ED SIMS SCREENSHOT AND VIDEO THREAD!!!! (NO USER MODS OR COMMENT)

[Bucic]

Yep! :D

I hope there will be a way to turn on self shadowing for nearby aircrafts or with active planar shadows for everything else.

[Blaze]

Multiplayer. ;)

 

(With hdr this time GA :D)

 

[Feuerfalke]

Guy has been with "ugly" girl for 5 years = :noexpression:

Guy is now single.

Guy meets sexy new hot girl = :shocking: :thumbup::D:D

 

Get my point? :P

 

It's more like:

Guy has not seen a girl for ages.

Guy sees common girl => :wub:

Guy recognizes, it can even be a lot nicer!

 

Most people are probably just at level2 ;)

[Sticky]

 

 

 

 

 

What texture settigns are available in the beta? I know its WIP and also that it looks much better in motion, but do you think we will get a higher resolution at release? Anyone have any info on Nevada texture resolution beta vs planned?

[Ells228]

you sure do have somethings turned off heres a link of the difference

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3107485.html

 

Thanks ToWch,

I've gradually been increasing my settings and it now looks as good as it should do without too much fps drop for my machine.

 

Ok, here is with everything maxed out, but let me just say fps is fairly low on my rig but again it hasn't been optimized yet.

I'm with Blaze on this one, HDR great for pics and vids but until it's optimized I won't have it on either, not on my rig lol

 

Settings first, then pics, then system specs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asus Formula Crosshair II mobo (Republic of Gamers)

AMD Phenom II x4 940 3.01Ghz

6Gb RAM (one of my modules was dead on arrival, not happy)

2x Nvidia 8800GTX OC cards in SLI

Win 7 64 bit, although these screens were taken in 32 bit as was using TrackIR

 

9 FPS in cockpit and pretty much the same with external shots on the ground until I got in the air, then about 17-20 dpending on what I was overflying.

Disclaimer: And again it hasn't been optimized so don't take it that these FPS are final on this kind of system spec.

Edited October 7, 2010 by Ells228

[Bucic]

How about a mini-walkaround. ;) The model and texture work are incredible, and the normal/specular mapping really gives it that painted-metal look, with all those scratches visible when the light hits them just right. :)

Something for comparison ;) I recommend downloading the huge image.

 

2. Driver settings: Setting texture quality to other value than highest quality is not needed as I have never seen any performance loss due to this setting. IIRC when I had BS running with 35 FPS stable (no vsync) I couldn't even observe any difference. It's safely to say that even if there was FPS hit it was lower than 3 FPS out of 35.

 

At the same time the image quality is superior! Take a look at the lighter areas.

 

Original ~3000x3000 image here http://www.mediafire.com/?am7hd2606akewks

 

 

Edited October 7, 2010 by Bucic

[f-18hornet]

I'll post some images too.:joystick:

 

 

 

 

 

[nightflyer23]

The Shark is Still There ;)

 

And He is Nasty

 

[Luse]

That's a weird looking A-10C there dude.

[Boberro]

And He is Nasty

 

 

GG be aware :P

 

 

I have questions about that HDR regarding to upper pictures... Does it add realism? With HDR on I see much glow and fog (can't expalin it better I don't like it too much, maybe due to I am usedn't to use it), picture is not crystal. I think more realistic is to keep it off, or my eyes see other?

[Ells228]

It makes it more realistic to the real world, which we're not used to seeing in flight sims so it looks a little odd to start with, but you get used to it and then bask in it's graphic'ness glory.

[garengarch]

 

Edited October 7, 2010 by garengarch

[garengarch]

Nevada's looking wonderful.

 

[Bucic]

It doesn't even look like Earth! :)

[garengarch]

Its not - it's heaven :)

[kaiserb_uk]

I just don't get 'it'. HDR is supposed to stand for High Dynamic Range, not 'Vaseline smeared on your goggles'.

 

I keep cleaning my glasses :S

[diveplane]

 

 

 

 

 

 

love the night lighting effects

Edited October 7, 2010 by diveplane

[garengarch]

I just don't get 'it'. HDR is supposed to stand for High Dynamic Range, not 'Vaseline smeared on your goggles'.

 

I keep cleaning my glasses :S

 

well, here's HDR and TSSAA off :p

 

Edited October 7, 2010 by garengarch

[diveplane]

 

[Antartis]

well, here's HDR and TSSAA off :p

 

What is HDR and TSSAA? :huh:

[MTFDarkEagle]

hdr = high dynamic range (makes everything pretty)

 

TSSAA is somekind of advanced anti aliasing

[Antartis]

hdr = high dynamic range (makes everything pretty)

 

TSSAA is somekind of advanced anti aliasing

 

aha...thank you...:thumbup:

[Bucic]

Its not - it's heaven :)

Hardcore Heaven ;) http://twistedandbrainfire.com/images/DSI/hh.jpg

 

I just don't get 'it'. HDR is supposed to stand for High Dynamic Range, not 'Vaseline smeared on your goggles'.

I keep cleaning my glasses :S

It's going to be a hard time for you then. Lots of smeared vision fans :music_whistling:

But if it's possible to disable overdone bloom without loosing HDR then please ignore it for the sake... of space.

[Guest simmer222]

HDR is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard digital imaging techniques.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

 

http://www.arenalogic.eu

[JG27_Arklight]

Nice screens.

 

I mentioned this in the Beta forum, but the pilot looks way out of scale.

Edited October 7, 2010 by JG27_Arklight