[jr2]

I was puttering around with Google Picasa and decided to share these, if you haven't already found them or have lost them, enjoy (41 images):

clicky: (this is a link to the directory, I'll make individual links later)

[haloboy100]

I remember having all of these as wallpapers at one point..

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Hmm, there are even some in there that are not in the official array Nice collection.

[jr2]

... I just backed those up, too.  Sweet.    Thx.

[monteman]

Wow, amazing pics!

What campaign are those amazing pics from where you can fly on the planets surface?

[General Battuta]

They're renders, my friend. Not screenshots. None of it is in-game.

You can get graphics nearly that good in some areas using the MediaVPs, but renders aren't, er, rendered in real-time, so you can put a lot more detail into them.

[NGTM-1R]

Most All of the models used in these renders are stock retail, the mediavps are arguably better by far.

[General Battuta]

Very much true. The lighting and bloom-esque effects, however, are not going to happen in FSOpen for a while.

Planet surface missions could very well happen, but at the moment they're probably not going to look quite that good (though a very large model and a skybox might accomplish it...)

[monteman]

Was just double checking because I did see some people talking about planet missions so I thought I missed something lol.

[haloboy100]

You can get graphics nearly that good in some areas using the MediaVPs, but renders aren't, er, rendered in real-time, so you can put a lot more detail into them.

That reminds me - why isn't bloom already implemented in the MVPs?

[blowfish]

Because it's more complicated then just implementing it, and it requires HDR AFAIK.