[REL] FOTRSU 1.4x - 1.7p3 Oil Slicks & Fires

[TMS]

8 minutes. I can also extend the lifetime, if desired.

[Onkel Neal]

Nice!

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by TMS

8 minutes. I can also extend the lifetime, if desired.

How would I extend the lifetime? I want to do this in TMO.

[propbeanie]

The burning oil / fuel fires are in FotRSU now, though shorter in duration, but the slicks were removed a while back for "efficiency". Resource stealer that used to cause CTDs. It looks like you changed the smoke and fire particles also TMS? Does that affect the other fires and smoke? We'll give it a test drive and see how it does in FotRSU now. Thanks!

[Canonicus]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

but the slicks were removed a while back for "efficiency". Resource stealer that used to cause CTDs. Thanks!

Thanks for telling users what wasn't included in the latest update'...any thing else we should know about that was "left out" ?
Seems burning oil should have a slick...You guys against any eye candy for the non-purist, external view sub simmer?

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by Canonicus

Thanks for telling users what wasn't included in the latest update'...any thing else we should know about that was "left out" ?
Seems burning oil should have a slick...You guys against any eye candy for the non-purist, external view sub simmer?

Read your quote of me again for the "why". Besides the fact that they were never left out, they were never activated to begin with in FotRSU. FOTRS had them active years ago (the predecessor to FotRSU), and on some computers it was too much. Eye candy is great, so long as it does not "kill" the game... We have not begun testing on what TMS did. It might run just fine on a "modern" computer. We really don't know yet. As a side note, there are all sorts of things "left out" of FotRSU... We have to pick and choose what works best in the mod, more in the interest of stability over eye candy, hence the focus lately on ID conflicts in the mod and game. We are still waiting on a TMS response to the smoke and fire, if it is changed.

[Canonicus]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Read your quote of me again for the "why". Besides the fact that they were never left out, they were never activated to begin with in FotRSU.

Just left out completely...If you look in to the Particles.dat file as they are in latest FOTRSU you will find no nodes for smoke or fire water refection's. However Vickers03 has a mod for the DC water splash that not only restores the oils slicks but the refection's as well. Compatible with the 1.7 as I have tested and found no problems.
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/dow...o=file&id=5627

[propbeanie]

Yes, that does function correctly in older versions of FotRSU (possibly up through v1.6). The node IDs in some of the related files are slightly different in v1.7, so you might encounter some issues eventually. We are attempting to "match" everything up for the next release.