green tracers?

[Former_Older]

No worries JRock. Thanks for your time over in Iraq by the way

Screenshots are weird in this sim. You need to convert from a .tga to a .jpg and I'll be damned if I get the reason behind it

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Former_Older

No worries JRock. Thanks for your time over in Iraq by the way

Screenshots are weird in this sim. You need to convert from a .tga to a .jpg and I'll be damned if I get the reason behind it

There is a reason... JPEGs are compressed at all quality levels (just less so at the top end quality level for JPEGs) and they always introduce compression artifacts. Plus it takes more CPU time to compress something. A TGA is a higher quality format, it's very very simple, and it's basically a straight dump of pixels. So it's not bad for dumping out of a game engine with minimal fuss. Also consider that the screen shot dump for the IL-2 engine was probably programmed in the late 1990s.

[Former_Older]

That's not what I don't understand

What I don't understand is why the sim will take a screenshot for you that you that most owners of the sim still have trouble seeing- nothing that comes with the sim or is installed software on most PCs does the conversion for the player

[Friendly_flyer]

Originally Posted by Former_Older

it looked so strange- these pastel colors were tinting the enormous water columns from the near misses

Well, what I didn't realize was that the IJN was using dye packs to help gunners recognize their near misses and differentiate them from another gunner's.

I learn something interesting every day! Thanks Older!

[KOM.Nausicaa]

Hello JRock,

switching between directx and openGL should have no such effect on tracer colors...or any other color btw. OpenGL just allows to enable more advanced rendering features in the conf.ini.

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http://mission4today.com/index.php?name=Knowledge_Base