I'm still in disbelief! I've just tried Von Beerhofen's UHR ideas and THEY WORKED! Not just 512x256 pcx's but 512x512 pcx's for eaw skins!

I just had to show these screenies. They are all taken in game of the spit1A skin I modified to illustrate the res changes.

Take a look at the small stripes on the wings. Each stripe is 1 pixel wide. There are 7 black stripes surrounded by a yellow and red stripe each side. Take a look at how the stripes change on each different PCX resolution.

Here is the standard 256x256 pcx -


Compare the stripes with a 512 x 256 pcx -


I thought that was good, but we really needed 512x512 pcx's. "What the hell - I'll give it a go anyway". Lo and behold.....


Von Beerhofen, you have made my day! Thanks a million

I think we are going to need some beta testers guys! Any volunteers??

Chompy.



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wait low res?LOL still ill give her a try
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Coooool! That's a great discovery. But wait a moment...what denied us to do 512x512 skins so far??? I mean, why are we finding this out just now?
Anyway, go on with exploration!

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Chompy,
I'm not sure of the method that allowed the use of 512x512 pcx files? I read your other thread but wasn't able to follow the connection between the GRND09.TPC and GRND09S.TPC and the Spit files. If this works for all, it is a great breakthrough. The downer for me is that my Voodoo based card won't support 512x512 resolutions.

Von Beefhofen has been doing the hard yards here, and deserves all the credit. I'm just using his idea with a few tweaks. It seems that you need a couple extra higher resolution files to make it work - and work it does

Just tried one of Salty's 512x512 blank skins. Note that this one uses the old single F.3dz - you can see the non mirror patches showing up, and the mirrored wings.


How the hell am I going to sleep tonight with this rumbling through my head?!

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Jeff, I'm don't understand why the grnd09 files make the difference either. I tried this last night without them and it wouldn't work, but tonight with them it's a goer.

My screenies were all taken at with EAW running at 1280x1024 (Ge3ti200 in D3D). I would have thought that your res wouldn't matter, but I haven't tested it yet. I'll send you some files for you to play with.

Chompy.

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sorry guys, but I can't find another word to express how much this news is F***ING AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EAW looks like IL-2 now ! thi sim is really the best ever and forever !

Hi all!

Well. I've tried all this super Hi-res stuff before countless times, and it doesn't work on my machine. The game always crashes!

Now, I have no idea what your doing which lets you do this fancy trick, but my machine is AMD 1.2, 128 RAM, GeForce 2 400MX 64mb, Direct X 8.1, windows 98SE. So what's the trick guys??????????

I'm going to be pretty pissed off, if all the last three weeks work on the P39 3dz's is all for nothing, because an much easier way of boosting the graphics is, or has been found!

So lets see some files posted for everyone to try. I might hasten to add, the VHR trees don't work on my rig either! So whats going on guys?

Nico,

I have the words:
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PUTA QUE PARIU !!!
PUTA QUE PARIU !!!

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Big Guys !

WHAT IT WILL LOOK WITH HI_RES PLANES WITH HI_RES TEXTURES ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?


I canīt wait until tomorrow.... )