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Title: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: ZmaN on August 08, 2007, 08:18:31 pm
I cannot remember what its called.  Theres a program that loads smartshaders for use with games.  Can anyone tell me what its called?
And then theres an actual smartshader that you can load with the program that makes freespace 2 look oh-so-fancy...   whats the smartshader called?
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: Scuddie on August 08, 2007, 08:38:13 pm
*cough*

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=41552.0
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: ZmaN on August 08, 2007, 10:18:27 pm
thanks....



but what program do i use to load them to use them?
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: CP5670 on August 08, 2007, 11:05:55 pm
See this thread: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,47691.0.html
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: BloodEagle on August 08, 2007, 11:26:06 pm
Are there any 'smart shaders' for NVidia cards?
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: S-99 on August 08, 2007, 11:32:19 pm
Hmmmm. I guess i get ressurected for this purpose again. My only problem is that i lost my hdrish and hdrish-lite smartshaders and smartshader loader. I formatted the wrong ****ing partition, but i'm all ext3 now. The one thing i do remember is that the smartshader i used was called idfk. One thing i do know is get a hold of ati tray tools and that will let you load any smartshaders you got.

Also, no smartshaders for nvidia cards because nvidia didn't make any.
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: CP5670 on August 08, 2007, 11:38:03 pm
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Are there any 'smart shaders' for NVidia cards?

No, the entire smartshader functionality is an ATI feature, and even they don't support it anymore. You can still use it by essentially tricking games into running off older drivers.

As far as FS2 is concerned, the effect looks great on ships but is only useful in missions with crappy backgrounds. If there are any detailed nebulas or planets in the background, the bloom effect will completely wash them out.

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Hmmmm. I guess i get ressurected for this purpose again. My only problem is that i lost my hdrish and hdrish-lite smartshaders and smartshader loader. I formatted the wrong ****ing partition, but i'm all ext3 now. The one thing i do remember is that the smartshader i used was called idfk. One thing i do know is get a hold of ati tray tools and that will let you load any smartshaders you got.

It also comes with all the necessary shader files.
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: jr2 on August 09, 2007, 01:59:06 am
Hmmmm. I guess i get ressurected for this purpose again. My only problem is that i lost my hdrish and hdrish-lite smartshaders and smartshader loader. I formatted the wrong ****ing partition, but i'm all ext3 now. The one thing i do remember is that the smartshader i used was called idfk. One thing i do know is get a hold of ati tray tools and that will let you load any smartshaders you got.

Also, no smartshaders for nvidia cards because nvidia didn't make any.

Why didn't you unformat?  I've heard it's possible.
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: S-99 on August 09, 2007, 03:42:42 pm
I still can unformat, but all the apps i've found for linux to doing that seemed, ummm, gay and a little way too complicated. I just want to click on a partition and then click unformat, also i'm using ext3 for all of my drives.
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: jr2 on August 09, 2007, 09:16:23 pm
Did you search in SourceForge?
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: S-99 on August 11, 2007, 02:00:00 am
Idk what i'd find they're
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: jr2 on August 11, 2007, 03:37:09 am
High quality open source programs.  :p
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: S-99 on August 12, 2007, 08:47:32 pm
Yeah well, you know what i mean :p
I don't know what kind of unformatting programs i'd find there.
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: jr2 on August 13, 2007, 07:12:07 am
*sigh* was it an ext partition?  Try ReaR (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rear/), see if that's what you want.  Did you just re-format the partition?  Did you delete the partition?  http://www.google.com/search?q=unformat    http://www.google.com/search?q=partition+recover
Title: Re: ATI Smartshader that Freespacers use to get that shiny stuff happening...
Post by: S-99 on August 14, 2007, 03:40:31 pm
Too late :p I needed to restructure my hard drive. So i did so. I got rid of all the redundant windows paritions i used to have. That will make stuff so that i don't choose the wrong partition again.