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With the advent of HDR, all of DOD:S looks beautiful. For instance, if you stand on the church in avalanch and look out, you can see the beautiful European landscape sunbathed by the rich HDR effects that your graphics card is (hopefully) spitting out.

Anyway, i'm browsing through my screenshots from my last few runs, and i'm ammazed at how much better the game looks when it's all come to a halt (IE a screenshot).

Anyway, post your screenshots here, and if this gets enough support, maybe it could turn into a competition just like the HL2 SS competition thread :E

Here's the formentioned screenshot. This might become my desktop BG :D

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8673/dodavalanche00008zc.png

Liquid HDR on Anzio

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3590/dodanzio00001td.jpg
 
The water doesn't have any visible HDR on it just a little FYI :p

Otherwise nice screenies... I might take screenies tomorrow :)
 
Iced_Eagle said:
The water doesn't have any visible HDR on it just a little FYI :p

Otherwise nice screenies... I might take screenies tomorrow :)
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Yeah, but the dirt and the wood pile do :)

I had no idea HDR didn't effect water (could have sworn Gabe said it made reflections better) and liquid HDR just sounded so cool :p

And thanks!
 
No, liquid does have HDR, it just doesn't have the effect on it in that pic.

It's when you get those white "hot spots" in the water. :)
 
It's ironic how you do NOT have HDR. But I'm sure others will soon.
 
My lovely dod source:
dod_anzio0004.jpg

dod_anzio0003.jpg

dod_anzio0002.jpg

dod_anzio0000.jpg


nothing that you guys havnt seen already but still i find them lovely
 
Javert said:
It's ironic how you do NOT have HDR. But I'm sure others will soon.
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Wtf dude. I have HDR, 4x AA, 8x AF and everything all high.
 








Oh noes! HDR sprays!

EDIT: Took some more screenies :)













sinkoman == killingImageshacksBandwith

Now will you shut up Javert? Just because the HDR isn't gaudy and obvious, doesn't mean it's not there. I still can't believe you couldn't see the HDR in my first two screens.
 
Very nice shots, but I really dislike HDR. It burns everything up, as if the player's eyes were a video camera with "dream mode" on. Nothing like what you see in real life... at all.

It makes the game beautiful, but in a strange, artsy-looking way, like a movie with an interesting style. Any game that's looking for pure realism will stay far from this type of HDR, because the human eyeball perceives light and shadow very differently from cameras, and doesn't "bloom" or "burn" like this.

I wish the camera would just very, very gradually shift from low contrast, to higher contrast, if you spend a long period of time in the outdoors,... something very subtle. And, of course, burn out when you look at the sun or right into a light. Nothing like this fairy-land HDR. I want to use HDR, but not if it makes me feel like I'm running around, looking through a photo camera.
 
Here's a few from me... every setting on absolute maximum.









 
One complaint...
The sandbags look like ass.
They were way better in the original DoD.
 
wow, these screens are amazing, wish I could run it looking like that ;( .

You get a real feeling of the sun beating down almost feeling the heat off it :angel:
 
I love the HDR in that map( forget the name, but the one where Allies start on the beach), the only problem is when you spawn on the beach, sometimes it's so bright that the colors are completely washed out. However, the effect only last a couple seconds as you start to head up off teh beach.
 
Raziaar said:
Here's my HDR. No lie. I don't know why these moving white dots show. It happens when I turn on full HDR. anyone know why? I have a radeon 9800 pro.
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That happens when you overclock your video card to high.

Could be that your card is overheating.
 
Javert said:
It's ironic how you do NOT have HDR. But I'm sure others will soon.
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The direction he is looking and where he is in those shots make it not show up. In the water shot if he was to the left it would have shown with the light.
 
Shots from tonights game with Asus and Evilord :)











MAN THAT WAS INTENSE! The first round on the map didn't end until the server rotated the map!

It kept going from the US having all Axis points, to the Axis having all US points, to a stalemate, to an intense game of cat and mouse in the fields!

My HL2 DM stats keeper isn't getting itself coded :(
 
 
How do I make the game take .JPEG screens instead of .Tga?
 
I dont think screenshots do justice to just how amazing HDR can look. The frist time I looked at the sun I almost ruined my pants.
 
Homer said:
I dont think screenshots do justice to just how amazing HDR can look. The frist time I looked at the sun I almost ruined my pants.
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lol:E :E
 
If you bind a button to screenshot in the menu then it saves it as a .jpg.
 
I am still getting used to the HDR... So bright!
 
Dario D. said:
Very nice shots, but I really dislike HDR. It burns everything up, as if the player's eyes were a video camera with "dream mode" on. Nothing like what you see in real life... at all.

It makes the game beautiful, but in a strange, artsy-looking way, like a movie with an interesting style. Any game that's looking for pure realism will stay far from this type of HDR, because the human eyeball perceives light and shadow very differently from cameras, and doesn't "bloom" or "burn" like this.

I wish the camera would just very, very gradually shift from low contrast, to higher contrast, if you spend a long period of time in the outdoors,... something very subtle. And, of course, burn out when you look at the sun or right into a light. Nothing like this fairy-land HDR. I want to use HDR, but not if it makes me feel like I'm running around, looking through a photo camera.
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You've missed the point, the reason cameras overexpose sometimes is because the dynamic range of lighting intensity in the real world is enormous. Our eyes adjust accordingly, so cameras were designed to allow exposure adjustments so that you could take worthwhile photos in a wide variety of lighting.

HDR is a way of simulating our eye's adjustments in different lighting, the biggest difference is that whatever we are attending to (usually in the centre of our field of vision) determines how bright everything looks (stand near a bright window and look at the wall to the side - everything outside looks washed out. Alternatively, if you look through the window, your eyes will adjust and the interior of the room will look quite dark - too dark to make out much detail.)

HDR uses bloom effects and saturation to simulate the effect of too-bright elements in your field of vision - bloom = glare and saturation = reduced sensitivity to differences in colours when the intensity is too high. Glare is a result of inter-ocular scattering (if my 3rd year psychology of vision assignment was right :)) which is why it 'bleeds' across your view. Computer monitors have a pretty meagre dynamic range of output, and these tricks make things look a lot brighter than they really are.

In summary, HDR > all.

Oh, and all the supporting evidence you need is here.
 
I'm with Dario, but you can adjust the "strength", as such, of the HDR effect can you not??

But looking at brimstones pics, it looks WAY too blown out.. IMO
 
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