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There is a new version available for PBSViewer, version 2.1.0.0. This free php script PBSViewer can be used to view ingame captured pb(punkbuster) screens on a website, a demo can be seen here. The new key features are listed below, a complete list of changes can be seen in changelog. To download PBSViewer go to the PBSViewer page.

New key features

• Added autocomplete functionality if you search for names
• Admin can make PBSViewer private by configuring a password in ACP.
• New safe login environment for admin (admin access through IP address is history)

Latest key features

• Download pb screens from your gameserver and show them on your website.
• Shows your pb screens independently to your visitors, without user/admin intervention.
• Easy search for screens, search supports wildcards. You can search by guid or name.
• Secure Admin login.
• PBSViewer has an Admin Control Panel (ACP), here you can easily configure your PBSViewer.
• Option to make PBSViewer private, only those who know password can use PBSViewer.
• Automated checking of md5 hashes of screens, it can automatically check if screens have been altered or not.
• Get aliases of player.
• Easy installation script included.
• Reset feature included to delete all screens and logs.

Ideas for next release

• Multi-language support
• Other image enhancement functionalities

If you have more ideas or you want to request a feature then please go to the Feature Request page or go to the issue page (for advanced users)

Contributing

At the moment I’m still looking for people who want to join this project and help me. There are a lot of things that can be done:

• Testing PBSViewer for different games and environments
• Providing logs and screens, provide test data
• Work as developer and improve/add features
• Add new awesome graphics as artist
• Create documentation
• Help with translation
• PR: recruit for new members, announce new releases on websites/fora.

If you want to help you can contact me (please use contact form) or leave a comment. Please mention what you want to do and mention your speciality/experience. If there is something you want to do but it is not mentioned in this list, please contact me and we can discuss it. To join google code project page, you should have a google account. You don’t need gmail to get a google account, just go to this page to create one.

Remember you are not only helping me but the whole gaming community!

There is a new version available for PBSViewer, version 2.0.0.0. This free php script PBSViewer can be used to view ingame captured pb(punkbuster) screens on a website, a demo can be seen here. The new key features are listed below, a complete list of changes can be seen in changelog. To download PBSViewer go to the PBSViewer page.

New key features

• Added a simple Admin Control Panel (ACP)
• Notify Admin by sending mail when update has been requested by someone
• Clanbase link for each player (if he/she is on cb).
• update/download screens that are larger than x bytes, can be configured in ACP.

Latest key features

• Download latest pb screens from gameserver.
• Shows your pb screens independently to your visitors, without user/admin intervention.
• Search player by guid or by name, without openening every single pb screen.
• Use of multiple wildharts in your search.
• Automatic update of log file. This will prevent the log file to grow in size. Since pb keeps adding data, there is no limit in file size (pb does not clear old data, with this script however you can).
• Multiple admins are possible.
• Updates for pb screens can take place automatically or by admin intervention.
• If there is an update available then you will be notified. A warning is displayed on top.
• md5 hashes are added to screen
• Detailed screen page is added, you can get here by clicking on a screenshot.
• Get aliases of player.
• Read log files to obtain extra information like ip and md5 of original screen.
• Extra info is given on top of screen, like player with most incomplete pb screens.
• Screens can be selected by date. This allows you to search for screens of a match played yesterday.
• All screens shown are order by date, the newest one are located on top.
• Smart update feature: it will only download screens that are new.
• Numbers of screens shown on main page can be customized.
• easy installation, added installation script
• reset button added, to delete all screens and logs
• For search field, field name is selected as default, instead of fid
• Auto rewrite of special characters used by html
• Added a simple Admin Control Panel (ACP)
• Notify Admin by sending mail when update has been requested by someone
• Clanbase link for each player (if he/she is on cb).
• update/download screens that are larger than x bytes, can be configured in ACP.

Ideas for next release

• Multi-language support
• Zoom for images and perhaps other image enhancement functionalities

If you have more ideas or you want to request a feature then please go to the Feature Request page or go to the issue page (for advanced users)

Contributing

At the moment I’m still looking for people who want to join this project and help me. There are a lot of things that can be done:

• Testing PBSViewer for different games and environments
• Providing logs and screens, provide test data
• Work as developer and improve/add features
• Add new awesome graphics as artist
• Create documentation
• Help with translation
• PR: recruit for new members,  announce new releases on websites/fora.

If you want to help you can contact me (please use contact form) or leave a comment. Please mention what you want to do and mention your speciality/experience. If there is something you want to do but it is not mentioned in this list, please contact me and we can discuss it. To join google code project page, you should have a google account. You don’t need gmail to get a google account, just go to this page to create one. Remember you are not only helping me but the whole gaming community!

Finally I have found some time to start up a project on google code for PBSViewer. More information of PBSViewer can be found on this page.

