Special effects from SH3 Missing in Sh4??
 

Ok now maybe im wrong about this but so far I have yet to see several simple effects that should be modeled in the game. The effects I'm thinking about were found in Sh3 so i dont know why they took them out.

I have sunk several ships and have yet to see any oil on the water as we had in SH3, is there something wrong with my install or is it simply missing? If it is missing then is there a way to script it into SH4. It was a very immersive effect to see the oil slick form after sinking a tanker.

The second thing i have yet to see is the lightning. Now in SH3 it took awhile and several storms but i would see the lightning lighting up the sky. So far even when building a mission i have yet to see one bolt of lightning or even a flash. Again did i miss something or did they remove this as well. Since IL2 1946 is made by the same developer I wonder if we could take the lightning effects and place them in SH4. I'm sorry im a huge storm buff and loved watching a nasty storm and listening to it over the speakers.

The thrid thing, i miss my dolphin friends lol, im trying to bring them into SH4 so they can randomly appear as i had in Sh3.
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This is a little off topic but i didn't want to start a whole new post over this question. I decided to remove the plankton and distortion effects from the underwater scenes. I just like having the clean pictures i used to have in SH3 and not to mention that the plankton at night looks horrible on my monitor.

I simply moved a few files that were mentioned in an earlier post to a folder called back up. I'm not sure what the EXACT file names were but i know one was impurities.dds , distortion.dds and a third one.

When i started up the game i instantly felt relieved not to see the tons of yellow spots floating by my eyes but then i noticed the when viewing my sub it constantly looked blury and out of focus. I dont have a screen shot but it almost looked like there was an overlay of the sub on itself. Once i placed the files back in the problem went away. Was wondering if anyone has experienced this and what I need to do to make good underwater shots without all the distortion.

Thanks

William

I'm not sure about the missing oil slicks and lightening. Maybe they will be enabled with the next patch if there is one.

But lightening from IL 2 imported to SH 4 won't happen. Two totally different developement teams. IL 2 is 1C Maddox out of Moscow, Russia, and the Silent Hunter developement team is out of Romania. They are not associated.

I don't remember Dolphins in SH3.

Rick

Hey CaptBackasswards , best nickname on these forums:rotfl:

There are entries for oil slicks and lightning in the data files. Not sure what determines whether or not they occur though.

I haven't Seen either or.

Use to use that name over at the UBI forums too, but after moving and changing internet service I couldn't get my older name over there to work. Probably could have ask the moderators to help but I don't post enough to worry about it. Look at my registration date. Been registered for 2 years here and finally got around to posting.:rotfl:

Rick

I'm pretty sure I've seem lightening once or twice.

Thunder sounds are in the main sound folder but i have never heard them play either even after 24 hour real time and no not one instance of lightning

Can someone figure out how the sound effects are called in the game. How do you trigger a sound effect. I'm guesing that since lightning is NOT modeled in the game then the sound wont work because the lightning is triggering the sound of the thunder to play.

I know that the pacific ocean had pleanty of bad weather not AS bad as the Atlantic but come on UBI no thunder no lightning.

I'm really getting fed up with having to look online every five minutes to fix a game I paid 50 dollars for. Its not fair to me or the many other million or so people that got jipped, especially not to the modders who are the ONLY ones keeping this game from slipping into the darkness of the depths. (Oh and by the way they dont get paid and honestly SHOULD for solving all YOUR problems)

When making a sequal to a game it should be better content wise not worse.

Ok sorry im done venting but seriously why is it so much content from SH3 is gone but still in the file library. Sh4 is SH3 reskinned anyways so im guessing it shouldn't be to hard to import features or turn them on that were used in SH3.

I'm trying to figure out the sound thing but im not as good as the modders sory

William

Why do you think lightning is not modeled in the game?

Thunder sounds are definitely in. I have heard them many times already. I haven't seen lightning however, so it is possible that this effect is missing (or I have just missed it).

I actually like the algae/plankton effect :)

Yeah, this is a nice effect:yep:

RDP

I may have a bogus copy of the game then because even on the very first FRESH install with no mods I NEVER heard thunder durring storms and never saw a single flash of lightning.

As said before in the sound folder there is sounds for thunder and they all play very nicely but never here it in the game. I have never tried to run an actual mission yet because of the still many issues with the campains. So all the test i have done are with mission builder.

I set clouds to HEAVY
Rain to Medium (By the way the rain looks horrible and needs to be fixed looks like little white scratches all over the screen)
Wind 12 out of 15
Changes set to min 2hour

I go into the mission and see the heavy seas and hear the wind but never see any lightning streaks and never hear any thunder.

I'm looking into it still

I'm fairly sure I saw lightning - can't remember if I heard thunder or not. What I haven't heard that really bothers me is the water gushing from fractured pipes in the sub - silent water spray really upsets that sense of suspension of disbelief.

I have definetly heard thunder, but I dont think I've seen lightning (possibly in v1.0).