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[symphonask]

those DX:HR screens look like hand drawn concept art when shrunk down into quote boxes

 

[goldsoundz]

Does SweetFX not work with Battlefield 3 anymore? I remember there being talk of DICE banning people who used it.

 

[Sethos]

Does SweetFX not work with Battlefield 3 anymore? I remember there being talk of DICE banning people who used it.

DICE didn't ban anyone, I believe it was reports of Punkbuster picking up on it.

 

[Shaneus]

That's it, cuz the FXAA can't be removed.

Oh dear, that sucks. I think it's the same with Sleepy Dogs... it was either FXAA or SMAA that's forced, though.

Well, it's the best the game has looked regardless of the extra sharpening needed, so kudos.

I wonder if there's some kind of injector you can get pre-output that can disable FXAA? There has to be. Or a file that can be replaced or something.

Edit: I just found this, I don't know if it actually works or not because I don't have the game, but maybe it'll help:

EDTI: You can also disable FXAA in the ini folder to increase fps when playing AC3. It is in there, Make sure you look for MULTISAMPLING. Set it to =0.

From here.

 

[FoxSpirit]

Sleeping dogs with ingame "medium AA" looks awesome. Uses highly quality FXAA and then some light SuperSampling. Results in an pretty incredible AAed picture in realtime.

 

[Alo81]

Woah what the fuck when did that happen? I beat the game and I didn't see that part.

Guessing it was his paedophilia habits.

Just read up on this. Yeesh.

 

[scitek]

Sleeping dogs with ingame "medium AA" looks awesome. Uses highly quality FXAA and then some light SuperSampling. Results in an pretty incredible AAed picture in realtime.

I knocked SSAO down to Normal and it allowed me to use High AA and keep 60fps. It's another case where the AO's too strong for my liking on High anyway, so it worked out.

Editing the ini didn't work in AC3. Maybe you have to set it to Read-only so it doesn't change it on startup or something.

 

[Cuban Legend]

Oh dear, that sucks. I think it's the same with Sleepy Dogs... it was either FXAA or SMAA that's forced, though.

Well, it's the best the game has looked regardless of the extra sharpening needed, so kudos.

I wonder if there's some kind of injector you can get pre-output that can disable FXAA? There has to be. Or a file that can be replaced or something.

Edit: I just found this, I don't know if it actually works or not because I don't have the game, but maybe it'll help:

From here.

I would pay money for that PC Nintendogs sequel, I'll just need an Oculus Rift and it's like I have my won dog.

 

[Dictator93]

Just read up on this. Yeesh.

IDK man... I would like to know what he was banned for. He was just being incredibly honest... and I find that extremely admirable.

 

[Sax Russel]

Should've figured with his PSO screens =P

MechWarrior Online

 

[Sax Russel]

 

[Dunan]

Nothing to do with anything, but:

Sax Russel
location: beach
(Today, 07:48 AM)

A fellow Mars Trilogy fan. Your jib; I like the cut of it.

 

[Shaneus]

Sleeping dogs with ingame "medium AA" looks awesome. Uses highly quality FXAA and then some light SuperSampling. Results in an pretty incredible AAed picture in realtime.

To be honest, I'd never really tried it much on anything other than the lowest one because of the performance hit, but I'd never thought of turning down SSAO a notch. Cheers guys!

 

[Dictator93]

Nothing to do with anything, but:

Sax Russel
location: beach
(Today, 07:48 AM)

A fellow Mars Trilogy fan. Your jib; I like the cut of it.

Same here! I commented on his name last year. Sax was one of my favorite characters. Yours?

 

[Burgess_101]

Woah what the fuck when did that happen? I beat the game and I didn't see that part.

You probably did, it was in a cut scene after you encounter all the hanging bodies. You choose whether and how to save Gould (I think).

 

[goldsoundz]

DICE didn't ban anyone, I believe it was reports of Punkbuster picking up on it.

Yeah, I wasn't sure because SweetFX wasn't working. Windows 8, Fraps, and SweetFX don't get along. For anyone else having this problem just make sure you aren't running Fraps while playing games. 8(

 

[legacyzero]

Combat is dope, I've played alot of MMOs and Tera is one of the VERY few in which "Kill X creature Y times" never gets repetitive for me. I might resurrect the Art thread, I've got a bunch of Tera shots that I took at 11520x7200 lulz.

