[REL] Ail mods: Smoke, Clouds, Moon, DeckWave

[WOD]

This smoke V2 looks amazing, can´t wait to use it ingame. Thx for your great work

[Ailantd]

Originally Posted by 7thSeal

Whoa!.. with your talent shown through each mod... I beg of you to atleast consider the impact of torpedoes when the water from the impact fills the view, they've seem to have knocked off so much more than previous versions... due to the hit of fps with the explosion afterward?

Huge rise of water spray lifted up on impact... I hope for in this game.

he he he, trying that too but still not sure what can be done to improve it.

[7thSeal]

Originally Posted by Ailantd

he he he, trying that too but still not sure what can be done to improve it.

Good enough for me, knowing that its being looked at... I guess they thought we wouldn't notice if they added a bunch of fireworks to the explosions....

[eagleFMJ]

Any news on v2.0?

[ncorpuz34]

*bump*

any updates on Smoke 2.0?

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

These mods are simply the best.

[Cerberus62]

Concerning AilSmoke 1.7
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Nice work, Ailantd, thank you! The smoke stream appears homogeneously, with less interrupts. But I dare to say that I don't like the "flying glowworm effect" near the flames, to me it looks rather like burning wood wool. So I installed the mod without the SmokeLoop01.dds (using stock file instead), now appreciating a completely satisfying appearance.

Concerning AilMoon 1.5
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One more time thank you, wonderful texture maps. One of the first mods I used with SH5.

As some people mentioned before, the lunar phases in the game are not correct. In reality, the sunlit side always points to the sun. That's why you see e. g. the Waxing crescent moon at afternoon and post-dusk, but not pre-dawn in the morning hours. Different in the game.

Therefore, I reworked the moon and halo texture files and replaced each single phase by it's counterpart. While fixing the illuminating bug, my rework introduced another error. Now the lunar phases develop in the wrong direction. Starting with New moon you'll see the Waning crescent followed by the Last quarter and so on during the synodic cycle.

Meanwhile, I think that there's no solution, due to limitations in the game design. Annoying, but after all, it's not a planetarium software...

[Zedi]

Originally Posted by Cerberus62

Concerning AilSmoke 1.7
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Nice work, Ailantd, thank you! The smoke stream appears homogeneously, with less interrupts. But I dare to say that I don't like the "flying glowworm effect" near the flames, to me it looks rather like burning wood wool. So I installed the mod without the SmokeLoop01.dds (using stock file instead), now appreciating a completely satisfying appearance.

Concerning AilMoon 1.5
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One more time thank you, wonderful texture maps. One of the first mods I used with SH5.

As some people mentioned before, the lunar phases in the game are not correct. In reality, the sunlit side always points to the sun. That's why you see e. g. the Waxing crescent moon at afternoon and post-dusk, but not pre-dawn in the morning hours. Different in the game.

Therefore, I reworked the moon and halo texture files and replaced each single phase by it's counterpart. While fixing the illuminating bug, my rework introduced another error. Now the lunar phases develop in the wrong direction. Starting with New moon you'll see the Waning crescent followed by the Last quarter and so on during the synodic cycle.

Meanwhile, I think that there's no solution, due to limitations in the game design. Annoying, but after all, it's not a planetarium software...

Ail is not active here, I don't think he read anymore this thread.

For smoke, the best mod is HanSolo's funnel smoke. Regarding te moon, all those problems are solved in W_Clear's Enviro mod.

[Cerberus62]

Originally Posted by Magnum

Ail is not active here, I don't think he read anymore this thread.

For smoke, the best mod is HanSolo's funnel smoke. Regarding te moon, all those problems are solved in W_Clear's Enviro mod.

Thanks for the hint, Magnum. I'm already using HanSolo's manificent Funnel Smoke Mod, which deals with the particles_funnelsmoke.dat. But that's another story as it deals with the funnel smoke only and not with the smoke emitted by a damaged ship.

The Environment Mod tries to correct the moon light errors the same way I did - with the same results. As mentioned above, this method fixes the direction of the sunlit side of the moon, but it leads to another error, as now the lunar phases are cycling in the wrong direction.

[Venatore]

Allantd,

I thought I would congratulate you on your every professional Silent Hunter web site. It is now in my bookmarks as a favorite.

http://www.shmods.ailantd.com/

Kind regards

Venatore

[robbythesub]

Hear Hear!

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

Pity he isn't here. He made some of the best environment mods. I still use them.

[PrizrakMorey]

you are currently working on the mod?

[Targor Avelany]

Originally Posted by PrizrakMorey

you are currently working on the mod?

I really doubt, as Last Activity of the OP was: 11-18-2012 01:41 PM

[PrizrakMorey]

Originally Posted by Targor Avelany

I really doubt, as Last Activity of the OP was: 11-18-2012 01:41 PM

It is a pity there is no news (((And what about AilSmoke 2.0? Release or not?
Is there another similar mode? And it smoke of burning fuel and paint looks as if lit small campfire.