The winter mods thread !

Originally Posted by Hitman

There is lots of good stuff there, coupled with a properly tuned sky dome for the arctic nights this would be so awesome to have!!!!

And Northern Lights !

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...58#post2467858

[mikey117us]

Better Lighting Conditions than the Endless Arctic Night and a fair amount of ice coverage, then I killed it by adding more ice below in the Arctic Night Pics:


Back in the Endless Arctic Night in January 1942 at 09:00 A.M. Local Time Survivors in the Icy Water:

Adding over 7-10km+ More Pack Ice Experiment, Convoy Frozen in
place Taking One Hour Real Time to Break Free ( therefore an undesired result Convoys moved off when Ice Exceeds 3-5/10s coverage due to damage or sinking of ships )








A Wise New U-Boat Type IXC/40 Under Ice:

Another Stuck mikey117us Flower Class Corvette "The Cruel Sea" Mod Stuck in Pack Ice:

I need to Fine Tune 3D Models and Sizes to get a coverage that is passable for ships if encountered but U-Boats Technically would go around the long way to avoid Torpedo door jamming, dive plane, rudder and prop damage.
This as a mod is very easy to use if there are scripted icebergs in the scripted campaign they overwrite them and add the drift ice. Kendras if you can think of other things and create them this could be a good collaboration mod. I like the thought completely.

I like the idea of large ice fields !

[Hitman]

Man that looks so awesome!!!!

[ivanov.ruslan]

I almost forgot ftp://Maik:Woelfe@hartmuthaas.no-ip....ower_Arctic.7z

I've found a sound to add to the icefields : http://www.hnsa.org/wp-content/uploa...07/track19.mp3

[mikey117us]

@Kendras been experiencing CTDs in Beta testing of Ice Fields. Only during an increase in size of ice fields to larger than those in the screenshots. To me it would seem better that they remain as they are
As depicted in the screenshots ( for now ). Other anomalies experienced: inability of the game engine to recognize an obvious ship 5000m away as the size of an iceberg 3D model now with Drift Ice has a footprint of several thousand meters. Remedy would be to attach the ice as a child node to the model in s3d. This resulted in the ice rising and falling many meters out of the water as the icebergs rise and fall, therefore undesirable. Ships become stuck in drift ice. And as expected Torpedos detonate at about 1/2 there initial run. I will Therefore this week upload a BETA version for testing purposes in this thread. I Use GWX and have two single missions Ice ice baby I and II I use them for Beta testing, maybe someone could test in a campaign too. Stay tuned for Beta mod.

[Anvar1061]

Originally Posted by mikey117us

Stay tuned for Beta mod.

[mikey117us]

*DRIFT ICE BETA*
TESTERS WANTED!
https://www.mediafire.com/?hx3aa2zklm34r14

Hello Fans of Kendras Thread Winter Mods!
As seen in Screenshots I had a WIP of Ice Floes added to the Iceberg models.
No further work can proceed until Beta Testing by others in this thread can report in results and CTDs. ( Please read Readme txt ) CTDs can happen if RAM like my machine is not to the required 8gb. ( I only have 6gb! ) my resource monitor is showing SH3*32.exe pegged at betwen 3.6 and 3.7gb at the time of CTD. ( usually at a sound event, torpedo impact, or using the Crew Management GUI ).
My desire is that anyone has these same results but with a Machine with better resources than I, can let me know and a remedy Beta version will then be Uploaded until the right combination of large footprint Ice Floe, Drift Ice, Iceberg models is attained.
*Known Anomalies: AI Ships Stuck in Ice. It can take minutes or up to one hour real time in some cases for AI to release itself from an Ice Hazard. In this Beta Version this time is now reduced but in the modified GWX 3.0 Single Mission Ice Ice Baby 1, Th convoy and the U-boat may spawn at a different location than the waypoints.
Single Mission has ( or should ) Vanilla ships ( as per GWX 3.0 gold ) if not may not even load for you. ( errant ship could be His Majesty's Trawler/ASW Trawler ) Escorts are V&W Destroyers and a Black Swan Class Frigate.
This mission had over 35 Icebergs in it. I greatly reduced this number to relieve the strain on my resources, however it did not really change my CTDs.
Ice Hazard and Damage. Yes the Icebergs are Collisionable Objects, the ice around them in Drift form can mess up your Boat. Thinner single plane Ice floe is safe to dive/surface, and use periscope. I hunt at 18m Depth and use my Sky/night observation periscope for low ice, or free of ice conditions to surface or to attack.
Use of 1WO to carry out his duties as weapon officer and render assistance. You will see the word (null) alot in your periscope and lock on is impossible, as the iceberg models are many kilometers in size now an obvious ship even at close range cannot be locked onto watch for Ice Free Patches. Those that use Manual Targeting should shoot in an Ice Void patch of sea after identification, speed and range estimates done in an Ice Hazard double check these estimates. Your Torpedoes can and will detonate because of the ice if not all of it is observed at longer range, Set the Depth at 5-6m for larger Merchants and Tankers and 3mfor escorts and let the enemy manoeuvre to your chosen ice free patch. Escorts Hunting ability and ASDIC Performance is reduced. ( so is the Hydrophone be aware of this those that use manual targeting and speed estimates of ships based on hyrdrophone all-around- listening and timing the screws per minute/ degrees of travel on the Hydrophone ) Please read the read me, and let me correct the beta soon if necessary Thanks!

