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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on July 16, 2004, 08:12:16 pm

Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Bobboau on July 16, 2004, 08:12:16 pm: I figured sence were getting more media coverage than we ever have before I think this would be a good place to p1mp the Source Code Project (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=50)
we recently relesed version 3.6 (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,23953.0.html) wich was our first HT&L enabled offical build, it went through a long intisive debugging proces, but there were only so many hardware configurations available for us to test on, and one important bug did get through, that being when playing on "very easy" you can't jump out (this was fixed very soon after it was found, look for recent builds for this fix). also due to some driver issues specular mapping stoped working on ATI cards useing driver version 4.5 and later, I hope for us to get vertex and pixel shaders before too long so this shouldn't be an issue for too much longer.

beond 3.6
we are constantly posting development builds for your playing enjoyment (and to hunt for bugs) once you have installed 3.6 you can go to the recent builds forum (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=97) and get the lattest and greatest in terms of FSO developments (note; these builds have a tendency to be buggier than the offical relese builds, though this is part of why we post them, for you to help us find and track the bugs). recent improvements over 3.6 include
Environment Mapping
Damage Decals
Texture Compression
a number of internal restructureings that hopefully make the game run smoother
and a number of mod enhancements that have yet to have people take advantage of.

keep in mind a number of the improvements made require altered data that is not always supplied (though usualy is), most of the people roaming the forum are modders and have a good understanding of how to implement the changes needed to activate new features (and they do to make mods that you would need to download to take advantage of). if the environment changes so that more unfamiliar people are asking for data we will likely adapt to acomodate such a change.

so in conclusion,
I have horable spelling,
and enjoy our hard work, that is why we do the things we do.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: jdjtcagle on July 16, 2004, 08:21:09 pm: Great Idea, Bob :)
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Rictor on July 16, 2004, 08:34:03 pm: (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=500796 )

(http://www.swooh.com/premium/venom/fs2pics/ezeingame06.jpg)

(http://www.penguinbomb.com/omniscaper/Screenshots/shiny01.JPG)

(http://www.swooh.com/premium/venom/fs2pics/ezeingame01.jpg)

(http://s93727692.onlinehome.us/screenies/faustus.png)

(http://www.ystart.net/upload/20040610/1086878155.jpg)

I'll add more, just sifting through some older thread.
Title: Re: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Setekh on July 17, 2004, 04:50:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
so in conclusion,
I have horable spelling,
and enjoy our hard work, that is why we do the things we do.

Brilliant. :lol: Thanks, Bob and Rictor.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: karajorma on July 17, 2004, 07:59:47 am: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
(http://www.swooh.com/premium/venom/fs2pics/ezeingame01.jpg)

Right. That shot is going up as the first post on the original Derek Smart thread. It is exactly what I was looking for.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: MetalDestroyer on July 17, 2004, 08:41:52 am: Where can i found the new Deimos Corvette ??
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Singh on July 17, 2004, 08:47:04 am: http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=500743

and for piccies:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,25015.0.html
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: aldo_14 on July 17, 2004, 08:47:38 am: Quote
Originally posted by MetalDestroyer
Where can i found the new Deimos Corvette ??

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,25015.0.html

I think it'll be in the next media VP, not sure.

EDIT - d'oh! Beaten.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Black Wolf on July 17, 2004, 09:46:00 am: I'd post atmospheric pics, but everyone on the other forums seems to have latched onto that as one of the reasons to hate Derk Smarts proposal even more... :nervous:
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: aldo_14 on July 17, 2004, 09:54:00 am: Quote
Originally posted by Black Wolf
I'd post atmospheric pics, but everyone on the other forums seems to have latched onto that as one of the reasons to hate Derk Smarts proposal even more... :nervous:

Nah, IIRC that was planetary combat.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: MetalDestroyer on July 17, 2004, 09:57:05 am: Great !! Big thx ! Cool. I wanna fight again . :p
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Blaise Russel on July 17, 2004, 10:08:41 am: (http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/sbre/stl01.PNG)

(http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/sbre/stl02.PNG)

(http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/sbre/stl03.PNG)

(http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/sbre/stl04.PNG)
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: aldo_14 on July 17, 2004, 10:12:27 am: I can see a big pimp thread coming ;)
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Setekh on July 17, 2004, 11:03:16 am: Argh, PNGs! *modem melts* :D
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 17, 2004, 02:43:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,25015.0.html

I think it'll be in the next media VP, not sure.

EDIT - d'oh! Beaten.

It'd be very nice if it were LOD'ed...
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: aldo_14 on July 17, 2004, 05:19:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by WMCoolmon

It'd be very nice if it were LOD'ed...

I thought it was, actually. I thought bob was just going to shufty in the old model as LOd1, etc.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Bobboau on July 17, 2004, 05:34:47 pm: something like that, I'm not done with it yet, it still needs destroyed submodels, debris and LOD with I will likely just rip from the origonal.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: aldo_14 on July 17, 2004, 05:35:51 pm: Wasn;t the debris for the original Deimos psih, though? Just blobs with that 'damage' texture on it?
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Bobboau on July 17, 2004, 06:00:23 pm: I gues that wasn't clear, I'm going to make new debris, and rip LOD.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: aldo_14 on July 17, 2004, 06:00:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
I gues that wasn't clear, I'm going to make new debris, and rip LOD.

