Hires Smokemod (Warning: big pics inside)

CptGrayWolf · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 158 Location: Montreal, Canada

Great mod! Thumbs Up

I'm using medium compressed smoke and see no slow down! Yep

boomshekah · Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Münster

I played around a bit with TimeTraveller´s excellent tweakingtools. You can do some pretty cool stuff with it;)

I am not entirely happy with it yet, but it starts to look like thick oily smoke.

Krupp · Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 130

The one viewed through periscope is quite impressive looking smoke pillar. Should it look more darker or "black" if it's burning oil (and other synthetic stuffs)? (We had a huge fire in used car tyre warehouse couple of years a go and that smoke was BLACK and big one). Surprised

Marhkimov · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:49 am Post subject:

I was also messing around with TT's tool, and found that really tall smoke columns begin to disply graphical anomalies, such as flickering and temporarily disappearing. Is that happening with you?

So in my smoke mod, I decided to make a much smaller column. Btw, I have an ATI Radeon 9800pro.

Sailor Steve · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:34 am Post subject:

I never thought I'd be missing something from SHII, but there was an explosion and smoke mod that left smoke hanging in the sky for hours after a ship sank. Something like that would be nice for SHIII.

Oh, and the mod looks cool, but might be a bit much for my system.

Marhkimov · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:55 am Post subject:

Sailor Steve · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:05 pm Post subject:

Oh, I was already sure it couldn't be done, or someone would have done it. I was just thinking how nice it would be.

Marhkimov · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:07 pm Post subject:

Oh, it can be done, i'm just not sure that we really need it... but it would be nice.

boomshekah · Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Münster

@Krupp
Yes, i agree. Oilfires are much darker. But the darker i make it, the more detail it loses, and i no longer get this puffy cloudlike look.

@Marhkimov
Yes, if i make the smoke any taller then this it starts to flicker. So this is about as high as i can go on my system.
And i have another problem. Whenever i look in the direction of the sun, all smoke in the game turns white.(even at night). Alt-Tabbing out of the game fixes it temporarily, but as soon as i look into the sun, it turns white again. Very annoying. Does anyone have similar problems and/or knows how to fix it?
Oh and is there a way to refresh the particle system while the game is running? Right now every time i change a value i have to restart the game to see the effect. Thats a big pain, cause SH3 takes ages to load on my computer;)

Marhkimov · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject:

It might help you to know that running a mission from the naval academy loads a lot faster.

But other than that, you still have to quit the entire SH3 in order to make changes. Yeah, it sucks, but at least it sucks for everyone. Wink

HW3 · Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 270 Location: 50M and Listening

boomshekah, the white smoke is common with all NVidia cards. As far as I know there is no fix for it other than Alt-Tab out and back in.

boomshekah · Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Münster

Oh ok, thanks HW3. Maybe a future driver release will fix it.

robj250 · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:39 am Post subject:

I would love to have it. Cannot download from the site you listed as they say it has been deleted. Could you email it to me subguy2a@hotmail.com Thanks. Robert

Alan · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 25 Location: England

Can you please upload to rapidshare,as it has been deleted.This looks way cool.Now its possible to hide beside a smoking wreck if in shallow water..... Thumbs Up

Seminole · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 644

The file has been deleted at rapidshare.

Could you please send a copy to fiestydog@hotmail.com

TIA!