Is this possible to mod? smoke idea

Kaleu_Mihoo · 11-04-06, 04:39 AM

Hi Kaleuns,
I was wondering if someone from the moding gurus here on subsim could take on this problem- one of the few last annoying things in sh3. It's about the ships smoke- it comes straight aft regardless of weather conditions like wind direction and strength. So I thought perhaps the smoke direction could be combined with the wind params, to result in smoke coming not only in the one direction, but for ex. backboards or steerboards. It would also greatly increase the realism because you couldn't guess the ship's course and speed on his smoke trail over the horizon.
greets
mihoo

THE_MASK · 11-04-06, 05:36 AM

I notice a lot of that stuff for tweaking smoke in the mini tweaker.

Safe-Keeper · 11-04-06, 05:39 AM

How come I never noticed that?

What's neat, however, is that the smoke is dependant on the ship, not physics. So if the ship's listing heavily to port, for example, the smoke goes sideways instead of up. Interesting:p.

Kaleu_Mihoo · 11-04-06, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

How come I never noticed that?

What's neat, however, is that the smoke is dependant on the ship, not physics. So if the ship's listing heavily to port, for example, the smoke goes sideways instead of up. Interesting:p.

I think this is because the smoke particles are fixed on the top of the funnel. If the ship's listing to port, the funnel goes in the same direction

and that's why the smoke makes a little "turn". But the general smoke direction is all the time backwards.
I'm not strong at all at repacking dat's and so on, I can only make some small changes in .cfg's, so I can't solve this problem myself. But perhaps if someone could "separate" the smoke from the ship's physics it would be at least possible to make random smoke direction settings via sh3 commander, like thermolayers or malfunction mod? Even though it wouldn't be a perfect solution it would be better than the "vanilla smoke".

greets
mihoo

Sailor Steve · 11-04-06, 12:12 PM

The flags also blow straight aft, never with the wind.

11-04-06, 04:39 AM	#1
Kaleu_Mihoo Medic Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Poland/Germany Posts: 159 Downloads: 66 Uploads: 0	Is this possible to mod? smoke idea Hi Kaleuns, I was wondering if someone from the moding gurus here on subsim could take on this problem- one of the few last annoying things in sh3. It's about the ships smoke- it comes straight aft regardless of weather conditions like wind direction and strength. So I thought perhaps the smoke direction could be combined with the wind params, to result in smoke coming not only in the one direction, but for ex. backboards or steerboards. It would also greatly increase the realism because you couldn't guess the ship's course and speed on his smoke trail over the horizon. greets mihoo __________________ Beide Maschinen AK voraus, hart backbord, auf 107 Grad gehen! Anlauf beginnt!...NYGM 3.0 Last edited by Kaleu_Mihoo; 11-04-06 at 06:20 AM.

11-04-06, 05:39 AM	#3
Safe-Keeper Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 3,234 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	How come I never noticed that? What's neat, however, is that the smoke is dependant on the ship, not physics. So if the ship's listing heavily to port, for example, the smoke goes sideways instead of up. Interesting:p. __________________ First Strike Mod tester. Hardcore sub skipper.

11-04-06, 12:12 PM	#5
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	The flags also blow straight aft, never with the wind. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-04-06, 05:36 AM	#2
THE_MASK Ace of the deep . Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,226 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 73	I notice a lot of that stuff for tweaking smoke in the mini tweaker.