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Title: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on October 24, 2005, 12:48:09 pm
Showing off 3.6.7, and my video card just barely able to handle all this, as you can see by my FPS :nervous:

Like i said in the other thread, i love the new flak effects...

(http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/9140/screen00495jo.png)

rakhshasha (sp? i can never spell this right) with env. mapping...

(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/8075/screen00725cx.png)

the Shivan CommNode looks a lot more eerie with the new maps. :D

(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/9633/screen00684be.png)

Behold: The Erinyes!

(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/415/hiery8it.jpg)

Mara shot:

(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7177/mara8hx.jpg)

bah, imageshack won't let me upload some of the shots without me having to compress them, so sorry for any crappy quality.

i'll bet you anything this belongs in the SCP forum. :nervous:
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Carl on October 24, 2005, 12:53:01 pm
very nice looking :)
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Cobra on October 24, 2005, 12:56:56 pm
new beam effect: (no, this isn't cell shading, i don't know why the hell the maps look like that)

(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/1423/beam7lw.jpg)

little mess up with env. mapping ;)

(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3048/screwup7bt.jpg)

subspace vortex!!!!111

(http://img418.imageshack.us/img418/9357/subspace4zn.jpg)

The Demon attacks:

(http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/5495/demonattack4wa.jpg)

the satis:

(http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/9700/satis0hg.jpg)

this is raa's work, right? nice job dude!

also, what happened to the animated shivan maps? i liked those. :(

btw, anyone have any requests for a screenshot? :D

[edit] forgot to mention, i'm not seeing any engine glows with anything higher than a bomber. :wtf:
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Wanderer on October 24, 2005, 01:27:33 pm
Thruster effects have been missing since (about) few builds after the 14/9 CVS build. SCP team is IIRC reworking something. And you are getting only retail effects, right, not the good looking SCP thrusters?
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Cobra on October 24, 2005, 01:28:32 pm
nah, just funked up hollow-looking thruster glows for the fighters and bombers.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Kie99 on October 24, 2005, 01:46:43 pm
I don't like the new subspace vortex.

Cobra, the animated Shivan Glowmaps are only in adveffects, which will probably melt your computer. :p
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Cobra on October 24, 2005, 01:48:05 pm
nah, don't think so. :p

(forgot that they would be in adveffects)

i'll put adveffects in and see what happens. ;)
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: CP5670 on October 24, 2005, 02:32:11 pm
Looks nice. :yes: Post this stuff in the celebration thread in the main forum.

The thrusters work for me but I've been using an older version (7/28) for a while due to various bugs in 3.6.7 and later versions. Although the latest effects vp doesn't contain the proper thrusters either, so that might also have something to do with it.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: taylor on October 24, 2005, 03:48:42 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Wanderer
Thruster effects have been missing since (about) few builds after the 14/9 CVS build. SCP team is IIRC reworking something.

This did get fixed last night btw.  They should be working again in the next available CVS build.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Fenrir on October 24, 2005, 04:26:38 pm
Quote
Originally posted by kietotheworld
I don't like the new subspace vortex.


I feel the same way. Sure, it's neat looking, but it's too Stargate-ish for my tastes. The older style vortex is one of the things that's always screamed "Freespace" to me. I just ripped it out of the 3.6.6 vp's and all was well. :)
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Mongoose on October 24, 2005, 04:31:18 pm
I was thinking the same thing about the vortex.  It is a nice effect, but it just doesn't have that classic FS feel.  The previous 3D model managed to spice up the original effect while stil maintaining that feel.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Cobra on October 24, 2005, 04:32:37 pm
IMO, i think that that vortex got ripped from Duelron's FSNA project. :nervous:
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: StratComm on October 24, 2005, 04:51:36 pm
I don't know, I think the current effect looks more like the FS1 intro vortex.  Which is the ultimate standard it should be held against anyway, IMHO.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Charismatic on October 24, 2005, 05:58:58 pm
Great shots. Very nice.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Mongoose on October 24, 2005, 08:27:46 pm
Quote
Originally posted by StratComm
I don't know, I think the current effect looks more like the FS1 intro vortex.  Which is the ultimate standard it should be held against anyway, IMHO.

Maybe you're right; it'll probably just take a little time to get used to.  I've only played once or twice with the new VPs in there.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Cobra on October 25, 2005, 11:59:17 am
Quote
Originally posted by kietotheworld
Cobra, the animated Shivan Glowmaps are only in adveffects, which will probably melt your computer. :p


meh, my comp didn't melt, but my FPS was less then 5 with adveffects. :ick:
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: FireCrack on October 25, 2005, 02:20:29 pm
Well, while i agree that the origan vortex was more "freespace" this one hides the edge of the ship coming out much better, prevents it form looking like crap when you see a ship exit subspace from behind.


Mabye one day we'l get a fix where subspacey particles can be spawned from the area of the ship as it exist subspace...
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Galemp on October 25, 2005, 03:58:34 pm
I'd like a white fog or some kind of transparency instead of the obvious edge cutoff we have now, like they used in the cutscenes.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: [DW]-Hunter on October 27, 2005, 01:08:47 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Cobra


meh, my comp didn't melt, but my FPS was less then 5 with adveffects. :ick:


well cobra, you are running a geforce 4 LOL, u need to upgrade ur comp to something that supports agp or pci-e so u can get a decent video card :P
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: AnnihilaterD on October 27, 2005, 01:42:58 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Cobra
IMO, i think that that vortex got ripped from Duelron's FSNA project. :nervous:


FSNA uses a vortex created for FS2. I'm not sure which one.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Cobra on October 27, 2005, 02:06:34 pm
most likely this one. they look almost exactly alike.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Fenrir on October 27, 2005, 02:35:35 pm
It is this one. I remember the topic where this effect was released and Duelron put it into FSNA to see how it would look. Methinks it looks better there than in FS itself.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Akalamanaia on October 28, 2005, 07:45:28 am
Quote
Originally posted by Galemp
I'd like a white fog or some kind of transparency instead of the obvious edge cutoff we have now, like they used in the cutscenes.
Something like this? (http://www.o-r-b.com/gallery/DisplayImage.asp?sImage=/images/screenshots/large/20020801_screen049.jpg)
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Charismatic on October 28, 2005, 03:09:07 pm
Anyone got any more pics to show off of 3.6.7?
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Cobra on October 30, 2005, 07:06:36 pm
hold your damn horses, i'm workin' on it.

of course, the screenies will be located at 'A celebration of Freespace' thread from now on. ;)
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Taristin on October 30, 2005, 07:12:44 pm
Now now children *glares at Cobra* play nice.

If the screenies will be in that hread from now on, this thread can/should be locked, ne?

*hovers mouse clicker thingamaroo over the button*
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: watsisname on October 30, 2005, 07:19:35 pm
Forgive me for this noob question, but how does one put a screenshot into their post?  I have a couple that show DaBrain's uber-awesome shockwaves.  I just need to know how to put them into a post.
Help... please?
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Taristin on October 30, 2005, 07:29:13 pm
Easiest way to see how someone did something in their post is to quote them.

In this case, once you upload the image to a server, link to the image between two img tags.[ img] being the first, and the final one being [ /img]

Without spaces in it.
Title: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: watsisname on October 30, 2005, 07:39:48 pm
Ah, thank you.  I'll give that a try at some point. :)
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Cobra on November 10, 2005, 06:58:15 pm
now that HLP's back i'll get some new shots tomorrow. :D
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Charismatic on November 11, 2005, 04:17:10 pm
Great, il watch for them.
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Charismatic on November 19, 2005, 12:20:55 am
 BUMP --get those new pics yet?
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: pecenipicek on November 19, 2005, 04:23:53 am
i'd take some shots, but i still got the 3.5.5 Media VP's *looks around nervously*
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Cobra on November 21, 2005, 02:12:39 pm
BUMP --get those new pics yet?

no pics yet until i can update my video card. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots
Post by: Cobra on December 12, 2005, 12:37:09 pm
bah, couldn't resist. :)

the GVD Psamtik strikes:
(http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/2423/psamtikstrikes7lo.jpg)

NTCv Belisarius and cool looking blobs:
(http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/8544/ntcvbelisariusandblobs9mn.jpg)
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: pecenipicek on December 13, 2005, 10:54:19 am
pece likes de new erinyes :D

note, i'm still downloading adv_effects and texture vp's :)
(http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/9598/erinyes12yl.jpg)
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on December 13, 2005, 09:22:01 pm
Quote
(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/415/hiery8it.jpg)

from 2 months ago, so it's not new. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on December 24, 2005, 12:36:31 am
i'll be using PNG's now, so 56k users have a bigger warning. :p

"A Shivan Cain-class cruiser just jumped in! It's the Taranis!"
(http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/4642/cain1ny.png)

GTD Galatea:
(http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/3023/galatearunway4ja.png)
this would have looked a lot better if it had fighters coming out of the fighterbay. :ick:

A full view of the Galatea plus asteroids:
(http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/8486/gtdgalatea4sx.png)
are these...who made the asteroids? Sandwich, right? are these his asteroids? i can't tell. :nervous:

A valkyrie escapes a lethal battle:
(http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/5016/escvalk7go.png)

Orion and sweet looking turrets:
(http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/813/orionturrets9ax.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: [DW]-Hunter on December 24, 2005, 12:51:24 am
that erinyes looks badass
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on December 24, 2005, 10:11:17 am
Exploding Aten:
(http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/1160/screen01439np.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Trivial Psychic on December 24, 2005, 11:08:06 pm
Cobra, we're you using specular in some of those screenshots?  It looks as if they were taken at Retail illumination.
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on December 25, 2005, 12:24:50 am
yeah, i've got spec on.
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: J.P. on December 25, 2005, 12:27:03 am
I see a lot of people don't like my revision of the subspace effect. Yes I am the maker of it and I know it doesn't look like the original. Soooo... I made a new version just for you folks who like the original style. I'm makin' a seperate thread about it in Freespace modding.  :D

BTW, I saw this thread recently after I decided to check back and see what's been going on.

-J.P.
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Black Wolf on December 26, 2005, 12:23:19 am
What's you're ambient light setting?
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: watsisname on December 31, 2005, 03:24:13 pm
Here's a picture I took a while back.  I was running like hell from an exploding cruiser and as I looked in rearview I smashed the prntscreen button and the result was this piece of beauty:
(http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9265/shockwaves7ar.jpg)
Edit:  Here is another one showing the Perseus.
(http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/6178/perseus5kw.jpg)
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 02, 2006, 01:43:42 pm
Wow, the lightning actually looks really nice.
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: watsisname on January 04, 2006, 05:59:51 pm
Yeah, I took many pictures with the lightning and that was the one I like best.  I feel the lightning adds to the general atmosphere of "ooohness" of the Perseus.  ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on January 25, 2006, 10:24:47 am
oh, i'll get some screenshots of 3.6.8 after my display error is fixed and i get back home from school. ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 26, 2006, 04:05:27 pm
Here's a couple of my own.

(http://www.game-warden.com/gti/screen0055.png)
(http://www.game-warden.com/gti/screen0086.png)

I noticed the same ambient light issue as Cobra, and I'm going off to change that.

Additionally, would it be possible for a moderator to go and start putting [ lvlshot ] tags around the other screenshots in the thread? It would help this page load a lot quicker IMHO.
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on January 27, 2006, 02:05:34 pm

Additionally, would it be possible for a moderator to go and start putting [ lvlshot ] tags around the other screenshots in the thread? It would help this page load a lot quicker IMHO.

yeah ****ing right. Not me. Let the original poster do it. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.7 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 05, 2006, 03:00:13 pm
believe it or not, this is mv_adveffects. :D

my new hardware beautifully displays .ani's and high-quality beams. the shockwaves... not so much.

The GTCv Persistence (name sound familiar? ;)) opens fire:
(http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8471/screen00571jy.png)

The GVD Hatshepsut:
(http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/6035/screen00654sy.png)

A small freighter wing with an Orion in the background:
(http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8506/screen00438wv.png)

I can't get enough of Orion shots. :D
(http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/786/screen00425rc.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mr_Maniac on March 05, 2006, 03:34:57 pm
1. Just a Herc:

(http://home.arcor.de/mr_maniac/Bilder/fs2open/HTLherc.png)
 (http://home.arcor.de/mr_maniac/Bilder/fs2open/HTLherc.png)

2. Many Maras flying in formation:

(http://home.arcor.de/mr_maniac/Bilder/fs2open/ManyMaras.png)
 (http://home.arcor.de/mr_maniac/Bilder/fs2open/ManyMaras.png)

3. Guess what?

(http://home.arcor.de/mr_maniac/Bilder/fs2open/DarkErinyes1.png)
 (http://home.arcor.de/mr_maniac/Bilder/fs2open/DarkErinyes1.png)

4. Yes, it's a dark and deadly Erinyes:

(http://home.arcor.de/mr_maniac/Bilder/fs2open/DarkErinyes2.png)
 (http://home.arcor.de/mr_maniac/Bilder/fs2open/DarkErinyes2.png)

Hope you like these pics :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on March 05, 2006, 04:40:49 pm
The Hatshepsut is a GVD not PVD.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aldo_14 on March 05, 2006, 04:55:01 pm
I'm not sure how; lvlshot only resizes the images, it doesn't crop them or owt.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 05, 2006, 05:17:55 pm
The GVD Aikhet and the GTCv Persistence race for the node:

(http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/2460/screen00612xk.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: bfobar on March 05, 2006, 06:54:09 pm
(http://www.users.qwest.net/~fobarbrad/images/Shhhhhh.jpg)

The sathanas has a big fighterbay.

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Flipside on March 05, 2006, 07:42:45 pm
That almost looks bumpmapped!

And, is it me, or does the Hatshepsut look like it's about to give birth to lots of little baby Vasudan Cruisers in that pic? ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 05, 2006, 07:46:17 pm
which one? :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: FireCrack on March 05, 2006, 08:22:14 pm
Why does the erynies have red lights?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Flipside on March 05, 2006, 09:54:20 pm
which one? :p

(http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/6035/screen00654sy.png)

That one ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 05, 2006, 10:53:11 pm
I just noticed that! :lol:

damn perspective. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on March 05, 2006, 11:27:28 pm
Why does the erynies have red lights?

It doesn't. It's the reflection of the red sun.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mr_Maniac on March 06, 2006, 06:02:33 am
Why does the erynies have red lights?

It doesn't. It's the reflection of the red sun.

No, he's right. It is a dark and red Erinyes. I've recolored the Textures because I wanted it that way :)
And I like it :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Zantor on March 06, 2006, 08:00:41 am
Very nice and clear. The images are a bit dark, but otherwise the quality is very fine.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 06, 2006, 10:47:29 am
that's just regular gamma setting with different lighting in-game. ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on March 07, 2006, 01:02:20 pm
Why does the erynies have red lights?

It doesn't. It's the reflection of the red sun.

No, he's right. It is a dark and red Erinyes. I've recolored the Textures because I wanted it that way :)
And I like it :)
Well, then the red sun is misleading >..>
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 20, 2006, 05:01:06 pm
OK, I personally think this is a cool shot.

(http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/5448/screen00414vm.png)

The GTD Steel goes BANG!

(http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/1153/screen00209xx.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 22, 2006, 05:53:51 pm
"Oh my God! It's the Lucifer! It's come to kill us all!"

(http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/3509/screen01362sm.png)

i woulda had a closer shot but it happened all too fast. :nervous:

[EDIT] oh, and that FPS: 0.0 thing was from the 0.25x time compression. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on March 23, 2006, 12:30:55 pm
(http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/5393/14eh2.jpg)

My favorite shot that I took

(http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/2662/28ho.jpg)

The GTD Galetea!

(http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/1567/31pe.jpg)

I think I broke it...

(http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/1610/42tz1.jpg)

It looked better as a BMP but it was too big.



None of these shots are form 3.6.8.  :nervous:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 23, 2006, 01:15:45 pm
PNG's are your friend. ;)

switch to OpenGL and those shinemaps will work like a charm. :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 23, 2006, 01:58:02 pm
Everyone loves the Herc.

(http://www.gbev.co.uk/gubbins/FS2gloryshot.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 23, 2006, 02:28:14 pm
Weee, Moloch time!

(http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/7186/screen01652gz.png)

(http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/7614/screen01668qj.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on March 23, 2006, 08:37:47 pm
My god!? This is the level of detail you guys Fly in? I wish i had SCP... ohh so bad.
I request some Ares & Diemos & Sobek shots please.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: [DW]-Hunter on March 27, 2006, 12:20:20 pm
nice shots but... you need to upgrade your computer, i would never be able to play with 20 FPS...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: StratComm on March 27, 2006, 01:38:21 pm
Taking a screenshot has a negative effect on FPS, by a factor of something like 3.  His framerate isn't that bad.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 27, 2006, 02:08:28 pm
yeah, stratcomm's right. when i took a pic that moloch i had around 35 fps (having a 9250 is also a bit of a drawback. :(), and a lot of the other ones around 60.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 27, 2006, 06:01:45 pm
I request some Diemos shots please.

are you blind? there are deimos shots all over this thread.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: bfobar on March 28, 2006, 09:33:53 am
(http://www.users.qwest.net/~fobarbrad/images/Molochdeimos.png)

this was from before htl molochs, but I love the shot.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on March 28, 2006, 07:20:52 pm
 :jaw:   HOlY CRaP!!!


Taking a screenshot has a negative effect on FPS, by a factor of something like 3.  His framerate isn't that bad.

Mine? Actually it IS that bad...   



  *runs off and cries*




SOME MORE PICTURES WITH LOW FRAMERATE BADNESS


(http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6814/vgaeoulussideflak3zb.png)

(http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/8061/vgarieswitaction9tj.png)

(http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/8315/vgcainwithaction5od.png)

(http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/1003/vgcainwithleviback8mb.png)

(http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/9292/vgherc1sidefront5lt.png)

(http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/213/vgherc1with2serapis9gl.png)

(http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/9022/vghercwithcooltrail9xs.png)

(http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/8585/vgleviaaa14yg.png)


How do you like them?

I have a couple more, but I didn't deem them worthy enough to be posted here. If you want I can post them anyway.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: bfobar on March 28, 2006, 09:55:19 pm
Cool! I always turn off my framerates if I know I'm going to be taking screenshots so no one else sees how much my computer chugs with the graphics turned up. You know, if you hit SHIFT+o before taking screenies, it turns the hud off so you just get super cool ship pictures.

(Edited. Duh)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 28, 2006, 11:26:04 pm
it's shift+o. ;)

what version of SCP are those thruster glows from?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Fenrir on March 28, 2006, 11:52:09 pm
Any versions have those thruster glows. They're just disabled by default for some reason. Use this table (http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2NXUNWQ8MV88J2MWY89HCK99RO) if you want them enabled.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: bfobar on March 29, 2006, 12:11:58 am
HTL Recreation of the front of the box: (I should have turned animated beams back on.)

(http://www.users.qwest.net/~fobarbrad/images/screen0076.png)

And just a Perseus.

