[REL] sobers smoke screen V1 SH5

gap · 05-26-13, 09:06 PM

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 ).

05-26-13, 09:06 PM	#1
gap Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: CJ8937 Posts: 8,215 Downloads: 793 Uploads: 10	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 ).