[Nico]

that's the mini jawdrop smiley, it means "wow"

More screenies, btw, plz

[KARMA]

I think that in this case the reflections on the white parts give em an incredibly realistic metallic effect, which make the trick.
With envmap, it'd benefit a lot of lower reflections on the blue and dark parts.
But still, it's probably on of the best, if not the most impressive,  FS2:SCP screenshot so far, you really should pick a shot of the same zentradi pod in the same situation in vanilla fs2 to show the difference:)

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Carl
i had screenshots, but...no uploader

[email protected]

I'll put 'em up in my staff space for ya.

[ryuune75]

Originally posted by Nico
that's the mini jawdrop smiley, it means "wow"

More screenies, btw, plz

Ahh, i see, i tought he was scared

Originally posted by KARMA
I think that in this case the reflections on the white parts give em an incredibly realistic metallic effect, which make the trick.
With envmap, it'd benefit a lot of lower reflections on the blue and dark parts.
But still, it's probably on of the best, if not the most impressive,  FS2:SCP screenshot so far, you really should pick a shot of the same zentradi pod in the same situation in vanilla fs2 to show the difference:)

I don't think it's the white part, i thinkit's the kind of material used,  and anyway, any surface looks really shiny, i can see a perfect reflection of the background planets on the decks of the sdf-1

For the screenshots, i'll post them as soon as i get home, the same pod in vanilla FS2 looks crap, much better in SCP, but not rearly as good as this one, this environmental mapping thing is just awesome!!!

[Omniscaper]

Check out this odd mistake I made using the wrong POF as the skybox. Figure out what went wrong.





It does show off your environment maps Bobboau.

[aldo_14]

Woah.  Space debris needs tweaked, tho.  Or can you turn it off?

[StratComm]

tweaked is an understatement.  I still can't believe we've got particle code and graphics as nice as we have (cough, lightspeed) and are still using the extremely crappy vanilla space debris.  Please, please, please fix these.

[Fineus]

Should there even be space debris? I fail to believe that the entirety of space is that dirt filled

[Lightspeed]

a space sim needs debris so you see how fast youre moving, and in which direction. Try without it and there's no feel to the game anymore.

Sounds stupid, but is surprisingly true.

[Fineus]

IWar2 got by with lines built into the HUD, perhaps that could be done?

At the very least, the debris needs work - it should be noticable enough to track your speed/direction but not ugly.

[Anaz]

heh. trippy there omni. looks almost like it's cloaked

as for the debris, yes, it needs to be made much prettier, or like some other games, make it look like it's a hud thing (velocity lines...from either tachyon or iwar, or both...not sure). Or just blend the existing ones with the black, that'd make it look better too.


EDIT: Bah. Thuderfireth posted before me.

[Flipside]

Lines would be nice, or just being able to set a density of debris? Ah well, either way, make the Borg go away! hehehehe

[aldo_14]

Needs transparency, I think. (the debris, that is)

[Carl]

Originally posted by Setekh


[email protected]

I'll put 'em up in my staff space for ya.

i wish. yahoo always craps out whenever i try to e-mail attachments.

[redsniper]

so, uh... what went wrong in Omni's pics, I didn't catch it.

[redmenace]

the sky box covers the entire sky. you see the world all around. notice the defiant in particular

[Turnsky]

they look all chrome-plated

[Bobboau]

I was thinking about useing a similar effect to this to generate a cloak

[Nico]

Originally posted by Flipside
Lines would be nice, or just being able to set a density of debris? Ah well, either way, make the Borg go away! hehehehe

I'm for lines ala Iwar2 too.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Carl
i wish. yahoo always craps out whenever i try to e-mail attachments.

Get a Tripod account, dude...