[Grimloq]

ok, im in the dark, living in a hole. i still only have the inf build and the 3.6 release of FSO.

what is the 'latest' (ie, most advanced) build and what effects are in it, and what do i need to have it work?

i saw something dead sexy about long curving thruster trails...

also, can someone EXPLPLAIN what the effects do? im still not sure what 'specular' is...

[FireCrack]

Well for the latest build just go into the lateest build forum. The builds themselves do not have effects however. For effects you need to download seperate media, such as the media vp's and shine 1.5 as well as of other not so famous ones.

As for explaining, well.

Specular is basicly shininess, you need t on to see shinemaps, does anyone have a before/after specular picture? anyways, it looks great, you want it on.

[Overlord]

For before/after screens you can also take ATI/nVidia screens, it's practically the same.

[redmenace]

or we have a website that we have all of the recent builds as well as a list of lightspeeds effects and the media VPs.
scp.indiegames.us

[Grimloq]

hm... allow me to clarify: i meant 'whats the latest build and *what effects does it support*?' sorry, didnt word that too well..

as far as i can tells, there seems to be enviroment mapping, some new shiney maps, some new thruster trails, and lense flares, and i dont know wehre to get any of the effects nor where to get the builds for them. ill look at that site.

[redmenace]

all that stuff except the lense flares should be on the site.

[Grimloq]

ookay... what media VPs should i look in? ot just grab all of them?

[redmenace]

Each vp has a description with it.

[Grimloq]

not a very good one >.<

[redmenace]

I should expand them a bit later when I have time. Those were the descriptions taken from the wiki.
The original thread concerning lense flare is here http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,17343.0.html

[redmenace]

This should give you a better idea about the vps. Hope this helps.

=====Packages:
(mv_zpack)   - All the enhancements from every VP
(mv_core)   - The core effects, vital if you want to take advantage of fs2_open's new features
(mv_effects)   - High-res and 32-bit versions of the original Freespace 2 effects
(mv_models)   - High-poly and/or glowpointed models
(mv_textures)   - Shine, glow, and high-quality textures for Freespace 2 ships
(mv_hieffects)   - High-resolution effects - may result in severe performance loss
(mv_loplanets)   - Lower-resolution versions of the above

=====New Contents:
3.6:

(mv_core_b)
- Subspace warp model, warp.pof (By Bobboau)
- Ballistic primary HUD images (By Goober5000)
- Command briefing scroll GUI items (By Goober5000)
- Cloak map, cloakmap.pcx (By PhReAk)
- .AVI-friendly cutscenes table (Karajorma)
- New splash screen image (Turambar)
- SCP Splash screen logo (Sesquipedalian)
- HT&L Jump Node model (Raa Tor'h)
- FS2NetD Config file (Kazan)

(mv_effects_c)
- 32 Bit effects (Lightspeed)
- 32 Bit Engine glows (Lightspeed/Bobboau)
- high-quality suns/beam-glows (Lightspeed/CP5670)
- Suns pack v2.0c (Lightspeed)
- New shield hit ANI (DaBrain)
- Contents optimized to take up minimum space (CP5670)
- High-quality Motion Debris (?)
- Multiplayer-compatible Weapon/impact effects (Lightspeed)
- New afterburner trails (Turambar)

(mv_models_a)
- High-poly subspace models (Raa Tor'h)
- Fenris/Leviathon model (Vasudan Admiral/Karma/Raptor)
- Hercules model (Bobboau)
- High-poly smoothed Anuket model (Raa Tor'h)
- Glowpointed Arcadia (StratComm)
- Glowpointed Ulysses (wojta)
- High-poly Myrmidon model (?)

(mv_textures_b)
- Shine maps for FS1 vessels in FS2 (By GalacticEmperor)
- Shine maps for Freespace 2 vessels (Lightspeed)
- All the glow maps for the retail FS2 ships as of February 23, 2003 (By GalacticEmperor)
- Pegasus animated glowmaps (Lightspeed) *May or may not work due to FS2's loading order (At the time of this writing, the ANI is loaded before the PCX)
- Hi-res textures for some FS2 ships from FS1 (Extracted by GE, created by Volition)
- High-quality environmental, shinemap, and remastered textures for the Ares, Basilisk, Dragon, HercI, HercII, Horus, Loki, Manticore, Medusa, Myrmidon, Nephilim, Osiris, Seth, Thoth, Ulysses, Ursa, Zeus, Seraphim, and Perseus (Lightspeed/DaBrain)
- Same for the Rakshasa, Aeolus, and Mentu. (Lightspeed)

(mv_hieffects_a)
- Hi-res 32-bit Planet images (Lightspeed)
- New High-quality explosives textures 2.0 (Lightspeed)

(mv_loplanets)
- lower-res DDS planet images (Lightspeed)