[REL] sobers smoke screen V1 SH5

[gap]

Originally Posted by volodya61

You finally decided to engage in this

Yep, at this stage is more a proof of concept than a mod, but after giving it the last touch-ups I will be able to post a first test version of it

[Fifi]

This smoke screen mod is one of the best around for immersion

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before...


...after

Do you notice anything? Yes, the destroyer is unharmed, but shee is putting up a smoke screen anyway, and the smoke is coming out from her funnels

What I have done:

• created a dummy gun, firing dummy shells (took the idea from TDW and sergbuto );
• added two new armament bones on top of the chimneys of the ship used for this test;
• assigned the dummy gun to the two new gun linking bones through eqp file;
• copied the smoke fx used by sober for its smoke screen and pasted it in a new dat file;
• touched up a bit its particle generators (still far by perfect);
• assigned the new smoke particles as muzzle flash effect of the dummy gun. That simple

Advantages of this method:

• we don't need to give up any existing effect for getting smoke screen in game;
• we can create as many different smoke screen types as we want, and assign them to our ships as we do with sensors and armaments;
• we can decide which ships will lay smoke screens and which not;
• we can set where on the ships the smoke will pour out (funnels, stacks on the deck, etc.);
• ships don't need to be on fire for laying smoke screens: as long as they can fire their dummy guns against any enemy targets, they will start "smoking". When their enemies will disappear, they will stop emanating the smoke with a configurable delay;
• ship's usage of smoke screen can be configured to some extent, by playing around with gun controller parameters
  (by now, I and Volodya have become quite familiar with them ).

[7thSeal]

Originally Posted by gap

Yep, at this stage is more a proof of concept than a mod, but after giving it the last touch-ups I will be able to post a first test version of it

I'd be happy to test it once you've put the finishing touches on it.

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Originally Posted by 7thSeal

I'd be happy to test it once you've put the finishing touches on it.

Sure, here's the mod I used for my tests:

http://www.mediafire.com/?y7e7zproe2zrsa2

It comes with a single mission. There is a B-class destroyer at bearing 45deg. She won't start laying smoke until she spots you. She should stop doing it as soon as you get outside the reach of her invisible gun (either dive or move away). For ease of testing, I have removed any other armament from this unit. ATM only B-class destroyers are configured to use the smoke.

Beware: there is a second destroyer, docked, at bearing 315. For some reason she doesn't emiti smoke.

Let me know.

[THE_MASK]

Wow gap , my mod was just an interim mod until someone came up with something better .

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by gap

What I have done:
....
Advantages of this method...

Wow
It's amazing, Gabriele

Originally Posted by gap

Beware: there is a second destroyer, docked, at bearing 315. For some reason she doesn't emiti smoke...

I think it was the same reason - http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=2062

[gap]

Originally Posted by sober

Wow gap , my mod was just an interim mod until someone came up with something better .

Your idea is still valid. I have just revamped it a bit

Originally Posted by volodya61

Wow
It's amazing, Gabriele

Have you tested it? I need for feed-back in order to get this test into a full mod

Originally Posted by volodya61

I think it was the same reason - http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=2062

Yes, I wasn't sure that this wasn't the reason, but I had some suspects

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by gap

Have you tested it? I need for feed-back in order to get this test into a full mod

Not yet.. though I can do it right now.. you mean full modded game?

Originally Posted by gap

Yes, I wasn't sure that this wasn't the reason, but I had some suspects

Only TDW able to answer.. as you can see he didn't yet..