PROPER SgtAceIslandSetting

[.kju 3242]

To make the excellent work from Sgt.Ace more accessible here

is a simple addon version of it.

Again all credits and praise to Sgt.Ace for the

outstanding composition!

=========

= Overview =

=========

The PROPER Sgt.Ace Island Setting project is based on the excellent settings

by Sgt.Ace of his Everon island:

SAP Everon v1.0

It replaces the following aspects for Sara, Rahmadi, SaraLite, Sara_DBE1, Porto

and all addon islands based on these without having their own grass and ground

texture settings:

* Grass replaced by the very good looking, transparent, unused OFP Elite grass

 (hidden in the ArmA files)

* Different ground texture settings

* Way better performance with this grass - "non verified feeling observation"

=========

= Download =

=========

PROPER_SgtAceIslandSetting_2008_11_24.7z

============

= Additional info =

=============

PROPER forum

PROPER World project, Islands and clutter related modification

enjoy

Porto SgtAceIslandSetting

Standard Porto

Sara  SgtAceIslandSetting

[.kju 3242]

Standard Sara

Rahmadi SgtAceIslandSetting

(different brightness setting - no part of the change )

Standard Rahmadi

[.kju 3242]

So download added. Hopefully nothing messed up.

Have fun

[loki 1]

it'll be nice having the old ofp maps with arma graphics.

good job!

[Mr_Tea 0]

Will get tested instantly, thanks.

[KeyCat 131]

Sounds great Q, testing ASAP!

/KC

[m@ster 0]

Nice work / nice fps

[big 0]

Armaholic mirror and news:

- PROPER SgtAceIslandSetting

[tzvetoslav 0]

Loool....That's what I was just hoping for!I even thought to post a topic somewhere to ask about something like this,but I thought that no one will make it or couldn't..Just tested it and wow...The game looks a lot better for me (not to talk about the FPS increase!!.In Porto it was almost unplayable for me 'cause of the lots of grass,but now it's so beautiful and runs great Hehe,great job man!Great job Wish you best!

[william1 0]

can anyone confirm than the fps is better with this grass ? on the other way i get some error messages in the rpt using this addon , could they affect the performance?

[Mr_Tea 0]

ArmA runs great before, but now it runs better.

Nice to see an performance increase, without the loss of visual quality.

[eJay 1]

Thx for addon! Grass is great now and performance is a lot better.

[action man 0]

Do i have to move Sara, Rahmadi, SaraLite, Sara_DBE1, Porto pbo's to the @PROPER_SgtAceIslandSetting mod folder?

[HGuderian 0]

No..simply put this new addon into an addon folder (e.g. @Proper).

[NoRailgunner 0]

Hehe thanks, I'm playing only with customized proper_world islands. Would like to try out OFP Elite grass with it or simple replace default islands ones. Is it possible and how?

[.kju 3242]

Are you using the latest PROPER World version?

If so, that version also offers the same setting NoRailgunner.

It is even the default setting normally.

If not, you should be easily port over your custom settings to

the latest version.

Try compareIT v3.X to make it even easier.

[alpha125rbf 0]

Great job Q

with your Elite grass my SP ArmA has much more performance and still looks acceptable. Thank you- The best thing for the hobby pilots is - there is no performance loss if you fly really low!

And i think AI who is lying in the grass shoots sooner. With the BIS grass I had the problem that lying in the grass rifleman couldn't really engage the advancing enemy over 50 m distance. He could't see them. Quite unrealistic.

[stingfish74 0]

hey, will this work with Durg's "Vegetation Fix" and lLowplants 1.1 mods?

[.kju 3242]

yes

[andersson 285]

Thank you, nice addon!

I must say that I visually prefer the original 1.14 grass, but this looks good enough and gave me a very noticable performance boost so I'm using it.

I'm gonna try tweaking the density though as I think its a little sparse.

If you make this grass taller, will it be as demanding as 1.14 grass? Or is there something else differing the two?

[Stewy 1]

Thanks Guys, this is a massive FPS boost! Thanks so much!

The default islands are playable for me now!

[action man 0]

I can confirm a performance boost too . It's great for guys like me who can't afford those super de dooper computers some people have got on this forum.

[.kju 3242]

@andersson

It uses different shaders. Therefore also the few error messages

in the rpt.

You can easily tweak the size and density of the grass in the

addon, yet you know this anyway already.

[KeyCat 131]

Tried it yesterday and this alternative grass is neat! Got a ~25% FPS boost and after a little more tweaking and lowering clutterDist from 100 m to 65 m (no real benefit to draw the grass beyond that distance since 1. the grass fades at distance and 2. the horizontal grass layer cover it up anyway) I'm up to a ~30-35% increase in FPS over stock ArmA grass.

As already mention there is a error reported in RPT-file but it doesn't seem to do any harm.

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

Error: Clutter ca\plants\clutter_trava_dlouha.p3d uses alpha blending - use renderflag AlphaTest instead

Another thing about this alternative grass is that is so much more "scope friendly" so no more single digit FPS when/if you look low into the grass with sniper scope or binocs and since it's shorter it doesn't block your view to much when laying prone!

Kudos to Sgt.Ace for finding it and to Q for releasing this easy to use addon. Sure is some great nuggets in your PROPER collection!

PS: Any chance to see this in the IC-ArmA mod?

/KC

[andersson 285]

Ahh good, thank you Q for your answer.