(http://www.users.qwest.net/~fobarbrad/images/screen0081.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 29, 2006, 12:16:05 am
HTL Recreation of the front of the box: (I should have turned animated beams back on.)

(http://www.users.qwest.net/~fobarbrad/images/screen0076.png)

....

that's my new wallpaper.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on March 29, 2006, 06:39:40 pm
Some ones I just took. Man, I'm having a screenshot spasm or somthing.

(http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/4568/enryniessodefronttopacton3vi.png)

(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/9307/lilithfront9ug.png)


Also, is there a way to make FS2 take the screenshots already in the PNG format? Like so I don't have to change it?


EDIT: I think I killed another thread  :(
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on April 07, 2006, 07:22:18 pm
(http://x10.putfile.com/4/9619193893-thumb.jpg) (http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=4/9619193893.jpg&s=x10)

One VERY nice subspace picture, taken from the Homesick Campaign...

(http://x10.putfile.com/4/9619211165-thumb.jpg) (http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=4/9619211165.jpg&s=x10)

an HDRish Deimos Shot...  Thought it looked pretty nice...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on April 07, 2006, 08:28:06 pm
Nice pictures! :yes:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Kie99 on April 08, 2006, 09:05:57 am
Here's a Homesick one, posted this one a while ago.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/kietotheworld/HomeSick.jpg)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 08, 2006, 10:08:10 am
if i didn't know better i'd think that was some kind of Terran-Shivan ship. :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on April 08, 2006, 04:34:26 pm
(http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/6025/hdrishorionshot2ld.th.jpg) (http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdrishorionshot2ld.jpg)
WOW!  I didnt think HDRish Smartshader could do that....
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 08, 2006, 05:00:56 pm
it's HTL, (Hardware Transform and Lighting) unless you're talking about something else. :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on April 08, 2006, 05:37:11 pm
no he's talking about HDRish which is a special plugin to simulate HDR lighting via shaders for older (read : 9800 level) ATI cards.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on April 08, 2006, 11:40:28 pm
No its not an old card, its an X850 Pro (see my sig)....

Its the only way I can get close to HDR on an X800 series Radeon Card, as the dont support true HDR...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on April 09, 2006, 01:34:09 am
whoa, i'm surprised by that, i thought the xx00 series supported HDR. well, at least you have a plugin to get this emulation. I wish nvidia supported that.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on April 09, 2006, 09:10:48 pm
whoa, i'm surprised by that, i thought the xx00 series supported HDR. well, at least you have a plugin to get this emulation. I wish nvidia supported that.
Nvidia Geforce 6 and 7 series cards support HDR Rendering, as well as Radeon X1000 Cards.
X800 cards and the lower models dont support HDR, but you can do the bloom effect....
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 10, 2006, 12:25:27 pm
here's some more:

remember that mission where i took pics of the Galatea in the asteroid belt? well, it's new and improved:

(http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/9742/screen02289tn.png)
(http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/8590/screen02248xx.png)

GTSC Plato (the faustus, not the one from Transcend. :p)
(http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/3304/screen02138qr.png)

Meson Bomb goes kablooey:
(http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/6711/screen02114gd.png)

i hate that particular mission from derelict. too many hi-poly ships, and i keep getting the malloc error off of that.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on April 10, 2006, 01:27:37 pm
Meson Bombs need their own, different color (purple ? green ? ) shockwave.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on April 10, 2006, 02:11:23 pm
A sathanas Blowing up in the Main Campaign.  (sorry about the watermark, the program put it there and I didnt know)

(http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/1558/screen00080lh.th.jpg) (http://img362.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen00080lh.jpg)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Eightball on April 15, 2006, 08:54:53 pm
Some excellent desktop material.  :yes: :yes:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 17, 2006, 11:11:27 pm
HDR is completely awesome for ships going in and out of subspace, makes the ship actually look like it's coming out of subspace.
(this is like a big orgy slideshow...the deimos is like you want my beams fenris)
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7954/untitled104nd.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
This one was pretty sweet too.
(The fenris tries to resist)
(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/6950/untitled139bk.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
So, i decided to get a bunch of the awesome hecate:D
(Then the fenris's man shows up being like hey quit messing with my girl)
(http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8881/untitled143ph.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The hecate in some glory.
(Then the hecate is like, i will pleasure you both)
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2469/untitled155dh.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here's the hecate in action.  And i need to turn on the engines, as opposed to having just the engine glows.
(the hecate is like...take pleasure in my great big green beams generation while i use my blue beam stimulators on the fenris)
(http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/2706/untitled218fb.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here's the ass end of the hecate.
(that's right, this is like the shot of the xxx ship stimulator, it stimulates while it can kick ass :nod:)
(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7138/untitled267qn.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Something blew up.
(the hecate owned, now it's not a threesome anymore)
(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/9553/untitled286ir.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It was probably the fenris being attacked by the generation.
(http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/4506/untitled291sq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Yet another beautiful jump sequence where the ship actually looks like it's going into a portal, as opposed to a non fake hdr subspace portal.
(then the hecates like, ****, i gotta go, i was a little premature...concludes the fenris-deimos-hecate orgy)
(http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/8000/untitled341bh.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And now it's an hdrish orion.
(http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/7335/untitled63fp.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here's some hdrish asteroids.
(http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/120/untitled43wz.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

I got these screenshots out of transcend, i need to turn on the actual engines on ships, and i don't know what the hell that green spot was on the ass end of the hecate.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: StratComm on April 17, 2006, 11:49:57 pm
That's the nameplate.  There's a fix in the FSU forum somewhere.

And can someone remind me where to find that version of the subspace ani?  I really like it much better.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Trivial Psychic on April 18, 2006, 02:08:22 am
That was certainly some interesting running commentary there.  Though it certainly dropped the classiness of this thread down a few knotches... great job!  :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Bri_Dog on April 18, 2006, 02:16:33 am
Is there a way to use HDR with nVidia cards?  :nervous:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 18, 2006, 12:03:45 pm
hmm, how do you enable HDR? those pics look kinda like they're bumpmapped. if i don't like it, i switch it off. if i do, i leave it on and that's that. :D

[edit] or is HDR only on certain cards?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 18, 2006, 05:48:54 pm
First off.
None of my images are bumbmapped.
Just standard 3.6.8vps.
As far as that subspace ani goes.
3.6.8vps!
If anyone couldn't tell, THAT WAS WITH HDRis SMARTSHADER MAKING IT LOOK NICER.
As far as getting hdr with nvidia as a smartshader.
See if nvidia uses the same type of pss format for it's smartshaders.
If it does, see if you can plop hdrish in there and give a try.
Or find a convertor.
BUT ALL THOSE SCREENS WERE WITH HDRish enhancing the aspects of fs2.
Anyone using 3.6.8vps will get the same result as i do with hdrish, even the subspace effects :)
I'm just showing off how good hdrish is as opposed to the people in the colossus improvements post.
The only other improvement i have, is that i have custom flags for lasers and beams dynamic lighting to the max pretty much, because lasers and beams sure as hell do not give off tiny amounts of lighting. :)

If anyone would like hdrish, contact me on messenger and i'll send it to you, it's very tiny, and it doesn't have any slowdowns on game performance that i could detect.
I already made a delivery for cobra.
Then again i have a 9800pro 256mb ddr.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: StratComm on April 18, 2006, 07:00:36 pm
The subspace animation has gone back and forth between that one and one more like the retail effect.  I find that the one you are using obscures the emergence of ships much better and is my preference, but I think the general consensus was to go back to something more like what was used in retail FS2.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on April 18, 2006, 07:14:14 pm
HDRish is not HDR. It's a special plugin that can be used only on ATI cards. Geforce FX users are SOL (I'm one of these, but not for long, time to upgrade when G80 hits, and the 7800GS falls below 3 bills)

Geforce 6, 7 users get real HDR, but i don't think you can get it to work with Freespace2 without support.

So that in a nutshell, is what's going on. ATI's smartshader is pretty damn cool, Nvidia doesn't have a similar feature. (although technically it could, and technically, HDR is much better than HDRish, but not when it comes to this game, since it doesn't do anything)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 19, 2006, 03:16:29 am
The reason the emergence and exits of the ships are more obscured is because of the HDRish SHADER.
And i'm using the 3.6.8vp delta's for those concerned with the subspace ani, since people like it when combined with HDRish.
Real hdr works fine for me in halflife2 with my 9800pro 256mb ddr.
Reminds me of the time i had my 9600se 128mb ddr, i did the halflife2 hdr graphics test with it:D
SLOOOOOOOW, but it could do it :)
In the graphics options of halflife2 it let me select either select bloom, or full hdr :p
It did the hdr fine, just death defyingly slow, it was pretty funny :lol:
Then my 9800pro 256mb ddr came around(i'm only proud of the card because amazon sent me the wrong 9800pro 128mb ddr :D), which can do real hdr, at much better speeds. :D
SM2.0 is capable of doing real hdr, and SM3.0 is capable of doing it faster.
SM3.0 has a lot more speed enhancements than it does extra visual features (like better bump mapping depth).
The main reason ati users can't really do hdr in farcry is because farcry is completely SM3.0 dependent for it's hdr.
Farcry had SM3.0 hdr first, half life 2 found out later you could do real hdr with SM2.0 when they actually tried to do it.
The fact that geforce 6 and 7 users get real hdr based soley on the fact it requires only SM3.0 is not true.
The only ATI cards with SM3.0 are the x1000 class of graphics cards.
You can do real hdr with SM2.0.
Also the "SM3.0 can only do real hdr" is a really dumb slander campaign from nvidia.
Marketing at it's best. :doubt:
What we should do is like see if we could get real hdr for fs2, but, i know the scp already has a lot on it's shoulders.
Fs2 clearly calls for the real stuff.




Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: übermetroid on April 20, 2006, 01:08:12 am
HTL Recreation of the front of the box: (I should have turned animated beams back on.)
(http://www.users.qwest.net/~fobarbrad/images/screen0076.png)

That should be the new SCP loading picture
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: karajorma on April 20, 2006, 12:08:18 pm
I agree. It's a nice nod to the original box art as well as being a damn fine screenshot in its own right.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Trivial Psychic on April 20, 2006, 11:43:31 pm
Too bad about the clipping at the beam exit explosion point.  Come to think of it, why isn't it using the LOD0 explosion effect?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: übermetroid on April 21, 2006, 12:30:33 am
well how about who ever made that picture work on it (maybe add some more fighters and bombers) and get a real nice picture that can replace the current one?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on April 21, 2006, 12:26:51 pm
what is the current one?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: StratComm on April 21, 2006, 12:29:24 pm
Exploding Deimos.  I've got a version of that screenshot all set up too.  I should dig that up.

EDIT: Just need to swap out for the new Moloch and get the FOV settings right.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Fear on April 21, 2006, 04:19:05 pm
Forgive me for my ignorance , havent been here for quite a long time but i have been lurking around from time to time. anyhow untill now i havent found a reason to go back to scp and fs2 because the improvement were 2 small for my taste to install and play it agian, but that hdr hooo that hdr look tasty ,very teasing i would say. now to the point im very confused , the lastest release comes with hdr support?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Shade on April 21, 2006, 04:39:33 pm
No HDR in that screenshot. Just very well set up lighting.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on April 21, 2006, 04:40:03 pm
HDR has not been implemented. What he is using is a post process filter that his ATi-chip based card supports.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Shade on April 21, 2006, 04:41:07 pm
Ok, I guess there was HDR... just not from the SCP :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 21, 2006, 04:55:12 pm
Forgive me for my ignorance , havent been here for quite a long time but i have been lurking around from time to time. anyhow untill now i havent found a reason to go back to scp and fs2 because the improvement were 2 small for my taste to install and play it agian, but that hdr hooo that hdr look tasty ,very teasing i would say. now to the point im very confused , the lastest release comes with hdr support?
Well fear you are ignorant indeed.
You didn't mention how long ago you used the scp.
Something tells me you're a little bit of a hypocrite if you hate absolutely everything else about the scp.
I mean, there's tons of htl models in there now, i guess you didn't notice that from the screenshots.
New beam effects, nope, must not have noticed that.
New flak, didn't notice it either.
Higher freaking poly'd and retextured ships, no didn't notice that.
The new sweet 3d shockwave explosions, guess you didn't see that either.
Guess you don't get to experience the 3dradar either.
Or the new AI flags for capital ships, didn't notice that either.
Fear hates all the cosmetics designed to enhance gameplay and the realism.
A good trick to enjoy it is making it work right first off :lol:
Now that fear hates all the cosmetics, he decides he likes the fake hdr costmetics?
What this mean?
FEAR LIKES AN ENHANCED GAME!!!
sound the hypocritical alarms.
The latest release does not come with fake hdr.
Only a radeon class card with smartshaders can do it so far.

Shut the **** up. :D
These people put in a lot of hard free time to this game.
I know you were looking at these screenshots, especially of the hecate.
Is that not impressive?
Go look up the thread for that hecate in the FSU forum.
Maybe you should have gone ahead and not be here for a longer time.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Flipside on April 21, 2006, 05:23:25 pm
Be Nice...

Fear as much entitled to his own opinion as you are entitled to disagree, but let's keep some decorum or this thread gets locked.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Fear on April 21, 2006, 08:06:44 pm
WHAT?!. Sure i appreciate all those new things . all i SAIED IT WASNT ENOUGH TO GET ME GO BACK TO FS2, from reasons i wont explaine to you or to anyone in this fourm, i asked simple question and expected simple answer, yet the one replay since i have been here, flames the hell out of me.

I will say that agian u have no right to judge me because you dont know anything which connected to wether i like those changes or not,i will repeat for you agian all i sayed it wasnt enough and besides i had no need to mention the last release i played , because it wasnt ur buissnes anyway, all you knew i could of played the last release and was just enthusiastic from the look of those hdr effects.Yet agian, you decided to flame , asking a  "rhetorical" question which you answerd in your mind(you assumed i havent play it for a while to notice the changes you mentioned), you came to conclusion i dont appreciate any of the hard work those guys have done, which is ofcurse false. i really dont know why the hell im trying to explaine to you ,the ignorant from both of us, why i asked this question.next time dont jump to conclusions.

Besides i didnt use the word hate in my post specially not hate anything about scp.Im not even angry just disappointed.

P.s sorry admin just had to replay ,wont do it agian.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 21, 2006, 09:54:27 pm
As will i not do it again either
BTW sorry fear
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Fear on April 22, 2006, 07:41:47 am
 :) its i who gave you the reason to be mad so need to be sorry.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 22, 2006, 05:24:46 pm
It's all good, what happened happened, were both man enough to admit guilt and say sorry.
In light of all this screenshot business with fake hdr.
I sent cobra the smartshader and the program to execute it.
But, he hasn't been able to get it working.
All he has for a graphics card is a radeon 9250.
And that's a card you need to have to be able to it:p
It's as simple as activate the program, and load the smartshader.
Something else may be going on but who knows.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: StratComm on April 22, 2006, 05:31:18 pm
Are his driver versions up to date enough?  That's always been an issue with "high end" features; they need driver support to work properly, if at all.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 22, 2006, 07:34:36 pm
He's got catalyst 6.4
I recommended he use the omega drivers
www.omegadrivers.net (http://www.omegadrivers.net)
Omega drivers are the pretty basic tweaked out driver set
But, it does let you load smartshaders manually, and set up a screenshot button to work whenever in a specified format in a specified directory all of your choosing
And that's what i used to make getting my screenshots easy :)
They have omega's for nvidia cards also
Omega's are good drivers
Believe me, a smartshader is not a very high end feature
Even if you don't have the ati ccc, in the control panel you can still load smartshaders
But, hdrish does not come with catalyst smartshaders
That's why you'll need to find a way to plop hdrish into the catalyst smartshader directory or something
Or what everyone else is doing, getting some other application to load the smartshader

However, i thought this would be funny
Old
(http://www.freespace2.com/images/ship_hecate/lgpic.jpg)
New
(http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/2706/untitled218fb.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on April 23, 2006, 12:11:43 am
Isn't that from the 'freespace ship threesome' set?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 23, 2006, 06:16:00 pm
The old hecate is from retail
The new one is from 3.6.8mvp's
What is the "freespace ship threesome" set?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Eightball on April 23, 2006, 09:17:27 pm
 :eek2: Holy Shizam that's hot.

I too recommend Omega drivers - they get an extra inch out of my pathetic laptop g-card.  (Sigh)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 24, 2006, 07:52:36 pm
LOL
NOTE TO OTHERS, if you have a card lower than a radeon 9500
YOU CAN'T DO HDRish SMARTSHADER
It's due mainly to the fact that there's 2 different versions of smartshaders
There are smartshaders for classes of radeon less than the 9500, like the 9250
The 9250 has pixer shader version 1.0, and another note on cards lower than the 9500 is the fact that they are only dx8.1 compliant, and not dx9 compliant(another part of the reason)
9500 and up has pixel shader version 2.0, which is what hdrish requires to work for those who have radeons here
Let's just say Cobra couldn't get hdrish to work on his radeon 9250 128 for his life
Yeah, he kept getting errors and slow performance trying to make it work
He's back to standard 6.4 cat's ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on April 24, 2006, 08:22:40 pm
LOL
NOTE TO OTHERS, if you have a card lower than a radeon 9500
YOU CAN'T DO HDRish SMARTSHADER
It's due mainly to the fact that there's 2 different versions of smartshaders
There are smartshaders for classes of radeon less than the 9500, like the 9250
The 9250 has pixer shader version 1.0, and another note on cards lower than the 9500 is the fact that they are only dx8.1 compliant, and not dx9 compliant(another part of the reason)
9500 and up has pixel shader version 2.0, which is what hdrish requires to work for those who have radeons here
Let's just say Cobra couldn't get hdrish to work on his radeon 9250 128 for his life
Yeah, he kept getting errors and slow performance trying to make it work
He's back to standard 6.4 cat's ;)


WHEEW!! I gots a Radeon 9550! Is that a really good card :nervous: ?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on April 24, 2006, 08:24:20 pm
You need to fix your nameplates, just create a transparant 2X2 dds called Nameplate.dds, and it'll fix those.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 25, 2006, 02:11:00 am
9500's are good cards, they're crippled versions of 9700's
In fact, you can soft mod a 9500 into a 9700
Or you can hardware mod it
Software mod is preferred, modding the card will activate the extra 4 pipelines which will double the memory bus alongside the already 4 active pipelines in the gpu
http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/guide13.html
However since you have a 9550, you can't do that
But you can however mod your 9550 into a 9600 with a bios mod which lets you overclock the **** out of the card
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=463
I don't know if this is necessary to be done today when you have things like omega's at your feet
The 9550 is a cut down version of a 9600, when you mod the bios it makes your 9550 into a 9600
As far as i'm concerned with the differences between a 9550 and a 9600 there was lower clock speeds for the 9550, and the 9550 has overclocking protection in the catalysts specifically for the 9550, i don't know if it has overclock protection in it's bios
The reason you can't soft mod a 9550 into a 9700 was because the 9550 doesn't have 4 extra dormant pipelines
And, how unfortunate for you thesizzler :( that you don't have a 9500 (i bet you wish you had one now)
That'd be a nice free upgrade for you man :)
But yeah the 9550 is a fine card, i use to own a 9600se, it was good
But, technically your 9550 is much better than an "se" card :)
Nothing wrong with 9600's, fine cards, except the se will only last you for about a year :sigh:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 25, 2006, 03:56:02 pm
bah, i have some awesome screenshots, but imageshack is really funky right now, i can't upload any pictures. :(
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 25, 2006, 05:05:37 pm
That sucks
i'll have to take some new ones soon:D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 27, 2006, 01:20:32 pm
Hallelujah, the imageshack server likes me again!

