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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Hollewanderer on September 04, 2004, 09:03:45 am

Title: Screenshots and general SCP summary required for a review
Post by: Hollewanderer on September 04, 2004, 09:03:45 am

Well, I am writing a review of FS2 for a website, and I want to mention SCP. Therefore, I ask for a small help - namely, a small summary of the most important new SCP features and improvements [really short - the review will be in Polish, so I will have to write the entire thing anyways. I just want to know where to look for materials] and screenies, or at least links to screenie threads. [before-and-after type preferably] I ask because there is so much materials that digging through all of them for the best ones would take a LONG time for only one person, and I'm working on a tight timeframe here.

Of course, credits will be given, along with a link to HLP.

So, will anyone help me with spreading the SCP goodness?

Title: Screenshots and general SCP summary required for a review
Post by: Lightspeed on September 04, 2004, 09:24:39 am

(http://www.penguinbomb.com/lightspeed/screenshots/shinemaps/release.jpg)

a bit generic, but before/after screenies.

Title: Screenshots and general SCP summary required for a review
Post by: Singh on September 04, 2004, 09:59:28 am

I have a few lying around I guess.......

Title: Screenshots and general SCP summary required for a review
Post by: Singh on September 04, 2004, 10:04:36 am

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/perseus.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/diemos2-7.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/diemos2-3.jpg)

not exactly a screenie.......but yeah, its something if you can get rid of the text.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/equinox.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/warp.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/screen035.jpg)

A pic of FS2 Retail:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/reta1.jpg)

Title: Screenshots and general SCP summary required for a review
Post by: Black Wolf on September 04, 2004, 10:26:24 am

Visually, the SCP provides:

• Glow Mapping
• Spec Mapping
• Environment Mapping *
• Stencil Shadows *
• 32 bit textures
• Directional Lighting
• Enhanced Sense of Scale

Technically:

• HT&L engine upgrade
• Bugfixes from retail

Gameplay wise, we have:

• New Sexps and FRED features
• Enhanced use of weapons flags (Disruption/Corkscrew), and new weapon types (Fighter beams most notably, also tiling beams, phreaks focused cluster missiles etc.)
• Cloaking

Making use of these features and upgrades, the community has enhanced the ship models, weapon effects, backgrounds, and other ingame effects.[/list]

* Denotes a feature not yet officially implemented into a final FSO build, but available via specific builds released by coders.

That's far from comprehensive, but it's basically only meant to be the most prominent features, right?[/color]

Title: Screenshots and general SCP summary required for a review
Post by: Hollewanderer on September 04, 2004, 12:21:37 pm

Yeah, only the most important stuff is going to be mentioned - SCP is so big that it would take many, many pages to describe it well and with details.

Big thanks for all the screenies, too.:)