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bunsenjetson
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 Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:11 am Post subject: Specs appeal |
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| Has anyone tried it with the 3D Spectacles yet? I don't know where I can get some ... I thought about nicking a pair off the front of a kids' magazine but then I stood in front of the mirror and took a long, hard look at myself and I didn't like what I saw. I realised they would be too small. |
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Ste-Unit
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| They were giving free pairs out last week at work, advertising a future acheivement thing or something (I didn't pay much attention). So there's a pair on every desk around where I sit, I'll make sure I nick one of them and try them when I get home. |
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Spanky_McCoy
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: Re: Specs appeal |
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| bunsenjetson wrote: | | Has anyone tried it with the 3D Spectacles yet? I don't know where I can get some ... I thought about nicking a pair off the front of a kids' magazine but then I stood in front of the mirror and took a long, hard look at myself and I didn't like what I saw. I realised they would be too small. |
Damn glad you did take a long hard look at yourself 
I've been working on a track where the 3D part might be quite handy 
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I've been working on a track where the 3D part might be quite handy |
I cannot see in 3D as i have a lazy eye, the eye/brain doesn`t register out of my right eye fast enough, it`s not fair, but i`ll live with it
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Gording
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:52 am Post subject: Re: Specs appeal |
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| bunsenjetson wrote: | | Has anyone tried it with the 3D Spectacles yet? |
Yes, I've tried the Red/Green "Anaglyph" glasses. The 3D quality is quite subtle and small, but the effect of looking a complete divit is huge!
3D via red/green colour seperation is more prominent if the two primary colours are drawn further apart, and they're pretty close if you look at TM with the feature enabled. So if you don't mind viewing colours all messed about by the coloured filters, and looking like an escape mental patient, give them a try....but watch that frame rate! Graphics have to be drawn twice, with extra processing too....so it's not going to run at really high frame rates.
The best effect of the whole lot (and with the glasses on, when no one's looking) as you switch it on and off...is....wait for it.....
The timer bar along the bottom of the screen is clearly and markedly closer than the car and the track. So it's hovering a little bit closer than the rest. The worst part is the blue "3...2....1.......GO!". Being light blue it's neither red or green, so plays merry havoc with your eye to brain interface! 
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bunsenjetson
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks Gord but I wasn't talking about trackmania. I was talking about sex. |
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Gording
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| bunsenjetson wrote: | | Thanks Gord but I wasn't talking about trackmania. I was talking about sex. |
The idea that spectacles that bring about the onlsaught of sex is the holy grial of many a geek and nerd.
Now where did I store my gross weight of Lynx deoderant...
Anything colourful you shove on your cabbage, no matter if it smells of teenage desperation or not, does the opposite of anything sexual...for me anyway! 
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DanTheMan
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I like salt on my cabbage, brings out the flavour
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mad
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gord, not sure if you've discovered it yet but you can set the severity of the 3d effect.... in the menus is a slider that defaults to 50% I think and you can increase the 3d tonnes by sliding it up. maybe on the ingame menu I can't remember.
Unfortunately this is useless to me at the moment without any 3d specs. |
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da dude 24
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| yeah, you can set it to 200% in the advanced options of the ingame menu. |
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HotSWAT
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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3D Glasses
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DanTheMan
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I`ve ordered some hand held ones, my joypad won`t like it tho
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Gording
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| mad wrote: | | gord, not sure if you've discovered it yet but you can set the severity of the 3d effect.... in the menus is a slider that defaults to 50% I think and you can increase the 3d tonnes by sliding it up. maybe on the ingame menu I can't remember. |
Yes I discovered that, but oddly my slider's set to 100% (position is in the middle, which might look like 50%) by default, where the effect's not very good. I tried raising it higher, and at 200% (max) it offered a much better 3D effect. The trouble I had was the frame was so low trying to click and drag the slider was almost impossible (I actually thought the mouse batteries were flat!), and it took quite a few tries to move...but it did work eventually
Press Esc, then there's either an Advanced menu, or a 3D "sex" button (for Bunsen)! The slider position didn't appear to affect the frame rate, as the game needs twice as much GPU/CPU regrdless if it's 1% or 200% whenever the 3D is enabled. The biggest thing to avoid if anyone is trying it, is to disable any water geometric effects, and use only "PC3 Low" shader or less. This disables the rippling water and makes the grass completely flat, as both are the the main power sponges the game has (TMU players should also avoid the new "Complex Trees" at all costs).
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you can buy 100 of them for 80 pounds. what's the point?  |
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bunsenjetson
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Nice find! Are we red/green or red/cyan? |
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Middenrat
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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red/cyan type, Buns. See elsewhere in News/Information for an offer you can't refuse
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| Yes! I noticed! Are they Ray Bans or Gucci? I'm quite fussy. |
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Middenrat
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Gucci? Geeky is closer 
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