These first two were taken while i was playing the mission "Playing Judas" :D

A Demon-class destroyer just jumped in. It's the Eva!
(http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/234/screen02514ls.png)

Oh my God! It's the Lucifer!
(http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/84/screen02529gv.png)

Another Eva shot in the mission before the Lucifer destroys the Galatea.
(http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7680/screen02534oa.png)

I find this picture a powerful setting.
(http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/5491/screen02667oi.png)

[EDIT] Forgot this one.

The Lucifer opens fire in Doomsday.
(http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8886/screen02567iu.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 28, 2006, 04:58:35 pm
I like the  picture with the typhon the most :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 28, 2006, 05:21:56 pm
what a coincidence, that's my favorite screenshot too :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ShivanSpS on April 28, 2006, 05:30:20 pm
I Have a Abit R9550, Guru, this come which the 9600XT core chip, and even come ehich an 9600 Standart bios... (this card have two bios, the normal one 9550, and the extreme one 9600 standart)... And the Vguru allow me to increase the v, so my card is overcloke dto 9600XT clocks 500/600, I cand overclock the core to 600 but is not use, the pipelines limit the FPS... Is a fine card, but, is not going to work which any of the game sthat come in september... not even in low... I have a +- 20 FPS in X3, and -+ 14 FPS in Oblidion... I updating to a 6800GS soon...

And I also use the Omega Drivers.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 28, 2006, 06:12:11 pm
Yeah, that's the reason i didn't like the 9600 too much
It's a good card, but it was developed so it would be cheaper and just as fast as the higher end ones, one main area of being cheaper was the fact that it had a lot less pipelines
The 9600 really was a good card for the objective ati had it set for
Just, that it doesn't have any potential at all, like overclocking and other settings turned on at the same time without slowing it down and such
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on April 28, 2006, 07:09:45 pm
S-99, I was referring to your own amusing screenie sequence + commentary on the hecate-deimos-fenris orgy: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,35998.75.html It's 2 pages earlier in this thread. As far as I can tell, exactly one of the pictures you posted on this page you had also posted there (it's the hecate with beamz).
Btw, using the division between terran/vasudan/shivan ships, one could make special sequences like that for people with an 'interracial' fetish  :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 28, 2006, 10:10:47 pm
Damn, i'm slow when you said "ship three-some set" :lol:
I thought you were talking about like some type of ship package you could download for fs2
Hecate-deimos-fenris had fun though
But, yeah, i like the hecate a whole lot, i like it better than the orion
I needed to show the comparison there to the old one big time :nod:
The hecate may not be as powerful as an orion, but it can deal a ****load of wupass, it's got good turret placement and usage of them(from what i see from all of my screenshots :)), and it holds a great deal more fighters than the orion does, i guess in a way you could consider the hecate to be like a mild carrier crossed with a destroyer
Also the hecate just looks more intimidating than an orion does, orions are destroyed all the time
So when a hecate jumps in system, i'm just like oh ****, i do not want to deal with that thing, everyone who plays fs2 is more familiar with destroying a demon or an orion anyway, and coincidentally the hecates are on your side anyway(the enemies don't get to use the new stuff :p)

This shot shows off how the deimos is always ready to kick ass as soon as it arrives
(Those big beams are for the fenris, because the deimos has do it quick before the hecate arrives)
(http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2735/untitled78qv.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
I mean right off the bat while kicking the fenris's ass, it has time for me simultaneously
(This is the xxx fighter stimulator that stimulates)
(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1092/untitled126ap.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Quite frankly...I took it
(OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH BABY!!!)
(http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/1940/untitled114tj.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Then the hecate warped in
(Here you can see that fighters prefer big ships)
(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/5845/untitled194to.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here's another example of good turret placement
(Here the hecate is flakking off the fighters)
(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2075/untitled339tu.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And here is an hdrish stealth fighter
(This fighter plays hard to get)
(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7131/untitled31rf.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

Again, these are from transcend
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on April 28, 2006, 10:41:03 pm
That "HDRish" shader overdoes the effect to the ugly extreme.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on April 28, 2006, 11:29:41 pm
^^ Agreed. The one thing it looks good doing is improving the warp effect tho.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 29, 2006, 05:28:42 pm
The screenshot with the deimos warping in has no fake hdr, just the normal 3.6.8 warp ani, that was from a different game i was playing that day
All the rest do have fake hdr
That pisses me off though, the deimos can't make it all the way out of subspace before it closes up, shown in the screenshot :p
The only good screenshot i posted was the hecate blasting its flak, i wasn't trying to post good screenshots in my last post at all(seriously :lol:)
Fake hdr only looks good in game, and not in the modelview or the menus or the breifings :)
HDRish is a fine smartshader, just some things about it that do suck
Everything in the game gets fake hdr, every single menu and graphic(your crosshair gets hdr), that's annoying because when your in game, your radar, sensor lock, crosshairs, and loadout, can be blinded out if say you look at a cruisers engines or the sun
Also when you get hit, it almost looks like the screen turns pink
I wish the smartshader were more variable like the halflife2 real hdr that simulates how light enters the eye, but something like that would need to be coded into the game
If you want to see some good demonstrations of fake hdr
Go check out page 4 http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,35998.75.html (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,35998.75.html) and check out my other screenshots
They're not my trashy ones like here, they're a lot nicer :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 29, 2006, 05:33:43 pm
*frantic gestures* screenshots? hello? good quality screenshots over here! *is ignored* bastards.










:p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on April 29, 2006, 05:43:16 pm
S-99, you are great!  :lol:  :yes:

It doesn't help that you say, on that page, "I have to turn on the actual engines on the ships"  ;7

Of course, the long-running joke/war at HLP over calling ship designs phallic doesn't help either. Especially not with kilometer-long ships.  :P
That reminds me of an idea I've had for a while: to get people to stop trivializing fan-made modelling by calling it phallic, we make a ship that actually deliberately looks like one. That way, whenever people get an urge to call a big piece of metal & plastic a penis, they can go over to the thread for that ship and say so. That way it will actually be appropriate for the ship. Plus, in honor of the GTC Great Big Cube in Karajorma's modeling tutorial, we could call it the GTVP* Great Big Penis.
*=Galatic Terran-Vasudan Phallus; even if the Vasudans probably don't have those, it's more politically correct.
I would model/texture it myself, but I'm not very good with doing curvy surfaces. Besides, if I posted a screenshot of it or linked to a model file, I would probably get banned from HLP for porn  :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: WeatherOp on April 29, 2006, 06:59:25 pm
I demand more Moloch shots. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 29, 2006, 07:14:47 pm
I think the colossus applies when it exits into a node
The colossus was made for pleasure, it's got that big handle on its underside
The orion on the other hand just goes in and out of nodes like nothing
Terran and vasudan ships are all good and smooth for nodes
But not shivan ships
When a sathanas or demon or any other shivan ship goes through a node, they got all those spikes and arms on their ships
Just means pain for that poor node
And this is the reason why shivans capture nodes instead of planets, they're trying to figure out what's wrong with their ships :nod:
If shivans want to stand out from the rest of the alien fleets in fs2, they should go for a ribbed look instead of spikey as all hell :)
Now i think the nonshivans got something going when it comes to smooth and sleek ships vibrating in all dimensions to enter subspace ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 29, 2006, 08:26:17 pm
oh god, make it stop and make this a screenshot thread again!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 29, 2006, 09:12:39 pm
It will never stop cobra :)
Ships continually use vibration in all dimensions to enter subspace everyday
Abstinance at this point, maybe for those spikey shivan :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 29, 2006, 10:18:30 pm
I wonder if people feel like highlighting this thread now :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on April 29, 2006, 10:34:08 pm
This reminds me of that SOC mission with the "DIVE, DIVE, DIVE" quote, where the Sathanas warps in and almost penetrates right through with its huge spike, without even asking for your consent  :lol:

Oh, and then there was the 'dream' mission in Derelict where Alpha 1 is for some reason dreaming about a Sathanas doing that to him  ;)

Sorry...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on April 29, 2006, 10:59:46 pm
Some people either need to get out more or less, and I'm not sure which.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on April 29, 2006, 11:11:05 pm
s-99 (Sp?) made some pritty dam good screenies. Kudos. (IIRC- page 4 or 5) Good work.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on April 29, 2006, 11:14:06 pm
It's too bad I haven't been making much screenies lately  :lol:
See, SCP is like Viagra. But it still hasn't been helping with me getting any...screenshots, I mean.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on April 29, 2006, 11:17:46 pm
lol
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on April 29, 2006, 11:32:07 pm
Except it's risky to your health to get penetrated by a spike, or missile, or even energy bolt. That's why fighters should always use their shields as protection. Ever since all fighters were given shields in the Great War, the casualty rate for encounters with those spiky Shivans has been much lower.
 :wakka:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 30, 2006, 12:03:39 am
someone shoot me. i'm getting images that are SO wrong.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on April 30, 2006, 02:12:24 am
You know, perhaps the 'WARNING' part of this title thread should be changed to 'WARNING: Not Minor/Christian friendly'.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 30, 2006, 03:45:54 am
More hdrish goodness ;)
The knossos defense
(vibrating long sleek and smooth protection)
(http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/1723/untitled1020rn.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Good shot of AAA beam
(xxx ship stimulator groping around blindly)
(http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/6585/untitled711ov.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Stupid shivan
(the stimulator found something to pleasure...a little too much)
(http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/956/untitled620ro.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here's a good view of flak
(These fighters got flakked :lol:)
(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8786/untitled513zk.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The nice new shockwaves
(This is an explosion of pleasure for the eyes)
(http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/1913/untitled1112bq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The final destruction of the knossos
(the sobek having a fetish for watching)
(http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7412/untitled1182lf.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's destroyed, great popcorn right there i might add
(it's subspace britches got shook good)
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1637/untitled1252aa.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
This one is epic
(turns out the sathanas was already "up in there")
(http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/6827/untitled1310vi.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The sobek is like oh ****
(oh ****)
(http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5426/untitled1357lu.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It does what it can
(It's try to show off it's big yellow beam)
(http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8567/untitled1376mi.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
So the sobek leaves
(Sathanases don't share the interest of yellow beams spattering against their primary hulls like vasudans do, because they think it's gross)
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8870/untitled921kj.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
I was able to do something monumental in the fighterbay
(The sathanas got violated nonetheless)
(http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/3290/untitled979ao.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here we go
(that's right, the sathanas took it in the fighterbay)
(http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4166/untitled994ps.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
All screenshots taken with hdrish on that one mission where you destroy the knossos :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: WeatherOp on April 30, 2006, 01:07:14 pm
I demand more Moloch shots. :p

 :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on April 30, 2006, 01:20:41 pm
"The fighters got flakked off" - that's great! Next time someone annoys me, I'll just tell them to go flak off!
Btw, how come only EA ships shoot white beams? All the others are weirdly colored...But, they all shoot for a really long time...and it only takes them a short while until they can shoot again...
 :nervous:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 30, 2006, 01:33:14 pm
what happened to my thread? :(
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on April 30, 2006, 02:15:40 pm
It was swarmed by HDRish warriors.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Kie99 on April 30, 2006, 02:25:22 pm
Btw, how come only EA ships shoot white beams? All the others are weirdly colored...But, they all shoot for a really long time...and it only takes them a short while until they can shoot again...
 :nervous:

Because the creators of Inferno thought they looked cool.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 30, 2006, 02:33:02 pm
It was swarmed by HDRish warriors.

wrong. it was swarmed with perverse minds.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on April 30, 2006, 02:37:14 pm
ARE YOU CALLING ME A PERVERT?!?!?!!!!11



Thank you.
 :D
 :cool:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 30, 2006, 04:17:42 pm
Inuendos are great with the word flak
Stuff like the fighters got flakked
Or the fighters are getting flakked off
I need to post my other screenshots :lol:
Yeah, i'm like the jihad of firm belief in hdr...even if it's fake :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 30, 2006, 04:41:09 pm
All screenshots taken with hdrish

You know in the mission after the knossos getting destroyed, i never knew there was a hecate, i didn't even know the hecate was getting blasted either, but now i do after i go snapping screenshots
(it's waiting to "take" it)
(http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1316/untitled1434bt.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
DAAAMNN!
(the hecate is a pervert)
(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2120/untitled1444lp.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
OUCH!
(the hecate got penetrated by big long long lasting read beams)
(http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/2518/untitled1450ip.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The hecate got waisted in one salvo from the sathanas
(that gtd phoenicia tattoo it got on it's ass on that day was all for nothing)
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4154/untitled1464rv.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's obviously dead from the first salvo, so the sathanas decides to shoot it again :p
(the sathanas is actually pissed off)
(http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2687/untitled1489vl.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
This explosion actually ended up being more massive than the knossos surprisingly
(this is what happens when you blockade the entrance to the tunnel of love for the sathanas, he just wants to get back in there)
(http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/1093/untitled1501ah.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Over here we have the sathanas
(over here we have the sathanas still going at it, what a trooper)
(http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/6483/untitled1532uw.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here's the sathanas level with me
(the sathanas was pissed off because the tunnel of love was blockaded, and for what i did in its fighterbay last mission ;))
(http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4664/untitled1546oz.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
All screenshots taken with hdrish on that one mission after you destroy the knossos :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on April 30, 2006, 04:43:37 pm
S-99, how come your pictures are so bright and shiny?  How can I do that?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on April 30, 2006, 05:15:32 pm
HDRish
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,29291.0.html (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,29291.0.html)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 30, 2006, 06:15:59 pm
Use hdrish, if you  need information on hdrish check on like page 5 of this thread
Have *-spec_point flag at max
Have *-spec_tube flag at max
Have *-ambient_factor flag at 75
Have the *-spec_static flag at 0.8
When you have that
Ever seen a deimos give away it's position?
(http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/5947/untitled496hq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Ever seen a deimos lit up like a christmas tree?
(http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7388/untitled448wm.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Well now it's christmas
(http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/1852/untitled460up.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Tastes like wintergreen
(http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2316/untitled14ia.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: WeatherOp on April 30, 2006, 06:31:37 pm
I demand more Moloch shots. :p

 :p

Now I'm starting to get mad. :blah:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 30, 2006, 06:39:01 pm
A cookie to the one who can see what's messed up about this picture.

(http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/9673/screen02133js.png)

S-99, you don't get to answer, i already showed this to you. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on April 30, 2006, 06:43:42 pm
True i know the secret to that one cobra
Also there's not  many missions with a moloch in it :(
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on April 30, 2006, 06:49:12 pm
The thruster glow is colliding with the ships hull?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 30, 2006, 06:53:47 pm
The thruster glow is colliding with the ships hull?

uh, no, that happens to all the ships. :wtf:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Descenter on April 30, 2006, 07:11:55 pm
Is it the Apollo behind it which make it look incredibly small compared to the Faustus?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on April 30, 2006, 07:45:08 pm
Descenter gets the cookie! or he would if i had any to give. :nervous:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on April 30, 2006, 07:56:35 pm
Quote
uh, no, that happens to all the ships.
I know it happens to all the ships, but it is the most annoying visual bug that the (truely excellent) programmers haven't gotten around to fixing yet.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: StratComm on April 30, 2006, 08:04:15 pm
It's also a bug that's really hard to fix properly, so I'm not suprised it's still in.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Descenter on April 30, 2006, 08:47:28 pm
Descenter gets the cookie! or he would if i had any to give. :nervous:

Yeaaa......
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 01, 2006, 02:19:44 am
What kind of cookie?
Or do we just brand him as just "one good cookie" :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on May 01, 2006, 08:50:26 am
We give him a...*remembers Bosch Beer* box of Koth Cookies!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on May 01, 2006, 10:48:08 am
Or do we just brand him as just "one good cookie" :lol:

most likely that. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 01, 2006, 06:16:34 pm
here is all of my 131 screenshots. (RAR)


Download. (http://www.rapidsharing.com/19ac3ab9e09a8a8d19e2595c45a25d86)


SIZE

RAR format-38mb
Extracted size-294mb

The BMPs are from an older media vp set, but the TGAs are newer.
TGA's can be viewed in Quicktime. Or at least thats what I use.
I'm not sure about anything else.

If it's broken tell me, because that place was yelling at me when I uploaded it.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on May 01, 2006, 06:46:37 pm
Can IrfanView opent .tga files? Or even GIMP? I don't feel like downloading yet another graphic viewer/editor.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 01, 2006, 07:11:13 pm
Umm, just use something like a graphics card tray tool
It should let set up a hotkey sequence for taking screenshots in a specified formate in a specified location
For me it's Alt-S, for taking jpegs, in my screenshots directory :)
No need for converting something like tga's :)
Keeps you from having to remember which directory in the fs2 main directory has your screenshots
Also please remember to use fs2's toggle hud feature ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 01, 2006, 07:19:38 pm
Quote
Also please remember to use fs2's toggle hud feature

I figrued that out about 3/4 of the way through these pictures.  :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on May 01, 2006, 07:33:58 pm
As far as I can tell, it's broken.  :sigh:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 01, 2006, 07:35:47 pm
I am (trying) using Rapid share file hosting. Should I be using something else?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on May 01, 2006, 07:39:25 pm
Try http://fileh.com (http://fileh.com). If you sign up soon you should get 2.5 GB.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 01, 2006, 08:53:54 pm
Fixed.
Should work now.
it's rapidshare, though.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on May 01, 2006, 10:10:21 pm
Quote
It's also a bug that's really hard to fix properly, so I'm not suprised it's still in.
Yeah, I've programed very little, but just enough to wonder how that would be fixed, or if it is even possible to fix, but you know what they say, a little knowlage is a dangerous thing.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 02, 2006, 12:16:01 am
Yeah, i wouldn't really call it a bug, everything in a species fleet uses the same thruster glow of various sizes :)
You'd have to do something like personalized thruster glows for each and every ship or something
I don't see this bug going away ever
You could come up with something like when a thruster glow collides with the hull of the ship it just cancels out right there or something
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 02, 2006, 11:01:16 pm
those screenshots i downloaded don't seem to be of fs2 thesizzler :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on May 03, 2006, 12:03:52 am
That's what I was going to say...but I thought maybe I had just done something weird... :wtf:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 03, 2006, 01:39:08 pm
DAMMIT :lol:
I just remembered a mission i got up to that had a moloch in it :)
Now i can take screenshots of it ;)
But, does anyone know the status on the htl moloch?
I really have no clue about it, i'd like to take pictures of the new one :blah:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on May 03, 2006, 03:13:01 pm
The HTL moloch is done. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 03, 2006, 03:57:30 pm
those screenshots i downloaded don't seem to be of fs2 thesizzler :)

??

