Oblivion smoke mod

[Dowly]

As some of you know, I was working on a new smoke awhile ago. Then I got my new PC and lost the earlier work I had done. Well, good thing it happened! I got a lot better looking smoke for you instead of the old one!

The smoke is taken from the game Oblivion, I just darkened it and made some changes to it.

Darkened version:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/613/beta212ou.jpg

Non-edited Oblivion smoke:
http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/5042/beta113fu.jpg
Movie of the non-edited oblivion smoke:
http://rapidshare.de/files/22025953/...Beta1.wmv.html (http://rapidshare.de/files/22025953/NewSmokeBeta1.wmv.html)

Here´s the file:
http://rapidshare.de/files/22079809/DowlysOblivionSmoke.7z.html

It has both smokes in it.

INSTALLATION
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JSGME:

1. Unzip the folders to the MODS folder in your SHIII folder
2. Enable with JSGME
3. Play

MANUAL:

1. Unzip the files to the Data/Textures/Tnormal/Tex folder
2. Play

[HanSolo78]

Wooowi... this smoke looks really great!!! :) :up:
I´l download and test it...

[Dowly]

And please, give me feedback. I need to know how this works on slower systems and how it looks when particle density is lowered.:up:

[HEMISENT]

Just DL'd it. Will give it a shot later-looks great in the pics. Just concerned about fps hit.

[bigboywooly]

any chance of another d/l link as most of us cant get anything off rapidshare

[Hawk U-375]

Great looking SMOKE! :|\\

[Deep Six]

Looks fabulous, but like others I cannot for some reason download anything from rapidshare anymore.
So untill this is availiable eleswhere I'm going to have to wait :damn:

Deep Six

[snakech]

any chance of another d/l link as most of us cant get anything off rapidshare

dl also here:

IE user
ftp://snakech.kicks-ass.org/
username: SH3
password: silent-hunter

Firefox user
ftp://SH3@snakech.kicks-ass.org/
password: silent-hunter

[bigboywooly]

:up: Thanx a bunch Snakech - have d/l from your link :up:

[andy_311]

I have a mid range pc and if I hit a single target it's okay but in a convoy with multiple hits my FPS drops to virtually mothing.

[Saintaw]

I have a good system (amd64 -2200 / X800/2GB mem). Looks very nice, can't report on convoys yet, but will do if I notice an FPS drop.

Here's a link to the file:

http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/19_1149397107_dowlysoblivionsmoke.7z

[Dowly]

Thanks for the mirrors guys!:up:

[Saintaw]

I timed this with trying the GW mod... this a screenie of my 1st kills in this campain using ObliSmoke :)

http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/thumbs/19_1149428456_boom_front.jpg (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/picpopup.php?ImgId=37807)
http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/thumbs/19_1149428419_boom_below.jpg (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/picpopup.php?ImgId=37806)

http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/thumbs/19_1149428485_oblismoke1.jpg (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/picpopup.php?ImgId=37808)
http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/thumbs/19_1149428525_oblismoke2.jpg (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/picpopup.php?ImgId=37809)

[Dowly]

How was the framerates?

[Saintaw]

No problem as far as I'm concerned (no visible hit). But I can't compare with before as... I installed the GW mod with full eye candy options. Still haven't seen any convoys, I'll take screenies when I do.

[bigboywooly]

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/5113/sh3img462006205350250small3fs.png (http://imageshack.us)

Works ok and no visible slowdown in frame rate and that was in Scapa so there were other warships too

Thanx for this - looks and feels great:up: :up:

[Saintaw]

I was too busy to take screenshots in a convoy, but the fps hit was not a hindrance.

http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/thumbs/19_1149457445_convoy.jpg (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/picpopup.php?ImgId=37826)

http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/thumbs/19_1149457415_peri_boom.jpg (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/picpopup.php?ImgId=37825)

[Totenkopf]

Funny you should use Oblivion as a source, I also have taken many textures and sound effects to make SH3 more convincing. I didn't think about the particle texturing, great work!

[Dowly]

Hehe, I was roaming the city on the main quest which is destroyed and saw the smoke. Looked so nice, that I just had to take it. :D

[Totenkopf]

Here is something I did with terrain, give it a try

http://rapidshare.de/files/22235950/Oblivion_Terrain_512.zip.html

This is my 512 pix version I am trying to find a better provider to put up my massive 4096 bundle :know:

I am having trouble grabbing yours. Is there a secret handshake or something?

[snakech]

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/5488/shot9lr.th.jpg (http://img48.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shot9lr.jpg)

nice works, Big THX
AMD +4000 Geoforce 7800GTX

[panthercules]

Hey Dowly - great idea with this smoke - tried it out last night. Kept waiting to spot a merchant off the Florida coast on my Drumbeat patrol, but kept getting dogged by warship sound contacts. Finally got tired of this one Elco captain that was sticking to me like glue despite hours of speed and course changes (what's with that, BTW?), so I finally decided to surface and duke it out with him.

Actually, I thought I was going to be able to sneak away from him on the surface in the middle of the night, but I saw him closing in from way far away and decided to see if I could hit him with my deck gun before he got too close. I actually hit him with my second shot, setting him on fire and causing him to turn and limp away. I sat back to enjoy your new smoke (looked great - sorry I forgot to take a screen shot), only to realize that he was getting away and wasn't sinking. I went to ahead flank, caught up with him and started shelling him again. About 40 shots later (10-12 hits - he's a small target), he FINALLY went under. (What's up with that, BTW - 10 hits with a 105mm deck gun to sink a PT boat?)

This is the first Elco I've encountered (as far as I know) since I started using GW 1.0 - I'm thinking something is weird with the Elco's sensors ability and damage model in this version, though obviously it's not safe to generalize from one encounter. I see that NYGM TW 2.0 is out now - may have to go try that one for a while. I hope I find some more substantial targets to try out your smoke on before I get back to port, but I'm really liking what I've seen so far. :up:

So - does Oblivion have any clouds you could borrow to make more of the variable cloud files we've been talking about in another thread here?:)

[Dowly]

So - does Oblivion have any clouds you could borrow to make more of the variable cloud files we've been talking about in another thread here?:)

No comments.;)

[Shelton]

beautiful work! thanks!!!