[REL] Longer wake for ships/subs mainly for TMO1.7

[el cheguevara]

Very nice, glad you decided to release this one. Although i love stock, i'll get TMO to try this one out.

[Hmuda]

Thank you very very very much for releasing this in the end. I'm lucky to be a TMO+RSRDC user.

[clayton]

Originally Posted by Hmuda

Thank you very very very much for releasing this in the end. I'm lucky to be a TMO+RSRDC user.

Same here...downloading now. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Thanks!

[Vikinger]

Originally Posted by el cheguevara

Very nice, glad you decided to release this one. Although i love stock, i'll get TMO to try this one out.

You can allways try and run it first on stock.
I thought it looked ugly but iam used to TMO.

The difference was like you are watching a tv widescreen (TMO) and then went back to the old format 4;3.

But people was used to the old format and didnt know anything els before widescreen came


And to others replie. Thank you and give me good as bad feedback.

I know some things i could have done better. Ive learned a lot during the time i worked on it and if i did it again i would approach it in a different way.
Even if the wakes does not look so realistic its possible to add much more realism to it. But it would take real long time to do

Great work Vikinger.

Would you mind explaining what numbers in what files you chaged to make the effect?

I want to try to take a crack at the RFB files for this.

[Vikinger]

Hi Mav87th.

In the Data/sea and DataSubmarine folder there is every unit and in thos folders are that .val file that handle the wake. If a ship does not have a val file then its linked to another ship that has one.

Check your game installation for the val files after you have installed RFB.
If i dont recall wrong there was NOT many val files that was in the RFB it self so il guess they use the standard ones from stock.

You can open one of them whit S3D tool and compare whit anoother file from RFB or stock. By that you can se what i changed.

Everyship and sub has either 2 or 3 wake attatched to them that you can play around whit. But you can also add more wakes so they can have as many you like. But its darn time consuming to do so
So i didnt do this for the ships cuz it was so many of them but i added 1 extra wake for the submarines to smooth out some odd angles i got when i stretched out the wakes.

And i did about 3-4 ships at a time and made a test mission whit the missioneditor to se how they looked. So it was a lot testing for about 140 units I Loaded the testmission. Noted the behaviour on the ships, specially when they do a turn, shut down the game, did some adjustment, loaded the game, hince repeate

If you want more detailed description what the values means/do and how to add more wakes i can for sure help you to get started Just PM me then.


Vikinger.

[OneTinSoldier]

Thanks a million for this Vikinger! I've just downloaded it and am doing a fresh install of TMO_1.7(i haven't played 1.7 yet). I loved your screenshots of it and look forward to seeing it in action.

Cheers

[OneTinSoldier]

Hello again Vikinger,

I just tried it out and it works great. I love it! It even works fine with gdc3man's 'Ships_Reflect and Caustic_Environment Mod 5.1'.

Thanks again for doing this and deciding to release it. I gave both your thread and his a 5 star rating.

Cheers

[Vikinger]

Thanks a lot OneTinSoldier for the greate feedback.

I appreciate it