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Dramatic Graphic Improvements for Freelancer!

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Posted by w0dk4 on 2012/12/17 2:12:48 (16552 reads)

Over the past several months since our demo release, FriendlyFire has been working on fine tuning our DX9 integration as well as adding a few extra components to make this mod look even better. The below video highlights these news additions: lens flare, improved dynamic lighting, reflection maps, distortion maps and our work in progress shadow mapping.

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Freelancer Mod Studio gets real models	Freelancer Coding News
Posted by stfx on 2012/5/16 19:50:00 (11690 reads)
The day has finally come that Freelancer Mod Studio has implemented real models. With this it is now actually possible for modular station editing and in general makes correct object placement in systems way more easier. However shapes have still their place in Freelancer Mod Studio as those help finding tiny objects like fighter ships. There are also a bunch of other improvements so check out the changelog! Download and FAQ (please read): http://code.google.com/p/freelancermodstudio Official thread: http://the-starport.net/freelancer/fo ... hp?topic_id=2174&forum=10

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Official Roleplay guide and DX9 Updates	Freelancer Coding News
Posted by Sushi on 2011/9/30 15:50:00 (9507 reads)
All I can say it has been a heck of week in development. That's to do with a few factors, one mainly being I've been on vacation for a week from my residency program. Fortunately, this has allowed me to dedicate my time working on some of the models in the mod and getting them to use the full capabilities of the DX9 engine. As a result, I've been able to upgrade all 107 ships of our shiplist. To see that link, click here. About 85% of those ships have normal and specular mapping applied. The rest will be added at a later date when we upgrade the XWAUP ships we're currently using for the mod. For those of you that have missed some of the videos, here's two of my favourites: YT-2400 <tr></table></p><div class="readmore"><a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/article.php?storyid=223" title="Read the rest of Official Roleplay guide and DX9 Updates">Read more</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemFoot" colspan="2"><span class="itemAdminLink"></span><b>Rating: </b> 0.00 (0 votes) - <a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/ratenews.php?storyid=223" rel="nofollow">Rate this News</a> - <span class="itemPermaLink"><a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4444">Comments ()</a></span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="item newstopicitem"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="98%"> <tr class="itemTRHead"> <td class="itemHead"> <span class="itemTitle"> <a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/index.php?storytopic="><a href='http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/article.php?storyid=217' title="FLAC stands for Freelancer AntiCheat, but this ...">FLAC lives and is under NEW management.</a></a> </span> </td> <td class="itemSubhead" width="30%"> <a href='http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/index.php?storytopic=6'>Freelancer Coding News</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemInfo" colspan="2"><span class="itemPoster">Posted by <a href='http://the-starport.net/userinfo.php?uid=99'>[RIP]Soupman</a></span> <span class="itemPostDate">on 2011/7/29 1:10:00</span> (<span class="itemStats">10168 reads</span>) </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemBody" colspan="2"><p class="itemText"><div style="text-align: center;"><img onclick='javascript:actionViewImage("http://oi59.tinypic.com/25rmolz.jpg", this);' src='http://oi59.tinypic.com/25rmolz.jpg' alt='Open in new window' border='0' onload="JavaScript:if(this.width>300)this.width=300" /><br /></div><br /><br /><br />FLAC stands for Freelancer AntiCheat, but this program does so much more.<br />Created by Eagle, FLAC has been used on many servers over the years.<br />Thanks to the generosity of Eagle, FLAC is now FREE for use (that's right, FREE, but he will still gladly accept donations).<br />To gain access to the private forum, register at <a href="http://efs.proboards.com" title="http://efs.proboards.com" rel="external">http://efs.proboards.com</a> and and email the application at the bottom of the forum.<br />You must be an active server operator, references from other operators are encouraged.<br />Dwnundr and Soupman of the FLC Freelancer Community site have been selected by Eagle to maintain the FLAC site and (...)<table class='imagelinks-table'><tr></table></p><div class="readmore"><a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/article.php?storyid=217" title="Read the rest of FLAC lives and is under NEW management.">Read more</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemFoot" colspan="2"><span class="itemAdminLink"></span><b>Rating: </b> 0.00 (0 votes) - <a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/ratenews.php?storyid=217" rel="nofollow">Rate this News</a> - <span class="itemPermaLink"><a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4323">Comments (9)</a></span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="item newstopicitem"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="98%"> <tr class="itemTRHead"> <td class="itemHead"> <span class="itemTitle"> <a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/index.php?storytopic="><a href='http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/article.php?storyid=183' title="Freelancer's capabilities of rendering dynamic ...">Soft Particles, Dynamic Lighting and DX9 wonderfulness in FW:ToW</a></a> </span> </td> <td class="itemSubhead" width="30%"> <a href='http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/index.php?storytopic=6'>Freelancer Coding News</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemInfo" colspan="2"><span class="itemPoster">Posted by <a href='http://the-starport.net/userinfo.php?uid=268'>Sushi</a></span> <span class="itemPostDate">on 2010/12/7 3:30:50</span> (<span class="itemStats">10896 reads</span>) </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemBody" colspan="2"><p class="itemText"><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx181/fwtow/fwlogotrans.png " alt="" width="500" height="191" /></div><br /><br /><span class="bigletter" style="font-family: __;">F</span>reelancer's capabilities of rendering dynamic lights has always been massively lacking. Not only was there a 4-light per object limit, once there were more lights affecting an object, lighting would get bugged quickly, not drawing the closest lights. To counter this major disadvantage in rendering lighting I've been converting Freelancer's forward rendering pipeline to deferred rendering. <br /><br />In deferred rendering, the geometry is first written to geometry buffers in a single pass. Then, in further passes, the geometry buffers are used to calculate the correct lighting. This allows us to render many lights per object without critically affecting the frame rate. However, there is still a noticeable performance decrease due to the nature of deferred rendering. I wont (...)