Thunder and Lightning!

[gandalf the white 0]

that's gotta suck, first they mistake his clouds for pancakes, now people are thinking they're snowy hills

[-ZG-BUZZARD 0]

that's gotta suck, first they mistake his clouds for pancakes, now people are thinking they're snowy hills  

@ Gandalf: Just wait till they think it's flying ice-cream or marshmellows or Zuckerwatte!!!

@ Philcommando: Ahhh finally some nice predictable lightning that pops up where you want it to! Thanks man!!! I've been waiting an eternity for this!!!

[Pappy Boyington 0]

Gosh, u kept the ship, pappy?? err...maybe u would like this one better:-

i sure did, i still use it for various tasks. everything from bombing it with navy aircraft, to ship to ship fights (me on the carrier and enemy on the other ship) with small arms.

just all kinds of fun.

your new one looks even nicer. i like the universialness of it.

and phil, as an avid fan of your ships... i REALLY think your talent would do great justice on sigmas cargo ships. please phil give his ships a look over and do to his, like you do to yours.

Quote[/b] ]@ Gandalf: Just wait till they think it's flying ice-cream or marshmellows or Zuckerwatte!!!

ummm

oh and one side note: those clouds look like moonpies... i want to eat them all

i belive i did say that

^moonpie

[philcommando 0]

hahaha!..u guys sure have estoric tastes, from waste material to delicious tidbits over clouds( i'm sticking to my big macs)...but then, clouds do have a way of being what u perceive them to be.

The sub in the pic is by leon, release months back, placed there to stir up further interest for the ww2 mods. Many just assumed the sea in ofp is not playable and becomes brain-locked where addons on sea is concerned. 70% of ofp is sea - a waste if we dont do anything to it besides making it a mirror for narcasistic folks to look at the powder on their faces . Developement will be slow, but it shall be conquered!

gandalf, thanks for the tips, will try to see how best it can be implemented, for actually my addons are merely atmospherics and not crucial to actual gameplay and would hate it to be the cause of lag.

dabitup: lol!, i'll admit i make pretty much senseless and useless addons "putting all of this time/work into ofp, for nothing at all," as u said. Its all done with a purpose - to prove that there is still life in the old horse we call ofp1.

Rather than to spend time and effort to make another M4, why not use it for something else? Furthermore, once crazy addons' concepts of making it are grasped, cant it be adapted for other more serious projects? We really dont need another M4 or AK47 and there's still many things which could be created in ofp1 to enhance gameplay.

[-RuN- 0]

The clouds are again one more great addition to this amazing game;It will make flying more interesting rather than in empty skies.

One question, will the clouds have shadow? This would add one more change (and realism) to the game as the land would be changing with the lighting.

[philcommando 0]

initially i did add shadows to it, but because it is a building class addon, u would have to go to video options to enable the shadows, which means turning on every objects' shadow!! ..that's gonna cost u framerates. So i drop the idea, afterall, if u look up at aircrafts, high up u cant see the shadows on the ground anyway unless they are really low.

[[aps]gnat 28]

u would have to go to video options to enable the shadows, which means turning on every objects' shadow!!

What !! .... Who plays WITHOUT shadows !!?? Man !! it adds sooooo much extra to the realism look of the game ..... and bugger all effect on framerate (for me anyway).

.... and .. nice one again PC

[Cam51 0]

initially i did add shadows to it, but because it is a building class addon, u would have to go to video options to enable the shadows, which means turning on every objects' shadow!! ..that's gonna cost u framerates. So i drop the idea, afterall, if u look up at aircrafts, high up u cant see the shadows on the ground anyway unless they are really low.

Can you make 1 with shadow effects, and 1 without?

[Cam51 0]

I think you've done a excellent job so far... we are getting closer and closer .

OFP

Lock On

[eestikas88 0]

I wish we would have lock-on clouds.

[belgerot 33]

I wish we would have lock-on clouds.

Hopefully one day. I really like that lightning was added though

[philcommando 0]

yeah, me too, wish i could have the LOCKON game's clouds, the ability to do it is present..but guess until INTEL has come up with a superchip for the home computer ( the kind US is using for nuclear bomb simulation), just have to wait.

hehe...guess u guys would love to have lockon's clouds, but i am very sure u wont want its ground - ITS ALL FLAT and only a few low quality onground 3d targets!!!! that's why it can afford to have clouds like those and have no lag.