Google code is a place where open source projects are being hosted for free, it is mainly used by developers. There are other sites that provide this kind of hosting as well,  like sourceforge, however I chose google code because it is simple, fast and reliable. Another reason why I chose for google code is that my project PBSViewer is quite small, it does not contain a lot of files and currently only one person (me) is contributing to this project. With google code it is very easy to manage the development of PBSViewer.

For my project I am looking for members who can contribute to this project. Several things can be done:

• Testing PBSViewer for different games and environments
• Work as developer and improve/add features
• Add new awesome graphics as artist
• Create documentation
• Help with translation

If you want to help you can contact me or leave a comment. Remember you are not only helping me but the whole gaming community!

The project was done in a group of 3 students (Michiel Degen, Ravi Peters and me, Brett Rijnders) all with different backgrounds (respectively: “Technology, Policy and Management“, “electrical engineering” and  “Aerospace engineering“). For this project we had about 9 weeks and it was supervised by Hugo Ledoux and Gerwin de Haan.  The presentation was held last Wednesday March 10th 2010, it was made in prezi:

The name of the tool “velas3D” is partly based on the special file format we used. We used the binary las format to work with AHN2 dataset. This dataset is actually a 3D dataset, therefore we used 3D in the tool name. Since we were dealing with a Virtual Earth in our tool we also put the first letters “ve” in the name of our tool.  More information about our Velas3D tool can be found in our paper:

Paper – Case Study Velas3D tool.pdf

A couple of years ago I saw the Transformers movie in the cinema. When I saw it I was amazed by the graphics and sound effects of this movie. I got inspired by the sound and I tried to make that wobbling sound in Fruity Loops 8, so in this tutorial you can see/hear my attempt. However the sound effects in transformers consist of multiple samples. In this tutorial I’m only going to try to make that wobbling background sound. You often hear this wobbling sound in the background when a weapon charges or when autobot/decepticon transforms. You can hear this type of sound in the youtube movie I posted below, go to timeframe 0:34 or 0:47.

I’m only going to mention the steps I took to create the sound effect, I won’t explain in too much detail what everything does. I think you’ll actually learn from this tutorial if you just play around and experiment with different settings, just to get a feeling for it. This tutorial won’t be hard to follow (probably too easy for some of you…), since all the intermediate steps are explained in this tutorial. Please leave a message if you like it or if something is not clear, I hope you like this tutorial.

Selecting a basic sound

For this tutorial I used Fruity Loops version 8, probably you can also follow this tutorial if you have a different version. First insert ‘Sytrus’ (do right click on a sampler):

Sytrus is a nice piece of software, it’s a synthesizer which can be used to create your own special sounds. I’m going to use it in my attempt to create a transformer sound. Let’s select a virtual instrument:

After right clicking on the arrow you get this screen (yes I know it’s huge list :P):

From this screen select ‘Depthcore’, the depthcore will give this kind of sound:

Pretty cool huh? we are going to use this as a basic sound.
Now left click on the ‘Depthcore’ sample, see next figure:

You should get an additional screen ‘channel settings’ like shown below:

In this screen you can select your ‘FX’ channel, this channel will be used later on to add some sound effects. Set ‘FX’ to 1, you can do this by clicking on ‘FX’ field and scroll to 1. Ok let’s add some sound by using a ‘piano roll’. Go back to your ‘step sequencer’ and right click on ‘Depthcore’, see figures below:

You will see the ‘piano roll’ screen, within this screen draw a note for the c4 key:

Extend this key a bit, see in the next figure. The key should be at least 2 seconds long. I used the extension to avoid that the sound is repeated too quick, now you can hear the echo when the sound is finished.

Adding effects using FX channel

Now we are going to add some effects to this sound by using the mixer. Click on ‘Mixer’, see figure:

Do you remember the ‘FX’ channel you have set? (if not click here) Now we are going to use it :) First make sure you select the correct channel, see figure below (point 1):

We are going to add effects to channel 1, which means that all samples which are connected to this ‘FX’ channel will get this effect. Now left click on the arrow, see step 2 in figure above. You will get a screen where you can select ‘Fruity multiband compressor’, something like this:

After selecting the multiband compressor right click on the gain knob. The position of the gain knob can be seen in the next 2 screens:

After clicking on ‘Edit events’ a new screen will pop-up. In this screen click on tools (click on the wrench button) and then click on LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator). With this LFO you can add some really nice effects to your sound. We are going to use it to create the wobbling effect. Use the screen below to copy the settings, if everything is ok hit enter.