What are they?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on May 03, 2006, 04:07:34 pm
they're like medieval battle game stuff.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 03, 2006, 04:11:41 pm
WHAT TEH POOP!!!????!!!!!!!
(not angry at you, angry at rapidshare  :) )
I don't have a mideval battle game!!!!!!!

EDIT: I can't even spell 'midevil' eaithr!!
 :mad: :mad: :mad:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 03, 2006, 05:10:18 pm
I think it was that heroes and villains mmorpg :lol:
Just completely fs2 related, maybe i should try putting a file on rapidshare with a similar filename :nod:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Goober5000 on May 03, 2006, 06:19:47 pm
EDIT: I can't even spell 'midevil' eaithr!!

medieval either
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 03, 2006, 07:36:27 pm
THE SIZZLER'S SCREENSHOT PACK #1 (http://www.fileh.com/thesizzler/screenshots.rar)

40 or so megabytes.
131 screenshots.
BMP = old Media VPs
TGA = new Media VPs

----

This should work. If not, tell me.

EDIT: 400th post!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on May 03, 2006, 07:40:58 pm
weee, dialup optimized servers. :-/
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 03, 2006, 08:27:12 pm
Some of the screenshots are so so, but there's a lot of good ones that would make good backgrounds and such that are real keepers :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 25, 2006, 08:02:05 pm
 :bump:

resurected!


(http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/9743/45ur.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 25, 2006, 08:35:06 pm
Resurected :D
I'll have to toss some in here too :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 25, 2006, 08:39:03 pm
I have more, but it was too much to convert into PNG's, and too little to make another screenshot pack. :/
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 25, 2006, 09:12:46 pm
Just post all the good ones. Right now i'm restoring my windows and fs2 to it's previous grandeur since my hard drive got corrupted. But, that A-ok, and that's when you're smart enough to format a large partition into ext3. Get's away from buggy ntfs, and gets away from 4gb fat32 file size limitations. Ext3 is a linux format, but there is in fact a way to use it in windows which is what i am doing :D Also something that came to mind, of how funny it would be for people to post in a forum and to reply to each other back and forth via editing the previous post :lol:
3.6.8ZETA'S ARE OUT
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on May 26, 2006, 08:17:05 pm
I'm a bit confused about where I get the latest Media VPs, latest I've been able to find is good old 3.6.7. I can't wait to get my hand on those zetas  :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 26, 2006, 08:43:38 pm
Go to the freespace upgrade forum, and check out the very first sticky thread you see.
An ntf hercules
(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6919/untitled36wp.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here's the belisarius taking it. Here the belisarius is actually 25% hull integrity, that's one powerful beam shot for the vasudans :nod:
(http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/4481/untitled147tv.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
A good old satis that docks with the psamtik to drop off the refugees
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/9805/untitled318rf.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And here's a retake of the phoenicia getting screwed (enhanced with mvadveffects)
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4264/untitled988lx.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
All these screenshots taken with 3.6.8zetas and their mvadveffects and hdrish-lite smartshader(it's like hdrish, only over extremely lite) :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 26, 2006, 09:01:05 pm
I'm a bit confused about where I get the latest Media VPs, latest I've been able to find is good old 3.6.7. I can't wait to get my hand on those zetas  :D

So was I, so I just looked over the FSO Board.

3.6.8 Delta (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,37272.0.html)

3.6.8 Zeta (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,39905.0.html)

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 26, 2006, 09:17:51 pm
Get zeta's, there newer, and when you use the 3.6.8zetas, you'll really think that 3.6.7 sucks :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on May 26, 2006, 09:19:49 pm
People just don't know their there, they're, theirs anymore.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on May 26, 2006, 09:29:39 pm
When is 3.6.8 Official coming out? They should put some of these builds on the SCP website.

Also, I'm downloading the Zetas to replace my "aging" Deltas.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on May 29, 2006, 06:59:49 pm
what exactly is the difference between the zetas and the deltas?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 29, 2006, 07:05:37 pm
Zeta's are newer and have the newest completed htl models and new graphical features and new music, etc.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: AlphaOne on May 29, 2006, 07:26:16 pm
Not to be a bumper of the post but the engine trayls on the Phoenicea look a bit weird....!

Other then that yay good ones i like a lot ! Got more?? *starting to get adicted to the details of the SCP* ! I must really updrade my pc. Well not my entire pc just the vidcard and some more DDR!

Also how much power do u need from a pc to actualy be able to get those details??
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 29, 2006, 07:52:34 pm
In the phoenicia picture, the phoenicia is actually being viewed from an angle, and i guess that's why the engine flares are like that. :headz:
If you look at the herc1, the engine flares on it are sort of wierd too. On the herc1 look right where the flares are coming out of the jets on it. I'm just running the latest cvs with a clean install of fs2 and the new zeta's :) wysiwyg
For a graphics card, idk, don't get a cheap one. Make sure it at least has 128mb of ddr, and take a real good look at the bit rating of the ddr thats on the card before you buy. Get something with like 256bit ddr or 128bit ddr2. The new graphics cards have higher bit ratings than the older ones of course. And the reason you look at that stuff on the ddr, is because manufacturers today still get away with decieving the customer into thinking they got something for a steal. My old 9600se 128ddr was a great card, but i found out from all the 9000x radeons, it has half the pipelines in the gpu(i was ok with that), and the ddr was only 64bit(which is equal to 128bit sdram, and this did piss me off). If i want to play games with videocards that use sdram, then i'll use like a geforce 2 or something or voodoo3. ddr bit rate is a great way to decieve customers, and that should be the deciding factor of your next potential graphics card. I'm happy with my 9800pro 256mb ddr2 card. The reason being that my ddr2 is 128bit, and that would be equal to 512bit sdram, or 256bit ddr(you get the idea, get an unbottlenecked video card).
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on May 29, 2006, 09:40:44 pm
Is the Direct 3D shockwave problem fixed in the Zeta VPs?

And why is everything all blurry in FS2 when I set it to OpenGL?????  Could it be that I am using Radeon Omega Drivers?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 30, 2006, 04:25:18 am
Direct3d support has been like almost abandoned. Check out the topic in the fsu forumhttp://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,39971.0.html (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,39971.0.html)
You're better off with ogl so far. My assumption of why ogl is blurry for you, is not because of the use of omegadrivers, but rather how you have them tuned, and what graphics settings you have on fs2. For the blurry ogl problem, check to make sure that you don't have like the blurry smartshader activated in the ogl part of your graphics card settings. Do things like turn mipmaps up to max, same with texture preference, both of those really don't slow down the card. That should make things a lot more clear and not blurry. Idk, just go through your graphics control panel(don't worry about the smartshader thing if you're graphics card doesn't have any form of it), and tune it as opposed from a performance aspect, but for things to actually look good. You only get slowdowns when you do things like turning on AA or anistopic filtering. I don't take you for a dumbass there's probably something major you missed or forgot to turn off in the control panel to play fs2 in ogl.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 30, 2006, 04:28:59 am
Direct3D is about one step away from being removed entirely. At this point, IIRC, it's actually set to not be included in any future builds by default.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 30, 2006, 05:27:41 am
This destroyer got all sexp'd up(different mission)
(http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/1031/untitled1105ra.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The imposing collie to the rescue
(http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/222/untitled1213my.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Stupid sath got all sexp'd up also(different mission again)
(http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5168/untitled1131ue.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The docile sath waits
(http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/1476/untitled1182sg.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Oh man, simultaneous, they're giving it to each other
(http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/6808/untitled1246ko.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Not this time, the sath is dominant and on top of this one
(http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9100/untitled1203bn.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
But the collie whips it out
(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9426/untitled1332jp.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Dual
(http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/9854/untitled1392vq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Nice green beam and glow
(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/1449/untitled1471zz.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Never get between two juggernauts that are sexp'd up and make the space-a-rumble, you'll never live to see daylight
(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2043/untitled1453ig.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The collie is good
(http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/1885/untitled1519po.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The sath eventually internally exploded
(http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/2721/untitled1552ce.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The sobek is not sexp'd up
(http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/402/untitled03bp.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Something i realized about reinforcements and whether or not you actually need them, it was a great chance to load up on a massive amount of fighters and bombers to do the fastest destroyer take down i've ever seen.
(http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/7515/untitled12po.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
If you look real close, you can see a bakha
(http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/2315/untitled80yh.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The lesson here, is that fighters, bombers, and that sobek and demon didn't seem to be sexp'd up which meant for a sobek and bomber and fighters actually totaling a destroyer with their own brawn, and not receiving moderate damage of internal components like the collie
Good sobek
(http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/8933/untitled1169en.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Done with opengl, hdrish-lite, and all of the 3.6.8zeta vp's (except for mvcell)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on May 30, 2006, 06:48:03 pm
I love you.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on May 30, 2006, 06:49:32 pm
:wtf:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on May 30, 2006, 07:44:32 pm
Someone else get screens :shaking:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on May 30, 2006, 07:56:06 pm
 :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on June 05, 2006, 02:02:27 pm
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i172/ReinvntngurXit/Image000125.jpg)
Bye Bye Knossos!

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i172/ReinvntngurXit/Image000111.jpg)
SOmeone didnt make a new warpout effect for knossos portals..  yeah thats the Iceni!

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i172/ReinvntngurXit/Image00028.jpg)
Hoo crap I wouldnt wanna be at the other end of those cannons!

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i172/ReinvntngurXit/Image000122.jpg)
And thats just ONE meson Bomb!

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i172/ReinvntngurXit/Image000156.jpg)
I'm surprised I lived through that one!

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i172/ReinvntngurXit/Image000147.jpg)
Heatsinks werent made for this kind of abuse Command!  We'll melt our cannons if we push any harder!!!

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i172/ReinvntngurXit/Image00044.jpg)
Flak Showers

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i172/ReinvntngurXit/Image00036.jpg)
A blooming shockwave!

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i172/ReinvntngurXit/Image00032.jpg)
That deimos is totally owned!

(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i172/ReinvntngurXit/Image00005.jpg)
Another blooming shockwave...

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on June 05, 2006, 02:12:11 pm
two things:

1) Good pics, i see you got HDRish working.
2) Holy ****, you were running FRAPS with that kind of FPS?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 05, 2006, 02:18:38 pm
Why is the Knossos jump animation so much fuglier than the normal one?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: DaBrain on June 05, 2006, 02:27:35 pm
Wow... S-99, I love your HDR-ish settings. HDR-ish has some flaws, but at this strengh it looks just awesome.

I envy the lucky ATI users who can use use post effects like this...  :sigh:  :(


I'm still waiting for something similar on NV cards... I don't get why neither Nvidia, nor the fans worked out a software for this...
 
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on June 05, 2006, 02:29:03 pm
Why is the Knossos jump animation so much fuglier than the normal one?

It's green, duh.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 05, 2006, 02:33:20 pm
No, I like the CYAN color, but it seems much lower res.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on June 05, 2006, 03:57:06 pm
two things:

1) Good pics, i see you got HDRish working.
2) Holy ****, you were running FRAPS with that kind of FPS?

what do you mean?
I think fraps was running in the background.  I'm not sure tho.  wait, i dont even have fraps installed!  I have the ATI Omega Drivers installed.  They put some sort of frame frate counter.

Are my FPS unusally good or bad?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on June 05, 2006, 03:57:37 pm
Oh, I have more pics I'll be uploading to my photo bucket...

They'll be up soon.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 05, 2006, 04:02:40 pm
Are my FPS unusally good or bad?

Your framerate shouldn't go under 20 except under very rare ciriumstances.

Don't double post.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Kie99 on June 05, 2006, 04:52:33 pm
I don't think there's any rule against it.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 05, 2006, 04:53:20 pm
Yeah, dab, that's why i switched to hdrish-lite. I know one flaw of hdrish shaders is that they use fake hdr, after that it's static hdr, not dynamic. I switched to hdrish lite because, it looks nicer than the full blown hdrish, it adds minor fake hdr effects to the game :nod: Also, smartshaders aren't really that great nor useful, the only good smartshaders to date, is the hdrish's, and maybe the blur and ghost shaders. Out of all the smartshaders in the world, those are the only cool ones, and there's a lot of smartshaders.

Another thing about the omegas zman, is turn off the fps counter in omegas, and turn off the fps counter in fs2. It really gets to be unnecessary. You know you got stable performance when you have a good 3d card, also when you  have vertical sync enabled at something like 85 hertz or higher. You'll have extremely smooth and more fluid gameplay, more optimized performance because your framerate neither drops or raises above the hertz rate, and no fps counters on your screenshots. Vertical sync is awesome, makes everything seemless, and not tearing across the screen. Great screenshots btw, those are really cool :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 05, 2006, 04:59:05 pm
I know my Radeon 9250 isn't up to Freespace 2, whenever a cruiser blows my framerate takes a huge hit, that's why I'm getting a mobo that has PCI Express X16, any suggestions for what PCI-E 16 card I should get BTW?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 05, 2006, 05:41:09 pm
Idk, try doing research on an ati x1600, those aren't too cost worthy, and should be about as fast as a 9800pro. The reason i got the 9800pro, was because i didn't have the pcie slot for an x1600 :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 05, 2006, 05:44:59 pm
Ugh... $230 there are computers for that much, oh well, you probably get what you pay for.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 05, 2006, 06:07:14 pm
WHAt? NO, try out pricewatch.com :) I eventually ended up buying my card off of amazon anyway
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on June 05, 2006, 06:27:35 pm
it's really too bad there is nothing like this for nvidia cards
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on June 05, 2006, 06:28:49 pm
Another thing about the omegas zman, is turn off the fps counter in omegas, and turn off the fps counter in fs2. It really gets to be unnecessary. You know you got stable performance when you have a good 3d card, also when you  have vertical sync enabled at something like 85 hertz or higher. You'll have extremely smooth and more fluid gameplay, more optimized performance because your framerate neither drops or raises above the hertz rate, and no fps counters on your screenshots. Vertical sync is awesome, makes everything seemless, and not tearing across the screen. Great screenshots btw, those are really cool :)

I'll turn them off.  I leave them on just so I have a general update of the FPS while I'm playing.  Sometimes I just like to see that counter.
How do i turn the Omega Counter off?

I thought vertical sync was bad?  Doesnt it like screw your frame rates up?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 05, 2006, 06:41:48 pm
Maybe your happier not knowing your FPS, I know I am.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: StratComm on June 05, 2006, 06:46:46 pm
VSync keeps the framerate capped to a set limit.  It keeps visual tearing from happening in the interface more than anything, and you can't notice a "framerate" higher than your monitor will go so it's sort of artificial anyway.

And I'm not sure the green version of the current warp effect has been done, so that may be why the knossos jump is wrong.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 05, 2006, 07:40:29 pm
Go into ati tray tools>tools and options>onscreen display. Then you can turn it off. It's generally good to turn it off if you're going to take screenshots :)
Vertical sync used to be bad. It's a myth that comes from the old days of 3d gaming when not everything was so powerful. Vertical sync limits the framerate to what the hertz rate of the monitor is. Like what stratcomm said, it keeps visual tearing from happening, and that's why i like it the most. But, back in the old days, where people wanted to get maximum performance out of their graphics card, people thought it was like a limitation your putting on the video card. But, it's really not. Limiting the fps can free up a good portion of the gpu for other graphical things. So essentially, vertical sync will eliminate tearing, keeps the framerate matched up to the hertz rate, and does it's best job as possible to keep the fps from dropping as well. It makes fs2 ultra smooth :D
you can't notice a "framerate" higher than your monitor will go so it's sort of artificial anyway.
Do you mean you can't notice a framerate higher than what the monitor's currently set hertz rate is? If you're at like 60hz, i'm sure you're not going to notice 120fps(you meant like this sort of thing stratcomm?).
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 05, 2006, 07:51:52 pm
Trouble is my framerate never goes above 60.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ZmaN on June 05, 2006, 07:53:30 pm
Go into ati tray tools>tools and options>onscreen display. Then you can turn it off. It's generally good to turn it off if you're going to take screenshots :)
Vertical sync used to be bad. It's a myth that comes from the old days of 3d gaming when not everything was so powerful. Vertical sync limits the framerate to what the hertz rate of the monitor is. Like what stratcomm said, it keeps visual tearing from happening, and that's why i like it the most. But, back in the old days, where people wanted to get maximum performance out of their graphics card, people thought it was like a limitation your putting on the video card. But, it's really not. Limiting the fps can free up a good portion of the gpu for other graphical things. So essentially, vertical sync will eliminate tearing, keeps the framerate matched up to the hertz rate, and does it's best job as possible to keep the fps from dropping as well. It makes fs2 ultra smooth :D
you can't notice a "framerate" higher than your monitor will go so it's sort of artificial anyway.
Do you mean you can't notice a framerate higher than what the monitor's currently set hertz rate is? If you're at like 60hz, i'm sure you're not going to notice 120fps(you meant like this sort of thing stratcomm?).


2 things....  ehh maybe i'll try vertical sync....

Actually the human eye cant notice anything over 65-70 fps....  its just adds to smoother gameplay.

I personally would rather take it down to 60 and extra image quality to the game.

Trouble is my framerate never goes above 60.

Its probably capped at 60.  Or you have a crappy video card.

Try uncapping it....  google it and see what you can find.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 05, 2006, 07:54:36 pm
I have a crappy video card

Anyone else? Screenies?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 05, 2006, 08:09:10 pm
It's the orifice :D
(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/4604/untitled01we.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And again
(http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/545/untitled10rz.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's asteroids
(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/715/untitled22ug.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's the plato
(http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/2417/untitled40wa.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Plato again
(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/8571/untitled53ca.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Is this like a docking bay for the plato?
(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/7430/untitled60mg.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Vertical sync is nice, if you got a snappy refresh rate to go along with it(something that's not a strobe light like 60hz or 75hz).
Umm mars, yeah sounds like your framerate is capped, you can fix this by either raising your refresh rate from 60hz, or disabling vertical sync all together. Go into your graphics card control panel and make sure vertical sync is off all of the way (that's if raising the refresh rate with vertical sync enabled didn't help...assuming your monitor is at 60hz). After that go into the fs2 launcher and go into the features tab and do the game speed list type, and you can deactivate vertical sync for fs2 by default there.
Also, never have your refresh rate at 60hz unless you can't help it. 60hz is like a freaking strobe light :eek:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: J.P. on June 05, 2006, 08:35:47 pm
Yeah, I never did the cyan version. Forgot about it. But I think DaBrain or WMcoolmon made one and put it in the warpmap zip file that was out a while back. It should've been addded to the vp files.

Oh well, I'm thinking about making a new one because this one isn't "ripply" enough.

