what files do I need?

[Dark Hunter]

You need to look at this thread.

If you're new to FSOpen, this might be a good read as well.

And I'd say your first (more powerful) comp should be able to handle it. Mine has less RAM than yours and it still runs at top-quality with no slowdowns. 

Is this Axem's effect?

I don't think so... his effect has a larger white center and is overall more fluid. But then, I've never seen a Knossos jump up close with his effect activated...

[S-99]

That should be axems affect. Keep in mind that's a subspace point that isn't fully opened in that screenshot.

[Dark Hunter]

You're right it is. The teal subspace warps look different than the blue ones with Axem's effect... weird.

[Taristin]

I cant wait to get a real graphics card in here. This is with an Intel x3000:

[S-99]

wow, that's not to bad for intel graphics.  Intel graphics use to suck until they came out with the extreme line on up.  You probably wanted just a glory shot, or do you really try to play the game at 1600x900? I doubt it, at a lower resolution like 1152x864 will  probably yield superior speed differences than what you took this screenshot in.
13.3fps is sad, but like i said, you're probably just taking a glory shot.  After all, that is the nicest looking freighter in the game, i was never sure if the htl model had too much detail on it. it's ridiculously good looking

[Polpolion]

Someone really needs to HTL the Boadecia:


http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8050/eyesbleedtc0.png

[Taristin]

wow, that's not to bad for intel graphics.  Intel graphics use to suck until they came out with the extreme line on up.  You probably wanted just a glory shot, or do you really try to play the game at 1600x900? I doubt it, at a lower resolution like 1152x864 will  probably yield superior speed differences than what you took this screenshot in.
13.3fps is sad, but like i said, you're probably just taking a glory shot.  After all, that is the nicest looking freighter in the game, i was never sure if the htl model had too much detail on it. it's ridiculously good looking

My monitor actually doesnt support too many resolutions, so 1600x900 is almost a requirement. The game is playable at that resolution, as I get~25fps... most of the time...


This is the only intel integrated solution with HTL. The eXtreme line still does suck. I have it in my laptop (extreme graphics 2), and its a pile of ****e. The drivers still need a lot of work, but its getting better, slowly. Still, I'd like an 8800GTX to crank this up in ;} The new G965 chipset with the x3000 is better... but its not for gaming at all.

[Shade]

Someone really needs to HTL the Boadecia:

Yeah. Ew. A decent normal map could help that a lot though even without any model upgrade, once those are implemented, since it's the lighting that really makes the low-polyness of the thing stand out.

[Taristin]

Someone really needs to HTL the Boadecia:


http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8050/eyesbleedtc0.png

The problem with that is the hierarchy. IIRC its extremely difficult to get it correct, and even Volition cheated with it...

[Trivial Psychic]

I like the way that there is submodel debris though.  In fact, its the only model I've ever seen that uses it.

[Charismatic]

Great Collie shot guys, keep em comeing!

[wtf_cl0vvn]

"King's Gambit".

Ahhh, Kings Gambit, one of my fav missions ever. Love the screenshots!

And they do look like lightsaber fights dont they sometimes. especially with slash beams

I shall go screencap hunting now

[Charismatic]

I bet someone will do a star wars fight with cap ships, like someone did a whole human\vasudan\shivan megabot fight once. They added millions of Terran ships togeather to from a big robot etc. Was pritty cool.

[Falcon]

Hmmm....

[Cobra]

nice.

Just how many frames per second were you getting, anyway?

What I don't get is how I'm like the only one who's getting the screwed up "no nameplate present" texture.

[Herra Tohtori]

Here be some pearls of my screenshots folder.


The GTVA Colossus prevails!



<That shockwave really is a sweet effect - and it doesn't even make my system kneel too badly... Guess I', lucky.  >

But there's a dark side to every victory... "Avoid the beam and you won't get hit!"



<no, that's not actually a standard mediaVP beam effect, but it's a cool screenie and fits the context>


Aeolus-class cruiser, all alone in space...



Shivan Demon-class destroyer getting pwned.



Something else getting pwned, GTVA forces bugging out.




Three Terran cruisers: GTC Ouroboros, GTC Jefferson and GTC Righteous Fire (respectively).

[Falcon]

...Just how many frames per second were you getting, anyway?

^^ 4.1


I have about 99 ships firing on each other as well. 

[S-99]

Hey Herra. Where'd you get the beams for what the colossus is shooting? Are those the beams that one dude was working on in the modding forum? Were those ever finished?