Zanzibar, if you want to hear better samples in PS, send me five thousand dollars and I\'ll buy Vienna Symphonic Library. Oh and send me a few thousands more so I can also buy a few more computers to run it on.
Or you can send even more and we\'ll hire a live orchestra.

(what? I can try, can\'t I?)

No, really. Of course the quality of orchestral simulation can be greatly affected by artist\'s skills, but there\'s only so much you can do with samples. And good sounding samples are expensive. Very expensive.

Vaylos: Garritan Personal Orchestra is very cheap (as orchestral sample libraries go), and is considered a sketchbook for profesionals. Or a main tool for music students and hobbyists. It can do more, yes, but it\'s still on the shallow end of the professional sample libraries pool.

Considering the tendencies of SONY to come up with more and more annoying copy protections*, their decision to use old fashioned MPEG2 codec for Blue-Ray, the fact that HD-DVD will use new generation of MPEG4 H.264 and that Toshiba announced their HD-DVD player will be cheaper, the situation is fairly different from VHS/Betacam duel. VHS was cheaper AND inferior in quality.

So far it seems to me, HD-DVD will bring more effective technology to provide better picture and sound on cheaper medias (and what else would be the reason to dump DVD and upgrade to the new technology, right?), while SONY is expected to get a large support of other big distribution companies, which can mean movies will be released and re-released more often on BR..
On the other hand, Microsoft\'s support of HD-DVD...

Time will tell, I guess. But really, since the HD-DVD brings better technology for (as it seems now) less money, IMHO the only thing that will keep Blue-Ray going is SONY marketing. I kinda expect the minidisc fate will happen to BR too, sooner or later.

* As for the CP, I\'m not saying that HD-DVD won\'t have some really stupid and annoying protection. The stuff Microsoft put into their new Windows Vista shows that it\'s gonna be a lot of fun to make it work on your PC. As for Linux users, someone will either have to crack those CP systems again, or they\'ll have to get used to the fact that although they buy HD-DVD, it will play only in DVD quality on their system. If they are lucky.

Originally posted by Abrukn
I\'ve had a few of those crashes now when casting fire. It\'s not the visible effect that is responsible for it, it\'s the sound - I never crash when sound is off. Strange enough, the crash itself is in PlaneShift, not in libvorbis...

Thanks to Rhad, CS should be getting a new and more reliable sound engine soon (just to define \"soon\": in this case it means the testing version should be commited sometime this week, and there will be a period of integration, to work out any possible platform dependant issues)
If that won\'t fix this problem, I don\'t know what will, because the paths and aliases are all set correctly, so it\'s getting the right files. And they are wavs, so I suppose libvorbis has nothing to do with that. Will get the latest update to make sure nothing changed there, but from here it seems ok.


Suno_Regin: run pssetup.exe, uncheck fullscreen and either choose from the available resolutions the one that corresponds to your screen resolution, or check \"other\" and type the values there.
Or open planeshift.cfg and change the values of

; Width/height of CrystalSpace visual
Video.ScreenWidth = 1260
Video.ScreenHeight = 960

It\'s right at the top of the document.

Very nice indeed!
I especially like that Dermorian gal, she looks like she\'s about to kill the competition  
(there\'s a typo in her race name, by the way)

Keep them coming, looking forward to the Klyros and Ynnwn ones.

Originally posted by Induane
Avoid anything other than:

NVIDIA
Matrox
Ati
Voodoo

Other cards are probabily not worth your money.  Highly reccommend NVIDIA.

For a 2d artist I\'d recommend Matrox. But since she \"needs her games\" too, ATI would be the choice. Not sure if this changed lately, and nowadays reviews focus too much on the 3d performance, forgetting that there are also other criterias, but always ATI used to have sharper and generally better 2d picture than nVidia.
And I would avoid Voodoo at all cost  

And combining TFT with on-board graphics should be against the law.

I have no problem with passing through the well.
Make sure you have the latest update. If it still crashes,
post details- dump file, console log, whatever. The portal that was likely causing the problems is fixed now. If there\'s something else, we need to know what it is.

A) It should work the same way as it did in MB, we just don\'t have weather changes in CB yet.

B) Map emitters are adjustable by the ambience slider, they are part of the \"ambient background\" sound.

C) That one is triggered on any system message in chat window, so we muted it.

D) No idea, didn\'t need to do this yet.

Something really strange happened: I have substitute the click buttons from the CVS with some I have, and if before I was listen to some sort of sound when I was clicking the toolbar, now it is completely silent and I don\'t get any error over the fact that the sounds are missing.
Some idea?

Sounds like you broke it, that\'s all I can think of after reading this  

Hi Aryhann,
I\'m not a coder but I\'ll try to answer your questions as best as I can.

ad1) Emitter resource is a sound that has a defined position in map (either a static mesh or coordinates), maximum volume and max/min range. This is specified in sound.xml within the map .zip archive.
The resource name of the sound and the file path, is specified in soundlib.xml.

We don\'t have emitter system for moving meshes like monsters and player chars yet.

ad2) No idea, never seen that before, don\'t know what\'s it for.

ad3) We have two layers of background stuff, music and ambience (noises). As for the two names, they might mean the same thing - music, or the \"Ambient music\" in fact means the ambience layer of sound. Depends where have you seen it and in what context.

ad4) Can\'t reproduce the problem. What renderer do you use?