Taz1004 Posted November 16, 2020 Author Posted November 16, 2020 It looks not quite thick enough to me, but I'm no expert. I can make it thicker, smaller, and last longer from what I can see. 1 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
zildac Posted November 16, 2020 Posted November 16, 2020 Sounds good to me! 14900KS | Maximus Hero Z690 | ASUS 4090 TUF OC | 64GB DDR5 6600 | DCS on 2TB NVMe | WarBRD+Warthog Stick | CM3 | TM TPR's | Varjo Aero
LanceCriminal86 Posted November 16, 2020 Posted November 16, 2020 Steam effects from the cat should change depending on weather and humidity no? In regards to real photos or clips people may be trying to reference you might get one day where it's light and whispy but a colder day might be more voluminous and hang around longer. Steam seems to me if it's not actively being changed by ED in the engine for weather effects, one could have a few versions of steam for light and wispy all the way up to thick and long lifetime. The latter might be nice for moody screenshots and videos. 1 Heatblur Rivet Counting Squad™ VF-11 and VF-31 1988 [WIP] VF-201 & VF-202 [WIP]
Habu_69 Posted November 18, 2020 Posted November 18, 2020 Hey, yeah, Taz. Great mod, but could you make it so the smoke density and persistence varies with changing relative humidity and ambient air temperature? Change colors to accurately reflect the actual wavelength of light as the sun changes height above the horizon? Vary the color saturation in accordance with cloud shadows? Make the steam dispersion patterns reflect the air currents that occur when a deck hand walks through them? I have never been on a real aircraft carrier; but I fly one on DCS and the current catapult steam vapors just don't look right to me.
Taz1004 Posted November 18, 2020 Author Posted November 18, 2020 Hey, yeah, Taz. Great mod, but could you make it so the smoke density and persistence varies with changing relative humidity and ambient air temperature? Change colors to accurately reflect the actual wavelength of light as the sun changes height above the horizon? Vary the color saturation in accordance with cloud shadows? Make the steam dispersion patterns reflect the air currents that occur when a deck hand walks through them? I have never been on a real aircraft carrier; but I fly one on DCS and the current catapult steam vapors just don't look right to me. Can't tell if you're joking or being serious. Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
Taz1004 Posted November 18, 2020 Author Posted November 18, 2020 Default had an attribute that tried to keep the smoke on the line which made it do bouncing spring motion. I got rid of it and now it blows away with wind. Below shots are with 4kt wind. It also had too much spinning animation which I slowed it down. I tried to get the size closer to the reference video above. Guess people who wants it bigger wont be happy with it. 3 1 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
zildac Posted November 18, 2020 Posted November 18, 2020 Default had an attribute that tried to keep the smoke on the line which made it do bouncing spring motion. I got rid of it and now it blows away with wind. Below shots are with 4kt wind. It also had too much spinning animation which I slowed it down. I tried to get the size closer to the reference video above. Guess people who wants it bigger wont be happy with it. Looks good! Is it available for download yet? 14900KS | Maximus Hero Z690 | ASUS 4090 TUF OC | 64GB DDR5 6600 | DCS on 2TB NVMe | WarBRD+Warthog Stick | CM3 | TM TPR's | Varjo Aero
Taz1004 Posted November 18, 2020 Author Posted November 18, 2020 Looks good! Is it available for download yet? Not yet. Making some tweaks to cluster bombs too. 1 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
Breakshot Posted November 18, 2020 Posted November 18, 2020 Cool. Looking forward to new version. Perhaps with a slightly adjusted water splashes as done by the guys in above posts? Отправлено с моего STV100-2 через Tapatalk Tim "Breakshot" Mytrofanov | C.O. of 51 ПВО / 100 КИАП Regiments | twitch.tv/51breakshot
Majik Posted November 19, 2020 Posted November 19, 2020 Hi Taz, Since yesterday's patch, the V7 MP version is causing issues online. It still passes IC, but loading into certain servers (with pure texture requirements I think) cause a hang on role select, as I get with better trees installed. Smoke was working fine the day before on the same server I tried. -
Taz1004 Posted November 19, 2020 Author Posted November 19, 2020 Hi Taz, Since yesterday's patch, the V7 MP version is causing issues online. It still passes IC, but loading into certain servers (with pure texture requirements I think) cause a hang on role select, as I get with better trees installed. Smoke was working fine the day before on the same server I tried. Can you attach the dcs.log? Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
Majik Posted November 19, 2020 Posted November 19, 2020 Can you attach the dcs.log? Sure thing dcs.log -
Taz1004 Posted November 19, 2020 Author Posted November 19, 2020 Sure thing It's waterexplosions.hlsl. That was included by mistake when I first released V7. Just redownload the file and should work. Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
=К=Атом Posted November 19, 2020 Posted November 19, 2020 Very good job! But I wish the ladies weren't so tall and fat. It's as if not one car is on fire, but an entire oil plant. They can be removed by 1/2 of the height (length of the train)? sory my google tr... i7-4790k, 32ggb, 2070, 2560x1440, TrackIR5, Win10, всё в синей изоленте, и чуток SSD.