Nice screenshots by the way! I love this new HDRish thing. It's really encouraging me to get permission to install the game again so I can see ships actually look like they're come out of subspace rather than passing through a 3d model.  :p

-J.P.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 05, 2006, 08:50:05 pm
Refresh rate is at 70Hz

What is the Knossos warp file called?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 05, 2006, 09:05:29 pm
You're at 70hz capping out at 60fps? Just curious for a confirmation.
The cyan color on the warp effect looks relly nice, but that warp effect sucks so much :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 06, 2006, 05:14:30 am
It's the galatae city in the sky
(http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/9180/untitled117to.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here's the sensor booms
(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8499/untitled128xw.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And it's warping out
(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3103/untitled136ug.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's that one convoy responsible for changing the rest of fs gameplay forever
(http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/8362/untitled159yw.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's that damn convoy again
(http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/8276/untitled220fq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And the valkyries
(http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/6098/untitled232dg.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's an apollo
(http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/9612/untitled270xw.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's centauring the apollo
(http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/5752/untitled285wk.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The apollo did get hit
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5241/untitled85jo.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Apollo warps out
(http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/2962/untitled297kf.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's a valkyrie
(http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/2296/untitled304kq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
This is when you know you should quit playing for the day
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4868/untitled394zq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Where the elysium failed
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1986/untitled401dt.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The chronos comes
(http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/700/untitled412ic.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And succeeds
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/6645/untitled425iy.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Sometimes my graphics card likes to overheat, because the stock fan failed long ago, so i stuck a soyo motherboard chipset fan on the 9800pro heatsink, and it works fine, but it could work a little better(considering this is the only artifacting i've had for having my machine on for 5 days) :)
Also, why the **** is the chronos not in fs2 at all, it has a wide range of uses civilian and militaristic kind. But, it's probably because the vasudan bast was replaced with the bes, and the terran chronos was replaced with the triton.

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on June 06, 2006, 05:53:20 am
What features have you got turned on there?
Glowmaps etc work, but mine dont look that shiny, Im using 3.67, Is there a new feature in 3.68?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 06, 2006, 09:28:44 am
He's using a form of HDRish, a smart shader for (some) ATI cards.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on June 06, 2006, 09:30:24 am
Im pretty sure my cards a recent ATI radeon, How would i activate HDRish? (whatever thsat is  :D)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on June 06, 2006, 09:44:01 am
you're not using the improved Apollo I see...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 06, 2006, 04:41:29 pm
Actually hdrish is not why my ships are so shiny and beautiful. You see, environmental reflections was implimented for opengl. This happens when you use the zeta's(most of the ships now have alpha maps) with the 3.6.9 recent build release from yesterday(it has environmental hull reflections), hell, there's even a beta launcher out for testing(enables further features for opengl). I promise if you use them you will be happy :)
3.6.9build(don't ask me why it's called 3.6.9, and it works fine so far)
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40126.0/topicseen.html (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40126.0/topicseen.html)
The 5.4 test launcher(it worked fine for me)
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40121.0.html (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40121.0.html)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Backslash on June 06, 2006, 06:04:42 pm
Man S-99 you've got a talent for both screenshots and interesting commentary :lol:

Warp effect suck?  take a look here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40163.0.html) for an update.

Hey guys, I think we need a new splash screen for 3.6.9   ;7  Any ideas?  Preferably something showing off the environment mapping, but beams are also nice.  A close shot of cockpit reflections perhaps, with madness going on in the background?  Ideas?

bfobar's recreation (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,35998.msg795108.html#msg795108) of the front of the box would also be cool, with some updates.  (How'd you do that anyway?  Special mission setup?  If so, please share!)

Just my ideas so far...  :)  Discuss!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 06, 2006, 06:53:48 pm
Much much much better than the cyan warp effect of the knossos iceni warpout action that zman got a picture of :D
As far as hdrish goes, i use hdrish-lite. And ati cards can support it as long as it is dx9.0 compliant. Dx8.1 compliant cards wont be able to do it, as cobra will tell you so :lol: If anyone wants the smartshaders, i'll send it to you. As far as loading the smartshaders go umm. There's a psscontrol2.exe that loads them, or much better preferred to load them with the omega drivers, or by tossing them in the smartshader directory of your ati drivers(idk if that one works, i've sold my soul to omegas).
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on June 23, 2006, 01:15:42 pm
why the hell am i not getting notifications for this thread anymore?

anyway, i'm finally able to take screenies again.

The Wayward Son from Destiny of Peace:

(http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/4660/screen02928st.png)

Exploding Fenris

(http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1388/screen02951tx.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on June 23, 2006, 03:12:01 pm
Incredible shots. :yes:

Dont you have any more screens of the Hecate?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on June 23, 2006, 04:39:53 pm
Yay pics!
Sad pic of teh dying Deimos, on page 10 (IIRC).
FS1 Goodness! Keep it comeing!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: aceofspades on June 24, 2006, 02:42:18 am
Uh, well, I know it's not screenies, but I mentioned a while ago that I was making a sort of video-montage of FS. Well, the thing is, I still need to splice them together at the right spots, but I have a while heap of video takes lying around on my HD. More disturbingly, as far as I know I can only encode them one-by-one, which takes ages, so I sort of leave them all uncompressed...which has the effect of leaving me with several GBs of FS videos  :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 25, 2006, 04:02:44 am
Hmmm, yes, very sad pic of the deimos dying you rebel. You get a gtva court tribunal hearing execution, or plunger induced lethal injection. Don't know what you want to choose there charismatic :D I would follow suit and take more pics myself, but starting my own computer repair business with a partner is actually working very well to bring in the money. But that shot cobra did on the fenris not blowing up, that's a nice shot.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on June 25, 2006, 01:23:47 pm
it would have been perfect if the env. mapping worked properly in OGL. :(
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on June 26, 2006, 03:10:26 pm
Does anyone knows how to post images here? I would post a couple of screenshots here but I dont know how.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on June 27, 2006, 01:06:49 am
Get them hosted on Imageshack (http://imageshack.us) and then use the "[img]" tag to post them
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on June 28, 2006, 10:35:01 am
[needs more publicity]All of my screenies are here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40489.0.html).[/needs more publicity]
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on June 29, 2006, 03:25:28 pm
Clash of the Titans!

(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/1388/screen03138ia.png)

Exploding Demon with the nose flying right at me. Hilarious.

(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4216/screen03168pr.png)

The Lucifer in subspace:

(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4753/screen03188ed.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: mrduckman on June 29, 2006, 03:30:09 pm
Now THAT's a subspace vortex! Cool job for those who did it!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on June 30, 2006, 02:58:34 am
That's just the normal usually unseen fs2 subspace vortex
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 03, 2006, 08:25:32 pm
These are a couple of screens I took recently. The last one with the Deimos, a second later of taking the screenshot I died with a beam hit. :lol:

(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3927/screen00002vx.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6928/screen00015lf.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6748/screen00021hw.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 03, 2006, 08:32:07 pm
if you press Shift+O you can remove the HUD so you won't need to use the "Look with numpad zero" thing. also you can use bullet time (alt+pause). myself, i use time compression 0.25 for some of my shots. :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 03, 2006, 09:09:18 pm
Finally! I had no idea how to get that damn red thing out of the way, thank you. Well, here's a couple more.

(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8311/screen00036mh.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8603/screen00071nm.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/6477/screen00083fo.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 04, 2006, 03:15:11 am
Those are some ****ing awesome screenshotssarafan.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 04, 2006, 01:06:48 pm
More.

(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/424/screen00113pa.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/9964/screen00162sq.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/9154/screen00183hu.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/8634/screen00207vf.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4853/screen00215kw.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Trivial Psychic on July 05, 2006, 09:32:01 pm
Were some of those screenies from "Fall of Epsilon Pegasi" by BR?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 06, 2006, 11:18:34 am
Yes, from the last mission, I just recently played the campaign. The last 3 images are from the main campaign but I dont remember the mission's name, I know its before the sicillian defense though.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 06, 2006, 07:03:03 pm
Clash of the Titans 2.

(http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/2664/screen00250tq.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/1449/screen00273jf.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1741/screen00310ml.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/3533/screen00337pb.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 07, 2006, 05:34:07 pm
I just downloaded 3.6.9 and while trying it out, I took these screens (yes, that and the fact that I got nothing else to do, I admit). :D
I swear I got this tendency to draw beam fire from every ship, either friendly or from the enemy, missing death more then 3 times on the same mission is just too much.

(http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7442/screen00372iq.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7614/screen00383by.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/4627/screen00397nk.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3393/screen00405ph.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/1026/screen00413yu.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/1851/screen00424vk.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/9568/screen00447gj.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1028/screen00453ub.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1598/screen00463su.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/4363/screen00507ul.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img424.imageshack.us/img424/889/screen00579vp.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6282/screen00582ds.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/798/screen00599lc.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6394/screen00607hn.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/2630/screen00618of.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/8641/screen00620kt.png) (http://imageshack.us)

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 08, 2006, 12:37:18 am
What program do you use to take screenshots? Just idle curiosity. I use Fraps myself. Was rather surprised it worked with FS2 actually... but it works great!

Also what campaign are those taken from? Some of them look startlingly similiar to Transcend...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 08, 2006, 01:09:50 am
A good thing to use that has some if not all of the features of fraps is the omega drivers for your video card. Nvidia has omega's as well as ATI.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 08, 2006, 11:37:32 am
I didnt use any program, just ACDSee to convert the images to pgn, I took the shots from Endgame, Surrender Belisarius and the Sicillian Defense.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 08, 2006, 02:35:25 pm
What program do you use to take screenshots? Just idle curiosity. I use Fraps myself. Was rather surprised it worked with FS2 actually... but it works great!

you have to buy it. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 08, 2006, 06:21:49 pm
Yes, I know. It's not very expensive ($40). I have the full version, the one that lets you record movies indefinitely.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 08, 2006, 07:11:44 pm
meh. i should have quoted less of your post. i was jokingly saying that you had to buy the program we use to take the screenies. :D

nah, we just hit print screen (prt scr on the key)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 08, 2006, 09:10:39 pm
Ahh, but Fraps also flawlessly records movies. That alone is worth it methinks.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Backslash on July 08, 2006, 11:31:04 pm
Hey guys,
I think 3.6.9 mediavps final should have a new 'poster child' splash screen :D  What do you think?

In my opinion, it should show off the latest and greatest features, much like the current one shows off the then-new-and-impressive (for 3.6.7) shockwaves.  Perhaps a glory shot with tasteful environment mapping, with a helping of super beamglows? ;7

Some of you guys are very creative.  Many of the shots already posted would suffice, but perhaps someone could come up with something with just that extra 'oomph'?  I've been trying to make one myself but I am very good at taking the shot right after the awesome bit.  Thanks to Cobra's bullet-time suggestion I have more to play with now :yes: But I'm hoping this idea will spark some creativity and discussion for everyone.

Hey Sarafan, nice work but I'm curious, why do none of your shots have background nebulae?  Also, depending on your system specs, you might want to try the DDS animated beamglows (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38935.0.html) on.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on July 09, 2006, 12:51:56 am
FS1 Fighters and Caps, please.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 09, 2006, 02:15:03 am
right here.

It's the orifice :D
(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/4604/untitled01we.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And again
(http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/545/untitled10rz.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's asteroids
(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/715/untitled22ug.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's the plato
(http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/2417/untitled40wa.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Plato again
(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/8571/untitled53ca.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Is this like a docking bay for the plato?
(http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/7430/untitled60mg.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)


anyway, i'm finally able to take screenies again.

The Wayward Son from Destiny of Peace:

(http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/4660/screen02928st.png)

Exploding Fenris

(http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1388/screen02951tx.png)
It's the galatae city in the sky
(http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/9180/untitled117to.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here's the sensor booms
(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8499/untitled128xw.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And it's warping out
(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3103/untitled136ug.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's that one convoy responsible for changing the rest of fs gameplay forever
(http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/8362/untitled159yw.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's that damn convoy again
(http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/8276/untitled220fq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And the valkyries
(http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/6098/untitled232dg.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's an apollo
(http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/9612/untitled270xw.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's centauring the apollo
(http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/5752/untitled285wk.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The apollo did get hit
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5241/untitled85jo.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Apollo warps out
(http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/2962/untitled297kf.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
It's a valkyrie
(http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/2296/untitled304kq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
This is when you know you should quit playing for the day
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4868/untitled394zq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Where the elysium failed
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1986/untitled401dt.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The chronos comes
(http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/700/untitled412ic.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
And succeeds
(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/6645/untitled425iy.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)


and i'm probably going to get my ass kicked by the admins and moderators, but charismatic, can you please READ the thread? i just quoted you the FS1 shots. you know it doesn't do any good to close the barn doors after the horses escape. ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 09, 2006, 02:57:01 am
yeah, go through page 1-12 :nod:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 09, 2006, 06:33:52 pm
Hey guys,
I think 3.6.9 mediavps final should have a new 'poster child' splash screen :D  What do you think?

In my opinion, it should show off the latest and greatest features, much like the current one shows off the then-new-and-impressive (for 3.6.7) shockwaves.  Perhaps a glory shot with tasteful environment mapping, with a helping of super beamglows? ;7

Some of you guys are very creative.  Many of the shots already posted would suffice, but perhaps someone could come up with something with just that extra 'oomph'?  I've been trying to make one myself but I am very good at taking the shot right after the awesome bit.  Thanks to Cobra's bullet-time suggestion I have more to play with now :yes: But I'm hoping this idea will spark some creativity and discussion for everyone.

Hey Sarafan, nice work but I'm curious, why do none of your shots have background nebulae?  Also, depending on your system specs, you might want to try the DDS animated beamglows (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38935.0.html) on.

I agree, it would be nice to see another screen. As for nebulas in the background, its just because the missions that I took the shots dont have them in the back. :lol: I just tried the DDS now (like 5 minutes ago) but I dont know, it just seems that somehing is missing, it doesnt quite match up to the normal beam.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on July 10, 2006, 12:31:37 am
Cobra, thank you for the correlation of pics from the thread.
I have been keeping up, and read every single page. I just simply requested More FS1 pics of fighters\caps.

Iv saved most of the pics in this thread on my compy as well. I have a big collection. >)

But, sorry for the confuzion. I did not mean to seem like i did not see the previous ones. As stated, simply requested more.

EDIT: You did do a good job on the correlation tho. Kudos.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 10, 2006, 04:54:25 am
****dee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D yeah, me correlated ;) again :D ********ooyah :headz:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on July 10, 2006, 01:20:49 pm
Wrong use of the word i guess. Fine if your so awestruck about it, replace it with the word 'collection'.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 10, 2006, 07:35:01 pm
The PVD Guardian from Shrouding the Light and the GTD Iowa from Awakenings, both recently finished campaigns.

(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9435/screen00700qk.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5384/screen00715jy.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/1121/screen00721lt.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/1081/screen00737jq.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 11, 2006, 02:59:33 pm
Nothing better to do. :lol:

(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3208/screen00832ob.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4927/screen00844ui.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6458/screen00850ky.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/3085/screen00860hd.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1343/screen00869zf.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/607/screen00872mp.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/4176/screen00881eg.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 11, 2006, 04:04:57 pm
that last pic looks like a scene from Transcend that I shot, only mine had a cooler angle. :nervous: :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 11, 2006, 04:10:13 pm
Then I demand you to post it here for comparison. :P
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 11, 2006, 05:11:29 pm
it was on page three. :p

The GTCv Persistence (name sound familiar? ;)) opens fire:
(http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8471/screen00571jy.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 11, 2006, 05:32:16 pm
Oh. It is cool but not cooler. :P Also it seems that the beam is split in two, odd.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Backslash on July 11, 2006, 06:34:25 pm
What campaign is the Persistence from?  And could you post your spec settings?  I'm liking how high you seem to have the -spec_tube set.

Here's a couple dark moody pics from Transcend ["Irritants!"], with cool backgrounds, cause I'm getting tired of all the simple blackness  :D
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2378/transcendscreen00117jg.png) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/8009/transcendscreen00135ib.png) (http://imageshack.us)
I hadn't realized how subtle the environment maps can be sometimes.  You can't really tell in the second picture unless you were to see it with your ship in motion.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 11, 2006, 07:10:48 pm
What campaign is the Persistence from?  And could you post your spec settings?  I'm liking how high you seem to have the -spec_tube set.

IIRC that was a pic before I reformatted my hard drive to make way for better hardware, but i think this is what i had before: -spec -glow -env -jpgtga -nomotiondebris -missile_lighting -img2dds -no_vsync -dualscanlines -targetinfo -orbradar -ship_choice_3d -3dwarp -warp_flash -alpha_env -save_render_target  -allslev

excluding save_render target.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 11, 2006, 07:28:45 pm
I'm in the process of borrowing the idea thesizzler had and I'm making my own screenshot pack, as soon as I can I'll post it here.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 11, 2006, 07:41:51 pm
I think everyone here knows that the beam is split in half because it's an animation, and not a static thing, it's meant to be seen in motion, and funny when people see a snapshot of it and claim not to notice what it is when they see any snapshot of dab's beam affects.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 11, 2006, 08:25:57 pm
what's with the screenshot pack idea? it's a waste of time IMO when you can just stick it on a forum page so we don't waste valuable space. :wtf:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 11, 2006, 08:47:59 pm
Here, it contains all the shots that I posted on this thread plus some more, they are all on png format.

http://rapidshare.de/files/25599978/Screenshot_Pack01.rar.html

Cobra: I dont know why it's a waste, there's 89 screenshots in the pack and instead of uploading and posting every single one of them here and making this thread huge, it's just better to release all of them in one file.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on July 11, 2006, 09:38:20 pm
I agree with sara.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 12, 2006, 11:43:33 am
Well, did anyone downloaded it? I wanna see some coments, as soon I have enough screens, I'll get another pack up.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 12, 2006, 11:47:43 am
What campaign is the Persistence from? 

The Persistence is from Sync. The Generation is the Deimos in Transcend.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on July 12, 2006, 11:53:19 am
what's with the screenshot pack idea? it's a waste of time IMO when you can just stick it on a forum page so we don't waste valuable space. :wtf:


I have over 250 screenshots. Would you like me to post them all?



I'm sorry, but it's actually a lot quicker stuffing them into RARs. (as seen here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40489.0.html))
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 12, 2006, 11:58:19 am
Thesizzler, when are you going to make another pack? Some of the screens there were really good. :yes:

Just had to get this one here, I recently took it and I consider it one the best so far:

(http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7735/screen01629fr.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 13, 2006, 07:44:53 pm
Here it is, two new packs, 123 screenshots in total.

http://rapidshare.de/files/25781493/Screenshot_Pack02.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/25784508/Screenshot_Pack03.rar.html

And a new one just to show:

(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2281/screen02615lb.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 13, 2006, 07:54:26 pm
what's with the screenshot pack idea? it's a waste of time IMO when you can just stick it on a forum page so we don't waste valuable space. :wtf:

I have over 250 screenshots. Would you like me to post them all?

I'm sorry, but it's actually a lot quicker stuffing them into RARs. (as seen here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40489.0.html))

I take at least 20 screenshots and post at least 1 or 2 a mission. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on July 13, 2006, 09:06:10 pm
You don't play very much, do you?