How are you taking out the hud? So fucking gawdy!

 

[Deleted member 59090]

How are you taking out the hud?

ctrl + z like in every proper mmo since WoW

 

[mtommy]

BF3 Aftermath

 

[legacyzero]

ctrl + z like in every proper mmo since WoW

This would literally my first MMO.

Well, unless you count Planetside 2 and DayZ.

 

[NBtoaster]

 

[Alo81]

IDK man... I would like to know what he was banned for. He was just being incredibly honest... and I find that extremely admirable.

I don't think he deserves to be banned for that, if that's what he was banned for; but it was a bit of a rough read.

You probably did, it was in a cut scene after you encounter all the hanging bodies. You choose whether and how to save Gould (I think).

I think I went through that part differently then because I definitely didn't see that. That's definitely a striking image.

 

[Spazznid]

From reading, it doesn't seem as if he advocated anything, he just stated that he wasn't as offended by it.

If someone says they're not offended by murder and drug use and piracy, will they get banned?

Edited for Safety!

 

[scitek]

From reading, it doesn't seem as if he advocated anything, he just stated that he wasn't as offended by it.

If someone says they're not offended by murder and drug use and piracy, will they get banned?

Edited for Safety!

I just read some of his posts. That shit's fucked up. His FXAA blur fests will not be missed by me.

 

[Spazznid]

Loved his shots and After reading all of the posts, it's not really a problem.

There's nothing wrong with him, he just has different views of beauty than the norm. I'm no pedo, but I have strange taste, to be sure. Guess getting kicked because of an attraction is stupid. Unless I'm missing something here.

 

[Alo81]

I don't personally enjoy the same things he does, but I don't think he deserved to be banned for it.

 

[Spazznid]

I don't personally enjoy the same things he does, but I don't think he deserved to be banned for it.

Was it perma or temp?

Temp = Meh

Perma = No flipping way. You can't do that to people for being a certain way and not expect backlash sooner or later. you might as well ban based on religions that go against your own.

 

[scitek]

Loved his shots and After reading all of the posts, it's not really a problem.

There's nothing wrong with him, he just has different views of beauty than the norm. I'm no pedo, but I have strange taste, to be sure. Guess getting kicked because of an attraction is stupid. Unless I'm missing something here.

AC3

 

[scitek]

 

[Dictator93]

Having a hard time find out what I like more. I think I actually like MSAA for its clarity of image. I am actually really surprised by the amount of blur in the sgssaa shots. Even when dialed up to 8XSGSSAA /which runs at about 60fps) the game is incredibly blurry. I tried messed manually with the LOD bias but that changed nothing. Perhaps I need different AA bits?
Eitherway..-
8XMSAA

2XSGSSAA (With 8xMSAA)

 

[Spazznid]

Having a hard time find out what I like more. I think I actually like MSAA for its clarity of image. I am actually really surprised by the amount of blur in the sgssaa shots. Even when dialed up to 8XSGSSAA /which runs at about 60fps) the game is incredibly blurry. I tried messed manually with the LOD bias but that changed nothing. Perhaps I need different AA bits?
Eitherway..-
8XMSAA

2XSGSSAA (With 8xMSAA)

maybe the SGSSAA bits aren't working right?

 

[EatChildren]

Art shots, so sue me, and not mine (Joanne/PixieGirl's), but I thought they looked great. Polar panorama GTAIV.

 

[Spazznid]

Art shots, so sue me, and not mine (Joanne/PixieGirl's), but I thought they looked great. Polar panorama GTAIV.

Can this be done with Mirror's Edge?

 

[iNvid02]

Can this be done with Mirror's Edge?

yes

 

[Spazznid]

yes

 

[iNvid02]

this is also one of hers, this works with any game /set of images. the software for regular panoramas is kolor autopana giga, i think it can also create these types

personally not a fan of these circle things but regular panoramas i love - stuff like this

 

[Spazznid]

How is this done? Is she just doing a very wide FOV and using an effect on it?

