The alternative seems to be to create "special" maps that work in each application, but can't be used collaboratively across applications. Steel Beasts Pro Personal Edition, abbreviated SB Pro PE, is the commercial version of the tank simulator Steel Beasts Pro made by eSim Games for Microsoft. It appears this is the price we will pay if we want to use the one data set to create terrain usable by Steel Beasts, VBS and OneSAF. I use it to train new soliders on gunnery. As a gunner on a M1A1, serving in Iraq, I can say that Steel Beasts has no equal. The army has spent millions of dollars making similar systems to train tankers. The water course that is in the centre of the map was not created by TerraTools but made manually by me after looking at a paper (I wont use the term "normal" ) map of the area. This is the most realistic M1 tank simulator for a home PC.
it is a must-have for any military sim-enthusiast with even a minor interest in mechanized land warfare. To sum up my conclusions in advance and in three short phrases: 1. The number of trees / bush in the "new" map is what TerraTools gave us. And the Steal Beasts comes out of it as triumphant victor. "new" map made through TerraTools using latest, "best" data: Mapping can be pretty frustrating, I know I've just pretty much wasted a week putting date through TerraTools to create 90 x 90 maps only to find that while the terrain is "corelated" to work with other products, the end result is a lowest common denominator that looks like rubbish in SB.įor example "old" map (made purely in SB Pro Map Editor): User profiles created or changed with version 2.6 will crash older Steel.
I stress the word dedicated there because you do get to drive tanks in the total warfare sim that is Operation Flashpoint and the bottom line m all this is that although Steel Beasts has all sorts of claims towards authenticity, truth is, it's just hiding amateurish coding skills. Windows 7 users have an alternative: Right-click the SBProPEcm.exe in the.
You made the map and videoed it and then on a second run, made the map, applied the blurr and then videoed the result? There hasn't been a half decent dedicated tank sim on the PC since, well. you recorded the video and then presented it here with and without the blur. Steel Beasts Pro PE (Personal Edition) - the 'cut down' civilianised version that is what you are considering buying.
In turn 'Steel Beasts Professional' has two sub species: Steel Beasts Pro - the Military grade full featured simulation. So you applied this "blur" to the video or the map? From it Steel Beasts Professional evolved and it happily runs on lots of resolutions. And just in case anyone is curious, d3drm.dll is for Direct3D Retained Mode, which was not updated past DirectX 3 and was dropped from Vista or 7, not sure which.On the second video I applied a 2 or 3 sample gaussian blur which reduced the amount of detail but also greatly reduced the jaggies. In the Tweaks tab enable "ddraw:AllowSysMemoryOn3DDevices". Our antivirus analysis shows that this download is clean. The common filenames for the program's installer are SBLoader.exe or TankSim.exe etc. "To fix the inverted tanks when using DXWnd, enable expert mode in the options menu, right click on your SB shortcut in DXWnd and pick modify. The most popular versions among Steel Beasts users are 4.1 and 1.0. Made by eSim Games and published by Strategy First, Inc., Noviy Disk, Just Play. To play this game in newer OSes make sure to grab d3drm.dll from second link and place it into \release folder where tanksim.exe is.Īlso if you have inverted tanks problem in DxWnd here is quote from their forum here : 2002, the year Steel Beasts: Gold Edition was released on Windows. I had microwinxp virtual machine just for this game, but it seems you can now run it in newer OSes, there are two ways:ĭxWnd: (good fps, runs in windowed mode, preferred method it seems, but you need to restart it on each mission start due to crashing)ĭgVoodoo2: (much worse fps for me, runs fullscreen)