[WIP] Diesel room interior

flakmonkey · 01-18-10, 03:28 AM

Since this mod is coming along nicely and has progressed past the idea stage i thought it deserved a proper work-in-progress thread to keep things nice and organised. (original thread-http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=159856)

At this point the whole diesel room is up and running in game with no problems, although im still tweaking here and there with textures and lightmaps.

　
Stuff to do:
1. Add animations to engine parts
2. Fix engine telegraph so it works
3. Animate crew (basic idle animations, nothing fancy!) - the crew will not represent those shown in the crew management screen, 8 people in this small space looks stupid!
4. Id like to add a louder diesel engine sound to the room too.
5. Add fixed camera positions and clickspots (fore/aft cams etc)
6. Add a key command (shift+e perhaps) to jump to the diesel room, there is no open hatch since the compartments between the control room and diesel room are not yet modelled and it would look silly to go from the control rooms round aft hatch to the diesel rooms rectangular doorway. (+you can still fly through the rear wall should you choose)
7. Optimize optimize optimize, right now all the textures/lightmaps are 1024*1024 maps, quite a few just dont need to be, i can probably reduce 75% of them to 512*512 and a few to 256*256 or smaller, i`ll keep the detail where its needed though. Apart from the dat file being a little on the large side and an extra 20seconds load time there has been no noticable side effect in terms of framerate, i still get the same fps i did before enabling the mod, which is good since my vid card is rubbish!
8. Im still looking at alternatives to adding this to the control room dat since that is already the biggest dat file in the game and i have no wish to bloat it needlessley! It should be equally possible to add it to the conning tower dat file which is a tiny little thing in comparrison to NSS_Uboat7_CR.dat.
9. If theres anything you really really want to see added to the diesel room or theres anything you see in the screenshots that you absolutely hate, tell me now while it can still be changed!

Issues so far:
Well theres the fog issue. Because the diesel room is an extension of the control room model im stuck with the control room`s fog values which looks great in the control room but i think its a little too dense for the diesel room. Now i can use the fog render controller to just switch the fog off completely for the diesel room meshes but that just doesnt look right either, i dont think there is a happy medium with this one, but hey its personal taste, maybe you like your engine rooms foggy!

Red light:
Now i like the red lighting, i think it looks great but i know that the diesel room would never switch to red light in reality since there was no need for the engine room crew to preserve their night vision. But again because this is parented to the control room you will get the switch to red at dusk wether you like it or not.

　
　
I took about a million screenshots so i`ll only post a couple fullsize, these are all in game, from a single mission with a VIIc.

Reece · 01-18-10, 04:00 AM

I knew this was coming!!

Excellent .... can't wait for this mod!!

Quote:

Well theres the fog issue. Because the diesel room is an extension of the control room model im stuck with the control room`s fog values which looks great in the control room but i think its a little too dense for the diesel room. Now i can use the fog render controller to just switch the fog off completely for the diesel room meshes but that just doesnt look right either, i dont think there is a happy medium with this one, but hey its personal taste, maybe you like your engine rooms foggy!

Diesel fumes!!

danurve · 01-18-10, 10:06 AM

Would be very cool if you can pull this off.

java`s revenge · 01-18-10, 10:09 AM

Don`t give up, make our day !!!

Tomi_099 · 01-18-10, 10:24 AM

EXELENT , ..COOL !!! .. I like it ...

Tweety · 01-18-10, 10:28 AM

Looks real good flakmonkey,

Looking forward to the mod.

Tweety

msalama · 01-18-10, 10:28 AM

We-heyyy, an engine room for SH3! Sir, you _ROCK_

urfisch · 01-18-10, 10:29 AM

PHAT!

Alex · 01-18-10, 10:40 AM

With much respect...

Alex

GOZO · 01-18-10, 10:59 AM

Aaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!!!! WOW Jumping up and down.....

,

please continue..pleeease?

/GOZO

Redbear · 01-18-10, 11:19 AM

WOW!!!!!!!

pierreandre · 01-18-10, 11:39 AM

Great work, i love it!

Wild_skipper · 01-18-10, 11:48 AM

It looks amazing !

01-18-10, 12:26 PM

Excellent!

verte · 01-18-10, 12:55 PM

Beautifull

Keep up the good work. I'm slighty worrying if my pc could run this, because I have performance problems with all those open hatch mods.

