3D Cliffs Of Dover Pictures

[Les]

Originally Posted by DickDastardly

If you have nVidia 3D Vision and FRAPS you can record 3D movies of gameplay or tracks at the touch of a button (without having to do any manual camera manipulation or stitching images together later)...

That's interesting, didn't know that, might have to look into it before the novelty of this 3D stuff wears off.

Edit - Just enabled 3D in the nVidia control panel, started up a quick mission in Cliffs Of Dover and it was in the old red/blue anaglyph 3D! Lol, I hate that stuff. Does work though. Would be cool if they had a button that would turn the image into a perfectly aligned stereo pair like the cross-eyed technique uses.

[GF_Mastiff]

do you guys know if the old pair of 3D extreme glasses will work on a 28 inch LCD I havent tried yet as the connectors are from the old VGS 16 pin

[DickDastardly]

Originally Posted by Les

Edit - Just enabled 3D in the nVidia control panel, started up a quick mission in Cliffs Of Dover and it was in the old red/blue anaglyph 3D! Lol, I hate that stuff. Does work though. Would be cool if they had a button that would turn the image into a perfectly aligned stereo pair like the cross-eyed technique uses.

If you don't have an nVidia 3D Vision emitter connected to your PC (and a 3D Vision Ready display) then the drivers default to anaglyph mode. If you have the correct kit then you get proper 3D (and can record true colour side-by-side format movies in FRAPS rather than just anaglyph).
Cheers,
DD

[Les]

Originally Posted by DickDastardly

...If you have the correct kit then you get proper 3D (and can record true colour side-by-side format movies in FRAPS rather than just anaglyph)...

Thanks for the info, but pardon my ignorance, does nVidia provide a way to record an image like the one below?

First test of the cross-eyed 3D technique using IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs Of Dover. Probably works best when viewed in Expanded view on Youtube. If viewing Full screen you might have to sit a bit further back from the screen than usual, as the image is a bit big.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9E9HrDrZYM

[DickDastardly]

The nVidia drivers allow you to take 3D screenshots via a hotkey, but to record a movie like that you'd also need FRAPS. TBH I can't remember if the free version of FRAPS allows 3D movie recording but the registered version certainly does.
Cheers,
DD

P.S. These sites both have a load of 3D movies recorded from games:

www.solutiongaming.co.uk

www.3dizzy.com

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by Les

Thanks for the info, but pardon my ignorance, does nVidia provide a way to record an image like the one below?

First test of the cross-eyed 3D technique using IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs Of Dover. Probably works best when viewed in Expanded view on Youtube. If viewing Full screen you might have to sit a bit further back from the screen than usual, as the image is a bit big.

Hey, that looks awesome, especialy when the sun and shadow comes across and you get a great sense of how deep the dials are inside the cockpit. You can really see the difference as the stick moves towards or away from you. very well done

[Les]

Here's another one. Just a bunch of AI flying around in the Quick Mission Builder. Some nice effects there, but like the 'real' stuff, I find 3D doesn't do much for some shots and content. Again, best watched on Youtube in expanded or fullscreen mode.

Time to rest my eyes now .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPAlVn4U77c

[Rjel]

Very cool. The videos "pulled" more on my eyes than the still pics. Once I got my eyes focused into 3D I held my hands in front of my face covering the outside images on my monitor. Surprisingly the 3D image remained in view and was much easier on my eyes. Great job on the videos.

[sorak]

Originally Posted by Les

Thanks for the info, but pardon my ignorance, does nVidia provide a way to record an image like the one below?

First test of the cross-eyed 3D technique using IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs Of Dover. Probably works best when viewed in Expanded view on Youtube. If viewing Full screen you might have to sit a bit further back from the screen than usual, as the image is a bit big.

Man that is totaly awesome.. once you get it finially in focus and block the 2 images on each side.. really is amazing

nice work

[Les]

Thanks for the feedback.

Having played around with these images a bit now, I've found there are a couple of important factors in avoiding eye-strain while viewing and making them.

As the end user/viewer, you must have your eyes horizontally level with the picture, and you must have your eyes the right distance from the picture in order to allow your eyes to just relax out of focus and not strain to make the out of focus pictures merge. If you move your head back and forth you can use that as a focussing method and see how close you can get to the pictures before they become too big for your eyes to merge comfortably. I find I have to move further back from the screen than usual when viewing the images fullscreen on Youtube for example.

As the picture-maker, you have to make sure the two separate images are identical in terms of their content (which can be hard to do when the Cliffs Of Dover replays often don't generate the same objects and effects on consecutive plays), and identical in terms of being in synch with each other if they're moving pictures.

Beyond that, I guess you've just got to make sure you don't overdo it and strain yourself, just like anything really.