[LAW ENFORCER]

NO! Im not stupid! I meant having the 3d renderer add light and glow to certain parts of model... possible a certain texture or something


and about the overheads... I have a Radeon 9700 :wink:
anyway IG3 and 'Legions of Iron' (I not even gona attemppt to spell it!) do that kinda hing seemingly all the time - all we need to do is kindnap one of there 3d coders or learn it ourselfs...

[IceFire]

You have to realize that some of us still use slower cards and not the absolute fastest card on the market that costs $600 Canadian!

I've got a GeForce 2 GTS and many people around here have even slower/older cards than that.

[Wildfire]

One thing you could try to improve would be to make the FS2 accept MP3 music files instead of just wav.  

Just think of how much space you could save as well as the reduction in downloading time (especially for 56k'ers) when all the new music is in mp3 format.

PS... wouldn't adding more detail to models reduce the amount of ships you could have in the game at any one time before it becomes noticably slower?

[IceFire]

Yeah...but if DX8 & hardware T&L make it into the source then the boosted detail should offset anything else.

Problem with MP3 is that it takes time to decode.  Not sure if that would be an issue for FS2 or not...it has been for games in the past.  Although UT2003 uses OGG (is that right?) and it works well.....

[Riven]

operation flashpoint uses ogg too

[tomcat]

Wild u got to be kiddin'..only to have a small D/L ..but .when u D/l the music files the files are archived so the size is almost the same..only prob might be the space ocuped on your disk witch is your problem:D

[Wildfire]

Oh well.  I can always dream