[An4ximandros]

The second pic. A nice wallpaper, it is.

[Darius]

Do you intend for it to have a specific role (like the artillery Narayanas), or is it a replacement for / predecessor of the Karuna?

It doesn't have a fighterbay as far as I can see, so I can't see it having the flexibility of a multi-role frigate. This ship looks like it's built to kill other ships and do it well.

[0rph3u5]

Again TBP-related - almost at the Shadow Vessel arrival effect from the Babylon 5 proper ... hurra, hurra, song and dance!


(I'd make a video but that would go into spoiler territory because I couldn't wait to impliment it into a mission)

During:

After:



ps. Part of the credit for this shot, aside from the credit for FS_Open team for implimenting the features used, belongs to Slasher who pointed me right at the SEXP and suggested the 2000ms timeframe for the effect.

[fightermedic]

creating a few ice asteroids simpyly because i feel like it:

[karajorma]

For a second I was wondering what kind of bastard hybrid of BtRL and Freespace you were running.

[fightermedic]

he, i see why

anyway, here's more stuff:

big asteroids are big:

the two big ones are 20k poly wise with 4k^2 textures

[BritishShivans]

Some of those asteroids appear to be from EVE Online?

[NeonShivan]

I smell lawsuit Nice pictures though

[fightermedic]

nope, created them over the last 3 days from scratch, textures and models

[BritishShivans]

Huh. Nice job! 

[Spoon]

nope, created them over the last 3 days from scratch, textures and models

Are you mayhaps interested in sharing these with us? 

[fightermedic]

sure, as soon as the first bunch i want to do is complete

[Nyctaeus]

Interesting. Looks like some poly-generation scripts and other tools. Cool things

[fightermedic]

actually just a randomly generated displacement map applied onto a 200k poly mesh which then is reduced to 20k polys and has its normals baked from the high poly one

[AndrewofDoom]

Shall I eclipse you with awesome?



Oh and that's Uranus btw. No one ever seems to like that place.

[CKid]

Good to see progress is still continuing on DE.

[MatthTheGeek]

I wish our FXAA would be nicer with missile trails :[

[Fury]

Indeed. I had hoped someone would have had time to implement SMAA by now. It can achieve potentially better quality than FXAA, but it obviously comes with higher GPU load. A bit of googling revealed that someone ported SMAA shader to OpenGL. https://github.com/scrawl/smaa-opengl

A DirectX shader injector package called SweetFX contains some nice shaders that probably would find a comfy home in some mods or tc's. http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/sweetfx_shader_suite_download.html
Unfortunately there is no OpenGL injector yet, but apparently they're working on it. Might be faster to reverse-engineer them if time allows.

[Dragon]

What's the topmost ship in that picture? The one struck by a torpedo on it's rear fin.

[Kolgena]

I don't think any amount of SMAA would be able to rescue those missile trails. They're so thin that they're rendering like one pixel per every 4-5 pixel lengths of trail. You can't reconstruct a whopping 80% of missing detail with a post-processing shader.

Maybe look into full screen super sampling? I do realize with the new shadow and deferred lighting code that FSO is getting pretty taxing on the GPU, so this might not be possible.