I'm losing it

[stgn 39]

I sometims ry to look around corners but all I ever see is the wall behind my computer(I blame SWAT3).

I remember a old SEGA soccer game I played my hands folowed the players I must have been quit funny seeing my arms flying around.

STGN

[Balschoiw 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Do those things really work? Are they good or are they just kinda crappy?

What kidn do you have?

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I have an Elsa Revelator from Ebay for 15 Euro´s.

The pair I have are shutter glasses, that means the monitor displays 2 different pictures and the glasses shut one side per picture. This all happens so fast that your brain get´s the impression of 3D. It depends on your monitor, gfx card and comp if it will work properly. The monitor should be able to handle 160 Hz, cause the split in pictures will result in 80 Hz with 3D glasses. If your monitor is below that rate, let´s say 120 Hz max you get 60 Hz with glasses. It is flickering than.

So if you own a monitor capable with 160 Hz or more I´ll highly suggest to try 3D glasses. OFP looks fantastic. For example when you sit in a cockpit you really see the depth of the cockpit . The instruments on pilots seat look very real and the depth of the vehicle seems to be real. Same with landscape.

BTW are there other methods than shutter glasses out there and how do they work ?

EDIT: Although ELSA has hit the dirt the NVIDIA stereo drivers still support the Revelator glasses.

[Stag 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Mar. 12 2003,20:48)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">ah, the classic OFP addiction signs. just relax and go outside a bit more, get some fresh air. <span id='postcolor'>

You crazy? What about snipers?

On 3d:

If you use an NVIDIA card, there's a cheaper option I've been trying out. Go to NVIDIA's site and download the free 3d drivers there. then build/scrounge a pair of anaglyphic specs (One red lens, and one blue).

It doesn't need a monitor capable of 100+mhz refresh rate to work. A bit tiring on the eyes after a while, but performs quite nicely.

[-TU--33ker 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Balschoiw @ Mar. 13 2003,22:38)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My ear itched IRL, and I instinctively moved my head to scratch my ear on the virtual wall.<span id='postcolor'>

I once watched a friend playing Descent. Some of you may remember it. It is a 3D space shooter in space stations and mines. My freind ducked IRL whenever a missile came at him and moved not only his head but his complete body    The only part of his body being fixed on the monitor was his head. Everything else was getting out of the line of fire. It was very funny to watch but than I realized that I did the same and had not noticed it till then.  

I have to add that he was not able to play Descent very long. With all that upside down and 360 turns he got a bad stomach pretty soon.

Me playing OFP with 3D glasses would be worth recording with an external cam. I think I look pretty stupid while evading shilka fire in a littlebird

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lol i was making the same movements on THPS2 (skateboard game) trying to land a 900.

[CrunchyFrog 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Hovmand @ Mar. 13 2003,17:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Me? im not lying...<span id='postcolor'>

No, not you... icemaniac_02

[Guest]

My housemate and I both love OFP. This leads to confusion when visitors come to our house and hear things like "Set Curry inFlame true" (make the curry really hot) and "getpos Flashpoint disc?" (where did you put the Flashpoint disc?). Hehehehe...

[-TU--33ker 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Leone @ Mar. 15 2003,14:52)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My housemate and I both love OFP. This leads to confusion when visitors come to our house and hear things like "Set Curry inFlame true" (make the curry really hot) and "getpos Flashpoint disc?" (where did you put the Flashpoint disc?). Hehehehe...    <span id='postcolor'>

maybe the psychiatrist won't take so much money if you go to the meetings together.

[icemaniac_02 0]

now i know i am losing it, i opened my front door today and a train was going by will about 150 train cars with army,jeeps,amphibs,transports and all that stuff, i almosts face dived off my porch into some bushes.

and when i went out side to get something out of the car i scanned the horizon for any sign of movement.....lol

[Gunnerman 0]

haha sounds like me theres a construction site here and a dump truck door smashed really loud I was at my friends house I dived and grabbed his 22 from under the bed, and when I play blackhawk down I start talking to myself one time my mom walked in right as I yelled GET DOWN it was hilarious

one night I played ofp all night at the next day at school i went around saluting people until our history teacher (ex-marine) made me do push ups when I ran up to him saluted and yelled HOOAH

[//relic// 0]

I dream about OFP too much for my own good.

I play OFP until I go to sleep often and the game carries over into my sleep, but in my sleep I'm even better because I can pull all the usual BS (nailing an Mi-24 doing 200kt with a LAW at 500m distance) but I have full freedom of movement.

