[Lightspeed]

Well, that's definately getting there

[Ryx]

Looks good (both of you).

[DaBrain]

Woah, what's going on on your shots Turambar ? 6 FPS ? (How big is your map )

[Turambar]

no, im currently on the built-in 32bit intel graphics card because my FX 5600 is currently running the display on my new rig.  I'll be running a 6800 GT once that one's up, but right now, my current graphics card is on par with a GeForce 2

Edit: the map is 1024x1024

[Bobboau]

and takeing screen shots slows things down a lot

[DaBrain]

I'll release a lower res map for the mediaVP lite version.
Does a PCX map take up less Ram than a TGA one does ?

[Turambar]

grill done, now for the alignments..
any suggestions?

[übermetroid]

Question for you, how to you take the clean screen shots?  With no hud or anything..............  ?

[StratComm]

That's done with the external camera ('.' or '/' on the numeric pad, though I can't remember which one's for the chase cam and which actually takes you to external view.  Though I think there is a way to take a clean screenshot, it doesn't come to mind right now.

[karajorma]

Alt-pause. You can go outside and take pics from any angle you like.

[Col. Fishguts]

There's a new key to turn off the HUD, "Shift-O" IIRC

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by DaBrain
I'll release a lower res map for the mediaVP lite version.
Does a PCX map take up less Ram than a TGA one does ?

Yes, because FS2open only supports PCX files with 256 colours.

[DaBrain]

But if I use "-pcx32 -jpgtga", it makes no difference, right ?

[Taristin]

pcx32 is crap. it just uses more memory, it doesn't enable 32-bit pcx's.

[Lightspeed]

pcx32 owns. It allows each PCX to have its own palette - resulting with an incredible increase in visual quality for interface graphics. It does NOT, however, allow 32-bit PCX files (which technically isn't even possible becuase PCX doesnt support alpha channels).

[Taristin]

It's a memory hog. The slowdown is far greater than the 'improved visuals' recieved...

[DaBrain]

Well, I know FS2_open doesn't support 32-bit PCX files.
But I thought -pcx32 would load them into memory in 32-bit colors.


This line was described quite good somewhere. I just can't find it...

[Taristin]

That is how it is. PCX32 loads pcx's into 32-bit memory. But the performance hit is not worth the gain, most of the time.

[Turambar]

http://www.swooh.com/peon/Turambar/Maps/Herc2/fighter2t-02a.tga
http://www.swooh.com/peon/Turambar/Maps/Herc2/fighter2t-02a-glow.tga
my herc 2 maps are right here, so you guys can use them if you want, or you can wait for a Lightspeed/DaBrain revision

[übermetroid]

Originally posted by Col. Fishguts
There's a new key to turn off the HUD, "Shift-O" IIRC

Ah!  Thanks!