MODIFY: Third screenshot pack up. Link in sig.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 14, 2006, 12:32:24 am
You don't play very much, do you?


MODIFY: Third screenshot pack up. Link in sig.

when the hell did screenshots say how much one plays??
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 14, 2006, 02:49:07 am
Here, it contains all the shots that I posted on this thread plus some more, they are all on png format.

http://rapidshare.de/files/25599978/Screenshot_Pack01.rar.html

Cobra: I dont know why it's a waste, there's 89 screenshots in the pack and instead of uploading and posting every single one of them here and making this thread huge, it's just better to release all of them in one file.

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Script_-_Splash_Screen
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: castor on July 14, 2006, 02:49:39 am
what's with the screenshot pack idea? it's a waste of time IMO when you can just stick it on a forum page so we don't waste valuable space. :wtf:
I think the optimum would be the rar packs as DLs + thumbnails posted here in the forum.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 14, 2006, 02:50:20 am
Where the hell does a hatshepsut go off blasting off a terran beam?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on July 14, 2006, 11:27:41 am
You don't play very much, do you?


MODIFY: Third screenshot pack up. Link in sig.

when the hell did screenshots say how much one plays??

you said you posted 1 or 2 a mission (or at least I thought you said that, sorry if I misunderstood), and you havn't posted any in a while... so... yeah.


EDIT: yay I started a new page!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 14, 2006, 11:43:06 am
Meh. Still, screenshots don't matter in terms of how much one plays.
Title: what happens if i change this?
Post by: Polpolion on July 14, 2006, 11:47:25 am
I suppose you're right.  :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 14, 2006, 12:28:27 pm
Meh. Still, screenshots don't matter in terms of how much one plays.

Agreed. Its not the quantity but the quality that matters, I just leave the ones that I consider to be the best.

Where the hell does a hatshepsut go off blasting off a terran beam?

Aeos Affair, last mission.


http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Script_-_Splash_Screen

That would be a good thing to do, everyone can contribue a couple of screens for that. :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Depth_Charge on July 14, 2006, 12:38:37 pm
That was from the Aeos campaign.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 14, 2006, 01:20:59 pm
It's a good campaign, interesting that they managed to take out a Sathanas with only a Hecate and the Hatshepsut, the only diference being in their weaponry.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 14, 2006, 06:16:21 pm
Deosn't sound THAT hard. The Sathanas has a massive blind spot behind it, only the one beam cannon.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 14, 2006, 06:50:06 pm
I know but with the different weapons on both ships you notice that they become FAR more effective. The Hecate actually becomes capable of taking down other ships, for example.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Pnakotus on July 14, 2006, 07:29:06 pm
And remember, a Sathanas never just turns around.  :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 15, 2006, 11:51:36 am
Did anyone actually downloaded the packs? Any comments about it? Opinions, etc?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 17, 2006, 09:09:19 pm
As asked to keep it all in one thread, I'll post my packs here. There are, in total, 414 screenshots, all in png format (wich is the best one, tga would kill my pc), enjoy and coment, please. :)

http://rapidshare.de/files/25599978/Screenshot_Pack01.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/25781493/Screenshot_Pack02.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/25784508/Screenshot_Pack03.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/26047184/Screenshot_Pack04.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/26050370/Screenshot_Pack05.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/26053003/Screenshot_Pack06.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/26055191/Screenshot_Pack07.rar.html

If I can I'll get more up later.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on July 18, 2006, 02:00:50 pm
FS1 screenies FTW!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 18, 2006, 05:04:22 pm
Give me a good FS1 era campaign and I'll get you some screens.  :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 18, 2006, 06:53:15 pm
FSPort? Destiny of Peace? Awakenings? :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 20, 2006, 11:00:36 pm
Here it is, two new screenshot packs, 96 screens in total, png format. And attending to requests both of these contain ONLY FS1 screens, enjoy and coment, please. :)

http://rapidshare.de/files/26475677/Screenshot_Pack08.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/26478095/Screenshot_Pack09.rar.html

Now, the problem is that I dont know wich campaign should I play next since I just finished the main FS1 campaign, I'm thinking I'm going to play Inferno (again :rolleyes:) and I'll make a couple of packs for that, anyone has any idea of a good campaign (Derelict and Trascend excluded)? What is that Destiny of Peace (dont remember seeing it)?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 21, 2006, 12:06:56 am
Into the Depths of Hell has some imaginative things in it. Think something of a half-way point between Infrno and FS2. Here, I'll show you....

(http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2220/onehellofalotofbeamsrl6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)


Took this shot myself, from Chapter 2, the blockade in Gamma Draconis. It was, unfortunately, taken before I upgraded to 3.6.8
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 21, 2006, 12:02:58 pm
I know Into the depths of Hell, great campaign, on the packs there screenshots from chapter 1 and 4. Showing off:

(http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/2091/screen0595rh1.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3962/screen0762uk0.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 22, 2006, 10:16:13 pm
A sing of things to come (well, if anyone actually sees this thread anymore :P):

(http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/4097/screen0829ux5.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/4439/screen0850zs7.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 23, 2006, 12:08:13 am
That shot of the hecate is ****ing awesome dude, that's a wallpaper.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Kazan on July 23, 2006, 11:16:57 am
anyone know how to turn on HDRish with Catalyst 6.6?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on July 23, 2006, 04:20:04 pm
No, But I know how to get HDRish on this way:

Download (http://www.beyond3d.com/downloads/smartshader/psseffects.zip)

This also... (http://www.beyond3d.com/downloads/smartshader/pssControl2.zip)

Extract Psscontrol2 to any folder

Extract the contents of entries.zip to that folder also... run Psscontrol2 > browse > HDRish
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 23, 2006, 05:02:11 pm
Does Hdrish work with a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 card?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on July 23, 2006, 05:10:19 pm
Sorta, I guess. (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40950.0.html)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 23, 2006, 05:17:40 pm
(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3962/screen0762uk0.png)

@Sarafan,  you should modify your nameplate.dds texture to be 2X2 pixels, that multicolored rectangle isn't supposed to be there.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 23, 2006, 05:28:03 pm
Have no idea what is that or even how to do it. :nervous:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 23, 2006, 05:59:13 pm
I'd help, but I just switched to Linux and I don't have FSO installed yet

Debian rocks, but it doesn't like my mobo nor my PCI Radeon
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on July 23, 2006, 06:03:13 pm
Does Hdrish work with a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 card?


No, but we are getting multi-architecture bloom in the SCP sometime after 3.6.9 is released.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 23, 2006, 06:14:19 pm
No, but we are getting multi-architecture bloom in the SCP sometime after 3.6.9 is released.

Oh yes :D :yes:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 23, 2006, 07:54:20 pm
No, but we are getting multi-architecture bloom in the SCP sometime after 3.6.9 is released.

For this I shall post two of my most worthy screens, behold:

Command: I told you that putting a beam there was a good idea. :P

(http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/374/screen0906ty1.png) (http://imageshack.us)

Using this as wallpaper now:

(http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8031/screen0881wq5.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on July 23, 2006, 08:02:17 pm
they're cool, but they have the low poly ravana, which is a bit of a shame considering the unreleased HTL version is so much better looking..
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 23, 2006, 08:08:25 pm
they're cool, but they have the low poly ravana, which is a bit of a shame considering the unreleased HTL version is so much better looking..

I know, I know. :rolleyes: But you said it: unreleased, I saw what the HTL looks so far and would love to see that in fight against the GTVA but when? When? :( The waiting is the worst part.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on July 23, 2006, 08:42:26 pm
tell me about it... there is not one campaign under development which looks like it's going to be completed anytime soon...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on July 23, 2006, 08:51:05 pm
tell me about it... there is not one campaign under development which looks like it's going to be completed anytime soon...


WCS?


Does Hdrish work with a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 card?


No, but we are getting multi-architecture bloom in the SCP sometime after 3.6.9 is released.


For everyone (not just NVIDIA)? Because the only reason I use HDRish light is for bloom...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 23, 2006, 09:40:04 pm
Saga is going to release soon?

This is what firepower is all about:

(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5594/screen0818dm2.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2251/screen0819mm9.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/3249/screen0856ek5.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5603/screen0879mo3.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2948/screen0880og0.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on July 24, 2006, 06:23:32 pm
the explosion effects look cheap. Sorry for whoever made them, the work was a lot, I know, but they look too much like a fizzly firecracker, and less like a big explosion, to me.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on July 24, 2006, 08:27:02 pm
The things that need the most work are those particular explosions (the popcorn is okay, but the very red hot explosions.. not the ones that you usually see that blossom out, those are fine, but the ones in that shot that are smaller) and also what happens when a ship gets shot (the white gas) that looks awful atm.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 24, 2006, 09:01:25 pm
Those aren't really explosions, that's just beam fire frying the hull, looks much better when in motion.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 24, 2006, 09:05:47 pm
IMHO those beams look pretty bad when they're still, because it's obvious they all look the same, with 5 / 6 distinct bars
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 25, 2006, 03:40:20 am
The fs2 retail beams are horrible. All the other retail beams are fine though.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on July 25, 2006, 11:23:42 am
The fs2 retail beams are horrible. All the other retail beams are fine though.

Huh ? All the other retail beams, besides the Fs2 ones ?   :wtf:

I don't use animated beams. I prefer the non-animated SCP ones.

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 25, 2006, 12:45:59 pm
Perhaps he means the Lucifer beams from FS1?  :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 25, 2006, 05:11:57 pm
The beams from the lucifer fs1 non-port were just horrible. After that, you have vanilla fs2 with the vanilla beams, and the shivans ones are just horrible. They have that wavy tearing apart look to them, which just looks ugly. Especially considering that the wavy parts don't move forward, they just stay looking horrible for the whole 7 second shivan beam barrage. It looks even more horrible for the shivan AAA turrets. I mean the terran and vasudan beams look a ton cleaner and even superior to shivan beams. When shivan beams got the tearing apart ripping thingy going on, it's ****ing ugly. What's more menacing is a clean coherent red beam coming from a lucifer. That's why i at least liked the shivan animated beams a lot better, but the high resolution scp beams for terrans and vasudans on the other hand are really great. But, i am a fan of the animated beams more, can't wait till the newer beams come out.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 26, 2006, 03:45:50 pm
I've got a few. They're not anything close to what's been posted already, but I took them anyway.

(http://www.game-warden.com/gti/screen0178.png)
(http://www.game-warden.com/gti/screen0234.png)
(http://www.game-warden.com/gti/screen0237a.png)
(http://www.game-warden.com/gti/screen0242.png)

Number two is currently being used as a loading screen, number three used to be my desktop, number four is my desktop and is being used as a loading screen.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Kazan on July 26, 2006, 03:54:17 pm
.BMP!?  :mad: :hopping: :wtf:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 26, 2006, 04:18:35 pm
The first and fouth are really cool :yes:. Try using another lighter format, bmp takes way too long to load.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 26, 2006, 05:32:04 pm
Noted--changed to PNG.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 26, 2006, 05:57:21 pm
A fresh one, does anyone knows a better way of uploading images? Imageshack sometimes is way too slow.

(http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/10/screen0010ti9.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 26, 2006, 07:36:30 pm
A fresh one, does anyone knows a better way of uploading images? Imageshack sometimes is way too slow.

What kind of connection do you have? For me it's near instant for up to the maximum size they allow.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 26, 2006, 07:43:29 pm
he probably has the dreaded dial-up. :nervous:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 26, 2006, 07:50:37 pm
Do not speak those words again! :nervous: What I have is a really overpriced piece of ****. Ah, it really doesnt matter though, I'm thinking about changing mine soon.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 26, 2006, 11:37:58 pm
woot, the creator busts out some pretty shots.

This is a screenshot from Pathways' demo. :nervous:
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9753/screen0324mb6.png)
Myrmidon jumping out with Axem's effect (without taylor's build)
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3682/screen0329ff6.png)
Disabled Satis
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3867/screen0330es4.png)
Patrolling Leviathan
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9137/screen0327ng6.png)
Asteroids
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6674/screen0326ya5.png)
Tau Sigma Station
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3629/screen0328fo5.png)
Charybdis (also a pic from Pathways' demo)
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9214/screen0323rh1.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Depth_Charge on July 27, 2006, 09:41:43 am
Speaking of "Pathway" any update on the campaign, since its been nearly a year on the forums, in Game Warden???
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 27, 2006, 10:43:07 am
2 years. and we're redoing some missions on the demo. :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 27, 2006, 11:50:41 am
Pathways? Wich campaign is that?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: neoterran on July 27, 2006, 11:51:13 am
I don't think that is Axems latest swirling warp effect as you can see the edges are way too sharp, his newest model has a much smoother bowl on the bottom side of it. Go check the thread.

Also, your planet needs a little lightspeed action, don't you think ?  ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Depth_Charge on July 27, 2006, 12:15:50 pm
I thought the demo was done....hmmmm i guest not...... :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 27, 2006, 02:39:53 pm
I don't think that is Axems latest swirling warp effect as you can see the edges are way too sharp, his newest model has a much smoother bowl on the bottom side of it. Go check the thread.

duh, it's not.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: MetalDestroyer on July 28, 2006, 05:19:53 pm
My contribution (I'm sorry if I didn't get out of here the HUD)

(http://pix.nofrag.com/c2/64/3e66a253a07fa74ae009c2ae2c02.jpeg)
(http://pix.nofrag.com/5b/5b/d8cfde120a3b5407baee75e4148e.jpeg)
(http://pix.nofrag.com/be/2c/8fb8567d9b54f1dc5b475d14dfd1.jpeg)
(http://pix.nofrag.com/1a/37/b52427fc3ac8a9d249659b82acfa.jpeg)
(http://pix.nofrag.com/be/a5/4bc5528d020a6abd6140fa421974.jpeg)
(http://pix.nofrag.com/e9/18/7f88b69a0cdbd46781a4f3de78d2.jpeg)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 28, 2006, 06:03:22 pm
The last one is really cool, MetalDestroyer. A couple more:

(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6537/screen0106ja0.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9669/screen0039nq8.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/5477/screen0038up8.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9333/screen0037xn5.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7558/screen0071ab3.png) (http://imageshack.us)

I don't think that is Axems latest swirling warp effect as you can see the edges are way too sharp, his newest model has a much smoother bowl on the bottom side of it. Go check the thread.

Also, your planet needs a little lightspeed action, don't you think ?  ;)

Now with Axem's latest swirling warp effect. :P

(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/9813/screen0114vh5.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 28, 2006, 07:21:57 pm
that's not axem's effect. :p

and don't use bmp's! >O
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 28, 2006, 08:00:34 pm
NOW with Axem's latest swirling warp effect (if it still not it how do I install it?).

(http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2048/screen0144en6.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7541/screen0146xh2.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 28, 2006, 09:46:58 pm
nope. you have to download his VP and stick it in the FS2 Folder.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: taylor on July 28, 2006, 10:21:51 pm
And get my newest 3.6.9 build too, for the lighting fixes, it doesn't look like your using it.
(http://icculus.org/~taylor/fso/testing/light_test.rar)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 29, 2006, 12:29:28 am
oh yeah, taylor, that thing works beautifully. although the ships could be a little brighter closer to opening. :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 29, 2006, 12:26:54 pm
FINALLY with Axem's latest swirling warp effect and Taylor's newest 3.6.9 build.

Ignore the Raynor, it's just there to show the warp effect. :P

(http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2489/screen0186qf6.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/8654/screen0180gb1.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/7628/screen0177kw8.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/4803/screen0174yw0.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/5118/screen0196bk7.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/1034/screen0192yj4.png) (http://imageshack.us)


(http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/7044/screen0193bb9.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 29, 2006, 01:40:39 pm
Scyllas.  :yes:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 29, 2006, 03:59:52 pm
They're really cool.



SPOILER: but that much anti capital ship armament makes it a pain to save the Deliverance.

More packs:

http://rapidshare.de/files/27469637/Screenshot_Pack010.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/27474857/Screenshot_Pack011.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/27479692/Screenshot_Pack012.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/27485101/Screenshot_Pack013.rar.html
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 29, 2006, 05:56:18 pm
You haven't seen the Lamia, have you? That thing's firepower outclasses a Scylla, even though it's just a cruiser.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 29, 2006, 06:40:27 pm
Axem's cruiser? Of course I've seen it, really cool but like you said greatly overpowered.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Axem on July 29, 2006, 08:41:36 pm
Yeah yeah, I suppose it was a tad overpowered. :p I've toned the beam down since then. It's now nearly right in the middle of an SRed and an LRed.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 29, 2006, 08:50:11 pm
Yeah yeah, I suppose it was a tad overpowered. :p I've toned the beam down since then. It's now nearly right in the middle of an SRed and an LRed.

''A tad"? :P

Using this as wallpaper now:

(http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/6288/screen0217ei6.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 29, 2006, 09:30:38 pm
 :eek2:


How did a corvette get that close to a Sathanas?

Too bad I can't use any of these as wallpapers yet... have to get my own computer first. My family uses the same I do...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 29, 2006, 09:51:16 pm
It's from when the GTVA destroys the Knossos, Flaming Sword is the name of the mission, I think.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 29, 2006, 10:01:11 pm
I thought that corvette usually got blown up before the Sathanas got anywhere near it.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 29, 2006, 10:03:53 pm
I never saw it dying. :confused: It always jumps a little bit after the moment the Sathans appears, that's how I got the screen.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 29, 2006, 10:21:17 pm
:eek2:


How did a corvette get that close to a Sathanas?

Too bad I can't use any of these as wallpapers yet... have to get my own computer first. My family uses the same I do...

Why not create a new user.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 29, 2006, 10:44:00 pm
Suggested this to my father... he said he'd delete it because he doens't like passwords. (I guess he is the owner of the machine, so have to abide by his rules even if he isn't the most computer-savvy person on this planet...)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 29, 2006, 10:50:12 pm
He doesn't have to have a password, all he has to do is click the button, but oh well...

If you have the knowhow, you can get a computer a lot cheaper if you build it yourself, just be careful not to overtighten the mobo, like I did...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 29, 2006, 10:56:38 pm
Yes but this one has the advantge of a hard Internet connection via cable; I do have a wireless network, but if my auxiliary computer is any indication, it doesn't work so well....
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 29, 2006, 10:58:35 pm
Get a router and split the cable connection through that.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 29, 2006, 11:12:22 pm
It's a dual-router, wireless and hard connection, but no cords long enough to reach across the room.... and no space on the desk either.



Believe me I explored every viable alternative!
But, since I got lots of money off of my summer job, I'll be getting a laptop I think.


We're getting rather off-topic here aren't we?
So how about some Derelict screenies?

Here's the famous GTVX Gorgon Cannon...
(http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1811/gtvxgorgonmi8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)


The triumvirate of the Nyarlathotep fleet...

(http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2236/aratherscarysituationsl4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)


And a rather funny thing where some textures got mixed (the Knossos was supposed to be red)....

