Sim-mod Enhanced Terrain by Rugg

[Рустам]

One moment: when you create rar-archive - use maximum compression method and add option "information to restore". File size will much smaller :)

[rattler]

Rugg

 

Rugg, My man super job on scenery. About time we had more than just summer. Although you had permission for some textures, you my man outdid yourself. Leaves a lot of questions in my mind but they will stay there. Congrats many times over!!!!

 

rattler:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

[169th_Maverick]

very nice work for sure.... One question though. What kinda hit does running that have on FPS?

[Kuky]

From Ruggbut:

 

Q & A for the terrain mod:

 

Q How will this affect my framerates?

A If you've run SIMMOD's ReLoaded (summer terrain) it will affect fps the same. All of the terrain files are the same size as the originals. I've upped the size of the trees, which explains why they look better.

 

Q Why does it show a yellow box when I install with ModMan?

A Yellow boxes mean that there are shared files in use. It's normal, don't worry. The mod is installed.

 

Q Why isn't it available on LockOnFiles?

A It will be soon, Thomas is working on it.

 

Q Do I have to install ReLoaded to use this mod?

A No, but I recommend that you do. Additionally, you can install Reloaded or this mod in any order you like, they don't conflict with each other.

 

Q What's next on your list of things to mod for Flaming Cliffs?

A I've got all the structures files extracted and I'm going to start work on them.

[169th_Maverick]

well I don't got SIMMOD's Reloaded...so my question still stands.

[hitman]

You should get it. For those who need answers, you can always do the following:

Manually install Sim-Mods Summer Terrain

Install new Other Season Textures via ModMan, or manually. They use the same configuration in the .lua script. Or you can take the chance and install all of them via modman and test yourself and make sure they work. Im about 98% sure it would work that way.

[A.S]

well I don't got SIMMOD's Reloaded...so my question still stands.

 

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[graywo1fg]

Truly a wonderful mod! Great job Rugg :D

[Mustang]

Got it all to work now, many thanks Rugg, this mod is fantastic!

 

(and thanks to A.S for the graphics.cfg info ;))

 

BTW, have you guys checked the mountain ranges north of Sochi!? so nice!

 

 

and heres a few random shots i took this evening :)

 

[rattler]

very nice work for sure.... One question though. What kinda hit does running that have on FPS?

 

First and foremost, due you run a scenery mod? If not you will have a slight hit on performance but not enough to worry about. If you have a scenery mod loaded, you may not see any increase in FPS. All depends on your CPU mostly and a little on the graphics card. Ram is nice to have as well More than 2GB. Lockon always was a killer if you did not have the CPU power and Ram, GPU runs 3rd, although a really nice graphics card will show you more eye candy in the quality side of Graphics textures. Hope this gives you an idea.Cheers.

[Kuky]

well I don't got SIMMOD's Reloaded...so my question still stands.

 

You can always simply try and you'll find out if you get big FPS hit or not... if yes simply uninstall... and if not you got yourself much nicer looking terrain in all seasons.

[RedTiger]

You can always simply try and you'll find out if you get big FPS hit or not... if yes simply uninstall... and if not you got yourself much nicer looking terrain in all seasons.

 

QFT. Just try it out and see how it works for you! :)

 

The frame rate hit should be close to nil. The way I see it is that modern video cards eat textures alive, so with the rather non-existent fancy texture effects in LOMAC, a decent video card could probably handle textures even higher resolution that this.

[RedTiger]

This work deserves a separate post just to comment how awesome it is. I'm glad someone realizes we don't all have a hard-on for flying this sim with summer textures all the time. :D Excellent work ruggbutt! :thumbup: :clap::yay:

[borchi_2b]

and again, simmod rocked the place here. many many thanks to rocky :-)

[Lotham]

and again, simmod rocked the place here. many many thanks to rocky :-)

Heu...; Many Many thx² to RUGGBUTT... Rockwelder has done the summer texture (and effectivly, many thx for that), but here this is Rugg's winter & autumn textures

[Kuky]

... and Spring ;)

[159th_Viper]

A I've got all the structures files extracted and I'm going to start work on them.

 

Now that there's got me excited :thumbup: :D

[RedTiger]

That sounds great! The buildings could use a high-res make-over!!!

[SuperKungFu]

new links has been added in the first post.

[Vekkinho]

Anyone with an idea of how Land LOD distances for day and night should be set with this mod?!!

 

I hate seeing a LOD separator when flying 10K+ :music_whistling:

 

Thanks!

[Mustang]

Anyone with an idea of how Land LOD distances for day and night should be set with this mod?!!

 

I hate seeing a LOD separator when flying 10K+ :music_whistling:

 

Thanks!

 

I use these parameters and it looks great:

 

LandLodDistances

{

LandDay

{

L01 = 30000;

L12 = 50000;

}

LandNight

{

L01 = 30000;

L12 = 50000;

 

(if thats what you mean)

[Grayhawk]

Ruggbutt, thank you for all your hard work on this mod, your efforts are much appreciated by us all.

 

Boom Head Shot :)

[ScEBlack1]

Mustang what file do i look in to change that, could you point the way, thanks mate.

[RedTiger]

Mustang what file do i look in to change that, could you point the way, thanks mate.

 

That would be your graphics config file. OR you can download one of those LOMAC settings tweakers at Lockonfiles and do it with that.

[ScEBlack1]

Thanks RedTiger