[Black Wolf]

Ugh :ICK: Who decided on that Flak animation? All it does is obscure the ship I'm trying to fire at.

And yes, I know that if I don't like it I can change it, and yes, that is what I plan to do. But I'm sure a lot of newbies wouldn't be able to...

[taylor]

What the hell is wrong with the subspace model?!  This may have been fixed already but the POFs (subspace_big, subspace_small) are in the wrong directory ('data/effects' rather than 'data/models').  Looks like it's using the new textures but the original model.

[Steel]

Folks (WMCoolmon?),
Is this ready to download now, or is there more organizing to do?  My head is spinning with all this stuff!!!    Thx.

[WMCoolmon]

What Black Wolf and taylor said in the last two posts, plus more.

[Steel]

Thx Coolmon - I will set our folks to waiting a bit more.  If they get frustrated from the get go they will run off and play - ugh! - LOMAC!!!  

[StratComm]

Are you using Raa's node or this one?

[Cobra]

Holy... freaking... crap. SCP 3.6.5 is totally awesome. i just found out that SCP lets you actually fire beams and flak without the little dots of red as substitution, and you can fire flak guns without the flak assaulting your own ship. This makes it even better! Another cool addition is the little animations 3.6.5 produces on Shivan ships, like the Dragon. I turn them off and the Dragon turns black. Gives it a Terran-ish look.

[/EDIT] oh yeah, when i saw the subspace node I was hoping it would be a more FS1 style node. The new one looks really weird.

[MetalDestroyer]

You haven't see the best. With the Psychonaut Fak effect, Fs2 is more impressive
Look at this.
(Be warning, it's 1 MB).

Or if you want only pics :

http://img99.exs.cx/img99/9445/fs2_JAD_Home_43.jpg
http://img98.exs.cx/img98/3571/fs2_JAD_Home_42.jpg

You can grab the new effects here

[Cobra]

What the hell is that blue thing in the first one?

[/EDIT] Nevermind. It's flak, right?

[MetalDestroyer]

Yep, absolutly, it's the flak effects

[Cobra]

Man that looks weird. Now, can anyone direct me to FS1 Nodes and shockwaves? FSPort's link doesn't work, so don't recommend that for me.

When I used the beams on mission 3 of FSPort, my compy froze. my pc seems to have a wee problem with SCP's.

[phreak]

Originally posted by StratComm
Are you using Raa's node or this one?

i sure as hell am

[WMCoolmon]

I think it's yours, at least that's what I remember it as. Check the readme.

Edit: I had Raa's, but I updated mv_core with yours.

[Cobra]

...That one looks more like FS1 than I'll ever see.

[Steel]

forgive my impatience!  

anything yet?  thx.

[stithe2000]

Just wanted to say to all of you good job with all the enhancements, and visual candy upgrades!

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Steel
forgive my impatience!  

anything yet?  thx.

Check next sunday. I'll try to address the complaints and have something up by then.

[Steel]

Thx Coolmon!

[Flaser]

Originally posted by Black Wolf
Ugh :ICK: Who decided on that Flak animation? All it does is obscure the ship I'm trying to fire at.

And yes, I know that if I don't like it I can change it, and yes, that is what I plan to do. But I'm sure a lot of newbies wouldn't be able to...

I just gave the new vp-s a rundown (all features beside mipmaps enabled!).

With texture compression (pcx --> dds AFAIK) enabled I got quite good framerates (~30 fps) on my aged GF2-Ti (1,6 P4; 512 RDRam) 3.6.5 seems to be a brekthrough on my system at least.

The HTL-ers and texturers (Lightspeed, Dabrain, VA, Lt.Cannon and everyone else I forgot to mention here - gomen ) did an excelent job, the game seems to have come to a new life.

I have some minor issues though:

The beam glows are too big resizing them to around 2/3 - 1/2 would be right. (I don't know wheter this is a table build (I used 3.6.5) or graphical isssue, but my bet is with the table). They do look marvelous never the less, but it's ridiculous that they cover an entire 500 meter long corvette.

The new flak doesn't look too good, the problem is the bits that were added to the animation aren't blended in, they are simply overlayed. If they had a tad of transparency the effect would be all right IMHO.
The new flak projectile though is not to my liking - maybe actually implementing a model with a glowing ani-texture would be better, or something that resembles an overheated explosive projectile instead the orange star of doom.

I also humbly request the separation of fs1 and fs2 maps - GE's textures were done in a very different style than what LS does. (It's up to everyone's taste which one they prefer).

It could be indexed in the readme which ships have env-alpha/env mapping.

To sum things up: Unlike earlier releases this one seems very well packed and cohesive. The quality of all the stuff is definitly good.

In other words A-1 Super!

Thanks for all the work and effort the creators have put into this one, I really enjoyed playing with the result.

PS: could Ligthspeed's nebula be a new vp as mv_nebula.vp?

[Cobra]

i can't turn a whole lot of graphic options on since my pc can't handle it.