Thank you very much, dear friend ! :yeah: I will try this right now.

I will try again this morning to solve the enigma. :03:

My pleasure :up:


Okay, I am sure you will manage :up:

Indeed, I solved the problem during the morning. :)

Progress :

http://i.imgur.com/nwM9UEv.png

Next step is to build the harbor.

http://i.imgur.com/xqcs6GE.png

http://i.imgur.com/DrksmCt.png

Testing a new black smoke effect ... :hmmm:

http://i.imgur.com/RcCwdXQ.png

Looking very nice. :up:

My remarks in detail:

• Port and oil refinery structures look a bit uncolorful. Not really your fault, since stock textures used on them are quite boring :03:
  
  
• Would if be possible moving/rotating the Aruba location, so that its outline matches better the local coast outline?
  
  
   

  http://i.imgur.com/A8H3THB.jpg
  
  
• Some of the oil storage tanks located farther from the shoreline look like they are standing directly from the grass; could you raise a bit the whole location so that the concrete pavement will stand higher than the underllying terrain in every portion of the refinery area?
  
  
• The smoke effect looks amazing, but maybe such a big dark plume is a bit out of place. I don't know what 40's US regulations on industrial emissions were (probably there wasn't any regulation), nor I know the technical details of oil refining of the time, but I know that black smoke is the result of incomplete hydrocarbon combustion, and I would expect a refinery to emit large quantities of it, only if it was set on fire, or if, due to poor offciency, there was a big quantity of side-products that had to be burned. In modern oil refineries, smoke coils getting out from cooling towers and furnace stacks are mostly composed of carbon dioxide and water vapour, and they are mostly white or white-gray:
  
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4273041695
  http://www.gettyimages.it/detail/fot...stock/85903068
  
  I think the only time you will see huge quantities of black smoke getting out from a refinery, it is when the plant has to be shutdowns/restarted, smoke getting out from the top of gas flares (the thin stacks used for burning-off the excess of natural gases, often surmounted by a pilot flame, other link):
  
  http://www.gettyimages.it/detail/fot...stock/85903068 (top picture)
  https://www.google.it/search?biw=153....0.VHimtYXT6KA

... looks to me like it took a few hits from an 88mm deck gun there gap...

I am astounded by the amount of work you two do with this game. Excellent stuff. Don't forget that you can use the GWX Terrain Extractor to "level the playing field" (play on words) to help the "concrete" pad of the refinery fit the hill. In other words, you could do some digital "excavating" and / or "land-filling". You might even have to "dredge a channel" for the big tankers to come in and load... :salute:

You are probably right :doh:

If that was the case, the current smoke effect would be totally accurate, and my suggestion would be to add white smokes or pilot flames to some of the chimneys :up:

I thank you for your praises, though I have no merit on this project :)

Sure, that's a possibility, but due to extremely low resolution of SHIII terrain masks/elevation maps, editing those files is more useful for making some large scale terrain adjustements than for small fine-tunings :yep:

Yes, I'm working on this, with satellite views.

I will see what can be done.

... that's the case :)

... that's the goal. For now, that's only land units which are emitting this black smoke. I have to create destroyable oil storage tanks, with the proper burning effect. I was testing the smoke effect. I would it to be bigger, as on this pic :

http://i.imgur.com/fhmrcuV.png

I have also to create the flames effect :

http://i.imgur.com/K7a1h1Y.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Cq7hUMPng

But I think I will need to create a special animation effect (I know it's possible, as in SH4 effects mod for SH3). :hmmm:

Yes, that's my plan too, as on this picture of Aruba refinery :

http://i.imgur.com/59qDQGl.jpg

You forgot the triangles ... :D

See gap? He's pulling you in... :har:

As "coarse" as the SH4 GWX changes can be, is it even coarser in SH3? I forget... 255 colors?

:up:

You might increase particle size, but the effect would look coarser probably, or you might increase particle spawn rate and radius, but the effect would use more computer resources :hmmm:

Sure it is, and it is used in SHIII too: there is at least an explosion particle that I am aware of, using an animated texture :up:

You can look on the web for a ready-to-use animated flame texture, or you can look for two or more flame textures, crop/resize them so they have the same size, and interpolate the animation frames between them with a morphing program :03:

Amazing :up:

Don't forget flames on top of flare stacks. Should SHIII miss a model of them, I think that extracting them from one of the 3Dwarehouse models and importing them in game shouldn't be too complicated :D

Come on guys... a couple of triangles? :rotfl2:

Probably coarser :-?

Mmh, I have to figure out what it is and how it works.

There is a high chimney model in harbours_kit.dat. :hmmm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphing
https://www.appginger.com/free-morphing-software/ :03:

I am not an expert on this topic, buy far as I can tell, there should be two main types of chimneys tha can be found in a oil plant:

- chimneys surmounting distillation columns (these should have white smoke)


- fase flares (much thinner and higher than the former, these should have a flame on top):

Hi Kendras,

Have you made any progress on the refinery?

regards,

MLF