Armagetron Better Graphics (Bloom) MOD - ¡DOWNLOAD HERE!

[rhp08]

Hello, I know that some people sayed that they wanted to have better graphics for Armagetron Advanced.
It's a hacked OpenGL dll that you put into the Armagetron Dir. It adds a nice Bloom effect to the old looking Armagetron Graphics giving it a more 2010 graphics look. The bloom effect isn't too bright. You need to configure some options in Armagetron in order to make it work correctly. Everything should be described in the readme. Here you have a copy.

--- README ---
Copy all files from the directory "Armagetron ROOT" to the directory where you have Armagetron installed.
(Where Armagetronad.exe is).

Once done this, start Armagetron and enter to:
System Setup -> Display Settings -> Perfomance Tweaks

and set..
Swap Mode: Finish
Infinity: On
Display Lists: Off
-- README --

I like Armagetron, I hope that it can motivate some Graphics Maniacs to join this Game. I hope you enjoy it.
Greetings from Spain. ViRuS.

[Z-Man]

Welcome. That's an unorthodox way to implement this feature Wouldn't it make more sense to run the shaders from within the game itself at swap time?

(Malware check information: the poster's IP is Spanish all right, the included readme contains Spanish, and the archive contains shader source that can indeed produce the advertised result. It's unlikely this is from one of our known troublemakers. That said, I neither tested nor analyzed the binaries.)

[Word]

bug: whenever i open the menu the screen is splitted as if there were 4 players
other than that, cool mod

edit: nvm, the settings you posted fix this, but i get less fps

[KingNoob1]

How much does that drop you fps?

[FFIIXXIITT]

Does it work with linux?

[Tank Program]

Does it work with linux?

Only if you run it in wine. It's a DLL hack.

(Note: I assume it works in wine as Armagetron itself does. Haven't actually tested this.)

[FFIIXXIITT]

eh not that interested then, wake the troll back up when we get a linux graphics mod ZZzzzzz.....

[Misery]

Not too bad! A nice, subtle effect. It's even more pronounced with lighter/brighter cycles. I only have two issues. #1. It totally covers up the player names in chat that are highlighted due to dark colors. #2. It slightly squashes down the size of my HUD. But 2 is barely a nuisance. But it looks nice with forced 16xQ antialiasing and 16x anisotropic filtering.

Well crap... For reasons beyond me, I cannot take a screencap of it to show you guys. Every time I try, it outputs the title pic before the main menu.

[Tank Program]

That's with the in game screenshot functionality? I can sort of see that happening. Try maybe using good old print screen + paint?

[Misery]

I've never used the in-game print screen feature. I've never had a problem with the normal Windows Print Screen, EVER. I did a little experimenting and reinstalled AA without the mod and I still had the same problem. No idea why it's not working now, but I'm wondering if changing to Windows 7 has anything to do with it? But I DID get it to work in windowed mode. Sooo... Here ya go.

[arilou]

The semi-transparent tails contrast well with the bike. I wonder how fluid the tail would look with chico axis.

[Jip]

It looks nice but i only get 5 fps with it

[rhp08]

Uou So many positive feedbacks!

The FPS drop is because the bloom effect is calculated from the graphic dll and not from the game. The shaders are in the "cgprograms" dir. Like zman said. It would be nice if somebody could make shaders work from the ingame (as a native plugin). So people could write some shaders for Armagetron. (Bloom, Motion Blur, and so on) or disable it to have Armagetron full GFX speed.

Well, but until then, we can play with this OpenGL mod. That 16Q Antialiasing from Misery looks really nice. The blurred Chat name bug can't be fixed because the plug-ins processes the whole image (It can't difference 3D from 2D or Text). Making bloom shaders native in Armagetron would fix this.

At last, thanks to everybody for testing the mod, for the screenshots and all the comments about the mod.
Greetings form Spain, rhp07 (ViRuS)

[Word]

How much does that drop you fps?

i use to have 150-300, with the mod installed i get 20-50

[Phytotron]

Is this like the visual effects in MAME and other emulators?