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Star Citizen Pre-Alpha: Hangar Module
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The_Hitcher89
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We will be able to hire AI companions to man the turrets and stuff, right?
Dat IQ. Hitcher am Cry. More, Sethos. We need more shots of this quality.
My bad. Used FastStone to batch convert but didn't have any compression enabled. That meant the output was huge which Imgur converted to a lossy JPEG. Awful.
Should be higher quality and much smaller.
Also need to figure out how to add some serious AA. Only running a downsampled resolution, still some rough edges.
Should be higher quality and much smaller.
Also need to figure out how to add some serious AA. Only running a downsampled resolution, still some rough edges.
Dictator93
Member
Not officially supported yet, so it can be a little strange with some lights. BUt that will give you some crisp edges alliright.
Imgur is lossless is up to 10mb.
Not officially supported yet, so it can be a little strange with some lights. BUt that will give you some crisp edges alliright.
Thanks man, will look into it.
Dictator93
Member
I somehow forgot the link. woops
https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/52741/the-hangar-supports-anti-aliasing
Nah, you just wrapped it in IMG tags - I quoted you and got it =)
The_Hitcher89
Member
Why Zabo? Is this because I called Giovinco shit?
I think something might be up with my resolution settings. Star Citizen doesn't look as clean as Wipeout HD even running AA, and Battlefield 4 on Ultra didn't look all that spectacular either.
I'm using a GTX 670 and a 1080p TV, so the shots should surely look better than the ones I posted earlier right?
The_Hitcher89
Member
I'll sell my cargo hold at a high price
I thought you'd love the prospect of 20 Quag-less days
You did? Well, he kinda is. Just don't tell arkon.
I think so. Not sure what's up though.
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yup.
Yup, that's the plan. I expect to see it delayed by a month or two, but it's more of a gut feeling than anything. We should be able to fly a select number of ships, likely just in one star system or dedicated sector, buy and test weapons, help them balance the ships.
Zod the Bear
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I have a gut feeling of March.
Guess I'm in
Welcome to the 'Stella Owners Club! (And to the Star Citizen club!)
Overdesigned = putting more effort into something than is required for normal gameplay. In this case all the screws, the texture work and that tiny little screen. It looks cool, but some could consider it a waste of effort.
I wouldn't be surprised if all the buttons and the screen were actually used, especially considering their objective of not having a screenspace UI. Remember the game is a bit on the sim side, they could have ships and and such that just look cool but they actually take the effort to make them practically work, so for consistency there's no reason the same care should not be given to weapons.
Yeah, but see that is the very definition of overdesign. They could have gone with a normal UI and it would work just as fine. It's a gun, you only need it for point and shoot, and forget.
I'm not saying this is bad though. I actually quite like it. It's more of an observation than a complaint. Although I hope they don't do it to all their models, it's a great way to blow through your budget inefficiently.
This is where the earlier confusion is from, overdesign has a negative connotation to mean that too much has been thrown in to the pot, that the practicality or the objective of something has been lost for something more convoluted.
A lack of a traditional UI and to push other things they want rather than traditonal/contemporary designs, to take a pragmatic and realistic approach to design is what they've been going for since the beginning.
Zod the Bear
Member
Some of us have been waiting a year. Nice to get hands on something when the game won't be out for a while.
I don't think anyone's sitting around at work thinking "oh man, time to get home and play me up some of that Star Citizen game!!~," but for people who're excited by the game's potential, it's pretty cool to actually be able to see some of our ships so early!
Dictator93
Member
I think some people appreciate the attention to detail this game offers as a sim. The hangar is a provisorial place to experience that befor ethe game comes out.
Also, the community is very much so tied in with the game development: which , imo, is wonderful.
Yes, they want to do an immersive space sim with high-end-tech. I don't see how very detailed models, textures and the like can be considered overdesigned taking into account what CIG is aiming at. By that logic you could also say "Why aren't they just releasing on PS3, PS4, WiiU, Xbox360, Xbox One and PC, the graphics aren't really important anyway.".
But those screws and texture work is point of Star Citizen.
They didn't want to create just next space sim game. They wanted to create game that will be amazing space sim game and deliver first and foremost immersion.
If you look original Kickstarter video you will see how Chris said that immersion are those screws and things that normally aren't considered crucial. This is why movies spaceships are so believable. Because they are packed with ton of detail. They have usually space for people to live.
We are talking about game where you can be at bar go to your spaceship fly away dock at constelattion go to meeting room talk go to hangar and set course on next star. All of that represented as you as player actually doing that stuff instead of taking quest from UI leaving planet via button, reaching constelation via button on map meeting commander in UI and then you click to start mission.
Naturally they will probably introduce some shortcuts where they can but crux of game will be like that. Immersion is everything.
Mister_Bubbles
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F11 [jpeg though] or FRAPS.
Irobot82
Member
Grrr. I don't want yet another overlay. I stopped using FRAPS I think b/c of ENB with Skyrim. Which I have to turn off MSI Afterburner anyhow.
Why can't I just have one program to rule them all lol. Doesn't FRAPS require you to buy them to get to use PNG's for screenshots?
Dictator93
Member
Shamelessly stolen from the Nvidia thread:
That... is nice.
Not sure why starcitizen needs HBAO+ hough then SSDO in all honesty perhaps could offer better quality.
Also, CryEngine has THE BEST real time Depth of Field. What on earth does Nvidia have to do with that?
Irobot82
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I don't think it'll be an issue. Planetside 2 for example is fully based around physx, all of the movement and interaction.
Looks a lot like the cockpit of that ship from privateer. I think it was called the centurion?
I use overdesign in its neutral connotation, the one more close to an engineering approach. You do both research and design, and once you've found what you need through research, you spent a lot more for design than is actually required for the thing you made to function. This is not a bad thing per se, because it can be more practical in use, look nicer,... but it is something the costumer didn't necessarily ask for. It do costs a lot more money though, and the biggest feats of engeering have been those who managed to be cost efficient. In case of games and art, your product may improve greatly from it, but you have to be careful not to burn through your money. More specific to Star Citizen is that ships are a crucial part of the game, and deserve any extra care put into them. But do we really need to have a gun that costs $10,000 to model, especially seeing as this isn't the only gun in the game?
I think you both misinterpreted what I was saying. I was merely stating something I observed. Nowhere did I say what they are doing is a bad thing or that I don't understand why they are doing it.
Yep, big thing about SSDO is that it applies light source color information into the shadow, which make huge quality difference.