PROPER World project

[.kju 3240]

What is PROPER World

* You can change various aspects related to islands,

  clutter, weather, water yourself, for example:

** Disable grass completely independent to terrain detail setting.

** Exchange grass models with other ArmA or custom models.

** Change the size of grass and other clutter.

** Change the composition of grass and clutter.

** Change several parameters related to islands textures.

** Change the water color for all islands.

** Change the waves of the sea.

** Change the rain, clouds and overcast.

** Change the lighting settings.

** Change the island ambients: Wild life appearance

* Client side modification. This means it overrides mission or server settings.

What is new

* Modification now possible for Sahrani, Rahmadi, Porto, SaraLite

 (Move Porto and SaraLite PBO in the addons folder itself from .\addons\QG)

* Files for client side modification are now in the .\ArmA\dta\userconfig\PROPER_World_Configuration folder

* Many more settings like water color, CfgMaterials, CfgSurfaces,

  CfgSurfaceCharacters, CfgHeads, Ambient, Subdivision etc

How does it work

Goto the .\ArmA\dta\userconfig\PROPER_World_Configuration folder

and open the various files to tweak the settings yourself.

The ISLAND_Settings.hpp (like Rahmadi_Settings.hpp) are a good

start for less experience people to disable the grass or clutter and

change various ground texture related aspects.

In the Water_Templates.hpp you can choose between a

few different given water color templates made by anzacsas.

If you want to tweak the color yourself, open the CfgMaterials.hpp

file and change the RGB (+ transparency) values of the Water,

Shore and Shorefoam defines.

At the end of the line there is the default value as a comment as

backup to restore the default value.

You can NOT change the values while ArmA is running.

You have to restart ArmA to load the new values!

More details on the BIKI page soon:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/PROPER:World

Download

PROPER_World_2009-02-28.7z (1,1 MB)

PLEASE DELETE THE FROMER VERSION!

* .\arma\@PROPER\addons\PROPER_World_*

* .\arma\dta\userconfig\proper_world_configuration\*

Change log

2009-02-28:

* Works with ACEIP v1.12 (allows ACEIP clutter tweaking)

* Added new keys + bisign files

* Moved configuration to .\arma\userconfig\proper_world_configuraiton

* Improved inner pbo structure

* Improved pbo naming

* Added PBOPREFIX for advanced dev setup

enjoy

.kju

PS: If there is interest, the configuration system could be made

for other islands as well. Please add download links to your

suggestion!

[.kju 3240]

Huge farn

Huge farn 2

Huge grass

Farn in the open

[.kju 3240]

Giant flowers

Sea of flowers from the sky

Endless ocean of farn (distance)

[456820 0]

Now that is weird, just this morning I remembered about this and wondered if work was still being done on it. Great work will download.

[.kju 3240]

Strange sky and water

Strange sky and water2

Black sky

Water color

Middle sized waves

[.kju 3240]

Wave riding

Nice jump

A rainbow

Water effect

[andersson 285]

Cool, good job!

[manzilla 1]

Thanks Q. This looks like it has a serious load of tweaks available, and I'm glad to know there's a possibility to expand this to cover more Islands/Maps.

Just a few quick suggestions:

- SchmalfeldenXHV(Extra Heavy Vegetation)- The other concurrent lower detailed versions would be nice as well but that's a little large of a project for me to suggest.  The XHV version would benefit the most from the World Project.(In my opinion only)

- Isla Barbuda: Just a nice little map.

- Some of the Alex Sworn Islands: There's a few different ones but they're all excellent.

**- United Sahrani Since the first post doesn't mention it I only assuming the World Project doesn't apply to DBE1, or is there a way to "trick" it into thinking it's plain old Sahrani.(I got no clue how this would work but I figured I'd make myself look like an ass and ask anyway. )

[.kju 3240]

Thanks for the interest!

Well is was trying to find 'United Sahrani' in the configs but failed.

At least for different water color, grass/clutter and ground texture

related tweaks this project should be interesting to anyone who

is willing to touch text files.

[big 0]

Armaholic mirror and news:

- PROPER World

[NoRailgunner 0]

Great idea...thanks Q! Now we have something to tinker around.

GUI with preview feature would be top

[modemmaik 53]

Cool

I will check it asap

Those screenshots look great

[Stavanger 0]

Mirror by ePrison.de.

Regards,

Stavanger

[Deadeye 1]

ArmedAssault.info Mirror :

http://www.armedassault.info/index.p....lang=en

[PuFu 4591]

i knew you were cooking up something kju. Keep up the good work!

[.kju 3240]

Added both mirrors - thanks Stavanger and ofpdeadeye!

[Maddmatt 1]

Well is was trying to find 'United Sahrani' in the configs but failed.  

It's in Sara.DBE1.pbo in the DBE1 mod folder.

Classname is "sara_dbe1" and all its settings are probably identical to the standard Sara.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">class Sara_dbe1: CAWorld

...

Copying the code you have for Sara and changing the classname should be all you need to do.

[.kju 3240]

Cheers bud

[mrcash2009 0]

This will be interesting if adapted to UHAO Island when that lands soon.

[KeyCat 131]

Great stuff as usual! Keep it up mate

/KC

[.kju 3240]

First post has been updated with the link to the PROPER_World_2008-11-01 release.

Updates:

* Sara_dbe1 added.

* global setting file introduced. You can set all settings for all included islands:

Quote[/b] ].\ArmA\Dta\userconfig\PROPER_World_Configuration\_GlobalSettings.hpp

* If you want a specific setting for an island, you need to

  activate the define in the '_Activate_Island_Specific_Settings.hpp' file. Same location.

* Introduced clutter for all ACE Island pack textures.

 The settings are configured in the 'CfgSurfaces.hpp' file. Same location.

* Moved advanced configurations files in the subfolder 'AdvancedSettings'

 to unclutter the 'PROPER_World_Configuration' folder.

 Only very few people are most likely interested in the advanced settings.

* Hints about upcoming ACE island pack additions.

* By default the Sgt.Ace setting is active.

 The 'new grass' and island settings of Sgt.Ace Everon are being used.

Enjoy.

Summary:

* Use the great settings of Sgt.Ace Everon for BI islands.

* In short you can disable grass for all BI islands independent to

the mission and server settings.

* Tweak a lot of aspects like clutter, grass, water and weather.

[luemmel 20]

great work! However, what I miss is that it is no longer possible to select ground texture itself.

nevertheless, it is awesome to see that your are going to bring back "ofp" to "arma" standard step by step.

i am looking forward to see more of your work!

[big 0]

Armaholic mirror updated:

- Proper World v2008-11-01

[.kju 3240]

Thanks for the mirror Big

@Yannick06

The texture selection system is part of the ACE island pack.

PROPER World is a different project.

The ACE island pack only benefits from the latest PROPER World release (enabling grass/clutter).

[.kju 3240]

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