AA, AF, & lights

[Nebula]

I'm sure it's a great card, but someone told me the card actually needs a HD monitor to work properly and I don't think BC can tell the difference between widescreen & regular monitors which means it would appear overstretched on a HD screen.

get km 2009.12 it has wide screen support for bc

[Lionus]

no support for true HD which is 1920x1080..

[Bones]

I'm sure it's a great card, but someone told me the card actually needs a HD monitor to work properly and I don't think BC can tell the difference between widescreen & regular monitors which means it would appear overstretched on a HD screen.

Nope I ran it for a while before I got that LG tv on HP monitor which has only DVI  so no, you don't need these ;) and about overstreching, BC was not created for 16:9 or 16:10 format resolutions, as Lionus said there is no support for such resolutions. You can get pretty high resolutions on KM 2009 (1440x900, 1280x780, 1920x1600??? dunno about that last tho) and it won't be stretched cuz ATI controls it so the screen will be cut on both sides with black bars if it starts to stretch

[Lionus]

1680x1050 is the best KM can do.

[NXSovereign]

Nope I ran it for a while before I got that LG tv on HP monitor which has only DVI  so no, you don't need these ;) and about overstreching, BC was not created for 16:9 or 16:10 format resolutions, as Lionus said there is no support for such resolutions. You can get pretty high resolutions on KM 2009 (1440x900, 1280x780, 1920x1600??? dunno about that last tho) and it won't be stretched cuz ATI controls it so the screen will be cut on both sides with black bars if it starts to stretch

That's good to hear.  I actually like my current CRT monitor, it's bulky & square but it gives me good picture quality and life-like colors (well except for Star Trek Online.  The colors in that game are rather dull compared to other games & movies.)

[Nebula]

no support for true HD which is 1920x1080..

1680x1050 is the best KM can do.

KM has that 1920X1080 support unless it's only in the beta version I have >.>

[NXSovereign]

DS9FX Xtended is by far superior to v3.0 in all aspects including this one.

But here: Systems\DeepSpace9\DeepSpace91.py

Directional Light and Ambient Light have been adjusted for the new sunstreaks effects. Toy around with settings, you can use this tool which is the color converter from and to BC format (I wrote the program for Xtended production purposes).

I finally got a chance to try this tool and I'm having some trouble figuring out how it works.  I didn't see a "open file" option and when I tried dragging & dropping the .py into it nothing happened.  I must confess I had never even heard of a .py file before now.  Like I said, I'm new to this stuff.  (sorry)

[Lionus]

KM has that 1920X1080 support unless it's only in the beta version I have >.>

if the mod supports that resolution, why isn't it visible? unless.. you need to tinker with the config file, but doesn't that mess up the menus?

[JimmyB76]

unless it's only in the beta version I have >.>

ya i think it is in the beta non-public (yet) version...
i had just asked about that in KM forums and realized i needed to run the SVN again since i hadnt in quite a while lol

[Lionus]

  *wants the proper HD resolutions for his KM* oh well, I guess all I can do is wait, like the rest of us..

[Mario]

I finally got a chance to try this tool and I'm having some trouble figuring out how it works.  I didn't see a "open file" option and when I tried dragging & dropping the .py into it nothing happened.  I must confess I had never even heard of a .py file before now.  Like I said, I'm new to this stuff.  (sorry)

Program is not designed to open py files or edit them, it's a helper program designed to convert ex. 1.0, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 to meaningful RGBA values. You need to edit py files manually.

[NXSovereign]

Program is not designed to open py files or edit them, it's a helper program designed to convert ex. 1.0, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 to meaningful RGBA values. You need to edit py files manually.

Can BC Universal tool do this?

[teleguy]

Can BC Universal tool do this?

No, you have to do that manually using notepad. Search for "ConfigAmbientLight" or "ConfigDirectionalLight" and you will see several numbers in a bracket like this (1,0.7,1,0.5) which determine which color is used. Just replace these values with the values Sovereigns color converter gives you.

[DKealt]

In regards to the "TrueHD" comment

There was a post somewhere on Filefront that I read years ago about how to "hack" the screen resolution issues.

As far as I'm aware the issue with Custom resolutions comes in the Heads Up Display properties. You have to edit the LCARS...py files and such.

Essentially I have been running BC in 1920*1080 for years now

[NXSovereign]

No, you have to do that manually using notepad. Search for "ConfigAmbientLight" or "ConfigDirectionalLight" and you will see several numbers in a bracket like this (1,0.7,1,0.5) which determine which color is used. Just replace these values with the values Sovereigns color converter gives you.

Thanks.  I'll play around with this as soon as I have enough time for it.  In the meantime, has anyone else figured out the code to make white with this number/value system?

[teleguy]

white= 1,1,1

[Lionus]

In regards to the "TrueHD" comment

There was a post somewhere on Filefront that I read years ago about how to "hack" the screen resolution issues.

As far as I'm aware the issue with Custom resolutions comes in the Heads Up Display properties. You have to edit the LCARS...py files and such.

Essentially I have been running BC in 1920*1080 for years now

If only it would be easy for not so tech savvy fellow like me..

[NXSovereign]

white= 1,1,1

Will that work for ConfigAmbientLight and ConfigDirectionalLight?  I looked and those had four number values, not three.

[King Class Scout]

one of the numbers, there, is the alpha level for the directional light, IE how intense it is.  the fourth number should be the alpha.

note, the BCSDK (that contains the original game scripts) has un-coded versions of the scripts for the default systems that you can look at.

[NXSovereign]

one of the numbers, there, is the alpha level for the directional light, IE how intense it is.  the fourth number should be the alpha.

So if I change the values of ConfigAmbientLight and ConfigDirectionalLight to 1,1,1,(4th number unchanged)  that should make the light color white while leaving the intensity alone? 

note, the BCSDK (that contains the original game scripts) has un-coded versions of the scripts for the default systems that you can look at.

I'm afraid I don't know what "the BCSDK" is.