[HolyGrail]

Hello ,

after all h*ll break loose lately with smokes , I got numerous PM requests to do one last smokes mod.
I have said previously to some of you , that I don't want to do it anymore but when I saw , that shorter smokes trails behind planes are no longer a visual immersion problem for many members and preference of removing black mushrooms was overwhelming to gain good FPS , I thought I'll give it one last try :lol: .
I have said that at the very beginning in previous older smoke video back in December " should we be making less smoke ? " .
I want to thank 2ch for his wonderful contribution with mixing smoke with good FPS
Good FPS is clearly a winner even thou many of us have strong puter to manage very intense game graphics .
This is very much final version , got it close as much as I could regarding smokes structure , smokes color , still longer smoke trails behind plane and considering many color guncam clips .

Full credit goes to 3rdeye and Fly! for lighting the path and thank you to 2ch for wonderful work on smokes FPS :wink:

Please , watch example video below to see how smokes looks like , and if you really like it , then download this mod , because I won't be doing any other different smoke mods versions and this one is going to stay as it is unless I forgot to include half of files in it . :lol:

Higher quality video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxKligZ-8Lk&fmt=18




Read me file included .
Thank you 3rdeye and Fly! for your work and great ideas
Thank you 2ch for your great addition with good FPS !!

I hope you like it .

AAA Intermittent Fire Smokes Bigger Bang Mod:

1. Changed files entries and structure
2. Added necessary files
3. Added wind to smoke trails behind planes
4. Added wind to ground crashed plane fire animation
5. Added a little tiny smoke to crashed plane parts
6. Changed ground landed plane smoke entries
7. Added violent bigger bang texture to exploding plane .
8. Changed smokes color and dissipation and made it a bit longer smoke trail lenght behind planes
9. Fixed " can't read BlackMediumTSPD.eff " file error showing in game console . ( 2ch mod & Goblin's mod issue )
10. Fixed issue with 2D and 3D smoke going each separate way completely out of synch ( 2ch mod & Goblin's mod issue )
11. Straightened heavy smoke trail behind plane , no more any heavy smoke trail dropping falling down behing plane ( 2ch mod & Goblin's mod issue )
12. I've had it , no more ! :lol:

Known bugs:
1. ME-262 , Gotha have no 2D smoke with engines at full power , no matter how shorter I have made this 2D smoke for ME-262 , it is looking horrible inside 3D medium smoke .
It was included in previous version V5 and this was a bad idea having to watch constantly this ugly 2D smoke inside nice 3D smoke.
I am sorry.

New Version AAA Intermittent Fire Smokes Bigger Bang V8.............Date 2/06/09

Download Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?ny1gmjwjnzm

Download Filefront: http://files.filefront.com/AAA+Intermitt...einfo.html

PS:
In order not to have any conflict with other mods please disable or remove any of others plane FireSmokeContrails mods that you have in your mod folder.
I have myself placed this mod as the first one in my Mod folder to get read first by game in order not to conflict with any other hundreds of mods I have .



Sincerely,
HolyGrail

[Ingo777]

Great but what

[HolyGrail]

Not always plane gets set on fire in one continuous flames , sometimes it goes out for short period time just to get back on fire in some intervals .

Regular fire mod is with continuous non-stop fire if plane set on fire .
Intermittent fire is simulating guncam clips where planes catching on fire numerous times with different intervals.

[Guest]

well done Holy .. this is ok as not to mess up with all the variables smoke-fire mod at disposal we are collecting: all good work but needed a work like your here, thank you again.

[Ingo777]

Oh I understand now. Really great work.

[Jabo]

Top Notch! The intermittent looks soo real hock: . Thank You

[Guest]

I can get the download but when I try to put in the mod's folder I get a Error copying file or folder message that says Cannot find the file specified. It doesn't seem like I'm getting the whole file when I try to download it .Anyone else have this problem?

[HolyGrail]

If you unzipped downloaded file , it shoud be OK .

[Guest]

Got it now Thanks.

[Guest]

@HolyGrail, just two dreams and explanations:

1) hany chances to have the fire effect a little more darker? my one seem a little bit "transparent yellow-light", especially in full daylight. (11-14 hrs)

2) I've look carefully the .gif you made under the first post and I like especially very much one moment: when fire "seem to "leave" the attachment of the fuselage and go back away mixing with the black smoke before disappearing. Seem to me I've not the same effect ingame may be is there any conflict for me? or is a "special feature" you not includedinto d/l files? It is possible to have it..and a little bit more eventually?

3) I would like to add just 1" (second time) more of life at the fire in the two moments when it appears just for an istant , what parameters I have to increase?

4) (and last.. I disabled all previous smoke-fire effect in my mod folder but now when planes crash I have again the default orrible high-thin black smoke column: is there a chance to have a better one (like the one with wind-effect one..sorry I don't remember the mod-name now may be "stuka-40" one?). Again thank you for your wery good re-finde work about this mod that I think is one of the most appreciate and useful. regards. 8)

[Guest]

Please be more specific as to which folders to put a hyphen in front of. Exact names please.

[String_Cheese]

So many of you may know the answer to this: Does fire in game represent an eventuality to explosion or is merely eye candy? Whether constant or on and off, is the damage the same?

[AIRdomination]

So many of you may know the answer to this: Does fire in game represent an eventuality to explosion or is merely eye candy? Whether constant or on and off, is the damage the same?

This depends entirely on what plane you're flying.

[Paulo Hirth]

Great set, congratulations for nice realistic detail (intermitent fire), but i think you can use this smoke:

http://www.mediafire.com/?qgjnw2dtznc

http://www.mediafire.com/?9tz41vpw20n



This is what i am using

[HolyGrail]

Will back to you all shortly , it's work in progress , more possibilities .
@ Paulo , this mod have all 3rdeye smoke effects except for heavy black smoke which was replaced to remove look like cotton balls smog .
I haven't tried "Canon and MGs view impacts" mod , have no idea about this one

@ Falco , quote: " I disabled all previous smoke-fire effect in my mod folder but now when planes crash I have again the default orrible high-thin black smoke column " end of quote .
We have to figure out how to get rid of it. By making longer black heavy smog trails , unfortunately when plane crash , this smog is going up being also too long and we need to make it somehow shorter .
If you think you lost any feature from some previous mod just put it back and try if it's working again , that may cure lenght of your smoke lenght problem.
Fire color and timing is something that can be changed for the better .
Will investigate a bit more latter today.

Sincerely,
HolyGrail