Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command: Ships stack smoke

Flaskegaard · 09-03-20, 02:11 PM

Greetings.
I have come back to SH2/DC after several years. Back then, I downloaded an add-on that showed smoke emitting from the ship's stacks. Cannot seem to remember which add-on did that. I also remember that the add-on only worked on certain ships, there were a couple of cargo ships that didn't emit stack smoke like the others, however there was a fix to that also....Can anyone refresh my memory? Thanks!

Vox165 · 09-04-20, 11:15 AM

Vickers Oil slick and Fireball packages add billowing smoke, flares, secondary explosions etc- highly recommend.

Hard to know what you had because, most graphic mod packages change the graphic : "smoke.tga".

You can also increase or decrease the amt of smoke by changing " stacksmoke" (path DC\Sim\Art \Pyro\ Pyro.PSF ). Change the "Duration" to whatever.

In the game, stack-smoke helps locate, number, range, and direction of distant ships but can't be used as masking cover like it was sometimes used, because the AI sees through-it.

09-03-20, 02:11 PM	#1
Flaskegaard Medic Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Washington State, USA Posts: 159 Downloads: 883 Uploads: 0	Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command: Ships stack smoke Greetings. I have come back to SH2/DC after several years. Back then, I downloaded an add-on that showed smoke emitting from the ship's stacks. Cannot seem to remember which add-on did that. I also remember that the add-on only worked on certain ships, there were a couple of cargo ships that didn't emit stack smoke like the others, however there was a fix to that also....Can anyone refresh my memory? Thanks!

09-04-20, 11:15 AM	#2
Vox165 Sparky Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Penns Woods Posts: 157 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 0	Vickers Oil slick and Fireball packages add billowing smoke, flares, secondary explosions etc- highly recommend. Hard to know what you had because, most graphic mod packages change the graphic : "smoke.tga". You can also increase or decrease the amt of smoke by changing " stacksmoke" (path DC\Sim\Art \Pyro\ Pyro.PSF ). Change the "Duration" to whatever. In the game, stack-smoke helps locate, number, range, and direction of distant ships but can't be used as masking cover like it was sometimes used, because the AI sees through-it.