[Rictor]

After a time of brief absence, I came back to HLP only to witness a freaking renaisance in the making. In the past 2-3 weeks, there has been so much progress made that I can hardly keep up.

Lightspeed's shine maps, the 32-bit colour capabilities, the new background rendering system, the new ship trails (slightly older, but cool nevertheless), Raven's models, Turnsky's Foxfire stuff and more stuff that I can't even remember.

When I look at stuff like Lightspeed's shine map thread, and see the Hecate and Haphaestus (sp?) looking like they've been pulled from the latest AAA game, it gives me hope for the future. I don't really think that I am fully expressing just how cool all this stuff is. We have advanced more in the past 2 months than n the past year.

Though I have mentioned the awesomeness in a few indivdual threads, I just thought that everyone who has contributed to this process should be congratulated - way to go guys.

[Knight Templar]

Thank you, thank you.

[Rictor]

Ex-qui-site

[karajorma]

I've also noticed a sudden influx of newbies in the last couple of weeks. Did someone link to HotU or something?

[Unknown Target]

I dunno, but I notice the newbs too. Run away, before they start a Freespace 3 topic!
j/k

Anyways, sorta-off-topic here, where can I find the new exe with the new background rendering?! I can't FIND IT! Argh! It's not in the thread, can someoen give me a direct link?

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

What can I say? We won't let FS2 die anytime soon!

[Setekh]

Couldn't agree more, Rictor - it's been crazy these past few weeks (tell you what, it was a great time for me to come back ). And, seriously guys, I want you to be as welcoming to the new members as you can - we have a lot more newbies coming through here than actually stay, and I'd sure as heck be intimidated a lot if everyone was unfriendly. Share the HLP love, people.

[phreak]

thanks for the compliments rictor, that why we do everything

steak: make a permenant announcement that shows turnsky's fs3 cartoon

[Nemo]

well, speaking as one of these newbies, I kinda got here by downloading the HOTU version. I thought it lacked to much sounds etc., and my internet-search for upgrades led me here.
Think i'm gonna stick around for at least till the WC-campaign is finished:D

[Setekh]

Originally posted by PhReAk
steak: make a permenant announcement that shows turnsky's fs3 cartoon

Heh, well, it's funny, but the problem is that some people might not take it as humour.

Oh, and welcome to HLP to you too, Nemo.

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Rictor
When I look at stuff like Lightspeed's shine map thread, and see the Hecate and Haphaestus (sp?) looking like they've been pulled from the latest AAA game, it gives me hope for the future. I don't really think that I am fully expressing just how cool all this stuff is. We have advanced more in the past 2 months than n the past year.

Why, thank you (btw, its called Hatshepsut)

But yeah, FS2 has potential, lots of potential. The best part of the story: At least once a good game engine is in hands of people who really care

[Hippo]

Originally posted by karajorma
I've also noticed a sudden influx of newbies in the last couple of weeks. Did someone link to HotU or something?

I have it linked in my tiny little 'HowToGetFreeSpace FAQ' ... but nobody could find it withut me linking to it... (in sig)

[karajorma]

Added to my list of things to include next time I update the FAQ.

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Hippo


I have it linked in my tiny little 'HowToGetFreeSpace FAQ' ... but nobody could find it withut me linking to it... (in sig)

thats cause its dark blue and tiny as hell

[Hippo]

Originally posted by Lightspeed


thats cause its dark blue and tiny as hell

Well, the only place it is linked, is my sig here and VWbb... I meant that its not on any search engines I know of... ... its only small because of the automatic signature text sizing...

[Drew]

you should give lightspeed a custom rank.....

[Flipside]

Well, the other problem with that link is that it's dark blue on a dark green background. I'm in a somewhat unique position with dodgy eyeballs, so I can't be sure, but does anyone else have problems reading it?

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Flipside
Well, the other problem with that link is that it's dark blue on a dark green background. I'm in a somewhat unique position with dodgy eyeballs, so I can't be sure, but does anyone else have problems reading it?

with a monitor that operates at approximately 10% of normal brightness at maximum settings, i can only agree to this (thank god that modern vid card drivers support boosting brightness and gamma, and thank god i'll have a new monitor by new-year)