:nod:

:yes:
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on July 19, 2004, 07:02:27 am: Jesus. That's the first time I've seen that Deimos.

I ought to check the SCP forum more often.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Styxx on July 19, 2004, 07:23:46 am: Nice collection of screenshots you guys got there.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Flipside on July 19, 2004, 07:45:01 am: (http://www.sectorgame.com/twistedinfinities/screens/screenshot15.jpg)

(http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/images/screen2.jpg)

Can anyone play? ;) That second piccy is over a year old btw, that ship has been uberised since then ;)
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Rictor on July 19, 2004, 08:24:00 am: Hmm, seeing as how there is no (AFAIK) collection of SCP-ified screenshots available, might as well make one here. I'll dig up some more cool screenshots, and I urge you all to do the same, espcially for your respective mods/campaigns.

BTW, Flipside, what mod are those ships from. The top one could be a TVWP ship, but the bottom one doesn't look like anything that I've seen, either from the 158th or from the TVWP.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Singh on July 19, 2004, 08:26:48 am: *goes hunting into his folders :D
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Flipside on July 19, 2004, 08:27:38 am: They're from Twisted Infinities, the top one is a freighter by VA (I'm terrible at names) and the other one is the Tyr Class interceptor. an illegally converted pleasure craft often used by freebooters etc :)
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Singh on July 19, 2004, 08:46:13 am: A picture of the Haven system; from Freespace: Conflict Zone.
(http://img35.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/approach.jpg)

A Spatzi Space Shotgun test :)
(http://img35.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/beamcolors5.jpg)

The old perseus model, with particles:
(http://img35.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/whee.jpg)

Beams....
(http://img35.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/christmas.jpg)

Random screenie from one of the FS2 campaign missions:
(http://img35.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/screen035.jpg)

The new hi-poly diemos.
(http://img35.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/diemos2-7.jpg)

new subspace textures.

(http://img35.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/subspace.jpg)
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Flipside on July 19, 2004, 09:02:10 am: Dammit but this game looks good! :D

Anyone from TI got more piccies? I haven't re-installed FTP yet, so I can't get to my webspace :(
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Goober5000 on July 19, 2004, 09:23:52 am: Quote
Originally posted by Flipside
(http://www.sectorgame.com/twistedinfinities/screens/screenshot15.jpg)
(http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/images/smilies/jaw.gif)

WHOA.

That's an in-game shot? That deserves to be wallpaper.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Flipside on July 19, 2004, 09:29:28 am: Vasudan Admiral did the pic, I'm pretty sure it's ingame, I'll check with him before I say for certain though :)
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Post by: MetalDestroyer on July 19, 2004, 10:45:48 am: Good Job !! It's perfectly great !!
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Flipside on July 19, 2004, 11:22:14 am: Meh, bandwidth is out, I'll post more later :D
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Post by: Nico on July 19, 2004, 01:39:11 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Flipside
Vasudan Admiral did the pic, I'm pretty sure it's ingame, I'll check with him before I say for certain though :)

I'm pretty sure it's not, or else I've missed the starfield upgrade.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Styxx on July 19, 2004, 03:28:04 pm: Could be a skybox.
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Post by: Flipside on July 19, 2004, 03:29:23 pm: Possibly, I know VA went through a stage of rendering stuff up in 3Ds Max or the like. It it's not ingame, I'll remove it and replace it with something else :)
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Nico on July 19, 2004, 03:41:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Styxx
Could be a skybox.

Would be quite a large map then, to get a one pixel star take one pixel on screen.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 19, 2004, 04:04:38 pm: I'm pretty sure it's not - it looks too good. You'd have to have shinemapping, glowmapping, -pcx32 and then antialising enabled, and I still doubt you could get such clean lines.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Flipside on July 19, 2004, 04:16:31 pm: Ok, well, looking at it closely, the light shading looks pixel based, not vertex based as well, so I suppose you could call this a development render for TI.

Hey everyone! Look at the pretty development render! :nervous: ;)
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Vasudan Admiral on July 20, 2004, 02:20:25 am: ooh, missed this. Some very nice shots indeed :)

err, no sorry - that pic isn't in-game. (it was actually me experimenting with rendering techniques :nervous: )

To make up for it, here's my latest job, and these are ingame :)

(http://www.geocities.com/vasudanad/Triton1.txt)

(http://www.geocities.com/vasudanad/Triton2.txt)

(using geocities since the TI FTP seems to be down - i'd post more, but i think even these will overload the geocities site)
To be released very soon, pending some nice turrets from Raptor. :)
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Post by: Flipside on July 20, 2004, 02:24:09 am: hehehehe You gotta love this guy :D

Brilliant work! :)
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: Gortef on July 20, 2004, 05:08:21 am: ok I NEED to get more HD space so that I can install FS2 again and get back into it... damnit >_>
it's been too long since the last time I had it installed.
Title: for all the newcomers, the SCP
Post by: MetalDestroyer on July 20, 2004, 05:16:55 am: The ship looks very good.