[Tolwyn]

The explosions are still a subject to change. We'll sort it out after my return I guess

Nice pictures, Starman, I just wish you would turn the specular mapping on Or are you using Catalyst 5.5+?

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Looking very nice. Can't wait to play

Btw, have you considered using my starfield skysphere? Or do you have something cooler brewing in your secret laboratory?

[Starman01]

Flying off to work.....




@Tolwyn: This time I had the specmaps enabled, though not that I see much difference here . I'm currently using the omega-drivers, which gave me + 45 FPS (at least according to the freespace-counter)

[Rant-Mode] : I hate that turret-arm erection. Damn you volition for making the turretcode such a mess that the SCP-Gurus can't fix that [/Rant-Mode]

[Tolwyn]

@Starman: ATI driver versions 5.5 or higher no longer support spec mapping in the direct X mode.

[Starman01]

Hm, I thought this was just a bug and will be resolved with later drivers. Not that it hurts me, since I don't want to play with shinemaps anyway

[Kazan]

radeons MUST be in OpenGL to be able to use specular - specular highlighting is not in the d3d specification so when ATI got strict about conforming to the spec they dropped it (so technically the fact that specular works in D3D at all is the drivers supporting things that are not in spec)

[meisdavidp]

would ATI driver roll-back fix that? or am I just SOL with my otherwise wonderful ATI Radeon 98XX?

[Kazan]

just play in OpenGL

[Wanderer]

Originally posted by Starman01
[Rant-Mode] : I hate that turret-arm erection. Damn you volition for making the turretcode such a mess that the SCP-Gurus can't fix that [/Rant-Mode]

A bit offtopic but,

Why won't you use animation code to align the turrets?

$Subsystem:                     turret05,    3.4, 20.0
$Default PBanks:        ( "MTGun Twin" ) ;MTGun Twin
$animation=triggered
$type="inital"
+relative_angle:        90,0,0

EDIT: Try copying the last three lines to multipart turret table entries. First number is barrel elevation in degrees (0 = normal barrel elevation, 90 = level), second number is turret facing in degrees (for topside turrets 0=front, downside turrets 180= front) and third number doesn't work.

[Tolwyn]

Because the code had been removed and was resubmitted just a short while ago.

[Starman01]

Exactly, and I already fixed the ships.tbl to display all turrets in a correct matter. Nevertheless, thanks for the input Wanderer

[meisdavidp]

Originally posted by Kazan
just play in OpenGL

Unfortunately, OpenGL has some problems for me. Menus have what I'm guessing are transparency issues and OpenGL is just slower in general in my experience... And not Env support at that... *cries*

[meisdavidp]

wow... I could be completely wrong... but Catalyst 10.x seems to support spec... alls I know is that env works and ships are so much shinier than they ever were ever since I installed it a few hours ago...

[Aginor]

Hi there!

I'd like to ask:
What about a few new Screenshots?
That would be very nice, for I've been jumping around nervously for quite a while, waiting for new screenshots and, of course, for the game itself.

 

Btw: What I've seen already from that game is great. Good work!     


Aginor

[Starman01]

Indeed, it's about a time. The thing is, we (the dev-team) are getting so much used to the game that we are not thinking about that and rather work on boring stuff like installers or so

I'm going to take a few screenshot in a short time.

[DaBrain]

From the prologue:









I'm using the HDRish postfilter (ATI).

[gevatter Lars]

Looks nice. Maybe a little bit strong for my taste since it seams to be applied to everything bit still nice.

[diceman111]

meh I prefer my NVIDIA Geforce 7950GX2

/Dice