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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: TrashMan on March 04, 2007, 02:28:28 pm

Title: screwy effects?
Post by: TrashMan on March 04, 2007, 02:28:28 pm: This is rich!

I stop FREDing FOW:C3 so I could play (and finish) WC:Sagga and INF:Alliance.

After I did that and removed both from my PC, I went back to FREding. Everything works fine, but when I play a mission under Open GL some effcts go totaly wrong!
First - the targeting box is dancing all around.
Second - the shield hit effects, smoke trail and flak effects look absolutely AWFUL (completely black for shields, black boxes for smoke particles and plain, dark yellow..something..for flak)
Strange this is that I didn't touch anything. Madia VP's are enabled.. the only thing I did is change resolution to 1280x768. Tried changing it back and playing with the color depth but hte problem persists

Under D3D everything works fine, but looks like it's low-res.

To make things stranger I tried using both the 3.6.9. and the HEAD build - the same thing.

It's funny. :lol:

Could be that I probably mesed something...hmm..I did remove the -jpgtga flag.
Title: Re: screwy effects?
Post by: takashi on March 04, 2007, 02:46:27 pm: you answered your own question :lol: :p
Title: Re: screwy effects?
Post by: Turey on March 04, 2007, 03:03:26 pm: Quote from: takashi on March 04, 2007, 02:46:27 pm
you answered your own question :lol: :p

D3D is not an answer. It is a cop-out by those who refuse to look into the future and are instead fixated with the here and now.
Title: Re: screwy effects?
Post by: takashi on March 04, 2007, 03:24:26 pm: or who dont have enough money for a better graphics card. openGL doesent load interface art for me.
Title: Re: screwy effects?
Post by: Turey on March 04, 2007, 03:37:07 pm: Quote from: takashi on March 04, 2007, 03:24:26 pm
or who dont have enough money for a better graphics card. openGL doesent load interface art for me.

Better start saving up. D3D won't load anything in a few months.
Title: Re: screwy effects?
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 04, 2007, 05:48:58 pm: Quote from: takashi on March 04, 2007, 03:24:26 pm
or who dont have enough money for a better graphics card. openGL doesent load interface art for me.

Mantis (http://scp.indiegames.us/mantis)?
Title: Re: screwy effects?
Post by: TrashMan on March 04, 2007, 05:51:38 pm: I got a GForce 6800 GS, so it's not the lack of "horsepower"

-jpgtga doesn't change anything (in fact, the launcher sez the flag is unrecognized?)
Title: Re: screwy effects?
Post by: Cobra on March 04, 2007, 06:28:38 pm: uh, didn't you download the alpha patches? :wtf:
Title: Re: screwy effects?
Post by: TrashMan on March 05, 2007, 05:10:02 am: Looks like that fixed it..the targeting reticle is still somewhat screwy, but I cna live with that :D
Title: Re: screwy effects?
Post by: Turey on March 05, 2007, 01:20:22 pm: Quote from: TrashMan on March 05, 2007, 05:10:02 am
the targeting reticle is still somewhat screwy, but I cna live with that :D

It's because you're not using a 4:3 ratio.
Title: Re: screwy effects?
Post by: Draco429 on March 11, 2007, 08:35:06 pm: Don't know if this question has been asked, but are there ideas/plans to fix this? I can live with it, but it is admittedly annoying.