[Cam51 0]

hey phil.

How about 1 .pbo with no shadows and 1 with shadows?

[philcommando 0]

bumped!...just heard mapfact team,hardrock and footmuch has made some better quality clouds. This thread ends, tks for your support. Lets look forward to their release. To delete my clouds - very easy- go to your addon folder and look for PCclouds and delete. Remember to delete away the user demo missions too.

[Pappy Boyington 0]

first off.. thier clouds.. they dont need shadows. OFP clouds dont have shadows, these dont needem either.

that pic of the F16 flying thru them (i havnt yet to try them) finnaly made me realize what these look like!!!

the clouds from super mario brothers

yes i used to play Super Mario brothers back when it was on gameboy. ahh the good old days. and i'll tell you what violence in video games does affect you at an early age. still today i jump on peoples heads just to see a coin pop outta thier ass.

Off Topic: Cam... you and kirk , last time i checked, have low end PC's so whats your obsession with shadows in game. or did yall get newer rigs yet?

[Cam51 0]

first off.. thier clouds.. they dont need shadows. OFP clouds dont have shadows, these dont needem either.

that pic of the F16 flying thru them (i havnt yet to try them) finnaly made me realize what these look like!!!

the clouds from super mario brothers

yes i used to play Super Mario brothers back when it was on gameboy. ahh the good old days. and i'll tell you what violence in video games does affect you at an early age. still today i jump on peoples heads just to see a coin pop outta thier ass.

Off Topic: Cam... you and kirk , last time i checked, have low end PC's so whats your obsession with shadows in game. or did yall get newer rigs yet?

Last I checked you checked wrong.

2.53GHz ATi 9700Pro 200GB Hard drives and 512MB Ram

Why not have shadows, man? Just because people got low end PC's doesn’t mean they cant make 2 pbo's (one with shadows and 1 without). Its called an option, to make the add-on more flexible for those who wanna try, if it lags, who cares, just switch it out or off.

Also for realism, why hold back?

No biffs, but please get more information about someone before throwing a comment about them out in the air.

[ag_smith 0]

Actually, with such simple objects like that my guess is you're gonna get 0.3216 fps less because of rendering additional shadows.

[Harmed 0]

I think these clouds look like shit

[-ZG-BUZZARD 0]

bumped!...just heard mapfact team,hardrock and footmuch has made some better quality clouds. This thread ends, tks for your support. Lets look forward to their release. To delete my clouds - very easy- go to your addon folder and look for PCclouds and delete. Remember to delete away the user demo missions too.  

Philcommando, don't even think of being defeatist, for all the criticism that can be directed at your great pioneer work, you tirelessly don't cease to widen the inventory of things in OFP, I beg you please to keep breaking the grounds and boundaries and keep pushing your work out of the door and into the open, no matter how crappy some ppl might think things are, there are still people like me that just love it!!!

[hellfish6 7]

I think these clouds look like shit  

If you're not providing constructive criticism, you're spamming. If I see it again, there'll be a PR involved.

[desantnik 0]

I say great step in the right direction but the clouds look too...marshmellowy? for me. Would it be possible to fade them a little bit in color and provide some transperancy?

Good initiative!

[CAPAIRMAN 0]

That ship looks great. I still have the first one for SEAL missions.

[sanctuary 19]

For fun, you can try to setpos the tonal mist gamelogic in a totally clear blue sky.

At least it is certainly a hint on a possibility to do "smoke" clouds, by reworking the script generating the tonal mist.

but how ressource friendly such cloud would be? as lots of tonal mist from the example are not really ressource friendly.

[philcommando 0]

err....ok guys, this cloud has done its purpose, to show it is possible to have such clouds ( or waste material to some ). I have taken ofp1 to the extreme with this addon and anything further is an performance issue with the chip and not with ofp engine, unless someone else can do a better version. Lets wait for mapfact's team,or hardrock, or footmuch's versions:)

PS.Smith, err...should my addon have shadows, for sure it wont create lag as it can use a resolution lod with less than 6 faces. What i meant by shadow lagging the game is that as a building class object, ( if u noticed buildings ingame) in order to have shadows, u would have to go to video options to enable shadows, which results in not only the clouds having shadows, the rest of the objects in your view distance will have shadows too!...lagfest!!!!!!!!!! is it necessary?

Trust me, i do study every possible angle with a gameplay priority objective in mind when i make an addon