Hi!
torpedo HIT video: Periscope view of Attack on Japanese freighter by American submarine around Palau Island in Pacific.

and big boom: Underwater Explosion

Here they are -

http://s19.postimg.org/gyjlcpzb3/EXPL1.jpg . http://s19.postimg.org/wy28w9vcv/EXPL2.jpg . http://s19.postimg.org/lacsfgvlr/EXPL3.jpg . http://s19.postimg.org/exxn5msjj/EXPL4.jpg

Set the values in my Basa_FX.dat - x - 0.2, y - 1 :03:

I don't see this new water drops (VertAdd 06-08) in game at all :shifty:

Good :up:

Is the darker smoke visible in the last screenshot from TDW torpedo splash dat (pierreE), of from baza dat?

It would be cool if smoke (baza dat) lasted much longer than the splash, atteining the shape and the size of the pictures I have linked in my previous post :)

Okay, now I am sure that the problem is some setting in the particle generator. I need to explain you something. There are two main types of alpha channel sorting:

1 - alpha blending: texture pixels are redered more or less transparent, depending on how dark is the corresponding pixel of the alpha channel (blak=fully clear; white=fully opaque)

2 - alpha testing: again, the game reads the alpha channel, but this time any pixel darker than 50% gray is not rendered, and any pixel brighter than 50% white is rendered as fully opaque.

I have darkened the alpha channel of our texture, not that much to render it invisible if alpha blending was used, but for some reason alpha testing is applied, which meas no pixels rendered. I will look into waterdrops particle generator to see what's going on with it :yep:

If you mean black smoke, it's of Baza.dat and it lasts very long time..

Here a couple of shots to show wind coef work -

http://s19.postimg.org/oz2hey5mn/WIND1.jpg . http://s19.postimg.org/680k4sb27/WIND2.jpg

Just want to remind you, I switched to On DensityModifier in my file.. :yep:

Wow, great progress! :yeah:

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..

:up:

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