Dynamic channel panning

It’s time to add another effect, let’s add the stereo effect (I hope you don’t have a mono sound system, otherwise you can skip this step :p). Now go back to your ‘step sequencer’ where you have your sample. First right click on the ‘channel panning’ knob and click on ‘Edit events’, see screens below:

Then again use the LFO tool and copy the settings of screen below:

Final result

The final result of what you get after following this tutorial should be something like this:

I have experimented a bit with different settings and effects, here you can hear my other sounds:

sound 1:

sound 2:

sound 3:

I think the last sound is my best attempt, it’s almost similar to what you hear in the background of youtube movie at timeframe 0:34 and 0:47. You can download the complete sound package here:

Transformer sound package

It contains the original fruity loop files and the mp3 sound files. I hope you liked this tutorial and that you learned something.

The model was created in google sketchup and is available on google warehouse. At google warehouse I requested a place in the 3D buildings layer of google earth. Hopefully they accept my model. Below you can see the 3D model in the 3D viewer of goole warehouse.

I’ve made this model during my minor course of 3D virtual earth. This interfaculty and multidisciplinary program was hosted by geomatics, aerospace engineering and civil engineering at TU Delft.

More info can be found on the 3D graphics page. If you have any questions, please use the contact page or just post a comment.

Newest key features

• easy installation, added installation script
• reset button added, to delete all screens and logs
• For search field, field name is selected as default, instead of fid
• Auto rewrite of special characters used by html

Latest key features

• Download latest pb screens from gameserver.
• Shows your pb screens independently to your visitors, without user/admin intervention.
• Search player by guid or by name, without openening every single pb screen.
• Use of multiple wildharts in your search.
• Automatic update of log file. This will prevent the log file to grow in size. Since pb keeps adding data, there is no limit in file size (pb does not clear old data, with this script however you can).
• Multiple admins are possible.
• Updates for pb screens can take place automatically or by admin intervention.
• If there is an update available then you will be notified. A warning is displayed on top.
• md5 hashes are added to screen
• Detailed screen page is added, you can get here by clicking on a screenshot.
• Get aliases of player.
• Read log files to obtain extra information like ip and md5 of original screen.
• Extra info is given on top of screen, like player with most incomplete pb screens.
• Screens can be selected by date. This allows you to search for screens of a match played yesterday.
• All screens shown are order by date, the newest one are located on top.
• Smart update feature: it will only download screens that are new.
• Numbers of screens shown on main page can be customized.
• easy installation, added installation script
• reset button added, to delete all screens and logs
• For search field, field name is selected as default, instead of fid
• Auto rewrite of special characters used by html

Newest key features

• Read log files to obtain extra information like ip and md5 of original screen.
• Extra info is given on top of screen, like player with most incomplete pb screens.
• Screens can be selected by date. This allows you to search for screens of a match played yesterday.
• All screens shown are ordered by date, the newest one are located on top.
• Smart update feature: it will only download new or changed screens.
• Numbers of screens shown on main page can be customized.
• User can request an update: admin will be notified

Latest key features

• Download latest pb screens from gameserver.
• Shows your pb screens independently to your visitors, without user/admin intervention.
• Search player by guid or by name, without openening every single pb screen.
• Use of multiple wildharts in your search.
• Automatic update of log file. This will prevent the log file to grow in size. Since pb keeps adding data, there is no limit in file size (pb does not clear old data, with this script however you can).
• Multiple admins are possible.
• Updates for pb screens can take place automatically or by admin intervention.
• Easy automated install script included.
• If there is an update available then you will be notified. A warning is displayed on top.

• md5 hashes are added to screen
• Detailed screen page is added, you can get here by clicking on a screenshot.
• Get aliases of player.

• Read log files to obtain extra information like ip and md5 of original screen.
• Extra info is given on top of screen, like player with most incomplete pb screens.
• Screens can be selected by date. This allows you to search for screens of a match played yesterday.
• All screens shown are order by date, the newest one are located on top.
• Smart update feature: it will only download screens that are new.
• Numbers of screens shown on main page can be customized.

Newest key features

• md5 hashes are added to screen
• Script can now be used for CoD4 too
• Detailed screen page is added, you can get here by clicking on a screenshot.
• Get aliases of player
• Parser is improved and a debug mode is added if needed

Latest key features

• Download latest pb screens from gameserver.
• Shows your pb screens independently to your visitors, without user/admin intervention.
• Search player by guid or by name, without openening every single pb screen.
• Use of multiple wildharts in your search.
• Automatic update of log file. This will prevent the log file to grow in size. Since pb keeps adding data, there is no limit in file size (pb does not clear old data, with this script however you can).
• Multiple admins are possible.
• Updates for pb screens can take place automatically or by admin intervention.
• Easy automated install script included.
• If there is an update available then you will be notified. A warning is displayed on top.

• md5 hashes are added to screen
• Detailed screen page is added, you can get here by clicking on a screenshot.
• Get aliases of player.