squid

Monty long time no see :) You are kidding right ?!

they enhance.

good addition

xx(bo)x ?

RNR ? joojoobees ? Ten ? probably is being filmed as we speak

Porn !! *excited* (Btw, seems FC3 is soon to be out too)

stary you are the scientist

" after the live before to die become to survive " Axtor Vextro

me too :D

oh LOL

No one ? :D

That is certainly common sense. Cant speak for the others here but personally these days i am in dire need of some distraction, in the form of hobby i guess, from some stressful issues i have to deal with in my life out of here at this phase, and found playing with the normals an interesting subject (includes inquiring, creativity, reverse engineering thinking etc) and is an attention absorbing enough thing to shift my focus for a while to recreation i understand. Even if the "research" won't lead anywhere or results in something that NA will make even maybe incompatible or obsolete :)

You are definitely right about the file. I don't itend so far to fiddle with that though. Just curious what is the difference between two normal bitmaps that "toggles" the "animation" . If NA will not have an improved water, i will be definitely looking forward for a third party major improvement :) Besides reflections (eg ship reflection) the wakes also would be an area definitely needing improvement

My 1024px waternormal (made by tiling the stock waternormal) that appears motionless in the game and nice Paladrian's (a.k.a. Mago) 1024 waternormal that appears animated in the game. I guess if i am still curious about what makes a normal bmp to appear motionless in game , i should do some studying more about how normal maps work in games and how they are made ...

lol :P you do have a point there but still , falling into the personal taste / quirk realm, shimmering still (unfortunately) annoys me. ( And the fact that i know that is a graphics technology shortcoming and not purposefully designed this way, doesn't help me not being annoyed by it :( )

just humouring guys :P

http://www.thirdwire.com/project_sf2na.htm

File Name: 1680 x 1050 Mainscreen modification for SF2 Israel File Submitter: squid File Submitted: 18 December 2011 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Objects 1680 x 1050 Mainscreen modification for SF2 Israel Mainscreen only of Just a first & simple attempt to make the SF2 series GUI more attractive, after my failed attempts yet to convert various nice menu mods for SF1 series (especially Kout's) or the very nice stock WOE one, for SF2. If i have time and won't loose interest in this, i may try extend the modification to all in-game screens for all three modules. Other SF2 mainscreens - SF2 Generic : (although more Europe oriented) and its Photoshop template to possibly alter it to your taste, here : http://combatace.com/files/file/11555-1680-x-1050-mainscreen-modification-for-sf2-exp2b-dec-2010/ - SF2 Vietnam : http://combatace.com/files/file/12493-1680-x-1050-mainscreen-modification-for-sf2-vietnam/ - SF2 Europe : http://combatace.com/files/file/12500-1680-x-1050-mainscreen-modification-for-sf2-europe/ - Credits: System menu icon.bmps are modified originals of Kout. - Installation : Extract the 'Menu' folder and place it in your mods folder (eg C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2Israel\ (or if theres already a 'Menu' folder in your mods directory , place the 'Menu' contents in the 'Menu' folder of the mods directory) Nick 'Squid' D. Click here to download this file

Both ... I'll check and investigate about that after i manage to modify the normal tiling frequency / scale ....

And its much more effective and convenient that way. i only wish at this stage i could manage to edit the normals grid .... (and next step would be to edit the fading distances so to minimize shimmering)