New smoke effect

[stealth]

Well now I got a reason to get back on.

[USRanger]

   Last night I made a new plane explosion effect.  The problem is my rig is having trouble with it for some reason.  When a plane explodes, my screen goes white for a few, then when the game kicks back in, I have a message saying I've ran out of video memory and to turn off some graphic settings.  I turned off everything  I could but it made no difference.  My PC is a couple years old and my vid card is an old GeForce 9800, which makes it a good test machine for adding anything new.  It's bugging me because I can run any other "effect" just fine, just not this one, which I think is going to look really good if I can get it going.  I made need to post a terrain containing it to see if anyone else has any luck.  Wanna be testers?

[Rob52240]

Thx Puma.  Yeah, I didn't mess with the fire, just the smoke.

Good job on the smoke.  It's obvious that you didn't work on the fire.

[Sunka]

   Last night I made a new plane explosion effect.  The problem is my rig is having trouble with it for some reason.  When a plane explodes, my screen goes white for a few, then when the game kicks back in, I have a message saying I've ran out of video memory and to turn off some graphic settings.  I turned off everything  I could but it made no difference.  My PC is a couple years old and my vid card is an old GeForce 9800, which makes it a good test machine for adding anything new.  It's bugging me because I can run any other "effect" just fine, just not this one, which I think is going to look really good if I can get it going.  I made need to post a terrain containing it to see if anyone else has any luck.  Wanna be testers?

I'll be happy to help.

[9thAFE]

Smoke looks great got some real detail and depth to it. I do agree that next up would be improving the fire. What about adding the smoke to the structures on the ground that would look good too, wouldnt mind seeing it in the town for a little effect plus it would make it easier to identify when a town has been flattened from a distance... just a thought but do love the new effect.

[SWkiljoy]

based on what 9thAFE just said an idea came to mind.... smoldering smoke that can be seen from a distance when town has been hit hard. This could give bombers an idea of town's % of damage. Say 70% down and a billowing smoke cloud rises above town?   
Of course it would be very light smoke, nothing substantial like fuel or ords burning just a light shade of grey to give an idea of the amount of damage the town has taken.

Oh and seeing it from friendly CV's off the coastline would be cool too   

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Ranger I will test out stuff for ya also

[Shuffler]

based on what 9thAFE just said an idea came to mind.... smoldering smoke that can be seen from a distance when town has been hit hard. This could give bombers an idea of town's % of damage. Say 70% down and a billowing smoke cloud rises above town?   
Of course it would be very light smoke, nothing substantial like fuel or ords burning just a light shade of grey to give an idea of the amount of damage the town has taken.

Oh and seeing it from friendly CV's off the coastline would be cool too   

There in lies the problem..... I think all smoke is tied together and can't be differentiated. At least that is what I seem to be noticing. Sit on the carrier and start you engine. The engine smoke looks like a fire.

[JimmyC]

and engine damage looks kinda weird too

maybe Hitech will introduce some smoke variables

go on I dare ya

[USRanger]

We won't be using the smoke again after this week until I go back and fix the size & transparency to what should look a lot better than what it does now.  I'm not happy with it at all in its current form.

In other news, I figured out what the problem was with the custom air explosion.  Somehow I doinked it up and made the .bmps 1 pixel too small.  Yes, 1 lil pixel can crash the game.  Fixing it as I type this.  Expect pic tomorrow night!

 

[MAINER]

Looks great! 

[USRanger]

Custom air explosion.    It is a 25 .bmp animation, so this is just one frame of it.

[spitter123]

Farr That's mean owh, Slick az. 



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[Chilli]

Now THAT THERE IS SOME ROCK STAR FIREWORKS!!!!!!!    USRanger, again cranking out some awesome tidbits of fantastic looking cartoon ecstasy.   

[JimmyC]

   Yeah Baby .....