This past weekend marked the American Independence Day. I found it fitting that Independence Day was the first weekend after NVIDIA released their 3D Vision Surround drivers - an act which brings real competition to the multi-monitor scene.
Delphium has updated the Source HUD Editor. The FOV calculation section now provides an overlay of the HUD, so that you can see how the game will look with the updated HUD. Additionally, he has added options to support proper HUD placement on Portrait monitor configurations
Another million thanks to Delphium for his hard work on this, and for bringing this tool to the WSGF audience.
Delphium has updated the FOV Calc to include a HUD editor for games based on the Source engine. The editor pulls your FOV and bezel information from the FOV Calculator. It then allows you to upload game-specifc HUD files, automatically applies the changes to the unique fields in the configuration file, and then allows you to download the updated file.
The WSGF is working to formalize our lobbying efforts, to encourage support for Eyefinity and Surround Gaming. Even if you aren't an Eyefinity or Surround user, proper support of these environments will ensure proper support for widescreen users.
I am hoping to coordinate a lobbying effort for a new game each week. If you'd like to be informed of the lobbying efforts each week, please sign up for the Lobbying User Group in the forum.
Forum member redrain85 created the Tron 2.0 mod Killer App. The mod provides a whole host of improvements to Tron 2.0, but of particular interest to the WSGF is native Hor+ support and support for Eyefinity.
Check out this discussion thread to see some screenshots and chat with redrain85. Fortunately, it looks like his methodology will also be applicable to other Lithtech 2.5 engine games such as NOLF 1 & 2.
Forum member Delphium is at it again. This time he put together a search plug-in so that you can search the WSGF Wiki and phpBB3 forum all at once. To install it, click the link in the left nav.
The plug-in is built on the OpenSearch platform, so it can be installed in both IE8 and FireFox. The plug-in uses Google to perform the search, and returns all relevant pages it has crawled.
Forum member Delphium put together a new FOV Calculator that is simply amazing. Beyond just calculating FOV, it also calculates Aspect Ratio, Eyefinity/Surround Aspect Ratio, total pixels, video bitrate and video bandwidth.
It also has a graphical representation of the aspect ratio using a Hor+ image from L4D2. By entering in your number of monitors, it will also add in the bezels to simulate an Eyefinity setup. Pretty amazing, and thanks again to Delphium for all of his hard work.
"2K Elizabeth", (Community Manager for 2K Games) forwarded me this Formal Announcement of a Hor+ Patch. To quote the page, "We always meant to have our FOV expand horizontally, but a last minute bug fix for a related issue changed this back to a vertical FOV just before ship. We feel rather silly about this, and agree that horizontal expansion is much more awesome, and that you'll have it very soon."
14 nominees have been eliminated. Seven are left. Which will win WSGF's GOTY 2009? Vote for your favorite in the final round.
Vote for your WSGF Game Of The Year Awards. These games are all Certified. So which of the games gets your vote? You can vote on the 3 topics. The first round of voting is split into three initial "heats," with a final round of voting to follow.