I love my OFP dreams, especially ones where I ambush tanks and so forth

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

I sure do NOT wish to meet some of you in a dark alley at nights, that's for sure Some of you need serious councelling

[FallenPaladin 0]

Who? Me??

You`re only jealous, because you don`t hear voices in your head!

[whisper]Uhhm... what? ... aah, got it... and the voices don`t like you!![/whisper]

[Renagade 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ex-RoNiN @ 26 April 2003,13:45)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I sure do NOT wish to meet some of you in a dark alley at nights, that's for sure Some of you need serious councelling <span id='postcolor'>

Post-traumatic-OFP-shock

[iNeo 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (//relic// @ 26 April 2003,07:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I dream about OFP too much for my own good.

I play OFP until I go to sleep often and the game carries over into my sleep, but in my sleep I'm even better because I can pull all the usual BS (nailing an Mi-24 doing 200kt with a LAW at 500m distance) but I have full freedom of movement.

I love my OFP dreams, especially ones where I ambush tanks and so forth <span id='postcolor'>

Lucid dreaming about OFP? heaven..............

[killagee 0]

I spend more timre reading these forums and downloading addons and testing them than I do playing the game!

[Jinef 2]

You all need girlfriends!

Come on, diving around yelling warnings? That is quite funny but also disturbing.

[Silent N Deadly 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I spend more timre reading these forums and downloading addons and testing them than I do playing the game!<span id='postcolor'>

Same with me!

I need help also, I went on vacation to Hawaii a week ago and all I could think of was OPF.

[LaPoi 0]

I go into spasems when in tank battles, hum the Russian National Anthem and the OFP main theme for hours when I am supposed to sleep, being the only one in my class that know what the heck a spetznatz is, screeming "Die Ruskie!!!" when playing any level in OFP, mornings at the bus stop are more like the Defender mission in OFP:CWC,snipe pretend Russians in my backyard and................

Besides someone who I hold very dearly I concider you all to be my

(cue Psyco theme)

friends.                                

(J/k ..........on the last one )

[VXR 9]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (icemaniac_02 @ 16 Mar. 2003,16:14)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">now i know i am losing it, i opened my front door today and a train was going by will about 150 train cars with  army,jeeps,amphibs,transports and all that stuff, i almosts face dived off my porch into some bushes.

and when i went out side to get something out of the car i scanned the horizon for any sign of movement.....lol<span id='postcolor'>

i also have it sometimes when im outside with some mates and they are talking, im staring at the horizon see if something comes, sometimes im sitting behind my desk and im playing ofp and i hear helicopters i start to look around in ofp but then i listen better and hear it are a few apaches that fly over my house.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Vixer @ 27 April 2003,09:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (icemaniac_02 @ 16 Mar. 2003,16:14)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">now i know i am losing it, i opened my front door today and a train was going by will about 150 train cars with  army,jeeps,amphibs,transports and all that stuff, i almosts face dived off my porch into some bushes.

and when i went out side to get something out of the car i scanned the horizon for any sign of movement.....lol<span id='postcolor'>

i also have it sometimes when im outside with some mates and they are talking, im staring at the horizon see if something comes, sometimes im sitting behind my desk and im playing ofp and i hear helicopters i start to look around in ofp but then i listen better and hear it are a few apaches that fly over my house.<span id='postcolor'>

I never do anything anymore unless I have a good egress route

[Polishdude 0]

Rehab anyone?

[Gunnerman 0]

rehabs for quiters 

[Epita 0]

I do most of that too, and yes I have been known to say lol in 'real' life.

Dont worry if you see me in a dark alley, it will be over very quickly and pain*blam*lessly!

have been known to dive around when a car goes over a manhole!

[Jinef 2]

We have manholes in the UK?

[FSPilot 0]

I posted this once in another thread and I think I'm getting over it, but anyway, I used to freak out when I heard that noise of a bullet hitting a body. That "pwing" noise bullets make when they hit ground I could handle, the "tap tap tap" of an AK-74 going off I could handle, but that "zipf" noise of a bullet hitting someone would just freak me out. I used to jump whenever I heard it.

So once I was sitting in my truck, it was at night and I was reaching up to turn on the dome light. my fingernail scratched against the ceiling upholstery and made that "zipf" noise. so I jumped and started looking around outside the car for whatever shot me.

i'm over it now. i took a break from OFP, getting back into it now, made a new (less crappy than usual) mission. once i get done with these finals i'll be back in the game part time.