[REL] Smoke on the water

[WilhelmTell]

update from 14.08.2007
Smoke on the water -beta5-
(improved smoke mod)

What it does compared to vanilla SH4:

- higher and darker smoke for burning ships and higher funnel smoke as well
- slower spreading of smoke
- funnel smoke rendering distance increased
- more debris and splinter on explosions

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Changes in beta5:

- less density and fewer particles for better framerate
- better dissipation of smoke
- color slightly changed
- funnel smoke rendering distance further increased
- more debris and splinter on splinter explosions

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I was always annoyed about the light-colored smoke in the game. So I recently played around with the particles.dat and did a small mod for my personal use.
On request of WilhelmSchulz for darker smoke a few days ago, I uploaded this mod.
(http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=119803)
Now I just finished with improving this mod. It is still a beta because there is always room for making it better.

Recommendation:

To see the funnel smoke even further I recommend to use Krillers visual upgrade 1 mod
See this thread for download link --> http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=120036

Some Screenshots:

Old
Beta4
Darker funnel smoke


Smoke with Post Process enabled (beta4)


and

with disabled Post Process Filters (beta4)


NEW
Beta5
low windspeed


a closer view


stronger wind here


a tad more splinter ?




Download:

Beta4 --> http://www.speedyshare.com/699357984.html

Beta5--> http://www.speedyshare.com/398766784.html NEW!



Credits:

This mod was done with timetraveler's minitweaker fed with tweakfiles from Anvart and timetraveler ported to SH4 by Captain Cox.
For the funnel smoke rendering distance and splinter I used skwasjer's excellent Silent 3ditor.
Thank you guys !
Thanks to scoochy as well, who had the idea of slowing down the smoke a long time before.

Regards,
Tell