<table class='imagelinks-table'><tr></table></p><div class="readmore"><a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/article.php?storyid=183" title="Read the rest of Soft Particles, Dynamic Lighting and DX9 wonderfulness in FW:ToW">Read more</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemFoot" colspan="2"><span class="itemAdminLink"></span><b>Rating: </b> 0.00 (0 votes) - <a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/ratenews.php?storyid=183" rel="nofollow">Rate this News</a> - <span class="itemPermaLink"><a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3680">Comments (51)</a></span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="item newstopicitem"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="98%"> <tr class="itemTRHead"> <td class="itemHead"> <span class="itemTitle"> <a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/index.php?storytopic="><a href='http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/article.php?storyid=140' title="Hello dear freelancer modding community,I proud...">Freelancer Mod Studio (help requested)</a></a> </span> </td> <td class="itemSubhead" width="30%"> <a href='http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/index.php?storytopic=6'>Freelancer Coding News</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemInfo" colspan="2"><span class="itemPoster">Posted by <a href='http://the-starport.net/userinfo.php?uid=1121'>stfx</a></span> <span class="itemPostDate">on 2009/9/5 23:27:17</span> (<span class="itemStats">11960 reads</span>) </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemBody" colspan="2"><p class="itemText">Hello dear freelancer modding community,<br />I proudly present the free, open source, C# written all-in-one modding solution for Freelancer called Freelancer Mod Studio 0.8 Beta.<br /><br /><a href="http://freelancermodstudio.googlecode.com/files/FreelancerModStudio-0.8.exe" rel="external" title="">Download here</a><br /><br />Also I need every <strong>help</strong> I can get especially <strong>from programmers</strong> otherwise I wont have enought time and the program will never be finished. So please someone out there hop on to the team and lets create the ultimative freelancer tool.<br /><br /><a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2174&forum=10" rel="external" title="">Read the full post...</a><table class='imagelinks-table'><tr><td><a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/imguploads/prototype_2-1252185225.jpg" rel="lightbox-story140"><img src="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/imguploads/prototype_2-1252185225.th.jpg" /></a></td></table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemFoot" colspan="2"><span class="itemAdminLink"></span><b>Rating: </b> 0.00 (0 votes) - <a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/ratenews.php?storyid=140" rel="nofollow">Rate this News</a> - <span class="itemPermaLink"><a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2176">Comments (5)</a></span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="item newstopicitem"> <tr> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="98%"> <tr class="itemTRHead"> <td class="itemHead"> <span class="itemTitle"> <a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/index.php?storytopic="><a href='http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/article.php?storyid=44' title="This is a guide to Editing the apparence of the...">HUD Editing Guide</a></a> </span> </td> <td class="itemSubhead" width="30%"> <a href='http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/index.php?storytopic=6'>Freelancer Coding News</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemInfo" colspan="2"><span class="itemPoster">Posted by <a href='http://the-starport.net/userinfo.php?uid=154'>Worfeh</a></span> <span class="itemPostDate">on 2008/5/14 7:00:00</span> (<span class="itemStats">12732 reads</span>) </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemBody" colspan="2"><p class="itemText"><p>This is a guide to Editing the apparence of the menu's and the HUD whilst in flight.</p><br /><p>This is a guide more of and also comes with the relevant textures you will need to edit <img src="http://the-starport.net/uploads/smil3dbd4d6422f04.gif" alt="" /></p><br /><p>The download for the tutorial is elsewhere (filefront) and is a PDF document so you will need Adobe Reader.</p><br /><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">DOWNLOAD LINK </span></b>> <a href="http://38.114.197.175/afylaucdcYzg/14080489/HUD_Editing_Guide.zip">H<font color="#c6d3e0">U</font>D GUIDE DOWNLOAD</a></p><br /><p> </p><br /><p>Here is an Example of what can be done This is current Menu Screen for Freelancer: War-Torn - <a href="http://www.fl-wt.com"><a href="http://www.fl-wt.com" title="www.fl-wt.com" rel="external">www.fl-wt.com</a></a></p><br /><p><img alt="FL:WT MENU SCREEN" src="http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1368/screen26jj7.jpg" /></p><table class='imagelinks-table'><tr></table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="itemFoot" colspan="2"><span class="itemAdminLink"></span><b>Rating: </b> 0.00 (0 votes) - <a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/ratenews.php?storyid=44" rel="nofollow">Rate this News</a> - <span class="itemPermaLink"><a href="http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2915">Comments ()</a></span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> <div style="text-align: right; margin: 10px;"></div> </div> <center> <br> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-9956488363264431"; /* sp main big */ google_ad_slot = "3539866427"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center> </div> <div id="main_footer"> <font size="-2" color="#0E5388">The Starport: Your source for Freelancer gaming, mods, help,<br />tools, tips, tricks, utilities, files, downloads and MUCH more!</font><br /> All Content © <a href="mailto:contact@the-starport.net">The Starport</a> <br /> </div> </body> </html>

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