[REL]ROW Pacific Environments 3.3

[kriller2]

Originally Posted by DrBeast

1. Are you NUTS?!? Beer is good for ya! You as a scandinavian should know that better than me! :rotfl:
2. Agreed with you there. Question: will tweaking this parameter also affect how the fog looks, or only viewing distance?
3. Agreed again.
4. I wonder if it's a 1.5 thing. Oil slicks showed up just fine on my rig (barring the annoying slowdown which has lead to this witchhunt), and I don't have the add-on. :hmm:

1. Beer.. yes I can consume quite a few of those especialy if I am to a festival like RF but to see it in the ocean is another thing :rotfl:
2. Yes it would :hmm:
4. It seems to be an 1.5 thing, before the addon the ROW effects worked with 1.4.

I hope we can work out a solution

[DrBeast]

You know, this new rig of mine drives me nuts, but I got to acknowledge this: loading times are FAST! Makes troubleshooting much, much easier (if I use the word "troubleshooting" again, I'll shoot myself, I swear!). Now I need to make a mental note to pick up a few Guinness on my way home, something tells me I'm gonna need them while I'm troubleshoo...BANG!

[Will-Rommel]

Is there still a walking camera in this mod for u-boat addon?

[kriller2]

Originally Posted by DrBeast

You know, this new rig of mine drives me nuts, but I got to acknowledge this: loading times are FAST! Makes troubleshooting much, much easier (if I use the word "troubleshooting" again, I'll shoot myself, I swear!). Now I need to make a mental note to pick up a few Guinness on my way home, something tells me I'm gonna need them while I'm troubleshoo...BANG!

It's nice with a new rig and after some adjustments and make all the different componments work it's worth effort?

ETA: if D_T is working on the zones.cfg file too, maybe I should PM him so we can coordinate our work. Me not having internet at home is a bit of a problem, though. Many times I've started working on something only to find out the next day that I had been re-inventing the steel...eeeh!...wheel (been listening to too much Pantera lately!).

Sorry for not answering this, (was at work.) No DT is only working to make the ROW smoke work with the new particles, so you have the zones.cfg for yourself so to speak, but I can send the file I made if you want to? - It
s not finished though.

EDIT: I have just examined the new particles.dat and there are 2 nodes: "Burning oil small" and "oil floating spot":hmm:

Aha! now I see why it wont work, it's not the particles files fault it's the materials that's missing the oil nodes / dds'es, if just I could export those nodes over to the new materials file... :hmm:

Pantera? Ok I see, what about inflames, they are swedish

BTW to all the users wondering what we are trying to make work here is a picture of the special effects:

[Doolittle81]

Originally Posted by kriller2

Hi Doolitle,

The fog have always been in the game, but the Dev's somehow toned it max down, maybe it was because of optimizing so that the average rig could run SH4?

What me and Wclear has done is simply to let the player "see" the fog, before you could see the effect in the horizon sometimes without a fog! Now you have a nice haze effect when it's foggy.

If you don't like the effect, try turn off volumetric fog in the options menu.

Thanks for the explanation... Don't get me wrong, I love the Fog and my Rig can handle it with no problem at all. I just sometimes would like to have No fog, artificially canceled so to speak, when I want to do a specific ScreenCapture or movie clip. I'll try Unchecking volumetric fog when needing to make a capture of a beautiful sunset, for example. Thanks again.

By the way, here's a little 30-second movie clip with Fog and wind, etc... low resolution in streaming WMV format, but it gets the point across that fog adds a special touch to SH4 combat.
http://files.filefront.com/SubFogwmv.../fileinfo.html


My Rig:
ASUS P5N32-E SLI
Dual core E6700 Cpu
2GB OCZ PC2 8800 (1100Mhz) RAM
BFG 8800GTX w/768MB Graphics card
Samsung SyncMaster 244T 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor 1920X1200 native resolution
Windows VISTA 32bit

[THE_MASK]

I wouldnt mind trying this but are the crew spoting ranges reasonable in all conditions .

[kriller2]

@Monolith regarding the beer foam issue.. Now see what I have done to the sunsets :p I promised myself I wasn't going to mod it for a long time...

(The sky is another colour lookin the opposite direction)




Real life picture:


I allso made a new scene with no light fog, which I will post as an option.

What do you think, I found out a way to make the sun effect without the beer effect

[MONOLITH]

Originally Posted by kriller2

@Monolith
What do you think, I found out a way to make the sun effect without the beer effect

I think anything that does that is brilliant.

Please tell...what was the solution to the SunLightColor issue?

[kriller2]

Originally Posted by MONOLITH

I think anything that does that is brilliant.

Please tell...what was the solution to the SunLightColor issue?

Thanks, what I did was to make the texture control the colours more instead of the datafile, it took some time and testing,because the engine slowly blends the colours from sunset to sunrise.

[MONOLITH]

So, we're talking about the reflex_pac, right?

Such as reducing the red in here, for example... ?

[Alex]

@ Kriller2 : Wonderful, Sir.
You have a PM !

[Ducimus]

[AlmightyTallest]

LOL, the reflex pac-man :rotfl:

[kriller2]

@Ducimus :rotfl:

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Kriller,

Another thing I just noticed is the issue of the camera going to a black screen still exists when trying to go to the sonar display on the U-boats and when trying to click on the officer in the control room of the American subs. Is there a known fix for this?

Hey Luke and Kriller2

I'm currently looking at the cameras.dat file again. Im not sure if the blackscreen issue is a relict from the ROW mod (thats the cameras.dat file im working on top of) if if its from the original. I have not changed anything in either of those two stations, only in the periscope, obs-periscope, binocular and UZO.