script JBOY Napalm FX

[johnnyboy 3314]

When the normal Prairie Fire napalm effects end, there is no visible damage to trees, bushes, grass and buildings.  This is bad for immersion. This script improves on that by detecting where the napalm bombs impact, and replacing trees, bushes and buildings with burnt and burning trees/bushes/buildings.  These scripts work for airstrikes called via the Air Support module or airstrikes created via scripts.

 

Download sample mission

 

Credits:

 

• @aliascartoons for his excellent Fire scripts.  All fires on trees, bushes, buildings, vehicles and men are created using his scripts.  Thank you Alias!  (I have modified these slightly to use arma sounds so the sample mission does not require his sound files or description.ext)
• @pierremgi for pointing me to the Prairie Fire airstrike scripts.

 

How to add to your mission:

...I will add in these instructions tomorrow!  🙂

[pierremgi 4135]

Much more immersive

[major-stiffy 245]

Awesome! Hope this is MP compatible.

[stburr91 941]

Johnny does it again.

 

I really like the effects of this, it really does make the awesome napalm strikes in SOG PF even better. 

[Valken 614]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNH-8zilTCs

 

[johnnyboy 3314]

3 hours ago, major-stiffy said:

Awesome! Hope this is MP compatible.

Thanks man.  MP untested, so maybe...

[Liberty Bull 22]

This is awesome!

[aliascartoons 182]

😀  Thank you for sharing mate! Keep it up! 🏋️‍♂️

[Play3r 123]

Absolute a masterpiece once again JohnnyBoy

 

Thanks alot

[lightspeed_aust 680]

love your work Johnnyboy, I feel like you might be the guy who can figure out how to get blufor to move in a tunnel..or is that a bridge too far.

either way, I feel like a number of your scripts including that beautiful, men moving through rice paddys, will make their way into my missions.

[johnnyboy 3314]

On 8/2/2021 at 6:33 AM, lightspeed_aust said:

love your work Johnnyboy, I feel like you might be the guy who can figure out how to get blufor to move in a tunnel..or is that a bridge too far.

either way, I feel like a number of your scripts including that beautiful, men moving through rice paddys, will make their way into my missions.

Thanks mate.  Regarding the tunnels, you could record multiple AI paths for my AI movement scripts, but it would be a lot of work.

 

[lightspeed_aust 680]

Thanks bud, yeh a lot of work particularly in those huge tunnel structures. Will have a think about a work around, perhaps teleporting the AI along the tunnel as you move along, maybe attach one to yourself so it simulates following, just to retain the immersion. 

[Soapbox0331 14]

@johnnyboy Great effect! I have the called in strike working just like your example mission. I am struggling to get the JBOY_monitorAirSupportClicks working. Using SOGPF Air Support menu and Sundowner strike, not getting the effects of your FX. I don't think I understand how to call it correctly from in the player's init?

Edited September 26, 2021 by Soapbox0331
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[johnnyboy 3314]

On 9/23/2021 at 7:29 PM, Soapbox0331 said:

@johnnyboy Great effect! I have the called in strike working just like your example mission. I am struggling to get the JBOY_monitorAirSupportClicks working. Using SOGPF Air Support menu and Sundowner strike, not getting the effects of your FX. I don't think I understand how to call it correctly from in the player's init?

Sorry for the later reply, I've been traveling.  I just tried the sample mission and had the same problem, where the fx didn't appear when calling from the air support menu.  I tried a longer sleep  before calling JBOY_monitorAirSupportClicks, and its now working for me.  So its probably a client initialization issue.  I also commented out the jet enablesimulation false line that starts the initial example napalm strike.  So my init.sqf now looks like this:

_nul = [] spawn compile PreprocessFileLineNumbers "JBOY\JBOY_NapalmFx.sqf";
sleep 3;
// Will trigger napalm object destruction and burn effects for napalm strikes called via Air Support menu.
[] spawn JBOY_monitorAirSupportClicks;

// Start jet named jet1 to do napalm strike for demonstration
sleep 5;
//jet1 enablesimulation true;

That's working for me.  Hope it works for you!