So in other words, you've installed a little known, third party tool, to shield your browser from those dastardly Internets. This is not "good practice" - it should not, under any circumstances, be necessary to transparently doctor a program's input stream in order to keep said program happy. Not when said program is as frequently and widely used - indeed relied upon - as a web browser. If such a feature is genuinely useful in achieving robust security, then it can damn well be a feature of the core program, not something the user has to go above and beyond to utilise. IE is not made inherently more secure by using such tools; instead, you have simply introduced more developers into the arms race, who may or may not be more agile than MS when it comes to catching new exploits.
Congratulations - you've fitted your browser with a pair of rose-tinted glasses while it slept.
Re:Easy question - does it do JPEG-MPEG conversion
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You can load up multiple image files at once, and have it concatenate them onto the end of the current video track, ordered by filename. I used this to create a video out of a few hundred numbered PNGs created by a raytracer as part of some uni coursework. Cinelerra also proved more than adequate for adding captions, fades between the various sequences, title screens etc., as well as adding a soundtrack.
However, unless things have improved since I last used it, I'd say be *very* careful with your output encoding - quite a few of the output formats seemed terminally broken; many would create files that Xine couldn't play, and some would even create files that Cinelerra couldn't open itself.
I'll have to own up here and admit that I've not been able to play a decent game of multiplayer D3 ever (yet), or for that matter any FPS for a while now. I'm stuck in rented accomodation with no landline, so I have wireless broadband, which means decent downloads but terrible latency.
Therefore, it's single-player HL2 and D3 that I'm going by, and even you admit that D3's monster ragdolls
As a final note, I don't think a game like UT2k3 is overly concerned with physics realism, as long as things look good, fit with the overall style, and run at speed. I think the ragdolls fill these three criteria (this is a fast-paced, visceral, almost arcade-style action game, thus corpses should flail and be limp), and I may be guilty of wearing rose-tinted spectacles, but I don't remember any unacceptable level of wall-clipping.
UT2k3 is still my favourite multiplayer FPS. Either that, or one of the Action Quakes (I've played 2 and 3). (For those not in the know, AQ is probably best described as "CS for people who don't like CS"; it was also the first FPS I was actually capable of consistently winning a game of.)
What I love about UT2k3 is the game's style - graphical, aural, and in terms of movement and weapon selection. In what other game can you jump, double-jump, and wall-rebound in one move? Plus the way the player models flipped around, you looked cool doing it. Also, IMHO, it has ragdoll physics that still feel more right than D3 or HL2; bodies tend to get stuck in unrealistic-looking positions less often, and the bone-crunching sounds while it all happens are so very satisfying.
And the weapons... oh my, the weapons! Flak grenades, shock combos, multiple rockets.. so much potential, almost none of it wasted.
You want fast? Turn up the speed slider and play InstaGib.
I played the UT2k4 demo, and while the addition of vehicles seemed cool at first, I wasn't inspired to go out and buy the game - when it comes to FPS games, I'm not really a team player, and 2k3 is really a showcase for talented lone wolves.
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So in other words, you've installed a little known, third party tool, to shield your browser from those dastardly Internets. This is not "good practice" - it should not, under any circumstances, be necessary to transparently doctor a program's input stream in order to keep said program happy. Not when said program is as frequently and widely used - indeed relied upon - as a web browser. If such a feature is genuinely useful in achieving robust security, then it can damn well be a feature of the core program, not something the user has to go above and beyond to utilise. IE is not made inherently more secure by using such tools; instead, you have simply introduced more developers into the arms race, who may or may not be more agile than MS when it comes to catching new exploits.
Congratulations - you've fitted your browser with a pair of rose-tinted glasses while it slept.
You can load up multiple image files at once, and have it concatenate them onto the end of the current video track, ordered by filename. I used this to create a video out of a few hundred numbered PNGs created by a raytracer as part of some uni coursework. Cinelerra also proved more than adequate for adding captions, fades between the various sequences, title screens etc., as well as adding a soundtrack.
However, unless things have improved since I last used it, I'd say be *very* careful with your output encoding - quite a few of the output formats seemed terminally broken; many would create files that Xine couldn't play, and some would even create files that Cinelerra couldn't open itself.
"even you admit that D3's monster ragdolls misbehave", that ought to read.
I'll have to own up here and admit that I've not been able to play a decent game of multiplayer D3 ever (yet), or for that matter any FPS for a while now. I'm stuck in rented accomodation with no landline, so I have wireless broadband, which means decent downloads but terrible latency.
Therefore, it's single-player HL2 and D3 that I'm going by, and even you admit that D3's monster ragdolls
As a final note, I don't think a game like UT2k3 is overly concerned with physics realism, as long as things look good, fit with the overall style, and run at speed. I think the ragdolls fill these three criteria (this is a fast-paced, visceral, almost arcade-style action game, thus corpses should flail and be limp), and I may be guilty of wearing rose-tinted spectacles, but I don't remember any unacceptable level of wall-clipping.
UT2k3 is still my favourite multiplayer FPS. Either that, or one of the Action Quakes (I've played 2 and 3). (For those not in the know, AQ is probably best described as "CS for people who don't like CS"; it was also the first FPS I was actually capable of consistently winning a game of.)
What I love about UT2k3 is the game's style - graphical, aural, and in terms of movement and weapon selection. In what other game can you jump, double-jump, and wall-rebound in one move? Plus the way the player models flipped around, you looked cool doing it. Also, IMHO, it has ragdoll physics that still feel more right than D3 or HL2; bodies tend to get stuck in unrealistic-looking positions less often, and the bone-crunching sounds while it all happens are so very satisfying.
And the weapons... oh my, the weapons! Flak grenades, shock combos, multiple rockets.. so much potential, almost none of it wasted.
You want fast? Turn up the speed slider and play InstaGib.
I played the UT2k4 demo, and while the addition of vehicles seemed cool at first, I wasn't inspired to go out and buy the game - when it comes to FPS games, I'm not really a team player, and 2k3 is really a showcase for talented lone wolves.