 

[iNvid02]

How is this done? Is she just doing a very wide FOV and using an effect on it?

no its done afterwards, stitching multiple shots together via photoshop or another app.

 

[SapientWolf]

Guessing it was his paedophilia habits.

His choice of GW2 race makes a lot of sense now.

 

[Burgess_101]

I think I went through that part differently then because I definitely didn't see that. That's definitely a striking image.

You must have unless I am missing something.

Spoiler

There are 3 guys the protagonists (if you can call them that in this game) encounter with one civilian as seen in my picture and Gould. He starts threatening that he will kill her and many others if he doesn't give something up. They start shooting really close to the woman's face and sand goes everywhere. Then eventually he just shoots her in the head with a pistol.

 

[NBtoaster]

 

[CuckFupertino]

Minecraft, with some shader mods and texture pack.

Gate into a town we built on my private server.

Inside of a church I built for the town. I guess the NPCs are Christian, since a cross was the easiest thing to make!

 

[Shaneus]

this is also one of hers, this works with any game /set of images. the software for regular panoramas is kolor autopana giga, i think it can also create these types

personally not a fan of these circle things but regular panoramas i love - stuff like this

The only game I can think of that I'd *love* to see a panorama of is Crackdown. And that's not a PC game

 

[EatChildren]

 

[MrRoderick]

What was it people were saying about AC3 having bad lighting?

 

[Sethos]

What was it people were saying about AC3 having bad lighting?

So you feel that one image you've seen in a thread makes up for the entire game's flat lighting?

 

[MrRoderick]

The bitter bitter pain of tutorials.

Really though, I like the SGSSAA one. I'm interested in how some people prefer very sharp, crispy images as opposed to softer, more natural ones. I can kinda see it both ways, though my preference is the softer. I feel that the crispy harshness can emphasize the videogamey-ness?

 

[EatChildren]

The bitter bitter pain of tutorials.

Really though, I like the SGSSAA one. I'm interested in how some people prefer very sharp, crispy images as opposed to softer, more natural ones. I can kinda see it both ways, though my preference is the softer. I feel that the crispy harshness can emphasize the videogamey-ness?

I like softness to an image to be applied via a dynamic processing effect, like depth of field, motion blur, or anything that isn't permanent or static. My above The Witcher 2 shots are good examples of what I mean. The depth of field varies based on the time of day and the weather condition. Light rays blooming through distant trees with soft depth of field look incredible, as does the slight shimmering of distant objects when there's a storm. But the intensity of the effect still varies, especially based on your distance from something. Get close enough and the detail returns.

Soft SGSSAA, or poor FXAA, gives an image what I consider to be an unnatural and disorienting blur, because clarity never improves and the softness never goes away. It's like it makes my brain feel drunk or something.

 

[Sethos]

I like softness to an image to be applied via a dynamic processing effect, like depth of field, motion blur, or anything that isn't permanent or static. My above The Witcher 2 shots are good examples of what I mean. The depth of field varies based on the time of day and the weather condition. Light rays blooming through distant trees with soft depth of field look incredible, as does the slight shimmering of distant objects when there's a storm. But the intensity of the effect still varies, especially based on your distance from something. Get close enough and the detail returns.

Soft SGSSAA, or poor FXAA, gives an image what I consider to be an unnatural and disorienting blur, because clarity never improves and the softness never goes away. It's like it makes my brain feel drunk or something.

Exactly.

Use of dynamic effects to constantly change the appearance of the image is what you want - DoF, weather changing, blur kicking in when moving and stuff like that. A constant myopia effect on everything is horrible and personally I can't fathom people can play like that.

 

[MrRoderick]

So you feel that one image you've seen in a thread makes up for the entire game's flat lighting?

I feel most of them do, but this one particularly exemplifies it. The best cases I saw when running it were during the introductory opera house sequence. Though, the terrain geometry gets quite flat, and I suppose thus flatly lit. But to be fair, I have not played the whole game, and it might be duller on the whole.

At least it doesn't have gleaming over-bloomed edges everywhere, way too many specular highlights, and blocky as fuck self shadows a la many of the current beautiful games.