(http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/6249/purpleknossosfl7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 30, 2006, 02:05:19 am
That's some "brilliant" ambient lighting there
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 30, 2006, 02:11:05 am
Uh... what kind of graphics do you have in that box exactly?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Kie99 on July 30, 2006, 06:55:05 am
Looks like no Media VPs but all features on to me.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 30, 2006, 10:51:48 am
I think the first two were taken a long time ago, like with 3.6.7. The last one was taken with 3.6.9, but something got screwed up in there.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 30, 2006, 10:59:20 am
Do you have the media VPs?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 30, 2006, 11:02:59 am
Uhhhhhhh......  :lol:


Like I said this was a long time ago. I hadn't figured out that the Media's were needed.


As for the last shot I do think I had the alphapatches, but obviously Vasudan's lovely Lucifer model textures didn't agree with them. Or the Shivan Knossos for that matter.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 30, 2006, 11:13:50 am
Download this (http://fs2source.warpcore.org/mvp368zeta/mv_zpack.zip) and get the VP files into a mod directory called mediavps, then play it as a mod. For Derelict to have the new effects create a text file called mod.ini, and in it put:
Code: [Select]
[multimod]
SecondaryList = mediavps;
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 30, 2006, 01:54:49 pm
Yes I know.  ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 30, 2006, 05:28:17 pm
Argh! My eyes! Non scp graphics! Quick, something shiny and cool! :P

http://rapidshare.de/files/27592062/Screenshot_Pack014.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/27598349/Screenshot_Pack015.rar.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/27603384/Screenshot_Pack016.rar.html


(http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/6200/screen0166wf4.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/7562/screen0153sh5.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/6646/screen0159fy4.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 30, 2006, 09:47:44 pm
Actually, dark hunter did actually have the media vp's as there is a screenshot of the htl lucifer.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 30, 2006, 10:51:12 pm
Like I said, the second and third screenshots were taken with the SCP, albeit with the brightness set at 1.75%, my preferred brightness setting when playing. I... didn't consider the fact that such screenshots are of a lesser quality. Any further screenies I take will have a better lighting setup, I assure you.



An idle question: in the third screenshot, the one with the Knossos, the original blue textures got "mixed" with the campaign's red textures. I didn't know such things could happen. Any idea on why they mixed? (It happened with 3.6.9 only)


Here, some better screenies:

A Vasudan carrier runs away from Apothess destroyers....

(http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/205/acarrierrunsfromapothessesif3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

A Faustus, with some nice stuff in the background...

(http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/811/afaustuswithplanetandtanenxq0.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)



I got several more of the same kind. Waiting for feedback on these.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 31, 2006, 12:10:07 am
Not that they're of lesser quality, just that they'd look better a much lower brightness. As to why you play like that has me puzzled. But then again you're talking to the guy who wishes he could dock all the fighters in his wing to have synced functionality to become a cruiser's nightmare of a superfighter.
On another note for a reminder to plz program the toggle hud control in the fs2 options. That way with the push of a button the hud is gone and you can take all of the hudless pictures you desire, and with the push of a button, have your hud back.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Backslash on July 31, 2006, 02:09:17 am
The toggle hud control defaults to Shift-O.

Is that Derelict SCP?  If so, you really should get Lightspeed's nebulae pack.  Space just looks so ... empty... without it, which might be part of why people thought you weren't using SCP.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 31, 2006, 09:28:33 am
I'm just kidding, they're not of lesser quality but I never saw a knossos like that. :P Where did you get that vasudan carrier fleeing those Apothess destroyers? The one with the Faustus is nice. :yes:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 31, 2006, 10:48:56 am
Those were from a mission of my own design, and yes I know it needs nebulae. I just haven't gotten around to putting some in yet.


If you like those then how about this one:


A wing of Apis....

(http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/2853/wingofapiswx6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Mars on July 31, 2006, 02:34:58 pm
Actually, dark hunter did actually have the media vp's as there is a screenshot of the htl lucifer.

I realized that last night, right after my internet connection went down (again)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on July 31, 2006, 06:31:21 pm
Sciecn cruzers w\ instalation with a good shot of a neb\moon\system FTW! More plz.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on July 31, 2006, 07:39:09 pm
What's that on the installation? It look's to be some sort of canon.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on July 31, 2006, 09:51:37 pm
That's the inferno terran knossos to sol, which has beam cannons and a lot of self defense on it. It's that one mission in inferno where i took out absolutely every turret on it because the mission was wierd like that :p
And my 3dfuzion geforce 7600gt 256ddr3 came today :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 31, 2006, 09:54:12 pm
Why'd you take out all the turrets? The Apothess take out four weapons systems, all you have to do is take out the weapons subsystem on the back.



And no, that mission is not from Inferno. I'm developing a campaign off of R1's VP.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on July 31, 2006, 11:09:11 pm
Congrats.

I think its from Inferno..
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 31, 2006, 11:50:13 pm
Nope, not from Inferno at all.


The ships are, granted, but the mission was of my own design.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on August 01, 2006, 03:30:49 am
oops, well ok. It was that one mission where you go in and you have to disable the weapons on that thing, but there was no apothes(speaking of which should be spelled apophis(egyption god of the night) on part of the spelling in R1). But yeah, that one mission was funky when i did it, lets just say i "eventually" got around to destroying all of the beam turrets on the terran knossos :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on August 01, 2006, 05:13:58 pm
Shivans!!!!!!!!

(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2906/screen0263qx5.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/8967/screen0269og6.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/8785/screen0265vn9.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on August 01, 2006, 10:05:44 pm
Yay molech FTW, btw last pic, good shot. Get more of em.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on August 02, 2006, 12:09:16 am
MOLOCH, damn it, MOLOCH!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on August 06, 2006, 01:03:35 pm
You people really think this thread would die? NEVER!!!!! *maniacal laughter*

(http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/7784/screen0308re8.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/1987/screen0310im9.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/7672/screen0243th6.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/5306/screen0274nt9.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/8978/screen0290mg7.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1965/screen0298co6.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on August 06, 2006, 01:06:57 pm
Where did you get that "lava planet"? That looks incredible.  :eek2:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on August 06, 2006, 01:19:14 pm
Its from Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith.

(http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/1214/screen0249xm9.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img450.imageshack.us/img450/1790/screen0248em1.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/9370/screen0279wr4.png) (http://imageshack.us)

Actually its from Warzone.

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on August 21, 2006, 04:11:36 am
I got fs2 back with my new graphics card. Just need to get past that ogl error in 3.6.9rc6 :nod:
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Post by: Freespace Freak on August 22, 2006, 06:58:11 am
That planet looks scary... :nervous:
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Post by: Dark Hunter on August 23, 2006, 07:37:11 pm
Really? It looks scary?


.......


THEN ITS PERFECT!  :D

...for this mission I'm planning on building. Time to go .PCX hunting!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on August 23, 2006, 10:05:52 pm
Bump. We need more. By we, I mean I do.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on August 24, 2006, 08:45:40 pm
By we, you mean the entire community. right?

anyway, I've had some bad luck in finding screenshots. Still hunting for good 'uns.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on August 24, 2006, 09:07:15 pm
Anyone know a good way to take screenshots? Besides print screen and fraps? Or maybe someone could tell me the fs2 screenshot button which i can't find anywhere.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on August 24, 2006, 09:13:17 pm
dug around my screenshots folder. found some good ones.

oh, and S-99? if you press Print Screen your images get saved to a folder. ;)

(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/4293/screen0412wb1.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/302/screen0410gd2.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/576/screen0409tx9.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/480/screen0405bn4.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/9741/screen0399rj9.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/1411/screen0389pc1.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6014/screen0388ea6.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/9361/screen0382ex7.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/8392/screen0378bv0.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/3117/screen0366ne9.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/1422/screen0364ky3.png)
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/1745/screen0360ew2.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on August 24, 2006, 09:17:06 pm
Nice Derelict screens!  :yes:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on August 24, 2006, 09:23:41 pm
ok sweet
now i can take some screenshots
you really derelict-my-balls there :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on August 24, 2006, 11:01:08 pm
Nice Derelict screens!  :yes:

not 2 seconds after I read that i realized that all of the screenshots were from Derelict. :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on August 25, 2006, 04:08:15 am
This ship is quote unquote the buster.
(http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/5822/screen0003rp0.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
On the third mission of fs2, this leviathen just takes a ****ing load of punishment for a long time before it goes down. The ****ing vasudans being all big **** killing it with only missile batteries and flak :lol:
(http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/38/screen0006qh7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
This ship is "easy".
(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/9757/screen0012an0.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Gonna kill this *****.
(http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2345/screen0013lh3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
After i blew up that freighter, it's ****ing cargo came flying out at me.
(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6450/160203rk5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6073/wdf1200fullvm1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1111/thongmrspink1inchwidefw7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Then i revisited the gtva shivan intelligence.
(http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5222/shivansud5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
****ing lady shaver thong wearing hairy bastards.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: PotzUK on August 25, 2006, 04:52:22 am
 :eek2: :lol:
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Post by: Cobra on August 25, 2006, 10:55:51 am
it's weird yet hilarious at the same time! :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on August 25, 2006, 05:20:21 pm
Btw, I just discovered that i made it to onto the fs2 portion of wikipedia.org :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Htlasteroids.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Htlasteroids.jpg) ...my screenshot
You can see it here the old hdrish one of mine with the other fs2 screenshots on the page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freespace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freespace)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 30, 2006, 06:41:54 am
That pic from Transcend mission 1?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on August 31, 2006, 04:31:28 pm
You got it. It's funny though how they put in my screenshot for the wiki to show off the graphics of the scp. It is an scp enhanced image, but more overly uses hdrish for the fake hdr effect in it. Hdrish is unrelated to the scp, but it does show off some of the habits and personality through how people like to play the game based on player preference with the graphics. Sort of like how some people can play with mvadveffects, use the lower quality special effects, and through unrelated things like smartshader enhancements. Besides that, it's just a good epic screenshot of the average convoy going to a node with the htl asteroids :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 01, 2006, 09:10:46 am
It gets my thumbs up, a few of Steaks pics wouldn't go amiss nowadays though, I miss the Array..........Whens Ver 2 up?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on September 02, 2006, 06:09:38 am
Took these shots from the nebular theater of fs2 :D
(http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8499/screen0014qu1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/7513/screen0017mt1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/979/screen0018kl3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/3859/screen0019tl0.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9844/screen0021da9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1342/screen0022pt1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/281/screen0024rq6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/8784/screen0026ad2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1893/screen0027yw4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3682/screen0028xt5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/278/screen0031bg6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/5179/screen0032tw5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7383/screen0033mm6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on September 02, 2006, 11:23:37 am
Was it just me or did the Actium's nameplate look like it was backwards?  :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on September 02, 2006, 09:20:07 pm
When you do the print screen way of taking screenshots, it like takes a screenshot reversed of the image you had along with it being opositely mirrored. So i rotated all of the photo's to be correct, but i didn't want to go through the time of "inversing" the images :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on September 03, 2006, 01:14:19 am
Btw, I just discovered that i made it to onto the fs2 portion of wikipedia.org :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Htlasteroids.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Htlasteroids.jpg) ...my screenshot
You can see it here the old hdrish one of mine with the other fs2 screenshots on the page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freespace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freespace)

one: i thought this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Freespace2Open_Screen01.jpg) was mine?
second: is this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Freespace2Open_Screen02.jpg) mine as well? i can't remember anymore :nervous:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Backslash on September 03, 2006, 01:34:22 am
When you do the print screen way of taking screenshots, it like takes a screenshot reversed of the image you had along with it being opositely mirrored. So i rotated all of the photo's to be correct, but i didn't want to go through the time of "inversing" the images :)
Wait, what?? :confused: Mine show up normal, on multiple machines.  So you're saying they're mirrored and rotated 180 degrees?  Weird...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on September 03, 2006, 06:32:06 am
Yeah, it's like ****ed up for me. They're upside down and mirrored. Maybe i should try getting a different batch tga convertor
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on September 08, 2006, 12:27:39 am
Time to bust out some badass screenshots.

Part one of the Nyarlathotep explosion:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8866/screen0457cz6.png)

Part two of the Nyarlathotep explosion:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6476/screen0461wx1.png)

Behold: The Shivan Knossos!
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/1475/screen0455an6.png)

Fear this ownage! (Kinda looks like a lightsaber clash, too. :D)
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9886/screen0454mr2.png)

Covering the Cypher:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8030/screen0452bb2.png)

SD Cthon up in flames:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6592/screen0449bt0.png)

Escaping Fenris:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2223/screen0439yt1.png)

Explosions rock a Cain cruiser:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4836/screen0443df6.png)

The GTFf Cypher says it to the Abhoth's face:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9812/screen0445xt2.png)

Dual Moloch Fire:
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/1985/screen0441vn9.png)

Enjoy the eyecandy folks.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Herra Tohtori on September 08, 2006, 12:44:15 am
When you do the print screen way of taking screenshots, it like takes a screenshot reversed of the image you had along with it being opositely mirrored. So i rotated all of the photo's to be correct, but i didn't want to go through the time of "inversing" the images :)
Wait, what?? :confused: Mine show up normal, on multiple machines.  So you're saying they're mirrored and rotated 180 degrees?  Weird...


To me this sounds like some issue with S-99's image viewing program. Or rather not actual "issue" as in "bug", but some setting might be wrong... that could cause the program to use wrong starting point where it starts to open the image code.

The screenshots made by FS2_Open are RLE-coded TGA's. RLE (Run Length Encoding) can be done starting from different corners of picture. It's basically a line of pixel colour information; but instead of saying, for example, aaaaabbbbbbccdddd (if a, b, c and d were colours), it says a5b6c2d4  and so on... but the coding can be started from different corners of the actual image. If the picture is saved with RLE starting from one corner and image reading software thinks they are made starting from other corner, it ends up with screw-ups just like these, basically flipping/mirroring images without being told to do so.

GIMP shows FS2_Open screenshot TGA's just right. At least on my PC. What are you using, S-99?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: taylor on September 08, 2006, 01:25:28 am
Screenshots don't use RLE (don't want the performance cost), they are just uncompressed TGA.  An RLE decoding issue wouldn't preduce a viable image, and since the encoding runs with the origin, if the screenshots were RLE encoded he probably wouldn't be able to get anything but a garbled image anyway.

The origin is on the bottom though, as is standard with OpenGL, and not in the upper left.  But you've got to have a seriously badly written TGA reader to get that very basic format feature wrong.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Herra Tohtori on September 08, 2006, 01:41:32 am
In that case it's even more surely an issue with the TGA reader... :rolleyes:

I don't know why I thought they used RLE. Might be the fact that I've sometimes saved a screenshot with a new name, and GIMP automatically offers RLE to be used... that might have given me that impression. Ah, whatever.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on September 08, 2006, 05:47:32 pm
Well, i never had gimp installed. So i could never view tga's unless i was in linux(mepis image viewers are superior to windows xp img viewer). So i got a batch tga to jpg convertor, then i coiuld view the image with windows image viewer. I still can't view tga's to this day in windows without gimp. So i think my problem is the image convertor i have.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on September 08, 2006, 05:59:10 pm
Well, i never had gimp installed. So i could never view tga's unless i was in linux(mepis image viewers are superior to windows xp img viewer). So i got a batch tga to jpg convertor, then i coiuld view the image with windows image viewer. I still can't view tga's to this day in windows without gimp. So i think my problem is the image convertor i have.

get irfanview for god's sake! do it!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: bfobar on September 27, 2006, 05:10:59 pm
my screenshot of my attempt to fred the front of the box picture made it into wikipedia! YAY!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Backslash on September 27, 2006, 11:41:37 pm
 :yes:
bfobar, may I have this mission file?  I wanna try stuff ;7

...and yes, irfanview is a nice simple viewer for tga and more.  It can read some DDS formats with the plugin pack, too.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: bfobar on September 28, 2006, 04:22:54 pm
:yes:
bfobar, may I have this mission file?  I wanna try stuff ;7

...and yes, irfanview is a nice simple viewer for tga and more.  It can read some DDS formats with the plugin pack, too.

I can upload that later tonight.

I had the grand idea once of making all the cutscenses, intros, and ani briefing animations into fredded movies with the SCP code. then I realized I don't know how to make a mission into a movie and was too easily distracted to teach myself. getting 60 scorpions to pour out of the lucifer in front of a blood red nebula and backlit was really cool looking though.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on September 29, 2006, 04:39:24 pm
Yarr, bump.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: RavenTS on October 18, 2006, 06:29:28 pm
(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/9741/screen0399rj9.png)

Hell, this pic is a nice one..!  :nod:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on October 18, 2006, 07:48:03 pm
Most of the shots are awesome.

I say most because if you look back a few pages, you'll see some absolute crap I posted.  :p
I have gotten better at taking pics though (thank god).

Here's my most recent (from my WIP campaign!):
(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3033/redemptiondestroyedcb2.jpg)

I think I may have been pointing a little too close to the sun, but its hard to see the debris otherwise.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on October 18, 2006, 07:51:22 pm
what IS that?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on October 18, 2006, 07:53:56 pm
That is a Het-Ka that has been blasted to hell (hence the debris). :D

Het-Ka= Vasudan superdestroyer. Two of these are about an even match for a Sathanas.

As for what blasted it to hell... you'll have to wait till the campaign to see! ;)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on October 18, 2006, 08:41:08 pm
That is a Het-Ka that has been blasted to hell (hence the debris). :D

Het-Ka= Vasudan superdestroyer. Two of these are about an even match for a Sathanas.

As for what blasted it to hell... you'll have to wait till the campaign to see! ;)

Er, which campaign?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Admiral Nelson on October 18, 2006, 08:47:58 pm

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/NelsonAndBronte/FS2/Undaunted.jpg)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on October 18, 2006, 10:02:39 pm
Er, which campaign?


Mine. Dreamcatcher. I will say no more about it on this thread because if I do the mods will get mad at me for spamming a thread. :D

@Admiral Nelson: Very nice. Which campaign is that? I don't recognize the ship names...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Admiral Nelson on October 18, 2006, 10:13:49 pm
It is the stock FS2 campaign.... :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on October 18, 2006, 10:17:57 pm
Really... wonder why I don't recognize the mission? Hmm... need to replay it I think.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Trivial Psychic on October 18, 2006, 11:18:21 pm
"King's Gambit".
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on October 19, 2006, 12:34:13 am
"King's Gambit".

The bombing mission where you intercept capital ships, or the one after that where you attack the NTD Vindicator?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Trivial Psychic on October 19, 2006, 04:13:44 pm
You can see RBCs and the Hedetet in that shot, so it's definetly "King's Gambit", where you take out NTF cap-ships & others entering through the Capella-Gamma Draconis jumpnode.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on October 27, 2006, 05:59:15 pm
New rig, better screenshots. :D

(http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/8559/screen0072ek3.png)

Is this Axem's effect?
(http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6628/screen0069bs4.png)

(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1727/screen0051ns1.png)

(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1074/screen0052ry3.png)

(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5492/screen0032bl1.png)

(http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9174/screen0020wg1.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: bloated on October 27, 2006, 07:29:31 pm
I have a cppl questions.

