[Goober5000]

last one for the moment. Ill have some more up soon with the HTL Lucifer.

Whoa! How on earth did you get that pic?  It looks like they're fighting in the corona of a sun or something.  Way cool!

[NGTM-1R]

IMO, put up Stratcomm's Cover Redux. It's recognizable to anyone who bought the game, little visual clutter, still damn cool.

[StratComm]

You mean this?  This is actually sort of why I made it (actually it was supposed to be a splash screen, but it never made that cut).  And it presents a couple of things that the normal engine wasn't capable of.


Of course, I'm opposed to taking down the closeup of the Perseus.  There's a lot more demonstrated in that one model than you'll get just about anywhere else.

[BlackDove]

Ignore his opinion but steal his picture and remove that UGLEH Perseus, replace it with this.

Thread done.

[Singh]

Except for the beam clipping, of course. That REALLY needs to be fixed, IMO....but thats not possible without Geomodding anyway

Whoa! How on earth did you get that pic? It looks like they're fighting in the corona of a sun or something. Way cool!

An Orion blew up in the background; that's how. The explosions were pretty enough for that to happen.

Anyways, as promised, some more from the latest recordings. If anyone is interested I still have the vids, so I can extract a fully-detailed version. Or if anyone has a better computer, the mission can be put up to run through it again with AA and what-not:

[FireCrack]

That last one looks awesome, gives a true sense of scale!

[castor]

IMO, most of these are crammed with too much stuff.
CP's third pic is the best so far.

[ionia23]

Obviously missing nebulas and I don't know why it didn't pick up the starfield BUT...

A good head-on shot of the hi-poly hercules running the latest SCP build, plus running FSPort.
Shows off some of the better improvements to the original Freespace.  All shows off treats like
the shinemap against the see-through cockpit .

If this doesn't cut it as a contribution, no harm, no foul.

[BlackDove]

That's pretty good Ionia. But SC's rules all. It's hard to match the living box-art - even with that clipping error.

[Flaser]

That's pretty good Ionia. But SC's rules all. It's hard to match the living box-art - even with that clipping error.

Except the same shot, with a lowered ambient factor.

[StratComm]

Easily enough done, but I don't think that'd help as much as you might think.  As back as the background is, I don't want to make the ships too low contrast for their own good.  They're already fairly dark as-is.

[WMCoolmon]

Not as impressive as the Perseus, IMHO. Shinemaps, glowmaps, glowpoints, the improved lighting, aren't as evident in the pic. There's also the extremely evident clipping error.

It does show off the skybox nicely, but it doesn't seem like a good fs2_open pic.

[karajorma]

And the high poly Deimos (and Moloch once we can get either of the WIPs finished)

[StratComm]

Not as impressive as the Perseus, IMHO. Shinemaps, glowmaps, glowpoints, the improved lighting, aren't as evident in the pic. There's also the extremely evident clipping error.

It does show off the skybox nicely, but it doesn't seem like a good fs2_open pic.

That's not a skybox

And I'd love to get that clipping error fixed.  This isn't the only case where it looks ugly.

[BlackDove]

Not as impressive as the Perseus, IMHO. Shinemaps, glowmaps, glowpoints, the improved lighting, aren't as evident in the pic. There's also the extremely evident clipping error.

It does show off the skybox nicely, but it doesn't seem like a good fs2_open pic.

All the glowmaps and shinemaps in the world don't help the fact that the image is butt ugly. The goal is visual beauty when comparing old to new, which is progress displayed at first glance. All of the glowmaps, shinemaps, etc. you can explain in text next to the image. They're inconsequential if the image looks bad.

[StratComm]

Actually, other than the cockpit, the Perseus has no glowmap.  That said, I still couldn't disagree more with the quality of the Perseus image; it may not be the most action-intensive shot out there, but it's a lot better than a lot of what's out there in terms of showing off the power of the engine.  As an interum though, I say we pester Singh to get us a high-res, static shot of the HTL herc flying past that moon, as seen in his pimpage video.  No shot captures the "wow" factor nearly as well as that one.

[ionia23]

Though I've read the requirements for the FSO picture, I want to know if you'd prefer an actual 'in game' shot or a custom render (like the boxart for FS2Retail).

[Black Wolf]

Ingame - it wouldn't be much use for showing off the engine if ti wasn't generated by the engine

[Sandwich]

And I'd love to get that clipping error fixed.  This isn't the only case where it looks ugly.

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[Sandwich]

Hey, that brings up a question! How simple would it be to add a feature to the SCP where an explosion ANI is rendered at all points of a beam's collision detection, not just the first point?