[Th!rdeye]

I pumped out another.

This changes the smoke effects, fire effects and give the contrails a longer life. IT was 1 min now its 5min, and i changed the texture of the contrail aswell. Something alot of you are waiting for.
The smoke and fire effects are alot more realistic and the volumetric smoke lasts alot longer (this includes the black smoke and the lighter smoke when the oil system is hit). The fire texture has been edited its slightly brighter and the overall flame is a bit smaller. As of 7/27 i redid the fuel leak effect to a volumetric one.

WARNING: This is not a good mod for low spec systems. The smoke effects are very demanding on your PC. If the fps drops too much for you, then sorry find another mod. The way these effects are setup its hard to get the realistic and full effect i want and make it PC friendly.

I am running a AMD 3000+, 768mb of ram, 7600GT OCed, and a Ordinary Western digital SATA hard drive. It runs OKAY on my system.


BUG/FLAW:A known FPS stopper is when a flaming and smoking aircraft crashes into the ground, and all the parts that where on fire as it crashed remain on fire and cause MASSIVE lag. Best advice is to not look at the crashed plane. I am looking for a fix for this without breaking AAA rules.

Please remember, this is still a work in progress. I'm continuously working on it. (early attempts are unplayable) I also have plans to change the smoke texture and maybe introduce a new fire effect. I also may be onto something with including a new effect that simulates glycol leaks No promises though. I'll try my best.

To Install: Simply place the "3rdeye_SmokeFire_Effects" folder into your "Mods" folder in your game directory.
To Uninstall: Simply delete the "3rdeye_SmokeFire_Effects" folder from your "Mods" folder in your game directory.

Download Links:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tjmdfsbobof
http://files.filefront.com/3rdeye+Smoke ... einfo.html

Screenshots: This is another effect which is hard to see in a still picture. No video yet, i will try later tonight or tommorow
Black Smoke and Fire






Oil Smoke




Contrails



Fuel Leak






Personal Disclaimer: This mod is my own creation, please do not edit it or redistribute it without my permission. PM me for any changing you want to do to it. I will MOST LIKELY let you if you ask for my permission and describe what you are doing.

[canonuk]

Looks very nice, especially the dark smoke

[RAF_Magpie]

finally - longer lasting contrails!

cheers Th!rdeye

[Potenz]

Th!rdeye lad you are a genius!

amazing mod!!! thx thx thx thx

Potenz

[Th!rdeye]

finally - longer lasting contrails!

cheers Th!rdeye

I remembered what you said in a post a while back and thought "while i'm here in the effects..."


Enjoy everyone!

[Fly!]

You are definately onto something here, but I think the cotton balls on a rope look still needs some more refining as you said. Good thinking.

[Th!rdeye]

The only thing that will fix that is more EmitFreq. Which means lower FPS and getting closer to the games particle cap for the game.

[Phas3e]

Apart from the 'cotton balls' this is great for longer thicker smoke trails, i like it

[Th!rdeye]

New download. I reduced the "cotton balls" as best as i could. There is a particle cap in the game, and the way the effects are setup, this cotton ball effect is unavoidable right now. It has been reduced thou. These effects are best seen from all angles except the direct sides. Just gotta put up with it for now.

[Th!rdeye]

Another download.

Made the flames much much thicker, and tweaked the thick black smoke to reduce the cotton balls, YET again.

[gflinchbaugh]

Thirdeye, Keep up the great work! on all your mods, but especialy impressed with this one. All these little tweaks here and there, are all adding up to something really big. If anyone will just go back to an unmoded version and look at what they WERE playing and pretty happy with, we're all amazed by what you people keep turning out to improve things.

Thanks!

[Bee]

A good start there. Looking straight at a crashed aircraft brings my quad core/8800GT down to 3fps, so I've deactivated this mod for the moment. Hope you find a fix for it because I think you're onto something big. :wink:

[Handy]

hmm im not reallly having an fps issue. i have a 8800 gts? Im loving this though it looks great!

[Bee]

Hi Handy. Try following a bomber down to the ground and you'll see what I mean.
I wonder, is it possible to have the contrails only, and separate the damage effects?

[Th!rdeye]

Sorry Bee. If you are referring to looking at the buring debris of a bomber that just crashed into the ground, i stated in the first post that its a bug. I cannot fix this without losing most if not all of the new smoke. Its a way the game is setup. Like i said in the above post, try not to look at it, and/or do not fly near it.


For everyone, I am working on yet another version. Dunno if it will be slightly more FPS demanding but it completely eliminates the "flat" smoke at the end, and turns it into volumetic smoke that lasts a while. I'm constantly tweaking this mod and testing it so that it will give the best visuals and performance.

I also made a new fuel leak effect that is volumetric aswell.