[Starks]

Ya know how during the FS2 opening, the Battle of Deneb is shown? Look at those graphics! WE ARE SO CLOSE TO MATCHING THAT!

[Rictor]

Yeah. I'de say my biggest complaint right now is that we're still using the low-res FS2 ship textures, but I guess that would be a huge job to replace. The shinemaps actually help to make it a little less noticable, but you can still see it.

Other than that, I agree; FS2 has made huge leaps thanks to the SCP. We're very close to cutscene quality graphics.

[Nico]

We need motion blur on the ships now

[Lightspeed]

Call me a llama, but I say we're already past cutscene quality.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
Call me a llama, but I say we're already past cutscene quality.

ESPECIALLY beyond the quality of the cutscenes in the freespace2 intro:p

[Fineus]

That said, I'm tempted to say that C&C Red Alert is past that quality

In all honesty though - things are looking very cool indeed. As more ships are remodled in hi-poly varients - the textures can be upped and voila - one of the most fantastic looking space sims on the planet.

[vyper]

Originally posted by Nico
We need motion blur on the ships now

[Bobboau]

I've actualy thought about motion blur

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Bobboau
I've actualy thought about motion blur

 if you did that, you would be next to godliness.

[Singh]

hmm....why dont we make a cutscene of the in-game SCP stuff?

[Fineus]

May as well wait till after the code freeze, and see how Kazans coming along with the autopilot/waypoint system. With that enabled the art of making a cutscene in game would be a lot more simple since you could have the autopilot do the hard work -giving it a cinematic edge - as opposed to just having in-game footage.

[Singh]

True.....but we could make an in-game cutscene anyway and send it in before 3.6 and give em something to drool about

[Setekh]

Everyone needs to play with AA on if you want cutscene quality.

[Taristin]

And horrible framerates.

[Bobboau]

you know motion blur realy isn't that hard, I was thinking about implementing it before HTL even

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
And horrible framerates.

I run FSAA at perfectly acceptable framerates. I like 640*480 AA better than 1024*768, even.

Really, you were capable of doing it even back then? Hmmm...

[Kazan]

ingame cutscenes don't need my navpoint system [which i haven't started implementing yet]

player-us-ai and waypoints

[Rictor]

while I can only imagine how motion blur would look, I think it would look at least decent. There is a huge amount of turning and flybys etc in FS2, and the star-swoosh effect is already partway there.

But yeah, higher poly ships with improved textuers, thats the big one.

[Singh]

hell yeah - motion blur would be ub3r!!!
[i was actually stupid enough to go ahead and make a cutscene....ack]

[kasperl]

Originally posted by Singh
hell yeah - motion blur would be ub3r!!!
[i was actually stupid enough to go ahead and make a cutscene....ack]

eh?

we can make ingame cutscenes fine. you can let the AI take over the player, and use the waypoints for the rest. DC IIRC made something with it. either him or someone else. it looked quite nice.

btw, if we grab FRAPS or whatever, turn the HUD of, put negative time compression on to compensate for the bad framerates, and turn efffects up to gigantic levels, we ought to be able to get something nice.