1 what files or more importantly what settings do I need to enable to get my game looking like the last 2 pages of screenshots...... my Shivan capital ships no longer are emmitting flashes at the origin of their beam fire points and the beams certainly don't look like what I've witnessed in the last cppl pages.

also while the explosion effects are improved I'm not seeing anything like what's rendered when capital ships explode.

also what hardware requirements are needed to run max settings on everything.

I have 2 computers a Conroe 6600 with an X1900 XTX and 2048mb of DDR2 800 and an old P4 1.6a with 512mb of DDR with a 9600XT video card.

I've little doubt if need the Conroe and the XTX should be able to handle the game but what files do I need?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on October 27, 2006, 07:40:12 pm
You need to look at this thread. (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,41891.0.html)

If you're new to FSOpen, this (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/intro.html) might be a good read as well.

And I'd say your first (more powerful) comp should be able to handle it. Mine has less RAM than yours and it still runs at top-quality with no slowdowns.  :D


Quote
Is this Axem's effect?

I don't think so... his effect has a larger white center and is overall more fluid. But then, I've never seen a Knossos jump up close with his effect activated...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on October 29, 2006, 08:41:41 pm
That should be axems affect. Keep in mind that's a subspace point that isn't fully opened in that screenshot.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on October 29, 2006, 10:28:59 pm
You're right it is. The teal subspace warps look different than the blue ones with Axem's effect... weird. :wtf:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on November 14, 2006, 06:51:01 pm
I cant wait to get a real graphics card in here. This is with an Intel x3000:

(http://game-warden.com/raa/temp/screen0014.jpg)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on November 16, 2006, 07:20:03 pm
wow, that's not to bad for intel graphics.  Intel graphics use to suck until they came out with the extreme line on up.  You probably wanted just a glory shot, or do you really try to play the game at 1600x900? I doubt it, at a lower resolution like 1152x864 will  probably yield superior speed differences than what you took this screenshot in.
13.3fps is sad, but like i said, you're probably just taking a glory shot.  After all, that is the nicest looking freighter in the game, i was never sure if the htl model had too much detail on it. it's ridiculously good looking :nod:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on November 16, 2006, 08:37:03 pm


Someone really needs to HTL the Boadecia:


http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8050/eyesbleedtc0.png
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on November 16, 2006, 08:46:32 pm
wow, that's not to bad for intel graphics.  Intel graphics use to suck until they came out with the extreme line on up.  You probably wanted just a glory shot, or do you really try to play the game at 1600x900? I doubt it, at a lower resolution like 1152x864 will  probably yield superior speed differences than what you took this screenshot in.
13.3fps is sad, but like i said, you're probably just taking a glory shot.  After all, that is the nicest looking freighter in the game, i was never sure if the htl model had too much detail on it. it's ridiculously good looking :nod:

My monitor actually doesnt support too many resolutions, so 1600x900 is almost a requirement. The game is playable at that resolution, as I get~25fps... most of the time...


This is the only intel integrated solution with HTL. The eXtreme line still does suck. I have it in my laptop (extreme graphics 2), and its a pile of ****e. The drivers still need a lot of work, but its getting better, slowly. Still, I'd like an 8800GTX to crank this up in ;} The new G965 chipset with the x3000 is better... but its not for gaming at all.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Shade on November 16, 2006, 08:48:25 pm
Quote
Someone really needs to HTL the Boadecia:
Yeah. Ew. A decent normal map could help that a lot though even without any model upgrade, once those are implemented, since it's the lighting that really makes the low-polyness of the thing stand out.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on November 16, 2006, 08:49:03 pm


Someone really needs to HTL the Boadecia:


http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8050/eyesbleedtc0.png

The problem with that is the hierarchy. IIRC its extremely difficult to get it correct, and even Volition cheated with it...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Trivial Psychic on November 16, 2006, 09:02:20 pm
I like the way that there is submodel debris though.  In fact, its the only model I've ever seen that uses it.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on December 06, 2006, 09:33:05 am
Great Collie shot guys, keep em comeing!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: wtf_cl0vvn on December 06, 2006, 12:46:07 pm
"King's Gambit".

Ahhh, Kings Gambit, one of my fav missions ever. Love the screenshots!

And they do look like lightsaber fights dont they sometimes. especially with slash beams

I shall go screencap hunting now :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on December 07, 2006, 03:57:36 pm
I bet someone will do a star wars fight with cap ships, like someone did a whole human\vasudan\shivan megabot fight once. They added millions of Terran ships togeather to from a big robot etc. Was pritty cool.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Falcon on December 07, 2006, 04:00:43 pm
Hmmm....

(http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/3549/pegasusblueur5.th.jpg) (http://img459.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pegasusblueur5.jpg)(http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/9908/pegasusasteroidya5.th.jpg) (http://img459.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pegasusasteroidya5.jpg)
(http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/4135/pegasusmiddledc0.th.jpg) (http://img459.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pegasusmiddledc0.jpg)(http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/9128/missedbu9.th.jpg) (http://img459.imageshack.us/my.php?image=missedbu9.jpg)
(http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/3305/lucifergbug3.th.jpg) (http://img459.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lucifergbug3.jpg)(http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/5172/lucifermk8.th.jpg) (http://img459.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lucifermk8.jpg)
(http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/1770/hecatenn2.th.jpg) (http://img459.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hecatenn2.jpg)(http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/5684/deimosot9.th.jpg) (http://img453.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deimosot9.jpg)
(http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/3340/deimos2ky4.th.jpg) (http://img453.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deimos2ky4.jpg)



Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on December 07, 2006, 08:59:57 pm
:eek2: nice. :yes:

Just how many frames per second were you getting, anyway? :P

What I don't get is how I'm like the only one who's getting the screwed up "no nameplate present" texture.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Herra Tohtori on December 07, 2006, 09:18:05 pm
Here be some pearls of my screenshots folder. :)


The GTVA Colossus prevails!

(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7112/sathanasdownvr1.th.png) (http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sathanasdownvr1.png)(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8531/shockwavefinalxt3.th.png) (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shockwavefinalxt3.png)

<That shockwave really is a sweet effect - and it doesn't even make my system kneel too badly... Guess I', lucky.  :cool:>

But there's a dark side to every victory... "Avoid the beam and you won't get hit!"

(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7758/avoidthebeamandyouwontgqs6.th.png) (http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=avoidthebeamandyouwontgqs6.png)

<no, that's not actually a standard mediaVP beam effect, but it's a cool screenie and fits the context>


Aeolus-class cruiser, all alone in space...

(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8172/aeolusws1.th.png) (http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aeolusws1.png)

Shivan Demon-class destroyer getting pwned.

(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5453/demonpwnedkm7.th.png) (http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=demonpwnedkm7.png)

Something else getting pwned, GTVA forces bugging out.

(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/889/shockwave1tx5.th.png) (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shockwave1tx5.png)


Three Terran cruisers: GTC Ouroboros, GTC Jefferson and GTC Righteous Fire (respectively).

(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9881/gtcouroboros1xt0.th.png) (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gtcouroboros1xt0.png)(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8186/gtcjefferson1nu5.th.png) (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gtcjefferson1nu5.png)(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7963/gtcrighteousfiremj1.th.png) (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gtcrighteousfiremj1.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Falcon on December 07, 2006, 10:48:04 pm

...Just how many frames per second were you getting, anyway? :P


(http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1124/fpsvm5.th.jpg) (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fpsvm5.jpg)
^^ 4.1


I have about 99 ships firing on each other as well.  :)

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on December 10, 2006, 04:39:30 am
Hey Herra. Where'd you get the beams for what the colossus is shooting? Are those the beams that one dude was working on in the modding forum? Were those ever finished?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Herra Tohtori on December 10, 2006, 05:01:28 am
Actually I made them... They are related to that topic, that's where I got the inspiration. Originally I just made a picture of how I would imagine the beams should look like, and it kinda got out of hand... :lol:

You can download them from here if you want to give them a shot:

High resolution (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/modified_beamz/mv_beamz_HIGH.7z)
Medium resolution (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/modified_beamz/mv_beamz_MEDIUM.7z)

Installation instructions included. The VP replaces all beams with my textures, and should be used as own mod activated before mediaVPs. Oh, and the beams are animated, which naturally doesn't show on screenshots.

(http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/modified_beamz/animated_terran_beam_small.gif)

As I said, some beams still look a bit strange (too much tiling factor most likely), but they work, and many of them actually look very good most of the time. High resolution slowdowns are negligible on my rig (AMD64 3200+, GeForce 6600, 1024 MB DDR-SDRAM), so I use them, but medium-resolution ones don't look too shabby either.

I personally like the AF-beams the most of the bunch, and the Vasudan yellow beam is the second best in my books. But most other beams work fine too.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Kie99 on December 10, 2006, 03:33:27 pm
In a few days that'll be the new welcome beam.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on December 11, 2006, 12:34:38 am
Was anything done to those beams to make them not look flat?
I guess i'm asking for more screenshots of those beams before i download them.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Herra Tohtori on December 11, 2006, 01:38:46 am
Well, I tried but different $Zadd textures didn't really work very well... the beams became over-bright, and increasing the $Flicker factor didn't help either.


Anyway, in my opinion all the beams look flat anyway - retail and current MediaVP beams included. I'll take and post some screenies tonight, now I gotta get to school... Mondays... :ick:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ShivanSpS on December 16, 2006, 03:45:46 pm
ANd here their hare, 2 pics taken from the SOC mission intro the knossos.

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Herra Tohtori on December 16, 2006, 03:52:10 pm
Uhm... It seems I forgot to take/post those modified beam shots I promised... :nervous: Meh.


Shivan, those are pretty pics there, if you don't count the horrible compression artefacts. Could you upload better quality pics in, say, ImageShack?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ShivanSpS on December 16, 2006, 04:49:41 pm
yeah, but a 1.5MB image will eat out the bandwich limit of imageshack very fast :P
EDIT: and their keeps changing the resolution because the image its larger than 1.5MB, so I look in google and i found a page called Tinypics.com, who have no limits.

(http://i13.tinypic.com/30ax5vo.png)

(http://i13.tinypic.com/4dbltog.jpg)

(http://i13.tinypic.com/4fym628.jpg)


BTW, that something that i didt noticed in-game... but both the shockwave and explocions looks like to be having shader effect... like HDR or Bloom xd, but that is not posible.

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on December 16, 2006, 08:33:15 pm
Ah, exploding Shivan CommNodes. Is there any more satisfying virtual pyrotechnic display to watch?  :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: S-99 on December 17, 2006, 05:25:47 pm
I know the medium and high end shockwaves have a bloom and glow affect to them. But with the way things are looking from those screenshots, it's as if that bloom and glow got enhanced. So wtf is up?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on December 21, 2006, 09:18:41 am
Wow, i have never seen anything that pritty in my whole time here. I cant wait to get it working.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on December 21, 2006, 05:23:03 pm
(http://game-warden.com/raa/assets/randpics/screen0000.jpg)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ShivanSpS on December 26, 2006, 09:39:08 pm
A Lilith shooting it LRed.

(http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5783/lilithjw5.th.png) (http://img406.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lilithjw5.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ShivanSpS on January 14, 2007, 01:49:36 am
a Asteroid belt in my campaign :P

(http://i10.tinypic.com/3ymg17l.png)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on January 14, 2007, 01:42:41 pm
Back with new images :D:

(http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/598/screen0003cr3.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/1825/screen0005am8.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/345/screen0013by7.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/9564/screen0015ml4.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/6334/screen0017hj4.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/8393/screen0018ef1.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/6053/screen0023vo8.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/9553/screen0024mc3.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/4793/screen0027hv9.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/4742/screen0030no5.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/7557/screen0033nt4.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on January 16, 2007, 10:15:01 am
More images and a question, could we change the thread name? I mean, several people didnt post here with 3.6.8 (if I'm wrong, disregard this please) and now we have 3.6.9, why not change this to something more overall? Somewhat like a image gallery. And stick it too? :nervous:

(http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/3886/screen0038ib1.png) (http://imageshack.us)

A Leviathan raining fire:
(http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/8692/screen0040tb7.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/165/screen0041lj8.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9919/screen0042oa5.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/3417/screen0043mm7.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/93/screen0045rb7.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1981/screen0048vl6.png) (http://imageshack.us)

A classic fight, the Sobek vs Deimos:
(http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/9881/screen0049uz6.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7219/screen0050uz4.png) (http://imageshack.us)

(http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1807/screen0051bj5.png) (http://imageshack.us)


ShivanSpS, wich campaign is that?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: ShivanSpS on January 16, 2007, 02:30:45 pm
is one of the missions of the Dragon awakes demo :P
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Taristin on January 16, 2007, 03:32:05 pm
would be great shots if your ambient lighting werent up so damned high :/
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on January 16, 2007, 04:56:18 pm
is one of the missions of the Dragon awakes demo :P

If you can post more.

would be great shots if your ambient lighting werent up so damned high :/

Risking to sound like a noob but my what? And how do I lower them?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: karajorma on January 16, 2007, 05:46:10 pm
-ambient_factor xx

Enter that into your custom flags box in the launcher and change the xx into a number. Start at 70 or so and work your way down (or up) until things look suitably cool :)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: KappaWing on January 16, 2007, 05:51:50 pm
Most of the shots are awesome.

I say most because if you look back a few pages, you'll see some absolute crap I posted.  :p
I have gotten better at taking pics though (thank god).

Here's my most recent (from my WIP campaign!):
(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3033/redemptiondestroyedcb2.jpg)

I think I may have been pointing a little too close to the sun, but its hard to see the debris otherwise.

I'm sorry, but this ship looks disturbingly like something that just shot out of my ass about half an hour ago.  :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on January 16, 2007, 06:32:46 pm
I'm sorry, but this ship looks disturbingly like something that just shot out of my ass about half an hour ago.  :p

:lol:

Sarafan, if you want a realistic looking ambient setting, set it to 0. :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on January 18, 2007, 10:39:22 pm
Ok, so where is the 3.6.9 thread? >) Get started!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on January 18, 2007, 11:38:58 pm
You're friggin' posting in it. :P

And PLEASE post your own pics instead of begging for a separate thread. If SCP don't work, suck it up and buy a new video card and 2 gigs of memory. :P
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Herra Tohtori on January 18, 2007, 11:50:19 pm
I think 3.6.9 thread will be put up when the 3.6.9 mediaVP's are released...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: bloated on January 29, 2007, 12:43:53 pm
I hope they re-enable features that stopped working in the older series like thruster trails under boost.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on January 29, 2007, 01:20:16 pm
Finally, some new shots from me!

Two shots from Inferno: Alliance:
(http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/5343/screen0252lz4.jpg)
(http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/659/screen0257ee1.jpg)

I don't think I've ever seent he Demon look more menacing:
(http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/6919/screen0269ow0.jpg)

The cavalry has arrived!
(http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/5138/screen0271li8.jpg)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on January 29, 2007, 04:01:09 pm
HOLY ****! I've got to get that mod.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Dark Hunter on January 29, 2007, 05:18:13 pm
If you're going to post screenies of the Megaera, at least show off its beam gun.

Oops, that was a bit of a spoiler. Text is now invisible.  :p
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on February 18, 2007, 09:56:06 pm
Deimos-heavy shots ahead!

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/340/screen0441zm5.jpg)

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1736/screen0455lb0.jpg)

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9378/screen0462dz1.jpg)

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9408/screen0590xj3.jpg)

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5779/screen0624im3.jpg)

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/2712/screen0634wp3.jpg)

[/end Deimos luv]

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6153/screen0629an0.jpg)

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/2679/screen0633rh2.jpg)

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5382/screen0025hh0.jpg)

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6606/screen0026ud8.jpg)
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Charismatic on February 18, 2007, 11:08:33 pm
Those are some nice sets guys.

Can ya guys get some Ares and Mentu pics?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Sarafan on February 19, 2007, 10:51:49 am
Great shots Cobra! :nod:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on February 19, 2007, 11:04:25 am
Now all we need is the SCP team to add anti-aliasing and some of those shots will look kickASS. :D
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 30, 2007, 02:15:42 pm
z0mg threadnecromancy!1!one

(http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4034/screen0672ri8.jpg)

And I believe I have anti-aliasing on.

Holy ****, 18,000 views! :eek2:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Herra Tohtori on March 30, 2007, 02:49:49 pm
Now all we need is the SCP team to add anti-aliasing and some of those shots will look kickASS. :D


Driver-level forced AA for the win...

If you have anti-aliasing on on those last shots, it's not at very high level. The models' outlines are still jagged...

What kind of GPU (and what settings) are you using?
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on March 30, 2007, 02:50:46 pm
Hm. Maybe it wasn't on when I took those shots. I do know I have it on now though.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 10, 2007, 02:27:27 pm
*walks in*

Hey, what's up?

(http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/9153/screen0746zb1.jpg)

(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2597/screen0723lb9.jpg)

(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4993/screen0725yp6.jpg)

(http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/8739/screen0709he6.jpg)

*walks out*

:necro:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Snail on July 10, 2007, 02:53:11 pm
I hope you die.

painlessly after living a (long) wonderful and as-near-to-perfect as possible life.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: haloboy100 on July 10, 2007, 02:58:42 pm
Samuel L. Jackson, get your arse over here!
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 10, 2007, 04:19:53 pm
I hope you die.

painlessly after living a (long) wonderful and as-near-to-perfect as possible life.

:lol:

I almost took it the wrong way. :P
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 10, 2007, 07:42:44 pm
(http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/9153/screen0746zb1.jpg)

An arcadia, a Ganymede, a Saturn, and some docking ring. Could you tell me where to get the docking ring?

When I use lvlshot it makes my pics smaller.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: haloboy100 on July 10, 2007, 08:08:11 pm
When I use lvlshot it makes my pics smaller.

Duh. Thats the point of lvlshot!! :P
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 10, 2007, 08:09:14 pm
I meant smaller than Cobra's.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: haloboy100 on July 10, 2007, 08:19:46 pm
you put that picture in a quote...
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Kazan on July 10, 2007, 08:25:10 pm
necrothreading like that should be ban4life
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: haloboy100 on July 10, 2007, 08:28:19 pm
i don't know, seems funny to me  :lol:
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 10, 2007, 08:33:23 pm
necrothreading like that should be ban4life

Only 4 months? :P

At least it's not a 2 year necro. :P
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on July 10, 2007, 08:55:51 pm
necrothreading like that should be ban4life

I've seen better bumps :doubt:.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Cobra on July 10, 2007, 09:19:51 pm
Don't you mean worse bumps? :P

This isn't the first time I've necro'd this thread, anyways.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Polpolion on July 10, 2007, 09:43:12 pm
Okay, bumps of a greater timespan.
Title: Re: 3.6.8 Screenshots (WARNING: Not 56k friendly!)
Post by: Goober5000 on July 11, 2007, 06:45:30 pm
Meh.

BTW, 3.6.9 is out.  Go play it.