Animated 3d Clouds

[philcommando 0]

Animated(moving) 3D clouds. Comes in white and black. Does nothing, just lend an atmosphere. Automatically set height at 350m. Comes with demo placement.

160kb...7 days only

[Itseme 0]

Nice addoon. Could you might make them more bigger in height?

[Tomislav 0]

nice addon phil.

@Itseme: i guess you can do it with a setpos command

[Hornet85 0]

i think he is talking abut making the clouds fater they look to flat now

[miles teg 1]

I WANT A CUMULUS NIMBUS!!!!!!!!!!

(sorry...I spend way too much time watching clouds...and the weather channel...)

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[Silent N Deadly 0]

Can you actually fly though them...or are they just "objects"?

[gandalf the white 0]

Can you actually fly though them...or are they just "objects"?

you can fly trough them

Philcommando, what about making the clouds a bunch of smoke particles? blow up twenty tanks in FDF and fly trough the smoke that creates, it's impressive! and for normal coulds this should even be less CPU intensive (then FDF smoke)

Simply make it a script that you can activate via one of those invisible things, like [<meter> , <type of cloud> ,exec "cloud.sqs" ] or something, that would be awesome .

[Silent N Deadly 0]

Wow, im impressed. From the top the clouds look real. Wonderful work. Phil, you've done it again!

Very NICE!

Plus their is vitually ZERO lag.

[UKFMav 0]

It's a shame that they look like fat pancakes.

[reedkiller 0]

Can you actually fly though them...or are they just "objects"?

you can fly trough them

Philcommando, what about making the clouds a bunch of smoke particles? blow up twenty tanks in FDF and fly trough the smoke that creates, it's impressive! and for normal coulds this should even be less CPU intensive (then FDF smoke)

Simply make it a script that you can activate via one of those invisible things, like [<meter> , <type of cloud> ,exec "cloud.sqs" ] or something, that would be awesome .

I've seen this done - the results where not very impressive and caused fps to drop by 3-4

[philcommando 0]

Thanks for the responses.

During ww1 and ww2, the weather was a major factor to decide the outcome of battles, because planes and crafts had no radar then, and both troops and crafts could hide under weather from fear of attack by planes - what u cant see, u dont shoot -and if u see, it may be too late to evade.

This addon was planned for ww2 missions.

In truth, most aircrafts even till today still lack the sophisticated radar system of ofp where it can detect friend or foe - sometimes a school of fish can appear on radar and u would think a soviet armada is on the way to the californian coast!

There are many ways to create clouds and drop command is one way, but i fear to create the size to cover about 1-2km square of it may be a bit cpu intensive, so i created this addon. Lol!, it sure looks flat,( - hell! at 500ft even malden would look fat too -) and could be further improved, only that i do not know whats the response like to this ( some would deem silly) addon before i proceed further to 'fatten' it up, add lightning effects and make a cloud pack.

[Silent N Deadly 0]

Go for it. This is a great start. This would be pretty nice in OFP. Plus if you have other ideas for it, to improve it. I am 100% with you. Just make them look more "round" and less box like (especially on the bottom).

[[aps]gnat 28]

Nice 1 PC, you always comming up with stuff "out of left field" !

But for "fatter" cloud I guess the inside of the object will need to be textured so you can't see out. Also I guess it cant be too big, otherwise you'll be able to see others INSIDE the cloud lol

Could this be better done with a series of round edged white cubes all setpos'ed to make one bigger cloud ..... just a thought.

[zayfod 1]

Excellent idea, and I am behind you all the way, but these dont look quite right atm. Not sure how you would approach this, but what immediately comes to mind are semi transparent patches--there currently are none.

I experimented in making clouds ages ago with drop, it looked fab but they always seemed to blow away, and they lagged quite a bit. I never quite got the formula right. Perhaps a mix of the two would be in order?

Keep it up!

Zay

[motho38 0]

Excellent work Philcomando, and its great with my searchlight...

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=44829

[Sepe 1]

How does the AI act with them?

And yes, they should be higher. But it's a start anyway, we love you PC!

[tak 0]

Sweet

[eestikas88 0]

they could be randomly placed (one lower other higher in the sky).

And not flat.

Please PC make them not flat.

[gandalf the white 0]

I've got a 9 MB movie of the FDF smoke effects, nowhere to host them though (unless I happen to stumble across Placebo's signature) But I believe the lag comes of the fire effects and the tanks themselves, the big cloud of smoke in the sky is barely moving, plus the particle size is immense.

[MiG 0]

Amazing idea as usual, Phil Those clouds are anti-lag

[Harmed 0]

TO be honest I think it looks like shit

[philcommando 0]

Like shit?...thats all u can say? Nothing on how to improve it or perhaps u deem yourself more capable of making something better? ...is that what u considered constructive criticism or u just wanna waste yer time posting here? Please make sure u dont download it and this is a constructive criticism from me, it may spoil your day. Have fun.

[gandalf the white 0]

Like shit?...thats all u can say?

To be honest it's a difficult matter.

You've got great ideas, but the product at the end of the day just needs to be improved.

I would hate to lose somebody like you modding for us, after all, you are making original stuff (wow! not an M4! amazing!!), and you actually release it (WOAH! ECP explosions rock! but the release is posponed for a script that MAKES SHELLCASINGS TUMBLE?! So I am trying to help you as much as I can (see the smoke particle idea).

Harmed: I must agree with you, it doesn't look as fine as Invasion 1944's grass, but try to bring your opinion a bit more carefull

[philcommando 0]

hahaha..thanks gandalf, at least u do have a bit of courtesy in yer blood. No worries, i know myself and i aint in the competition to be the best addon maker or be talent spotted, not my style. I only wanna play the game.

Whether anyone like it or not doesnt affect me, for i make stuff that i want to play with, and leave it here if any want it or to see how it can be done. Furthermore i am just shocked by some in the community who thinks ofp1 reached its limit...sheesh! wat an excuse to whine.

Anything is possible is if u really focus on it.

[Sepe 1]

Furthermore i am just shocked by some in the community who thinks ofp1 reached its limit...sheesh! wat an excuse to whine.

Anything is possible is if u really focus on it.

Baah, no more engine limitations can be passed! I DO NOT believe that you have created 3d clouds. I ingore them. They do not exist.

Nah, just kiddin'. If you will be able to make them, hmm, unflat, (Is that a real word? I think it ain't) they will be a great add to missions, especially the AA or flying ones.