Progress? The work is finished :D

Nice video. :yep:

LOL :o :haha:

Amazing. I like the mixture of smoke, water and vapour :yeah:

I have two last suggestions:

- what about tweaking smoke size overlife settings, to make its particles to grow a bit bigger in the air?

- I didn't see the new splash in game yet, but what would be very cool is making water particles (particula 01 and 03, if you didn't change their usage) to fall down after ca. 5-10 seconds, and vapour particles (particula 02) to hang midair for a longer time and to slowly vanish in the air, as seen in the first video posted by Rosomaha.

Apart from that, and the water drops problem, I think you are ready to hand over your tweaks to TDW. What do you think?

yes, there must be something else. I am looking sor this "little something" as we speak :03:

I think I have found it:

open TDW_FXU_Torp_Explosion_Materials.DAT in S3d, select the TDW_FXU_SplashVertAdd material, and check 'Disable z-buffer write + enable alpha blend'

After doing it, replace the new texture with one of my previous edits of Rosomaha's texture :up:

Do you mean black smoke of BazaFX or..?
If so, I think it will go to our to do list..

Honestly? I tired a little of these particulas, HEX editor (though I already love this tool :)) etc.. :03:

It's possible.. how? his PM-box is full.. he doesn't answer to my last questions in his threads.. where is he?

Are you sure I can do it in S3D? HEX not needed?

Do you mean 03-05?

yeah, that one :yep:

Well, there is no need to rush on it, but did you get my idea? Do you like it? I think it would raise realism a lot :D

release it here as an iterim patch, and TDW will add it to FX Update with... the next update :D

200% sure. As is as checking a check box (backup the file first :D)

Exactly, start with 03. If they still need to be adjusted a bit and you don't feel like leaving HEX editor, don't esitate asking me on it. :O:

Next step, smoke screens: what do you think? I have started collecting information on them :03:

Later :)

Yes, cool idea but.. again later :D..

I've never created the threads with the releases.. any threads.. here.. better I'll send you the files and you will create a thread with this release..

Already done.. that was what we are looking for.. what for? :haha: see below..

I was planning to do something with the ship reflections.. when I revised sea folders, I noticed some imported and even stock ships without any reflection controllers at all..

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water drops effect
stand alone -

http://s19.postimg.org/jez6vslj3/DROPS1.jpg . http://s19.postimg.org/4kalhmby7/DROPS2.jpg

on the background of others -

http://s19.postimg.org/4ybxh7w1r/DROPS3.jpg . http://s19.postimg.org/b0o5lg9vj/DROPS4.jpg

I don't think that 'water drops' effect has greatly improved the overall picture :har:

What can I say if not "later" :yep:

How long would this REL thread last? I think it is better to put a temporary link here or in FXU thread, while we are waiting for TDW to merge your patch with his mod. My two cents :)

I agree. I was going to tell you to scrap watedrop controllers at all in order to save some extra memory, but then I thought that they can come in handy fro when (later) we will work on the water falling effect.

But hey man, at last it worked: I knew that some setting wasn't in place!

Okay, but we have just made sober's mod outdated, and I thiink we should provide our forum-mates some alternatives.

Talking about imported ship reflections, I am not sure that SH5 controllers work with them, but I can be wrong :hmm2:

Hey, we just finished large work.. two-three days at rest and I will be ready for the next steps..

Well, tomorrow I will check everything again and 'll post the link here and in FX thread..

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Why do you think we made his mod outdated?
Baza_FX.dat is not included in FX Update.. and all changes I've done were in my own file..

But then why some of them have this controller and some without it? :hmm2:

OK.. going to sleep now..
Thanks Sjizzle for the testing our work :salute:
Thanks Rosomaha for the textures :salute:
And Gabriele, thanks for the great work, matey :yeah:

:salute:

Make one week :03:

I predict a big success. You have done a great work with those particle generators. Hopefully SHIII nostalgics won't say anymore (and they were right!) that "SH5 torpedo splash looks so ugly" :yeah:

Arent you going to release your rewoks of the explosion smoke, together with the rest?

Take my words with a pinch of salt, but those ships were imported by a group of modders when they were still experimenting with the dat format. Everyone had his own theories; someone could have kept the reflection controller just in case or, who knows, someone else could have found the way for getting it to work hopefully. As we are talking about it, I think I have seen the fishing trawler that I messed with the last week casting reflections, but at first I didn't pay attenction to them; I realized that in a second moment, but then, when I looked at my screenies, reflections weren's there. Was it a mirage? :doh:


...and thank you too for all you have done; we have just provided a little help :salute:

You made a great work on this guys, and specialy Volodya :yeah:
Nice dream time! :sunny:
Can't wait to get the final release tomorrow!

... while at it, what do you think of the depth charges explosion rendering?...not the best i've seen in an SH opus :D :gulp:
Problem is we don't have historical pictures as references...of underwater depth charge explosion :hmmm:

http://img15.hostingpics.net/thumbs/...pthcharges.jpg

hiting multiple targets at same time 2 - 3 doesnt causes lag or freezing i hit 3 targets at the same time in small convoy. Later ill come with some print screen.
now i don't have too mutch time cos i must go to work...

Have a nice day
Sjizzle

Too much/long :D

At least, I hope so :)
You know, there is no limit to perfection :03:, and later we definitely return to this idea -

It's not exactly explosion smoke, it's rather after explosion smoke and it's not related/associated to FXU.. I think we could release it as a stand alone mod instead of Sober's smoke.. but after its full rework as we have already done with the FXU torpedo explosion effects..

So, I only need enough the custom missions to check it all.. so this will be a long project :D..
And we completely forgot about our old project - completely reworked sub guns.. it has long been supposed to be released.. later today I'll post in the historical thread my new thoughts about this project..

Do you really think this mod is badly needed right now? :hmmm:

Good to know :up:
Thanks

No, of course...but one day could be nice if improved.
Have you seen them?

Not yet time to be interested in these effects, I think..
I have more required projects.. from my point of view, of course..

Yes, no limit to perfection indeed, but we are getting close :smug: :O:

I know, it is a different PG, different file, even different parent object (the ship instead of the torpedo), but as they are adjoining effects, and they are contributing to the same general effect splash => explosion=> smoke, I thought in future we could rework FXU's explosion and smoke fx as well. When/if we feel like doing it, indeed :03:

I will teach you how to use the same custom mission for testing multiple units, without need of using ME :know:

In the meanwhile, you can have a look at my rework of the fishing boat + funnel smoke. I included a single mission with it, if memory serves me well :hmm2:

I didn't forget about it: just postponed it a bit. I am looking forward to your new thoughts :up:

Fifi, the problem with that effect is that anything which is not a GR2 model, looks blurred underwater. If you want an example, look at air bubbles coming out from U-boat's deck :yep:

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Yes.. it's there.. I've looked at it one or two times :).. there is reflection controller in the .sim, but I didn't notice any reflection in the mission :hmmm:..

The thoughts are not so new rather well-forgotten old :03:

First post updated with your nice work :sunny:

I want to thanks Volodya, Gap, and all involved in it :yeah: :woot:
That was an interesting work to follow in this thread!
Thanks again guys!

PS: i don't know how to edit the thread title, to put "[REL]" in it...

Our pleasure :salute:

It's not needed I think.. TDW will come and merge this fix to the next version of FX Update :03:

Really nice work guys :yeah:

Looking forward to seeing these new FX on my monitor :)

This looks great, does it need to have the FX update mod enabled to use this or can it be used also as a stand alone mod? Thanks guys!