Random Screenshots Thread

[Concord]

gorgeous

[apparition]

Cosmetically attractive, yes, but does it improve your performance on the grid (instead of distracting you)? Maybe in sumo?

[Phytotron]

I never have the floor on when I'm actually playing.

[Concord]

me neither, when playing my client looks rather poor. I've somehow grown fond of it's pure functionality and rugged beauty.
The attached screenshot displays that and an affection for speed on a crowded grid.

[Tank Program]

I thought this looked pretty cool

The floor there does look awesome.

[sinewav]

Wow Concord, the screenshot is wicked. What were the camera settings?

[Concord]

heh, I started with free cam

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CAMERA_FREE_START_Z 100
CAMERA_FREE_START_X 370
CAMERA_FREE_START_Y 395

and an FOV of 90.

It seems the free camera focuses on a point in the grid (something like (25,25) it seems), so the best I could get with free cam is the attached image.

To get the perspective your talking about, I used mercam, following position 2 until they were at midgrid, then I switched to free cam and move the camera back and up. The free camera decides to focus on the point the cycle was when I switched.

[Phytotron]

You can move the free cam all around using the move, zoom, and look keys.

[Concord]

it seems the direction the camera points resets to that same spot each round, and I found the angular velocity was to fast to turn slowly (changing camera_glance_angular_velocity didn't affect this). Any tips?

[Jonathan]

I discovered that reading a multisampled framebuffer using pixel buffers is... interesting. Probably more of an implementation bug than anything else. I don't feel like hacking Arma now, so you'll have to do with X-Plane (making a plugin for that doesn't take as much work).

For those who didn't notice, I was running 1920x1200 with 4x MSAA. But I get an actual surface of 3840x2400 to read from, with 2x2 blocks being the pixels you see on screen, now with samples separated. You can see polygon edges are pixel-level if a bit jittery, but textures live on 2x2 blocks.

[Z-Man]

Interesting indeed. Would be cool to abuse. The jittering may come from a non-square subpixel raster.

[Jonathan]

Yep, that's where the jitter comes from. The samples aren't exactly where they appear to be in the image.

[Tank Program]

Just saw something interesting... arena walls going invisible!

[AI-team]

nice screenshot

[gawdzilla]

If you think Phytotron has it bad sometimes, look at the stuff I have to deal with. Funnily enough this all happened when I had text output off (and only turned it back on to tell gekko to just ignore it.)

Racism, gotta love it:
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http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/1162 ... shot5z.png
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6916 ... hot6fx.png
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