New sky pack

[quicksand 0]

BTW trying to get some photoshop experience I tried to make my own water texture..It`s pretty easy make a texture and replace more_anim 1,2,3,4,5,6,7..Only problem is that I don`t have the slightest clue of how to animate it   ..Guess this is a problem with my phtoshop skill..But I like the result..Here are some ingame pics:

Picture1

Picture2

Maybe someone could help me..I could send it to him to finish it..

[Trenchfeet 0]

hay great texture work !!!! purfect for islands with reefs coral. Hope you can finish it  

maybe contect Drow from Unsung War Mod they did a retex of water/ocean, (you can send him a pm)

[theavonlady 2]

To give you an idea of what Blackdog's never-publicly released Hi Water addon looks like, here's a pic taken in the CSLA campaign's starting cutscenes, with Kegetys' Hi Sky and BlackDog's Hi Water addons installed.

IMO, this color variation goes perfectly with Llaumas Hi Res Sky.

(For forum posting purposes, the above pic's resolution has been drastically reduced from the original JPG file's in order to conform with forum rules).

[bonko the sane 2]

mmm...i use either Kegs HiSky or this beautiful new Llauma's sky (i like variety ) but i always use Wilco's retextured water, and it looks very similar to that deep blue u got there Avon, but those pics by quiKsanD are amazing for tropical islands, great work there!

[Guest]

BTW trying to get some photoshop experience I tried to make my own water texture..It`s pretty easy make a texture and replace more_anim 1,2,3,4,5,6,7..Only problem is that I don`t have the slightest clue of how to animate it   ..Guess this is a problem with my phtoshop skill..But I like the result..Here are some ingame pics:

OFP just cycles those textures in the following order:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,6,5,4,3,2

with 1 and 7 appearing for the longest period of time. Its not a great animation cycle for water

[munger 25]

Upload those water textures this second Avon!

[theavonlady 2]

Upload those water textures this second Avon!

I'll see if I can get Blackdog's permission.

/avon pulls out crystal ball, dons gypsy shmatta on head and holds a dead forum member séanse

[quicksand 0]

Well I`ll stop with this post since I wouldn`t want to hi-jack this thread that about LLauma wonderfull work..But guys I`m glad you like it..The idea was to fit with the tropical islands,so I`m happy you noticed it..I could realese a BETA now but it would be useless as it looks pretty dull to look at the static water.

@Leone thanx for your tip.After I looked at the old textures in Texview I suspected that they were cycling,all I have to do is make a texture in a different position and I`m ready for realese..Hope it will be soon...

[drow 0]

hi all,

i over heard, or is that over read.... the thing about the water,

its very easy to change the color,

open moreanim1 for example, (after you change it to a tga)  

change the Hue in photoshop  to whatever color you like best,

( edit - oops, to do that, you go to image/hue-saturation, and move the sliders, the hue is to change the actuall color, and the saturation is how you controll how vibrant the color is, everything in OFP has quite low saturation, so best to stay away from too high, or vibrant tones... i even think that one of blackdogs is a little too saturated - maybe why it was "unreleased"

no offence intended of course, much respect, he was prolly one of the first ones to figure it out)

then just save.

Do that to all 7 of the more_anim files.

PM me if it doesnt make sence, i plan to include like 4-5 different water colors in our sky pack, so the user can just choose which ones they want to put in (if any) before they run the sky install.

Later

Drow

[Dwarden 1125]

{dream mode on}

nah i wish i can change sky, water textures simpler way, (ECP ingame option or script config chane ...

{dream mode off}

[MI_Fred 0]

This will definitely be in use all the time it can be, so what I was looking for. Especially the dark blue sky, with only a few clouds here and there. Could be even darker. But I hope you will do something about the horizon, it's seriously not eyecandy when flying and having a short VD. The clouds, well what can I say, superior to certain water painted ones

Also the rain textures hinder the view too much, I've always though that these things would create an unfair advantage to someone else, but now it's friggin gona make me a blind goose. The opposite is ofcourse those who edit the nvg optics and such, I don't know if they gain anything else than a rejection from equalmod servers? I sure wouldn't let even one pass...

And lastly, there's this expression of the moment after sunset, roughly translated "blue moment". I can't remember if it happens only at a certain time of year, but it casts a blue hue to all. Imagine the rain without the rain but with that blue transparency, that's the moment. But instead it's just the red sunshine faded to black in OFP. The red sunset just seems so dreamy, happening each time, always so friggin beautiful... Rarely that good weather to make it possible here ever

I do get an error ingame. I have w2k, wasn't that supposed to work? The error says I'm missing 'plot_rust_cihlsloup.p3d (magic)', a white brick fence corner... I can however find it ingame, so perhaps it's no biggie.

[theavonlady 2]

Upload those water textures this second Avon!

I'll see if I can get Blackdog's permission.

/avon pulls out crystal ball, dons gypsy shmatta on head and holds a dead forum member séanse

Blackdog's spirit said "use Wilco's".

I confirmed this message with my Ouija Board.

[munger 25]

Aww that's a shame.

[theavonlady 2]

/bump

Will a new version be coming out this week?

Can we expect any new enhancements, other than making the installer Win98 compatible?

[aj_addons 0]

is it possible to use tranparancies for the water that way we could see the bottom?

[theavonlady 2]

is it possible to use tranparancies for the  water that way we could see the bottom?  

And have the bottom littered with rubber tires and beer bottles?

[aj_addons 0]

im jsut wondering where either or not the graphics engine works in such a way that as soon as something is below the water it no longer exists, ie blowing up a boat thats 20 feet high in ten feet of water and then watching it compeletly disappear

[Wilco 944]

I'll be happy to draw up a new one if you guys want, just give me a color and I'll do it :P.

[Taconic 0]

im jsut wondering where either or not the graphics engine works in such a way that as soon as something is below the water it no longer exists, ie blowing up a boat thats 20 feet high in ten feet of water and then watching it compeletly disappear

It doesn't.

Some Russian team supposedly came up with a library that allowed for pixel shaded water, though. Haven't heard anything about it in months.

[aj_addons 0]

that was the orcs team mate there not going to release it as they supposedly sold the tech behind it, the thing im wondering is how they managed to implelment pixel shaders as you would need to mod the source-code for that and as we all know bis anit for releaseing it

[theavonlady 2]

/bump

Llauma?

[theavonlady 2]

/bump

Llauma?  

Just found this on the OFP Photography thread:

... but it sure is nice looking for screenshots

@Llauma: can i have ur *old* sky for testing (dl)?

thx in advance

The one I released? Get it at Tacticalblunder

But I dont like it anymore.. Will try to release a new one using the 8x8 pxl clear skies and other new textures... but right now I am quite busy.

[Acecombat 0]

Why the gloom?

Atleast he has made them his sig says so

[Balschoiw 0]

Llauma is working hard on the new sky.

Here are some sneaks:

Looks fantastic by now. Still it´s beta so not representing final quality.

[theavonlady 2]

Llauma is working hard on the new sky.

Here are some sneaks:

http://www.ciahome.net/images/cookbook/llaumasky1.jpg

http://www.ciahome.net/images/cookbook/llaumasky2.jpg

Looks fantastic by now. Still it´s beta so not representing final quality.

Gloom deleted.