Yes but Hitman (and I, earlier in the thread) was discussing funnel smoke, not fire smoke. IRL funnel smoke varied greatly by ship type and fuel type. From what I've read here, military ships produced hardly any visible smoke at all except when they were diliberately producing smoke screens.

In the WW2 photo's I've looked at, I've seen entire convoys of both merchant and military ships out at sea without one bit of visible funnel smoke anywhere.

Sorry, my mistake! :oops:

You're right about the smoke by the way, oil fired ships don't give off much smoke at all :up:.

Yeppers....the more smoke you made the easier it was for the enemy to find you.

Racerboy's effects - v.1.06
 

Bulker [by Rowi]
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/3866/bulker2ss2.png
Crew asked about his impressions answered that they are little bored...
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/6041/bulker3kg6.png

Holy mommy! This will rock my Boot!

Sea textures seem to be working.

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7...exturesst8.png

Are there supposed to be crew members on the decks like in IV or something? The above pic seems to show it...

Well I installed this mid patrol JSGME and took a few screens on a single T3 (empty) attack;

http://mysh3.info/danurve/four2three/20_45.jpg

http://mysh3.info/danurve/four2three/20_46.jpg

Got a convoy to sneak up on hoping to observe some effects from that attack!
Perhaps the seas will be choppy by then.
Installed under War Ace 2.15 using an AGP card, significantly less drop in frames then I expected. :up:
Well friggin done so far; Racerboy, you da Man :|\\

Thanks for the compliment. I'm glad you're enjoying it. Have you noticed any white boxes or anything abnormal denoting problems and/or bugs? I hope the answer is no. :yep:

Hitman,

Thank you for the constructive criticism. it's always welcomed :up: Now to focus on the funnel smoke is my next version of this mod along with some others to be ported. I really don't have a clue what the funnel smoke should look like as I wasn't even born, much less thought about at the time, when this was going on. I can reinstate the SH4 port I did of it and see what you all think. I didn't think it looked realistic or 'good' but I'm not one to know. Then you all can give me feedback from this SH4 funnel smoke port. Sound like a plan?

I have gone through this thread and going by what others have posted I'll say no for now, nothing out of the ordinary (yet). ;)

If I might suggest; I think I have the current beta, but it's hard to tell. When you post a new release could you maybe anchor a link in the very first post?
Thanks for the work again!

hmm...I wonder if my ship is supposed to be breaking in two and shooting fireballs.

:o ................:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Just check YouTube for samples such "artic convoy", PQ 17 to see realistic smoke.

HI RACERBOY!!!!!!
:up: :up: :up: :up: :up: I like this exellent MOD

Observed an interesting explosion playing the game last night while spider attacking a huge convoy.
The first hit was on a celt tanker - just as the torpedo hit there looked to be a smaller fireball of sorts. Color was the same as the explosion-fire effects in this mod. And I could swear, it had a sound effect along with it. Everything else seemed to work. Happened fast, didn't get a screen.
Racerboy is this what you were talking about?

I took a break from work & tried this (also just upgraded from 1 to 2 gb memory), very impressive RB .... you are gonna find it hard to improve it now!:yep::up:

RB (and OLC for the sea textures) - awesome mod !:sunny: :sunny:

What you probably saw was the small Oil fire and smoke that I added on torpedo impact. It lasts for only a very short time (1-1.5 seconds). What did you think about it? Look good or bad? I was trying to simulate the initial explosion by the torpedo. What depth did you have this torpedo at when it hit the ship? There is an effect choice added that below a certain depth it will do the depth charge explosion in place of the small oil fire and smoke on initial impact. You might have seen this depth charge explosion effect. Did you see debris flying through the air on torpedo impact? If not then the depth charge explosion effect was used by the game.

I second that; I would like a little less smoke. As it stands now it is about right for old coal-burning ships but it doesn't seem right on modern vessels. Less smoke would be a decent average value, I think.