[Solatar]

But if we can get in-game shots that are almost as good as a render, why not?

[Flipside]

Well, the sight of 2 glowmapped/shinemapped ships slugging it out in a Nebula is going to look far better with bump-mapped surfaces and volumetric nebulae, which are 'currently' and possibly permanently not available to the SCP.

Flipside

[Sticks]

They're not even close to as good as a nice render, as good as FS2 Open is.

[Flipside]

Exactly, SCP has to optimise, a decent renderer can spend as much time as it likes

Flipside

[Ace]

I think Thunder's shot as it is but with the ship showing the new engine glow effects and shinemaps would be perfect.

Then a wireframe of the Orion can be transposed. I can actually do up a final version of the splash screen that everyone should probably be happy with if that shot with the glow and shine added can be done.

[Drew]

we can do better than that tho methinks

[WMCoolmon]

The current splash screen is something I slapped together to show off the glowmap effects. It's pretty old...

Anyway, I think in-game effects should be used to show off the new features. Renders may look good, but they don't have the feeling of "...and those are just the in-game graphics!"

[Fineus]

I guess it depends - any monkey can render a ship and slap some text on it. It may look better than a ship in game, but it won't show off what we've acomplished. Of course, it depends on the quality of shots used (I don't like the pack I posted in this thread) But ho hum...

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
It'll take me some time to set the mission parameters.

In the mean time, remember Setekhs excellent "City In The Sky" render? Well... seems reality does immitate art

Heheh... tears to my eyes, man. Great screenie, I'll slap her into the FSO gallery.

[Singh]

Originally posted by Galemp
And remember to remove the HUD...

How do you do that

[phreak]

shift+o i think
if its not that, then its either alt+o or ctrl+o

[Fineus]

You can bind it to whatever you like (mine was unbound untill now)... it's at the bottom of the Misc controls config under "Toggle HUD".

[Fineus]

Oh, and...

[phreak]

now get warp.pof so the warpin effect looks decent

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by PhReAk
now get warp.pof so the warpin effect looks decent

for some reason that thing nearly crashed my system always a ship jumped in / out, so i kinda prefer the old one

[phreak]

when was this

[Fineus]

And where can I get warp.pof?

[Goober5000]

In the media VP.

[Fineus]

http://fs2source.warpcore.org/mediavps/ Right?

The link is offline...

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by PhReAk
when was this

with 3.5.5, checked now and it works, although it looks really terrible in full nebulas (you see ugly edges of the model), i'll try to get a screeny if you want.