Special effects from SH3 Missing in Sh4??

[William516]

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

[CaptBackasswards]

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

[THE_MASK]

Hey CaptBackasswards , best nickname on these forums:rotfl:

[Scoochy]

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

[Kataki]

I haven't Seen either or.

[CaptBackasswards]

Originally Posted by sober

Hey CaptBackasswards , best nickname on these forums:rotfl:

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

[Egan]

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

[William516]

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