[Mars]

I like the way the SGreen looks, but I agree it needs to be made smaller

[Woolie Wool]

Wait, I assume they kept the old Leviathan design...

EDIT: I got them...one question: why do you use the old Ursa texture?!?

I guess they prefer a clean Ursa over a grimy Ursa. They're both 2048x1024.

[Mobius]

I guess they prefer a clean Ursa over a grimy Ursa. They're both 2048x1024.

The new texture is much better, the old one wasn't good because of the fact that it was clean and looked strange.

[Woolie Wool]

How does it look strange? Maybe they hose it off in between sorties?

[GTSVA]

Whenever I use a Media Vps as a mod, my ships turn white, or when I play, my afterburner glows are boxed white and my primary and secondary weps are white.!! the planets and the nebulas are upgraded....

[GTSVA]

Can anyone please post what they have in their FS2 folder, their command line and everything else to make the MEDIAVPS 3.6.10 Beta have the best graphics possible for me?

[colecampbell666]

I'm setting it up again now, so I'll post what I do. (you should be using a 3.6.10 build from the FSO Installer to get max graphics, as well as the 3.6.10 Beta MediaVPs)

Under the "Features" tab:
Under "Graphics":

• Specular
• Glowmaps
• Environment Maps
• Mipmapping
• Normal Maps
• Lighting to Missiles

Everything under "HUD"

Under "Gameplay":

• Use Models For Ship Selection
• Enable 3D Warp
• Enable Flash Upon Warp

There is a dumpload of other stuff you could do, I'm making a topic to find the best stuff, as I need this info too now that I upgraded my PC. (I can finally use AdVPs)

[chief1983]

I don't know if using the 3.6.10 beta vps is a good idea yet, nor do I think that build is a good option yet either.  For a new person I'd still recommend the 3.6.9 build and the 3.6.8 vps.  If you want to be bleeding edge, go ahead with the newer stuff, but be warned they have a significant amount of bugs in the last public release.

[Woolie Wool]

3.6.8 Zeta has obnoxious environment map bugs.

[chief1983]

So turn off specular alpha mapping, it's far easier to deal with than most of the bugs I've seen reported in the 3.6.10 betas.

[blowfish]

Even without spectacular alpha mapping, some ships are just too shiny (like the Trition IIRC)

[Vasudan Admiral]

It's the env mapping making the medusa, pegassus, triton, lucifer, tc-tri and aeolus ultra shiny because those old versions were made before the alpha env mapping became mainstream. They had pure white alpha maps which told the game that the entire surface had mirror like reflections.

As Chief says though, you can turn off the env mapping and the regular shine maps will still work fine.

GTSVA: are you running the game in open GL mode?

[Mobius]

How does it look strange? Maybe they hose it off in between sorties?

They're too clean and don't look realistic. The ones freespaceking made are much better.

[Colonol Dekker]

 


I still need to download these so i reserve my right to comment until future notice............

[Mobius]

I think freespaceking made them public, they're somewhere in the Inferno forum.

[colecampbell666]

I think freespaceking made them public, they're somewhere in the Inferno forum.

That be the place. Yarr.

[GTSVA]

Yes, I am using OPENGL,

and my ships still appear white.....

Where can I get the 3.6.10 build, I already have the MediaVPS 3.6.10 Beta...

[chief1983]

There's quite a few experimental builds in the Source Code Project -> Recent Builds section, but nothing official yet.

[blowfish]

Look for one of the XT builds.  Those are the ones that support normal maps.

[Zacam]

Don't forget that a sdr####.vp is also going to be needed to actually SEE the normal maps and other effects.

I recommend XT 0314 and sdr1107. There are other combinations, but this one produces the smoothest performance with the least amount of issues. (Like nameplate alpha corruption and other graphical related issues.)