01-18-10, 03:28 AM	#1
flakmonkey Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Staffordshire, Uk Posts: 944 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	[WIP] Diesel room interior Since this mod is coming along nicely and has progressed past the idea stage i thought it deserved a proper work-in-progress thread to keep things nice and organised. (original thread-http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=159856) At this point the whole diesel room is up and running in game with no problems, although im still tweaking here and there with textures and lightmaps. 　 Stuff to do: 1. Add animations to engine parts 2. Fix engine telegraph so it works 3. Animate crew (basic idle animations, nothing fancy!) - the crew will not represent those shown in the crew management screen, 8 people in this small space looks stupid! 4. Id like to add a louder diesel engine sound to the room too. 5. Add fixed camera positions and clickspots (fore/aft cams etc) 6. Add a key command (shift+e perhaps) to jump to the diesel room, there is no open hatch since the compartments between the control room and diesel room are not yet modelled and it would look silly to go from the control rooms round aft hatch to the diesel rooms rectangular doorway. (+you can still fly through the rear wall should you choose) 7. Optimize optimize optimize, right now all the textures/lightmaps are 10241024 maps, quite a few just dont need to be, i can probably reduce 75% of them to 512512 and a few to 256256 or smaller, i`ll keep the detail where its needed though. Apart from the dat file being a little on the large side and an extra 20seconds load time there has been no noticable side effect in terms of framerate, i still get the same fps i did before enabling the mod, which is good since my vid card is rubbish! 8. Im still looking at alternatives to adding this to the control room dat since that is already the biggest dat file in the game and i have no wish to bloat it needlessley! It should be equally possible to add it to the conning tower dat file which is a tiny little thing in comparrison to NSS_Uboat7_CR.dat. 9. If theres anything you really really want to see added to the diesel room or theres anything you see in the screenshots that you absolutely hate, tell me now while it can still be changed! Issues so far:* Well theres the fog issue. Because the diesel room is an extension of the control room model im stuck with the control room`s fog values which looks great in the control room but i think its a little too dense for the diesel room. Now i can use the fog render controller to just switch the fog off completely for the diesel room meshes but that just doesnt look right either, i dont think there is a happy medium with this one, but hey its personal taste, maybe you like your engine rooms foggy! Red light: Now i like the red lighting, i think it looks great but i know that the diesel room would never switch to red light in reality since there was no need for the engine room crew to preserve their night vision. But again because this is parented to the control room you will get the switch to red at dusk wether you like it or not. 　　 I took about a million screenshots so i`ll only post a couple fullsize, these are all in game, from a single mission with a VIIc. __________________ Last edited by flakmonkey; 01-18-10 at 12:50 PM.

01-18-10, 10:06 AM	#3
danurve The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Syracuse, NY Posts: 1,481 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 3	Would be very cool if you can pull this off. __________________

01-18-10, 10:09 AM	#4
java`s revenge Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: at periscope depth Posts: 1,204 Downloads: 97 Uploads: 0	Don`t give up, make our day !!! __________________

01-18-10, 10:24 AM	#5
Tomi_099 The Old Man Join Date: May 2007 Location: München / Germany Posts: 1,486 Downloads: 426 Uploads: 0	EXELENT , ..COOL !!! .. I like it ... __________________ http://www.thegreywolves.com

01-18-10, 10:29 AM	#8
urfisch Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Deep down in Germany Posts: 1,969 Downloads: 42 Uploads: 0	PHAT! __________________

01-18-10, 10:28 AM	#6
Tweety Planesman Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 188 Downloads: 157 Uploads: 0	Looks real good flakmonkey, Looking forward to the mod. Tweety

01-18-10, 10:28 AM	#7
msalama Samurai Navy Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: In an octopus's garden Posts: 565 Downloads: 99 Uploads: 0	We-heyyy, an engine room for SH3! Sir, you _ROCK_

01-18-10, 10:40 AM	#9
Alex Dominant Wolf Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,143 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	With much respect... Alex __________________

01-18-10, 10:59 AM	#10
GOZO Commander Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Linkoping, Sweden Posts: 479 Downloads: 176 Uploads: 0	Aaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!!!! WOW Jumping up and down....., please continue..pleeease? /GOZO __________________ SHIV:TMo 2.5, RSRD, SCAF OLC, Ralle's modpack SHIV: WDAD, Med Campaign SHIII: GWX3 GOLD, OLCII Gold, ACM-reloaded interface mod, SHIIIcmndr 3.2, Full Realism/DiD SHIII: LSH3 2015 Cold Waters with all bells and whistles Finally SHV but still unmodded and still a noob....

01-18-10, 11:19 AM	#11
Redbear Engineer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 208 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	WOW!!!!!!!

01-18-10, 11:39 AM	#12
pierreandre Bosun Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Hamburg Germany Posts: 61 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	Great work, i love it! __________________

01-18-10, 11:48 AM	#13
Wild_skipper Electrician's Mate Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: belgium Posts: 140 Downloads: 96 Uploads: 0	It looks amazing ! __________________ GWX 3.0 gold

01-18-10, 12:26 PM	#14
Uber Gruber Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Excellent!

01-18-10, 12:55 PM	#15
verte Sparky Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 158 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	Beautifull Keep up the good work. I'm slighty worrying if my pc could run this, because I have performance problems with all those open hatch mods.