[Anvar1061]

@mikey117us

[mikey117us]

@anvar1061 Thank You !
All input welcome! Looking good, wanting others reports I hope soon.
Meanwhile,,,,,,,I wait for a stick of ram,
A general update forthcoming after its arrival and install. I must remember now this is Beta only not general release, wait for general release and updated readme for terms related to mod and useage. I must also make a new ice texture. Currently the ice texture is not mine, it's use is temporary and will be replaced. Easter Eggs will be added to the Final Mod. @kendras icebergs have an audible hydrophone sound but no .dsd files.

[ivanov.ruslan]

Realy nice!

[gap]

Originally Posted by mikey117us

*DRIFT ICE BETA*

Very atmospheric mod mikey, well done!

Originally Posted by Kendras

I've found a sound to add to the icefields : http://www.hnsa.org/wp-content/uploa...07/track19.mp3

Nice sound effect, but that engine background noise needs to be filtered. Two more ice cracking effects:


Above the surface


Underwater

Possibly, two or more sound effects can be combined on the same model or on separate models, for adding more variety

Originally Posted by mikey117us

...anomalies experienced: inability of the game engine to recognize an obvious ship 5000m away as the size of an iceberg 3D model now with Drift Ice has a footprint of several thousand meters. Remedy would be to attach the ice as a child node to the model in s3d. This resulted in the ice rising and falling many meters out of the water as the icebergs rise and fall, therefore undesirable

IIRC there should be a floating object controller. You could try and attach it to each child node, or you could place drift ice models -each with its own FloatingObject controller- in a library file, and attach them to the main iceberg unit through an eqp file.

Originally Posted by mikey117us

This mission had over 35 Icebergs in it. I greatly reduced this number to relieve the strain on my resources, however it did not really change my CTDs

To reduce strain on our machines, you could split complex ice patch models into a few basic meshes, and reiterate/combine them over and over. If you manage setting ice floes as equipments, you can link the same model multiple times (as if it was a gun). Otherwise, if the ice floes must be stored in the same file as the main iceber gunit, you could add many child nodes to it, and specify for all of them the same model Id (this way you import each basic element only once)

[the_frog]

Originally Posted by gap

To reduce strain on our machines, you could split complex ice patch models into a few basic meshes, and reiterate/combine them over and over. If you manage setting ice floes as equipments, you can link the same model multiple times (as if it was a gun). Otherwise, if the ice floes must be stored in the same file as the main iceber gunit, you could add many child nodes to it, and specify for all of them the same model Id (this way you import each basic element only once)

The multi instance approach takes much load from the game engine. Strongly recommended !!!

[mikey117us]

@Gap & @The_Frog
Thank you for Input. I know of model instancing in other gaming platforms, it had not crossed my mind as necessary when the concept was arrived at in the summer of 2016. Now it is absolutely IN THE WORKS! ( 3 individual .dat, .sim , .zon files in Library Folder ) I will attach to the .eqp file as cfg#x01, x02, etc. and beta test performance as of this post. Update Pending.