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elcoo

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elcoo

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Hi,

the bulky canopy crazings and old looking Airfield beacons kind of bugged me, so I created this little mod and thought I would share it with you. Basicly it rescales the crazing texture and refines the beacons to look more light bright lights, rather than painted blobs. Note that the new beacons only apply to the "old" airports that do not yet have the remastered effects that came with the warthog.

 

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Edit: Fixed a small bug, that made the crazings moving with your POV.

Beacons_Crazings.zip

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Chazz_BMF

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My game crash with this mod. Believe it was the Crazings mod :cry:

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elcoo

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My game crash with this mod. Believe it was the Crazings mod :cry:

 

Mhh, thats strange. Do you use FC3? I could'nt test it with that as I don't have it. Could you post a crash log maybe? Does it crash at startup, or sometime mid game? You can revert the changes by using "Repair DCS" by the way.

 

Edit: What DCS version did you use? I tested only in 1.2.6

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NO crash for me, runs smooth and shine.

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elcoo

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That's nice to hear.

To be honest I don't think this mod could really lead to the game crashing at all, as it's only minor shader modifications and one replaced texture. Nothing deep. Still it would be good to see a crash log, maybe we can elaborate what leads to the crash.

Skulleader

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Hello,

 

Great Mod, I really love your light...

No problem and crash with my DCS 1.2.6, great work !!!

Congratulation for this Mod and sharing. Skull

 

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I have a little question for Elcoo, I've found this file: lampbw.png.dds but I do not found this file in my DCS 1.2.6 here "Bazar\TempTextures", is it normal ?

A great thanks in advance for your help.

 

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Chazz_BMF

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Mhh, thats strange. Do you use FC3? I could'nt test it with that as I don't have it. Could you post a crash log maybe? Does it crash at startup, or sometime mid game? You can revert the changes by using "Repair DCS" by the way.

 

Edit: What DCS version did you use? I tested only in 1.2.6

 

It wont load the missions and just hang, after Ctrl/alt/delete it says it cant load the GUI!

I have all modules installed, but it said i was missing the Fw-190. Maybe its conflicting with another mod? I was able to fix it using the repair function. Im currently running the 1.2.6 v.

 

I also have diveplanes sound and a terrain mod installed. Hope this will narrow it down a bit. Im not able to post a crash log right now .

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elcoo

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Hello,

I have a little question for Elcoo, I've found this file: lampbw.png.dds but I do not found this file in my DCS 1.2.6 here "Bazar\TempTextures", is it normal ?

A great thanks in advance for your help.

Skull.

 

Your right, probably that file could be deleted. When I searched for the beacon texture I found this file in a Zip, but when I changed it nothing happened. I copied it and renamed it to "Airfield_LampBW.dds" and it worked, but I let the other file in...

 

It wont load the missions and just hang, after Ctrl/alt/delete it says it cant load the GUI!

I have all modules installed, but it said i was missing the Fw-190. Maybe its conflicting with another mod? I was able to fix it using the repair function. Im currently running the 1.2.6 v.

 

I also have diveplanes sound and a terrain mod installed. Hope this will narrow it down a bit. Im not able to post a crash log right now .

 

Maybe the terrain mod modified the Sprite Shader? Are you sure it cant load the GUI, or does it display something like "GUI Error: ****"

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Skulleader

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Hello Elcoo,

 

I would like to thank you for your explanations, when you write:

 

Your right, probably that file could be deleted. When I searched for the beacon texture I found this file in a Zip, but when I changed it nothing happened. I copied it and renamed it to "Airfield_LampBW.dds" and it worked, but I let the other file in...

 

You would say that you have renamed "lampbw.png.dds" to "Airfield_LampBW.dds" ?

If it's not the case or I've not well understand please can you tell me the file that you are rename by "Airfield_LampBW.dds" ?

 

Once again a great thanks in advance for all, best regards. Skull.

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elcoo

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Hello Elcoo,

 

I would like to thank you for your explanations, when you write:

 

 

 

You would say that you have renamed "lampbw.png.dds" to "Airfield_LampBW.dds" ?

If it's not the case or I've not well understand please can you tell me the file that you are rename by "Airfield_LampBW.dds" ?

 

Once again a great thanks in advance for all, best regards. Skull.

 

In the temptexture directory there was one file called "Airfield_LampBW.dds". This is the texture that describes the look of the Airfield beacons. I created my own texture for the beacon and named it "LampBW.dds" as i found that name in a ZIP. When I noticed that didn't change anything in the game, I copied my own "LampBW.DDS" and replaced the original "Airfield_LampBW.dds" with it. The "LampBW.DDS" in the TempTexture dir probably has no effect, but i let it in anyhow as i wasn't sure about it. If you wanted to modify the looks of the airfield beacon it would probably be enough to change "Airfield_LampBW.dds".

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I installed the mod according to your instructions and it gave me weird problems. DCS wouldn´t really crash, but got hung up repeatedly during loading until I Alt+Tab back to the desktop. Loading times were incredibly long. I also use FC3.

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elcoo

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I installed the mod according to your instructions and it gave me weird problems. DCS wouldn´t really crash, but got hung up repeatedly during loading until I Alt+Tab back to the desktop. Loading times were incredibly long. I also use FC3.

 

I'll have a look into that.

 

Edit: You're right, the mod increases the loading time dramaticly. Mine went up from 20 to ca. 50 seconds. I think this is because normally DCS uses precompiled shaders. When you edit an FX file DCS will notice this and compile it at each startup. I'm sorry, but I think there's nothing I can do about that.

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Skulleader

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Hello,

 

With my DCS and your Mod I do not have this kind of bug but by security I've remove this Mod.

 

Tanks for your feedback, skull.

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zaelu

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Game crashed with a rundll message. I had only Airfield lights installed and it crashed first to a client PC (with a freeze) that hadn't the mod then to me. I uninstalled the mod and we played happily almost 2 hours without any other problem..

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elcoo

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I'm sorry to hear that the mod crashes or produces other problems for some of you guys. I wasn't able to reproduce any of them unfortunately. As soon as I find out something about this, I will do an update.

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