Majik Posted November 19, 2020 Posted November 19, 2020 It's waterexplosions.hlsl. That was included by mistake when I first released V7. Just redownload the file and should work. Worked like a charm. Thanks! There's no such easy workaround for your better trees, is there? It exhibits exactly the same problem, but I assume it's heavily texture dependant, so never bothered to ask... -
Taz1004 Posted November 19, 2020 Author Posted November 19, 2020 Worked like a charm. Thanks! There's no such easy workaround for your better trees, is there? It exhibits exactly the same problem, but I assume it's heavily texture dependant, so never bothered to ask... No, community as a whole has to ask ED to selectively filter known and obvious exploits rather than blocking all textures. And Pure Texture IC check doesn't work anyway because there's easy way to get around it. Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
Majik Posted November 19, 2020 Posted November 19, 2020 No, community as a whole has to ask ED to selectively filter known and obvious exploits rather than blocking all textures. And Pure Texture IC check doesn't work anyway because there's easy way to get around it. Got it, it's a shame, but at least your beautiful smoke still works flawlessly Also, I saw this a while back, so hopefully it comes true? 1 -
Taz1004 Posted November 20, 2020 Author Posted November 20, 2020 Still in-progress but quick preview of the cluster bomb. Below is from single CBU-103. Lighting on these smokes are reversed also but they were too white anyway to be noticed. Unfortunately, this will be Single Player only. By the way, those trucks were still standing undamaged. Something wrong with cluster bomb damage model? 2 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
Blinde Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 Oh man, that cluster bomb effect is so sweet.
Taz1004 Posted November 20, 2020 Author Posted November 20, 2020 (edited) Updated to v8 Cluster bomb explosion/smoke (Single Player Only) Carrier catapult steam (Single Player Only) Water explosion adjusted Cluster Bomb Carrier Catapult Steam Edited January 27, 2021 by Taz1004 1 Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
Gone1Crazy Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 Updated to v8 Cluster bomb explosion/smoke (Single Player Only) Carrier catapult steam (Single Player Only) Water explosion adjusted Is not IC friendlly ??( which file is it ?? thanks ) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
zildac Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 Thanks Taz!! 14900KS | Maximus Hero Z690 | ASUS 4090 TUF OC | 64GB DDR5 6600 | DCS on 2TB NVMe | WarBRD+Warthog Stick | CM3 | TM TPR's | Varjo Aero
Taz1004 Posted November 20, 2020 Author Posted November 20, 2020 Is not IC friendlly ??( which file is it ?? thanks ) Just download the MP version. It wont have those effects but will be IC friendly. Doesn't look like there are much more I can edit without breaking IC. So much of going forward will be for single player. Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
Gone1Crazy Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 Just download the MP version. It wont have those effects but will be IC friendly. Doesn't look like there are much more I can edit without breaking IC. So much of going forward will be for single player. I know taz . Im just curious of the files that do that. Amazing work as always [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Taz1004 Posted November 20, 2020 Author Posted November 20, 2020 I know taz . Im just curious of the files that do that. Amazing work as always Anything in the /Config/Effects/ will break IC. Better Smoke - Better Trees Caucasus - Better Trees Syria - Better Trees Mariana - Clear Canopy Glass
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