Toxicfluff on 13/9/2007 at 09:23
Quote Posted by mothra
with improvement i meant visually. float32 had only speedups until version 1.5x, now it's getting more complex and we're back to old performance. but my pc can handle it well. atm i have installed:
stalker 1.0004 +
- 1.0004 patch fix
- sharper textures
- float32 1.778bRev D
- less generic bandits
- tons of Siro's weapons skins
and apart from now the extremly ridiculous dark shadows courtesy of float32 it's a beauty ! the darkness makes for interesting gameplay though.
I found the sharper textures to be a very mixed bag. Filtering being the beast of unintelligent and indiscriminating nature that it is also amplifies image artefacts (which are quite prevalent in Stalker's art for some reaon - bad photos?) and makes surfaces that SHOULD be smooth look too rough (stucco flower-print wallpaper WTF?). It did really help on some of the character skins though -- I kept those.
Good call on Siro's weapons. Same with less generic bandits - did you also get the stalkers and rookies packs?
Float32 is real nice in some places, but I don't like the way it really messes with the ambient and hemisphere lighting (altering the default weather settings in ways that should
only be done from the config files, as intended by design). The loss of texture information in patches of brightness compared to the original shaders really sucks as well.. the author tried to explain it away in this little youtube video he did but he needs to check his peepers if he thinks standard light completely obliterates surface detail in great blobs of afterlife white in the real world.
mothra on 15/9/2007 at 14:14
yeah, it's the stalker/bandit/mercenary collected mod.
atm I know of no gameplay altering mods already compatible with 1.0004.
gotta need to play the Freestory mod when it gets updated !
float32 did fuck up the shadows in some regards but next patch should bring much better handling of those and promises a GUI for config-file changes.
check out this shot:
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http://www.thefloatingpoint.org/main/e107_files/images/91307/screen1.jpg)
I removed stalker clear skies again because it looked shit imo. :p
