JTD ClearHorizons with fog fix

[dmarkwick 261]

This addon will give you a much better fog look to your missions, with no objects popping into view against the sky texture any more. This is a somewhat temporary addon as one day hopefully it will make it into a weather addon I still have designs on making.

Also, it includes the ClearHorizons sky textures that removes the painted mountains of the default sky texture.

Place this addon in your @JTD\Addons folder, or any mod addons folder you wish.

This addon only affects maps that use the ArmA2 background sky textures, I have not affected the OA map background sky textures.

This addon will replace the first weather overcast texture with the fog fix texture. This means that setting setOvercast = 0 will now display the gray background instead of the old blue background. The other overcast settings have been moved slightly: the next overcast setting is at 0.07 and is the sky_veryclear_sky texture, which is almost clear but not quite. Personally I have no use for the pure blue and see not much difference between pure blue and not quite pure blue :)

If you want your missions to use the fog fix then you must use "0 setOvercast 0" to set the sky to gray, and optionally set "0 setFog 1" to get full fog (i.e. more fog than the editor will give you), and your fog will look much better. If your mission gradually removes the fog you will see a very smooth transition from the fog fix texture to the next default sky texture.

Limitations:

Early morning or late afternoon will reveal a limitation of the effectiveness of the sky texture in the direction of the sun. There seems to be a lighting effect that can bring back the object-popping in that direction only.

Kindest regards

JTD.

JTD ClearHorizons with fog fix

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Edited December 28, 2010 by DMarkwick

[Spartan 163 0]

Cool. Gonna check it out. Was always bothered by that blue sky thing also.

[demonized 20]

nice, testing.

great works you have DMarwick, big fan of JTD FAS.

[twisted 128]

this is very nice to have. thanks!

[avengerzx 10]

Cool downloading now!

P.s. \\ OFFTOPIC // Where do you get the ACOG Reticle from?

[dmarkwick 261]

P.s. \\ OFFTOPIC // Where do you get the ACOG Reticle from?

Hmm, well I'm not sure :D it might be ACE2, most likely candidate.

[Sam75 0]

using a weather module in the editor works fine in OA and the fog effect is indeed much more convincing than the default one but the sky remains blue which is quite weird, and since that module overwrite weather settings how can I get rain effect ?

thanks

[dmarkwick 261]

using a weather module in the editor works fine in OA and the fog effect is indeed much more convincing than the default one but the sky remains blue which is quite weird, and since that module overwrite weather settings how can I get rain effect ?

thanks

You hardly ever get fog and rain at the same time, and as this addon only uses overcast 0 as fog background, the game engine will not naturally generate rain. I *think* overcast 0.7 is the rain cut-off value.

In my WIP weather addon I use a reducing viewdistance with heavy rain, but I don't get the fog background because of this necessary minimum overcast value of 0.7. The only way for me to overcome this is to also replace the last (1) overcast texture and have the overcast go to one position or the other.

[Sam75 0]

You hardly ever get fog and rain at the same time, and as this addon only uses overcast 0 as fog background, the game engine will not naturally generate rain. I *think* overcast 0.7 is the rain cut-off value.

In my WIP weather addon I use a reducing viewdistance with heavy rain, but I don't get the fog background because of this necessary minimum overcast value of 0.7. The only way for me to overcome this is to also replace the last (1) overcast texture and have the overcast go to one position or the other.

Ok I took a look at the wiki and got everything I wanted, I added to the module:

0 setOvercast .8; 0 setFog 1; setwind [10, 10, true]; 0 setrain .5

Now it's really creepy and thermal sights required, would be good for a zombie mod.

thanks

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talking about thermal sights I did a little search (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Weapon_Sight)

actually your fog system affect thermal signatures, is it a limitation or do you think you can fix it ?

[dmarkwick 261]

There's no way the sky texture can affect the thermal signature :) it's not really a "fog system", just a sky texture.

[domokun 515]

Glad you released this as with the correction of the alpha texture bug I was wondering only other day when you'd get round to implementing your "proof of concept" fog.

[dmarkwick 261]

Glad you released this as with the correction of the alpha texture bug I was wondering only other day when you'd get round to implementing your "proof of concept" fog.

Yep that alpha shine thing was horrible :) as soon as that was fixed I enjoyed fog much more.

[Guest]

Release frontpaged on the Armaholic homepage.

JTD ClearHorizons with fog fix

[oldy41 61]

Very nice, I love this.

One issue I have observed though:

When there is a certain wheather condition with partly cloudy skies going to sunny there is a "flickering" between the sky textures. This somewhat breaks the immersion.

Can this be fixed?

Many thanks!

A.

[Donosor 10]

Nice job, thanks.

[Psilocybe 3]

I know which zombie mission is going to require this!

[Freebie 10]

Great mod!

Shame it doesn't work for OA though

[wiggum2 31]

For some reason this does not work for me.

I use ArmA2 + OA and if i load up Utes and place this in the init.sqf:

0 setOvercast 0;

Now the sky is just blue...

I thought i would get a grey sky, but it still total blue although i can see that the horizon is clear.

Any idea ?

Edited September 15, 2011 by Wiggum